The UN High Commissioner for refugees, believes about 175,000 refugees have come back so far. But there s still at least half that number across in camps in West Timor unable to return. And there s just a trickle each week. The reasons are varied, but the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees hopes the election will be enough of a drawcard to entice some of those who are still reluctant to brave their way back over the border. One has fear about the situation here in East Timor.
People are uncertain as to how things are here.
There are those who do not want to come back. Those who want to become Indonesian. Those who want to remain in Indonesia. And, in addition to that, there are those who are still being paid by the Indonesian State to do jobs that they are no longer doing. These people are waiting to hear from the Indonesians about their pensions.