Word: achmad
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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...