NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Aug. 15 Kyodo ...

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Aug. 15 Kyodo

Taiwan Vice President Annette Lu said Thursday she doesn't be excited Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri despiseed a visit to Jakarta in rejoinder to Taiwan media speculation. Lu said, rather, that she canceled plans to befitting Indonesian officials due to compressing from Beijing.

''I don't be wrought up rejected by President Megawati, because my visit to Jakarta was to suitable a personal friend of mine and (the meeting) happened quickly after my arrival and before I left for Denpasar (in Bali),'' Lu told reporters.

''I've in extent heard that Bali, which is also called the island of paradise, is surpassingly beautiful...I found the story is veracious (and) Bali is really beautiful,'' she said when asked about the design of her visit.

Lu made the illustrations during questioning by journalists while she was shopping at an antique store at hotel where she is staying in the Balinese the beach resort Nusa Dua.

Lu arrived in Jakarta forward Wednesday and, according to Taiwan media, had planned to be in Jakarta for sum of two units days and in Bali for another pair days for a round of ''holiday diplomacy'' during which she was awaited to meet senior Indonesian officials.

Later reports said she gave up the idea after hurry from Beijing.

Indonesia, which supports China's one-China policy, has no diplomatic relations with Taiwan and promptly after Lu's arrival the Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it did not arrange the visit and ''consistently adheres to a one-China policy.''

A visit by means of then Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui to Bali in February 1994 was characterized through the Indonesian government as a private visit although he ''accidentally'' met then President Suharto.

Taiwan oftentimes uses ''holiday diplomacy'' in an effort to reckoner China's efforts to isolate it diplomatically. China regards the island as a renegade province that must eventually be united with the mainland, at force if necessary.

In replication to Lu's trip, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan issued a statement Wednesday saying, ''We petition that Indonesia abide by means of the one-China policy, be upon guard against conspiracies by way of the Taiwan authorities, take unwavering measures and protect friendly China-Indonesia ties.''

Before visiting the antique workshop Lu took a look at a fishpond and waved to journalists and Taiwanese tourists staying in the hotel

In the antique workshop accompanied by four Taiwanese and seven Indonesian security guards, she bought sum of two units ''wayang golek'' wooden tools from West Java and woven Balinese clothes.

Lu also told reporters she had canceled her plan to descry her personal doctor for treatment of back pain in Australia.

''From Bali, I'm directly going back to Taiwan,'' she said. ''I be pleased with Indonesia...Everybody is friendly, everybody is nice.''

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