Word: indonesia
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...robberies by lightly armed desperados to highly organized hijackings of giant vessels by teams of professionals. According to the International Maritime Bureau of the International Chamber of Commerce, the Strait of Malacca suffered 38 actual or attempted pirate attacks in 2004, the second highest total in the world after Indonesia. "We don't stand a chance" against the pirates, an Indonesian naval officer conceded at the time. In 2005, the London insurance market added the strait to its list of areas at risk of war. (See pictures of a pirate-hostage rescue in Africa...
...take the case of the Philippines, my homeland. Most Filipino farmers are poor and neglected. The Department of Agrarian Reform can't even protect their rights against greedy hacienda owners. Without sufficient safeguards, food-security agreements might only aggravate the lot of farmers and their families from Sudan to Indonesia. Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dennard Dacumos, Manila...
...What message do you want to send with the movie Shinjuku Incident? Christine Susanna Tjhin, JAKARTA We want to send out a message to our people from China, from Indonesia, from Malaysia: no country is like home. When you're in Japan, when you're in America, you're nobody. I play a nobody in Japan. Somehow all the temptations keep coming and you can't fight them. If we can send out a message that nobody should escape from a boat illegally to Japan or even Australia or America, that you should just stay where you are, then that...
...least 20% of the seats in parliament, President Yudhoyono will find himself in the enviable position of being able to choose a running mate with less concern for coalition building. "The electorate has clearly moved farther away from the right-wing base," states Kevin Evans, an expert in Indonesia's political history and founder of the pemilu.asia website. The presidential vote is scheduled to take place in July and, if no candidate takes a majority, a run-off of the top two candidates will take place in September. (See pictures of a deadly dam burst near Jakarta...
...With secular and nationalist parties, like the newly established Greater Indonesia Movement Party and the party of retired Suharto-era General Wiranto, taking the majority of the votes, Indonesian voters appear to be moving toward the center and abandoning parties based on religion, observers say. Grappling with the global economic crisis and considerable challenges at home, a majority of Indonesians have once again shown that they do not want religion leading the national agenda. "Voters have become more pragmatic and rational as opposed to ideological," says Hasibuan...