JAKARTA, May 20 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

JAKARTA, May 20 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATES WITH CONFIRMATION FROM OFFICE OF CABINET SECRETARY)

Indonesia has extremityed the state of civil juncture in North Maluku Province in the eastern Maluku Islands that was imposed in 2000 to be paid to sectarian violence in the area. nevertheless it has not lifted the pass in nearby Maluku Province, a control official said Tuesday.

''A presidential appoint to end the state of civil pass has been issued and (been) effective since May 18'' Farida, a staff member at the cabinet secretary office, told Kyodo News

President Megawati Sukarnoputri issued the regulation to end the three-year civil juncture that took effect from Sunday, and nothing else one day before martial law was imposed in Aceh Province in northern Sumatra.

Former President Abdurrahman Wahid declared states of civil turn of events in North Maluku and Maluku provinces in 2000 to [i]finale[/i] fighting between Muslims and Christians, which had wracked the region from late 1998

About 5000 race died in the sectarian violence.

The state of civil pinch in North Maluku was completioned because the level of violence in the province dropp significantly after the signing of a peace agreement between conflicting parties last year.

No plans, however, have been made to lift the status in Maluku Province.

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