81.   Joining the mounting outcry over the burning of Indonesian flags, importers threatened at the weekend to halt trade if Canberra decides to protect East Timorese independence activists.

82.   Lining the streets to Soya were hundreds of school children waving small Indonesian flags.

83.   Narrating some of the serious incidents, the centre cited the attack and hijack of the Indonesian flag vessel MV Inabukwa last March by armed pirates.

84.   One report said three Indonesian flags were torched and that the driveway to the consulate building showed scorch marks from one burned flag.

85.   Recently, protestors demanding independence for East Timor staged a series of Indonesian flag burnings in Australia, while angry youths here reciprocated the action by burning Australian flags.

86.   Previous burnings of Indonesian flags by East Timorese exiles or supporters in Australia caused a controversy between Canberra and Jakarta.

87.   Relations between the two countries were further marred by the burning of Indonesian flags during demonstrations supporting East Timorese independence in Australia last month.

88.   Supporters of an independent Irian Jaya, widely known in Papua New Guinea as West Papua, did the same to the Indonesian flag.

89.   The Indonesian flag carrier Garuda is to increase its flight services between Jakarta and Los Angeles starting next week, the Antara news agency said here Sunday.

90.   The navy has caught seven ships manned by Chinese crews which have entered Indonesian waters illegally by flying the Indonesian flag, reports said Friday.