Staff writer
In a show of its firm commitment to assisting democratic reforms in Indonesia, Japan will provide several billion yen in aid for the country's widely watched general election scheduled for June 7, government sources said Wednesday.
The sources said that the United Nations Development Program has informally asked Japan, the United States and some other industrialized countries to provide a total of $100 million -- about 12 billion yen at the current exchange rate -- to assist the Indonesian poll.
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