Sydney – Indonesia's Foreign Minister Ali Alatas is on the East Timor list of candidates from the ruling Golkar Party to the legislative elections scheduled for May. The spokesman for the Indonesian Foreign Ministry told Lusa on Wednesday that Ali Alatas was a "very appropriate" representative of East Timor in the Indonesian parliament since he "speaks of East Timor, knows well the situation in the territory and represents East Timor at the international scene. He is almost a (East) Timorese". Alatas is the fifth in the eight-candidate list from East Timor composed by two Indonesians and six East Timorese and led by current president of local parliament, Antsnio Freitas Parada. East Timor was invaded by Indonesia in 1975 and annexed one year later but the United Nations still regards Portugal as the territory's administering power. Lusa/Fim