The Atambua incident confirmed one important matter that has been ignored by the Indonesian government: taking care of the problem of the militias. The attack and arson of the Atambua UNHCR office in West Timor, East Nusa Tenggara province, which happened on Sept. 6 and led to the deaths of three foreign social workers was in fact a time bomb explosion. Since the referendum held in August 1999, with the victory of the proindependence group, the r