Word: archipelagos
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...year-old led the armed men, members of the feared Abu Sayyaf guerrilla group, to the resort, where they rounded up 20 hostages?17 Filipinos and 3 Americans?and transported them to their lair on Basilan Island in the far south of the archipelago. Upon arriving they seized 10 more hostages, mostly fishermen. Then the bloodbath began. At week's end, the group had been attacked by the Philippine military and lost up to 14 fighters, including supreme Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani. They raised the stakes by storming a church and a hospital and taking 200 more captives? reports...
...deny Megawati the top job after she finished way ahead of all challengers in the first post-Suharto election, Wahid's erratic leadership alienated most of his allies as the country continued to languish in economic torpor and separatist rebellions threatened to break apart the 13,000-island archipelago that constitutes the world's fourth most-populous nation...
Powerhouse nations have powerful sports organizations. Japan. South Korea. Even China. They all boast big-time soccer, baseball or basketball leagues playing to packed houses with national television audiences. What then does the sorry state of pro sports in Indonesia say about the 200 million-strong archipelago? Perhaps more than abandoned building projects or creeping separatism, Indonesia's National League, a 28-team soccer federation that plays in decrepit stadiums on spotty pitches, is enough to make even the most patriotic pribumi wonder what has gone wrong...
...last time may not be in a hurry to install her. It's not even clear that she wants the top job right now, when increasingly volatile ethnic and religious tensions in Aceh, Irian Jaya, Ambon, the Moluccas and elsewhere are threatening to break apart the archipelago nation. Meanwhile, the economy languishes in the doldrums as foreign investors steer clear of Jakarta's political instability...
Aceh, an oil- and gas-rich province on the opposite end of the Indonesian archipelago, is starting to relive the East Timor tragedy. Separatist sentiment is building in the seaside towns, the jungle up-country and rice-growing villages. In reaction, the military has revived its time-honored strategy of slash and burn. On the wall of a torched house in Rantau Pangang, a riverine settlement on the main north-south highway, is a date daubed in paint: 25/3/2001. That was the day police and army units arrived in trucks to shoot six villagers, apparently randomly, and burn down most...