Indonesia - Update on crisis

with a lull in the violence it was time to count the cost some 500 dead many of them looters caught in the fires set by the mob some relatives will never know exactly what happened to their loved ones almost 200 bodies remain unidentified burnt beyond recognition they'll lie in anonymous graves foreign residents continue to take the advice of their embassies and leave indonesia with the friends they've made there employer employee relationships have become blurred making difficult partings in uncertain times we're very concerned about their future i think all the people here in indonesia are the indonesians themselves it's the next few months ago we really try damage is enormous at least 200 million dollars worth almost 5 000 buildings have been damaged or burned the supermarkets we can have reopened and shoppers have flooded in there are more protest rallies planned for the coming week in the future uncertain jakarta's residents are stocking the situation will be better or worse we don't know armed forces has been summoned to meet president suharto on monday he may carry the can for the student deaths that spark the wider rioting won't satisfy the call