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...Noting the lack of Indonesian border controls and the recent flood of Afghan refugees, the commander in chief of U.S. military forces in the Pacific warned on an early December swing through the region that al-Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan might attempt to set up new bases on the archipelago, given the presence of "sympathetic groups." Admiral Dennis Blair said U.S. intelligence was looking very hard at Laskar Jihad...
...size of Delaware, with a population of 3 million exuberant Hindus. To the west of Bali, separated by a strait of just several hundred yards, is the island of Java, which is about the size of California, with a population of 100 million Muslims. Stretching east is an archipelago with hundreds of small to medium-sized islands, islands with names like Sumba, Sumbawa, Lombok, Flores, Komodo, the legendary Spice Islands, Timor, and the island of Irian Jaya (New Guinea). These areas have mixed populations of Muslims, Christians, and animists. Virtually every inhabited island in Indonesia has its own language...
...Indonesia, right now, may be the wobbliest "domino" in Southeast Asia, because of Jakarta's notoriously volatile domestic politics. Four years of economic meltdown and political flux has left the question of power in Indonesia - even of the archipelago's future integrity as a single nation state - dangerously unresolved. If the Islamic parties that previously conspired to keep President Megawati Sukarnoputri out of power use the unrest sparked by the Afghanistan raids to move against her once again, Jakarta could be in for another year of living dangerously...
Tourists and dream seekers from the Japanese mainland flock to the archipelago's 60 tropical islands--called Okinawa, like the main island--precisely for its slice of red, white and blue. The biggest draws, especially for Japanese women, are the real live Americans. Amejo is local slang for girls who love Americans, but amejo can be found anywhere in Japan where Americans hang out. However, ground zero for amejo and their kokujo subculture is Okinawa...
...caught (and released) two undersized muskies this trip - 30 inches and 34 inches, the legal minimum being 36. As we trolled toward Sheer Rock Island, we saw that in addition to the flock of white and gray gulls that always congregate on the archipelago of rocks dribbling out from the point, there now stood four blackish, scrawny cormorants - freshwater coyotes much given to a diet of sport fish. Win some (tiger muskies), lose some (via cormorants...