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...Minister for the People's Welfare, one of Indonesia's wealthiest men and an ally of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Victims of the disaster say that a murky web of political influence and corporate fecklessness has blunted the official response to the mud eruption. "Everyone is suspicious," says Mas Achmad Santosa, one of Indonesia's most prominent environmental lawyers. "It's a politically heavy case...
...SENTENCED. IWAN DARMAWAN, 30, Islamic militant; to death, for helping to plan and carry out last year's Sept. 9 suicide bombing at Jakarta's Australian Embassy; by Judge Achmad Sobari; in Jakarta. Darmawan, a former courier from East Java, received the harshest penalty yet for the attack, which killed 10 people. Three others implicated in the bombing are now serving jail terms of up to seven years. Unrepentant, Darmawan told the court, "You will receive heavier punishment than what you have meted...
...Indonesia, corruption is so family-oriented that in the early 1970s, President Suharto's wife Tien was known as "Mrs. Ten Percent." These days scandal surrounds one Haji Achmad Thahir, a drab Indonesian government employee who never made more than $9,000 per year in salary in his life. But relatives fighting over his estate discovered him to have a bank account of nearly $35 million. The Indonesian state oil company, Pertamina, has charged in court that two German companies, Siemens and Klockner Industrie, paid Thahir the money in connection with the construction of a $500 million steel mill...
Although forgotten by the world, and never mentioned by Sukarno on his diplomatic junkets abroad, the rebellion against his rule still sputters on. Last month the Indonesian government announced that Brigadier General Achmad Jani had flown to the important eastern island of Celebes "to receive the surrender of 10,000 rebels...
...miles north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kans...