Word: indonesia
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...July 8, voters on the more than 17,000 islands that make up the vast archipelago nation of Indonesia went to the polls to elect the country's President. A final count has yet to be completed, but all signs suggest that Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the incumbent candidate, notched up a resounding victory. Since winning the country's first competitive election in 2004, the former general has been a cool steward of Indonesia's young and often chaotic democracy, denting the country's grim legacy of corruption, cracking down on radical Islamist groups and rebuilding a nation that suffered...
...Born in 1949 into a lower-middle-class military family in eastern Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island...
...choice of Boedino - an astute banker and political newcomer - as his running mate has been hailed as a sign that he intends to cut through some of the bureaucratic red tape that has been a hallmark of Indonesia's murky politics and has stalled the nation's growth in the past...
...capital to be a moderate Muslim nation and now we also have the government," says Wimar. This, he emphasizes, is because his re-election was fully democratic in an exercise that international observers didn't even feel the need to monitor, as they did in 2004. "This shows that Indonesia is moving to a place where it doesn't need them," says Paul Rowland, regional representative of the National Democratic Institute in Jakarta...
...Indonesia has been increasing its international presence by sending troops to Gaza, through participating more in the United Nations, more recently, a new friend in the White House, with President Barack Obama having famously spent part of his childhood in Indonesia. The country is no longer viewed as a "messy state," as columnist Tom Friedman once described it, nor is Balkanization a real fear as regional conflict and terrorism have both been brought under control. "The second term is when [SBY] will build his legacy," predicts Baswedan. "He will emerge as a global leader...