Indonesia on Tuesday formally rejected a U.N. panel's recommendation that an international tribunal be formed to try its military officers accused of violence in East Timor in 1999, The Associated Press reported. "In principle, we cannot accept the recommendations of the U.N. commission," Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said after a Cabinet meeting in Jakarta. The U.N. panel submitted a report to the U.N. Security Council last week that described Jakarta's efforts to secure justice as "manifestly inadequate." The report recommended that the Security Council establish an international criminal tribunal akin to those for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda unless Indonesia takes "substantive action" within six months.
