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Megawati, who has previously said she would take a tougherline on foreign investors, said that investors from overseaswere welcome as long as it was on fair terms. "Please, come to Indonesia to see what can be done here.But of course we know that in the past there were manyweaknesses," added Megawati, who has previously questioned theimpact on Indonesia of a huge copper mine run by a unit of U.S.firm Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX.N) in Papua. Their platform is secular and nationalist, while they havebeen seeking to win support of farmers and fishermen bypledging to push pro-poor policies. In a recent televised presidential debate, Megawati,daughter of Indonesia's charismatic first president Sukarno,said she was the victim of human rights abuses in the past, buthad "never retaliated". Several members of her party, PDI-P, were among theactivists kidnapped and tortured by the troops under Prabowo'scommand but at least three have since joined his politicalparty. Asked about the kidnappings, Prabowo had told foreigncorrespondents in February "my conscience is clear I took fullresponsibility.

I came before a military tribunal." The Megawati-Prabowo pairing took weeks of wranglingbecause both wanted to be president, with Megawati finallywinning out Both needed the support of each other's party torun. "Don't forget that Prabowo has been stigmatised as a humanrights abuser, but he has taken full responsibility for thatand has moved on," she told a lunch with foreigncorrespondents. The pairing of former president Megawati and Prabowo wouldonce have seemed unthinkable. As chair of the PDI-P party, Megawati was Indonesia'sleading opposition figure in the dying days of the Suharto era. Prabowo, a former head of the special forces, was oncemarried to one of Suharto's daughters and was an integral partof the so-called "New Order" establishment under Suharto.

[ID:nIDPRESPOL] Megawati, 62, is running with Prabowo Subianto, who wasfired from the army in 1998 after troops under his commandkidnapped and tortured pro-democracy activists during PresidentSuharto's rule He is barred from entering the United States. Indonesians go to the polls on July 8, with incumbentpresident Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono well ahead of Megawati and athird candidate, Vice President Jusuf Kalla, in most opinionpolls. HONG KONG, July 6 (Reuters) - Trading in shares of ShougangConcord International Enterprises Co Ltd (0697.HK) was suspendedon Monday, the Hong Kong exchange said No further details were immediately available.. (Repeats story sent late on Friday with no changes to text) (For five facts on Megawati click on [ID:nJAK486076]) Indonesia By Ed Davies and Sunanda Creagh JAKARTA, July 3 (Reuters) - Indonesian presidentialcandidate Megawati Sukarnoputri defended on Friday her choiceof a running mate accused of human rights abuses, saying he hadtaken responsibility and there was a need to move on. (TOKYO:6501) (NYSE:HIT) andMitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503), Renesas Technology achievedconsolidated revenue of 702.7 billion JPY in FY2008 (end of March 2009). RenesasTechnology is based in Tokyo, Japan and has a global network of manufacturing,design and sales operations in 16 countries with 25,000 employees worldwide.

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