[The following report was received today from Fortilos and posted on the conferences in Bahasa Indonesia: Translated by Tapol.]

Some 150 paramilitaries who were trained by ABRI in East Timor to attack pro-independence activists arrived in Jakarta by ship on Friday 16 April.

These pro-integration forces plan to take action against certain East Timorese now living outside the territory, including student activists and political leaders. According to reports they plan to take action against certain people in Jakarta and various parts of Java.

Among their targets are the former government of East Timor, Mario Viegas Carrascalao (who now resides in Jakarta), a number of centres used by East Timorese students and youth in Depok, Pisangan-Jatinegara and Rawasari. [According to a report from UDT sources in Australia, Mario Carrascalao has already gone into hiding.] They also plan to stage an assault on the detention house on Percetakana Street in Jakarta where the East Timorese resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao, is now being held.

The para militaries who include members of Besi Merah-Putih (Red-and-White Steel) and Mahidi are divided into two groups one of which is being accommodated in Ragunan, a hotel usually used to accommodate athletes. This group has linked up with the well-known hoodlums leader Hercules (who is from Timor) and Captain Eusebio Belo, an army officer who now works with the army intelligence unit, BIA.

The second group is being accommodated in Kelapa Dua, Cimangis, Bogor which is the location of the headquarters of Brimob, the police special forces.

According to our sources, Captain Eusebio Belo has been supplied with a large sum of money to recruit a militia force from among hoodlums from Eastern Indonesia, for use in East Timor. The armed forces is believed to have supplied a billion rupiahs to arm and equip these gangs and supply them with pocket money.

Several people who travelled on the same ship and who disembarked at Benoa, Bali and at Surabaya, have confirmed the presence of the paras, couldn't say how many they were.

Timorese students in Java are urged to be on guard and to do everything to prevent untoward things from happening. There is reason to believe that they may start taking action in the very near future though nothing is yet known about what form this may take.

According to one source, they are likely to launch an attack on the house where Xanana Gusmao is being held.