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...July bombings shattered that peace, and laid bare some holes in Indonesia's anti-terror strategy. One of the men believed to have been killed alongside Noordin was Bagus Budi Pranoto, also known as Urwah. An explosives expert, he spent three years in jail in connection with the 2004 Australian embassy attack but was released in 2007 and is rumored to have quickly re-established contact with Noordin. Some terror experts wonder why people like Urwah, who was thought to have devised the July hotel explosives, were not monitored more carefully after serving their jail terms. (Read "Facing the Enemy...
...want to torture people the way they did my family,” proclaims Budi, a young Indonesian boy, at the start of Robert B. Lemelson’s documentary film, “40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy.” Such is the sentiment that now prevails over the long silence that followed in the wake of the mass killings which took place in the mid-60s in Bali—deeply embedded anger is passionately released, experiences of discrimination and pain fervently expressed. In a film both moving and disturbing, psychological anthropologist Lemelson explores...
...your view of Islam changed? -Budi Primawan, JAKARTANo, it hasn't changed at all. I grew up with Muslim people, so I was very acquainted with Islam. So it is not like the people who killed Danny taught me what Islam was about. They are hijackers of their own faith...
...cooperative supermarket; the mosque, with its attendant school for 500; a rest house for the numerous visitors and for management-training seminars; two orphanages, one of which is located in a house he was originally going to move into himself but decided was "too fancy," according to aide Budi Hartono. Budi adds similar tales of expensive cars that his mentor bought, drove for a while, then rejected as overly opulent. "He prefers a van," Budi insists. "It is more practical...
Experts say a child's brain is better wired for learning new languages than an adult's, so why not give your youngster a head start? New KidSpeak software from Transparent Language offers lessons in 10 tongues for pupils ages 6 to 12 ($40). Clever animated characters like Budi (who teaches Indonesian) and Lin Lin (Mandarin Chinese) guide kids through vocabulary, counting and other games that we found are fun for grownups...
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