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...Jakarta's governor, Sutiyoso, has blamed the destruction on cyclical weather patterns and drainage problems in neighboring Bogor, which he says he is powerless to control. "There is no point in throwing abuse around," he told a local radio station. Meanwhile, with elections scheduled for next year, the fear in Jakarta is that the buck will simply be passed to the next administration. "Whoever [the next governor] is needs to make flood management and prevention a priority," says political columnist Bara Hasibuan. Otherwise, when rains return to Jakarta, the water will only rise higher...
...more unusual ways. One of the nation's top witch-doctors, Gendheng Pamungkas, says he is perfecting a voodoo spell he will cast on Bush while he is in Indonesia. Tropical downpours, Gendheng says, will mar the American President's stay, scheduled for the tea-plantation retreat of Bogor rather than Jakarta, partly because of safety concerns. Confusing father and son's vegetable dislikes, Gendheng also promises to "turn the broccoli against Bush" - a vaguely threatening if puzzling hex. "I am casting this spell because it is what the majority of Indonesians want," explains Gendheng. Even the nation...
...days before the election that propelled him into the presidency of the world's fourth-most-populous nation, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono traveled to the campus of the Bogor Agricultural University for a very serious meeting. Leaving a group of aides waiting outside, the 55-year-old former four-star general strode into one of the institute's classrooms, a laptop tucked under one arm, to face six university professors. For the next three hours, he parried questions about his recently completed Ph.D. thesis: Agrarian and Rural Development as a Strategy to Eradicate Poverty and Unemployment. "We thought it was just...
Last month the U.S. began ratcheting up the pressure on Indonesia. In early September, Omar al-Faruq, a senior al-Qaeda operative arrested in Bogor, Indonesia, in June, confessed to U.S. investigators his involvement in a string of planned terrorist attacks in the region. According to a cia account of the interview, first disclosed by TIME last month, al-Faruq said Jemaah Islamiah's Ba'asyir had conspired in several of the plots and had ordered his followers to cooperate with al-Qaeda. (Ba'asyir has long denied any connection to terrorism, and is suing TIME over its report...
...Faruq. Abu Zubaydah quickly identified his old friend as "al-Faruq al Kuwait." He then told his inquisitors the tangled tale of al-Faruq's quest to turn Southeast Asia into an al-Qaeda stronghold. Two weeks later, authorities swooped in on al-Faruq at a mosque in Bogor. Says Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the country's chief security minister: "It was quite rapid work...