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...Critics of the H. floresiensis hypothesis, meanwhile, are working overtime to disprove it. Thorne and a colleague spent three days in February examining the Liang Bua bones in Jakarta on the invitation of Teuku Jacob, Indonesia's most senior anthropologist, who gained possession of the bones for a brief period before handing them back to the Australian-Indonesian team that made the discovery. Thorne and another Australian scientist subsequently wrote a paper flatly rejecting the idea that a new species had been discovered. Jacob, who is among the fiercest critics of the H. floresiensis theory and has been accused...
...Controversy over the existence of Pygmies in Indonesia's numberless islands is centuries-old. Writing in the 14th century, Marco Polo described how natives of Sumatra would try to sell the mummified bodies of Pygmies to visitors. But, wrote Polo, "'tis all a lie and cheat. Those ... little men ... are manufactured on the island. There is a kind of monkey on the island which is very small and has a face just like a man's. They take these and pluck out all the hairs except on the beard and chest and then they dry them and stuff them...
...SENTENCED. SCHAPELLE CORBY, 27, Australian beauty school student; to 20 years in prison for smuggling 4.1 kg of marijuana; in Bali, Indonesia. Corby was arrested last October after a customs official found the drugs in her boogie board bag. Defense lawyers maintained her innocence, arguing that the drugs were planted by Australian baggage handlers in Brisbane as part of a smuggling operation. The case was widely followed in Australia where, according to one poll, 90% of the public believes she is innocent and the sentence prompted an outpouring of sympathy. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said, "Guilty or innocent...
...previously unknown Brigade Istimata Internasional, which features what it claims is a floor plan of a U.S. embassy and lays out ways to attack the ambassador's office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians were believed to be back in the country after training at a camp belonging...
...closures come at an awkward time for the Indonesian government, with Yudhoyono wrapping up his otherwise successful trip to Washington. The two sides reached an agreement on sales of nonlethal equipment to Indonesia's military, long withheld because of accusations of widespread human-rights abuses. But it was also hoped that Yudhoyono's visit would help entice foreign investors to Indonesia who are still skeptical over corruption and spooked by the country's terrorist rumblings?a fear that the embassy closure does nothing to assuage. It's possible, though, that the shutdown might actually strengthen Yudhoyono's hand in dealing...