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...gallery has no phone, but your hotel concierge will know how to find it. NEKA Suteja Neka is Ubud's foremost art dealer and patron, and his gallery, tel: (62-361) 975 034, houses much good Balinese art, including beautiful examples of traditional shadow puppets. These are one of Indonesia's best-known folk art forms, and are said to be based on figures from the Hindu Ramayana and Mahabharata epics. You'll also find plenty of work by expatriate artists who have called Bali home over the years, including Rudolf Bonnet and Arie Smit. SENIWATI GALLERY...
...Kennedy School directs a program teaching basic market economics and related subjects to Vietnamese civil servants. We have assisted with financial reform efforts in Ethiopia and Indonesia. And we have helped many countries, such as Mexico, China, Bolivia, South Africa, and Singapore, establish their own public policy schools as they strive to become more self-sufficient in their own development and governance...
...deadliest month for airplane crashes since May 2002. Some of the superstitious breathed a sigh of relief at that point, saying plane crashes come in threes—but they didn’t have much time before crash number four started the cycle again. September 5 brought the Indonesia crash that killed at least 149, leaving even the most hardened and sober among us wondering: where next...
...impact of the 21st century's first oil alarm was equally apparent in other developing Asian countries. In Indonesia?a proud member of the OPEC cartel, never mind the fact that it's now a net importer of crude oil?the currency is in free fall and the government is burning through its foreign exchange reserves, thanks to a longstanding and increasingly ruinous policy of providing subsidized fuel to consumers. Gasoline in Jakarta costs a mere 27? per liter; some economists worry that if the government continues to spend an estimated $1 billion a month on fuel subsidies...
...meantime, governments in the region are scrambling to cope with the oil shock?risking popular ire in the process. Malaysia, a net exporter of oil, cut its subsidies on gasoline and diesel fuel by 7% and 23% respectively last week. Indonesia did the same in March, increasing the price of gasoline by 29%. In Thailand, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year resisted pressure to eliminate fuel subsidies during an election year, reversed course this year as the oil bills mounted. On July 12 he announced the end of subsidies, which he hopes will curb demand for oil imports that...