This info comes from a local paper, STL, so it may not be 100% accurate, but it is most worrying.

Timor-Leste born Indonesian citizens living in Atambua-Kupang-Indonesia, have threatened to set up checkpoints or sweeps vehicles with Timor-Leste white registration number plates because of the detention of the former Laksaur Militia Commander, Maternus Bere who is still detained at the Indonesian Embassy in Dili.

“We will undertake sweeps (checkpoints) of cars belonging to Timorese who travel in and out of Indonesia. This action will be taken especially against the sons and daughters of FRETILIN leaders including FRETILIN cadres who live near the border,” Francisco Soares Pereira told STL by telephone Friday (15/10).

The former refugees decided this because they consider that some FRETILIN leaders in Timor do not want to engage in reconciliation with the Timorese militia in Indonesia as it relates to the Maternus Bere case, which has not been resolved in Timor-Leste and becoming a controversy between FRETILIN leaders and the AMP government led by
Prime Minister Kay Rala Banana Gusmao.

It was perhaps only a matter of time before something like this happened. The slapdash way the whole Bere issue has been dealt with has helped absolutely no-one. While the prime minister is off gallivanting in China to ask for money, Bere is still in Dili. It’s been nearly seven weeks.

What’s curious is that this threat is directed at Fretilin. It’s becoming increasingly political, when the real issue is one of justice — or at least it should be. I just find this whole thing very odd.

They’re threatening to lockdown the borders. Central government in Jakarta has been asked to approve these protests.

Ramos-Horta, Jose Luis Guterres and Lucia Lobato apparently held an emergency meeting, but there’s no word on what came of the meeting. This is a very sensitive issue and it’s thanks in no small part to the weak, indecisive manner in which its been dealt with.