ABC AUSTRALIA, Friday, March 2, 2007. 7:00pm (AEDT)
Journalists' deaths in Balibo a 'closed case', Indonesia says
Indonesia says it is treating the deaths of five Australian-based journalists in Balibo in
1975 as a closed case.
Indonesia has no intention of taking any action against parliamentary member
Mohammed Yunus Yosfiah, despite a warrant for his arrest being issued by the
coroner leading an inquiry into the Balibo killings at Sydney's Glebe Coroner's Court.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Suryo Legowo Kristiarto said the issue was
closed because there was no new evidence and the arrest warrant has no jurisdiction
outside of Australia.
"I need to emphasise that for us it is a closed case," he said.
Several witnesses at the inquiry have accused Mr Yosfiah of leading an Indonesian
military unit which killed the five journalists in 1975.
In other developments:
The former Indonesian general and cabinet minister, Mohammad Yunus
Yosfiah, has laughed off a warrant for his arrest over the deaths of five
journalists in East Timor in 1975. (Full Story)
A New South Wales coroner has issued a warrant for the arrest of a retired
Indonesian army commander. (Full Story)
A former Indonesian special forces officer accused of leading the killing of five
journalists in Balibo 32 years ago says he will not attend the coronial inquiry
that is under way in Sydney. (Full Story)
A Sydney coroner has written to a former Indonesian Army commander asking
him to give sworn evidence about the 1975 deaths of five journalists. (Full
Story)
A former intelligence officer has told the Coroners Court that she never
connected reports on the deaths of white people in the 1975 Timor invasion to
Australian journalists in Balibo. (Full Story)
The Federal Government has asked a coronial inquiry into the 1975 death of an
Australian journalist in East Timor to hear evidence in secret. (Full Story)
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