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BOTH NOTED THAT INDONESIA WAS MORE FORTUNATE THAN THAILAND AND MALAYSIA IN THAT THE NUMBER OF REFUGEES IN INDONESIA WAS QUITE SMALL BY COMPARISON.
BOTH STATED THERE HAD NOT BEEN ANY APPROACHES FROM VIETNAM ON THE QUESTION,
2. HOWEVER, THEIR COMMENTS DIVERGED ON WHETHER INDONESIA HAD A POLICY SEPARATE FROM ASEAN AND WHETHER THE QUESTION HAD BEEN RAISED AT THE JAKARTA INFORMAL MEETING (JIM).
SUPARTINI SAID INDONESIA DID NOT HAVE A SEPARATE POLICY AND HAD NOT RAISED IT AT JIM.
SAID, ON THE OTHER HAND, CLAIMED INDONESIA WAS USING ''GUERILLA TACTICS'' AND ''AMBUSHING' VIETNAM WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
BY THIS HE MEANT THAT VARIOUS OPPORTUNITIES WERE USED
TO CATCH THE VIETNAMESE UNAWARES TO DISCUSS THE QUESTION.
HE SAID THIS HAD ALSO HAPPENED AT THE JIM AND THAT ONE DFA OFFICER AND ONE FROM HIS OWN OFFICE HAD RAISED THE QUESTION (AND GOT NO JOY).
3. SUPARTINI SAID INDONESIA WAS WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER ASEAN COUNTRIES AND THAT THE NEXT STEP WAS THE MALAYSIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO HANOI IN LATE AUGUST.
ALTHOUGH THE VISIT WAS ESSENTIALLY BILATERAL HE WOULD ALSO PRESENT AN ASEAN DEMARCHE.
THE ASEAN APPROACH WOULD HAVE A THREEFOLD PURPOSE.
(A) TO WELCOME THE NEW VIETNAMESE ATTITUDE
(B) TO PRESENT THE ASEAN DEMARCHE
(C) TO DISCUSS THE OBJECTIVE OF HOLDING AN INTERNATIONAL.
CONFERENCE (AS AGREED AT THE ASEAN/EC MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE IN DUESSELDORF IN MAY)
THE AIM OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WOULD BE TO:
(1) SEEK A COMPREHENSIVE AND DURABLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF INDO-CHINESE REFUGEES IN SOUTH EAST
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