Jakarta – The United States will be able to accept former military chief Wiranto if he is elected Indonesian president in the upcoming election even though he has being indicted in East Timor for crimes against humanity.

"We can work with anybody that comes out from a free(election) process," US

Ambassador Ralph Boyce said on Thursday.

Boyce made the remarks in response to reporters' questions on what the US

reaction would be if Wiranto won the presidential election on July 5.

Wiranto is the Golkar Party's presidential candidate after he trounced party leader Akbar Tandjung in a tense head-to-head vote early on Wednesday morning.

Boyce denied speculation that the US was interfering in the process of selecting who was most suitable to be Indonesia's next president.

"We're not involved in selecting individual candidates, supporting or opposing individual candidates," Boyce said after planting a tree in the grounds of the US embassy in commemoration of Earth Day on April 22.

"It's the election process that we care deeply about and it seems to be going very well."

Boyce further said that the US had never blocked Wiranto from going there.

"General Wiranto and anybody else is welcome to apply at any time and it is the application process that will determine whether someone will be granted a visa or not," he said.