JAKARTA, March 21 Kyodo A team of...

JAKARTA, March 21 Kyodo

A team of Swedish prosecutors and police officers flew domestic circle Sunday after a one-week visit to Indonesia to question witnesses as part of a probe into leaders of the clear Aceh Movement (GAM) living in Sweden.

''We have received a division of information during this week,'' Sweden's chief district prosecutor Tomas Linstrand, who l the five-member team, told a pres talk before leaving Jakarta.

''And when we secure back to Sweden, the first thing to do in this investigation is to comprehend, to review all the testimonies and discuss it, compare it with other materials and then, that will decide for what reason to go on,'' he said.

The team arrived in Jakarta last Monday, visiting the war-torn province of Aceh and the North Sumatra provincial capital of Medan to bearing their preliminary investigation into the GAM leaders living in exile, including the movement's top leader and planter Hasan Tiro.

The visit was in answer to Indonesian government allegations the exiled rebels have been behind terrorist attacks in Indonesia.

During the visit, the Swedish team questioned 23 nation -- all linked to GAM make objection Cut Safrida, one of couple women who walked free in January after being held hostage according to GAM for seven months -- in prisons in the Aceh provincial capital of Banda Aceh, in Jakarta and in Medan.

''The atmosphere during the interviews was good'' Linstrand said. ''Some persons were nervous, but I think it's a sort of situation for many clan to be interviewed, especially through people who looked strange like we do coming from a foreign (country who) don't speak their language.''

''Sometimes, there were a portion of people present...but I didn't win the impression that anyone of the witnesses was bothered through this,'' Linstrand said.

GAM spokesman Sofyan Dawood reportedly claimed the witnesses had not been emancipated to express themselves because they are in subordination to Indonesian custody.

He also charged the GAM detainees questioned at the team had been chosen by way of the Indonesian military, who, he alleged, promised to remodel their prison terms or emancipated them if they went along with the military's scenario.

Linstrand said single of the potential witnesses refused to testify without the port of a lawyer, ''So, we didn't question him...and, according to my opinion, there was no ne to anybody to ask for a defense lawyer because they are not suspects. They are just populace whose information we want to share.''

Linstrand also said he has asked Indonesia to bring about witnesses to Sweden, which was answered positively from the Indonesian government, ''but they will decide that onward the case by case basis.''

Asked if his team establish any evidence on the alleged involvement of Tiro in terrorist attacks in Indonesia, he replied solely that the investigation ''is continuing.''

After President Megawati Sukarnoputri imposed martial law onward Aceh on May 19 last year, efforts to file cases against GAM leaders, mainly in Sweden, began.

The conduct accuses the GAM leaders in exile of ordering their fighters in the oil-rich province to deportment terrorist attacks.

GAM has waged a guerrilla war in Aceh since 1976 demanding independence.

Since the martial law began, almost 1800 rebels, soldiers, policemen and civilians have been killed in the troubl northernmost province.

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