"This is one of the principles that should be put forward or be taken as the basis for responding to the report of the Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) which would be announced tomorrow," the defense minister said in a working meeting with Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) Gen. Djoko Santoso here on Monday.
He said what had happened in Timor Leste in September 1999 must be accepted with responsibility where both governments must expressed regret to their peoples.
Juwono added that besides the principles, the CTF finding must also be responded to with an attitude that both sides would not look into the past too long in their attempt to find truth and justice.
"So, there should be no words of apology but an expression of deep regret which is to be conveyed by both presidents to their respective peoples," he said.
He said that both governments were also determined to maintain such a principle and to incorporate it with the formulation of the CTF report which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and President Ramos Horta would receive in Bali on Tuesday (July 15).
Juwono said that both governments had no intention to question or take the human rights violations in East Timor to the United Nations or to other courts overseas.
He said that what was found by the CTF was a matter of restorative justice whose nature was to restore both nations` relations and peoples, so that both sides would not go too far to question matters done by both countries in September 1999.
The defense minister said that the finding of the CTF which would be announced on Tuesday referred to the principle that both sides had committed gross human rights violations in East Timor.
"This must be underlined because media reports in Australia mentioned as if it was only Indonesia which had committed human rights violations in East Timor," he said.
He acknowledged that the CTF reports would be questioned by a number of non-governmental organizations at home and abroad. (*)
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