 The Indonesian government presented its annexation of East Timor as a matter of anticolonial unity.A 1977 booklet from the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs, entitled "Decolonization in East Timor", paid tribute to the "sacred right of self-determination" and recognised APODETI as the true representatives of the East Timorese majority.It claimed that FRETILIN's popularity was the result of a "policy of threats, blackmail and terror".