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...sign a peace treaty in Helsinki, the fruit of months of hard bargaining. Both sides have made concessions on points that had killed previous talks, and there's little debate about what brought about the new flexibility: the tsunami. To be sure, "it was also the democratization in Indonesia," says one of the principal G.A.M. negotiators, Nur Djuli. "But, yes, the tsunami was very, very important. How could we go on fighting when our people were suffering...
...haven't been back to Aceh since the peace deal was announced, but I have no doubt that the Acehnese will have one overwhelming reaction to the news: relief. While many in Aceh support the idea of independence from Indonesia or some form of autonomy, after so many years of being caught between two implacable foes?by most accounts more than 12,000 have died in the fighting, most of them civilians?they are desperate to avoid seeing full-scale conflict again. Abdullah, a fisherman in the coastal village of Lamno, summed up the feelings of many we talked...
...Hangzhou Silk and Garment Import Export Corp. in Hangzhou, says her profit margins are so thin already that she can't afford to lower prices to offset the 2.1% difference in currency values. "We expect contracts that would have gone to us will switch to Bangladesh and Indonesia," Yu says...
...team, it is all but impossible to bring legal action against overseas buyers; they struggle even to track down the local suppliers and dealer. Museum enforcement officer Sebastian Haraha is frustrated by their lack of results. One dealer slipped into p.n.g. from neighboring Indonesia, he says, and managed to take three truckloads of artifacts back across the border without inspection by any authority. "I was trying to catch up with him, but every place I went to I just missed him," says Haraha, fanning out a wad of photographs of items he is attempting to trace."We don't know...
...surfing's Tongan revival? It all began with a love affair. In 1977, a 21-year-old chef from Sydney, Steve Burling, embarked on a holiday with some mates. Their plan was to surf Indonesia's best spots, then check out the less popular destinations of Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. But Burling's holiday ended on Tongatapu, where on his first day he met a local beauty called Sesika. Burling had never had a girlfriend before; never been in love. Sesika knocked him sideways. "It was her femininity," he says. "And she was slamming attractive." She followed him back...