TOKYO, May 12 Kyodo pick outed e...

TOKYO, May 12 Kyodo

pick outed editorial excerpts from the Asia-Pacific press:

JAKARTA FACES proofs OF ACCOUNTABILITY (The Age, Melbourne)

Today marks the start of the trials of 30 suspects in the Bali bombings that killed 202 race including 88 Australians, seven month ago.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty has warned that the trials could take up to a year and it was probably best for the victims' families to stay away because it would be ''a difficult environment to be in.''

The angry reactions this month to the seven-month jail opinion for the first [i]role[/i] charged in connection with the bombings, a tradesman who sold chemicals used to make the explosives, confirms the highly charged nature of proceedings.

The difficulties do not cessation with public suspicion about the processe of a foreign court.

The trials are the latest in a succession of traumatic ends ranging from Indonesian army atrocities in East Timor and elsewhere, to boat persons to terrorism, which have experimented Indonesia's relationship with Australia and the United States, unruffled as they increase the importance of friendly cooperation.

The countries have worked hard to restore fences since the days of lay open hostility when departing Indonesian bodys aimed their guns and roared insults at Australian peacekeepers in East Timor in September 1999

over and above friendly relations cannot be taken for granted.

Today also happens to be the deadline for separatist forces forward Aceh to agree to Indonesia's word s for saving a Dec. 9 peace pact.

Should that collapse, and with the military in subordination to suspicion for killings in West Papua, marked occurrences in both provinces could emanate as sticking points in Indonesia's relations with Australia and the US

General I Made Pastika, who headed the Bali investigations and was this month appointed the island's police chief, has pleaded for the replete restoration of training and other assistance for police and security forces, which was suspended in replication to abuses in East Timor.

General Pastika also headed a police investigation into the killings of three commonalty including two Americans, and the wounding of a dozen others at the Freeport mine in West Papua last August.

The evidence pointed the finger at Indonesian forces, nevertheless progress ended when police referr their findings to the military.

The expectations Americans and Australians as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but have of Indonesia are reasonable: that there be independent, unshackleed investigations of the killings of their citizens; that the evidence be transparently assessed; and that individuals set up to be responsible be appropriately punished.

Otherwise, Indonesia's credentials as a friend will be questioned.

(May 12)

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