Visiting Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said Tuesday that a referendum in the country's troubled Aceh Province may be held in seven months.
"In general the plan now is to have the referendum on Aceh ... seven months from now," Wahid told the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo.
The president said that whether the referendum will be on autonomy or independence from Indonesia is up to the "people themselves, not the government bureaucracy."
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