71.   Wearing a red jacket over a white dress, the colors of the Indonesian flag, a smiling Megawati stepped out of a car and waved.

72.   Foreign Minister Ali Alatas condemned the Australian authorities on Wednesday for not stopping a demonstration in which the Indonesian flag and a picture of President Suharto were burned.

73.   Images of Australians burning Indonesian flags were beamed across the nation here on state-owned TVRI television Thursday evening.

74.   Indonesia has protested twice in recent weeks at the burning of the Indonesian flag by demonstrators in Australia, many of them Timorese exiles.

75.   In the northern city of Darwin, one protester was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for trying to burn an Indonesian flag.

76.   An AFFET spokesperson claimed the Indonesian flag caught alight accidentally and it was only the Suharto standard the group planned to burn.

77.   At least six Indonesian flags have been burnt in a series of demonstrations in Australia, the Philippines, Spain and New Zealand since the end of July.

78.   Australia is the base for a number of pro-independence East Timorese groups, which last year staged a series of Indonesian flag burnings in Australia.

79.   Demonstrators burned Indonesian flags and jostled guests attending a function at the Indonesian consulate here Thursday, witnesses said.

80.   Three Indonesian flags were reported burned during a protest outside an Indonesian independence day celebration in Melbourne.