Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Monday that he was shocked and concerned over the attacks on leaders of Timor-Leste.
"I am stocked and concerned on the accident in Dili, Timor-Leste earlier today," he told reporters at the State Palace.
"The shooting of Timor Leste's president and prime minister is a terrible, unconstitutional attack against democracy and an attempt to disturb the country's present government," presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal quoted Yudhoyono as saying at the presidential office.
Timor-Leste President and Nobel laureate Jose Ramos Horta was shot in the stomach at his home in Dili while Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped another attack on Monday morning.
Dino said Yudhoyono continued to keep abreast of developments following the attacks on Timor-Leste's two most famous independence figures in which the rebel leader was killed.
"President Yudhoyono prayed for Horta's recovery from the bullet wound," Dino said, adding that Yudhoyono would continue to support Timor-Leste's government in upholding and defending democracy.
The president expected that the authorities in Timor-Leste could restore the condition there and reinforce the law in the country.
Yudhoyono said that the presence of thousands of multi-national troops and policemen in the country could carry out their obligation well.
"I believe that, beside the domestic military force or policemen in Timor-Leste, thousands of foreign troops and police in Timor-Leste could perform duties well," he said.
The president said that surveillance on the border of the two countries would be tightened.
"I have instructed the military commander to perform obligation well."
Rebel group launched coordinated-attacks at the residences of President Jose Ramos Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, seriously injuring the president.
The rebel leader Alfredo Reinado was killed in a counter-shooting.
Timor-Leste descended into chaos in April 2006 that killed 23people and displaced over 150,000 others, which led to the resignation of former prime minister Mari Alkatiri. The violence sparked into gang-street fightings.
Major Alfredo was due to face legal process in absentia for allegedly involved in several shootings between the units of police and military during the chaos in 2006. He then had escaped from captures and rejected the repeatedly government request to surrender.
The unrest in April 2006 was triggered by the sacking of 600 soldiers by former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, which then triggered the resistance led by Major Alfredo Reinado.
The situation was restored after thousands of Australian-led multi-nation troops arrival in the country.
The former Portuguese colony had been 24 years under the Indonesian rules before it got independence in may 2002.
Source: Xinhua
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