Semarang, Central Java – Commander of the Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI), Gen Feisal Tanjung, warned here Monday that there will be no compromise for those who disrupt national stability.

"The ABRI will take stern measures against those who will disrupt the 1997 general election and the 1998 general session of the People's Consultative Assembly," Tanjung told newsmen after inspecting the election security task force of the Diponegoro Military Command.

It is the ABRI's task to maintain national stability to ensure the success of the May 29 general election and the 1998 general session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), he said.

"The ABRI is also committed to ensuring the continuation of the country's national development programs," he added.

Asked on the handling of the case of former legislator, Sri Bintang Pamungkas, who was arrested on subversion charges last week,Tanjung said it will be handled according to the law. "The law must be upheld," he said.

Pamungkas, chairman of the unrecognised Indonesian Democratic Union Party (PUDI), and two other party executives, Julius Usman and Saleh Abdullah, are being detained at the Attorney General's Office for disseminating Idul Fitri greeting cards which called for boycotting the May 29 general election.

The cards also called for rejecting the nomination of President Soeharto for a seventh term in office and establishing a post-Soeharto political order.