Gus Dur continues overseas trip despite Sampit rage.

CAIRO (JP): President Abdurrahman Wahid said here on Monday that he would continue his two-week overseas trip despite the bloody ethnic pogrom raging in Central Kalimantan.

Abdurrahman said he had already consulted with Coordinating Minister for Political, Social and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and National Police chief Surojo Bimantoro on whether or not he should cut short his peregrinations, "but they both said that I should continue my trip."

He said that he had consulted both of them after he had received calls from Indonesia urging him to return.

When pressed to disclose the names of those who had been calling on him to cut short …