President Ask Leaders to Lift Travel Bans

(10/28/2002)

Both Reuters and The New York Times report Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri has used her appearance at the Asia-Pacific Economic Summit in Mexico to call on the leaders of other nations to urgently lift the travel bans and advisories introduced against Indonesia in the wake of the Kuta-Legian bomb blast of October 12^th.

Speaking on October 26, 2002, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the Indonesian President reminded her fellow world leaders that the introduction of such bans create social and political panic, providing a victory to the perpetrator of terrorist acts, and encouraging similar future attacks.