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...Your recognition of the talented individuals who make up Time's list of the most influential people [April 18] enabled me to appreciate and comprehend the events that have shaken and stirred our world today. Thank you. Masa Kato Pomona, California, U.S. I was pleased that your list included Indonesia's Dina Astita, the teacher and survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami who is coordinating efforts to restart schooling in her remote Sumatra town. It was a pleasure to read about someone who isn't a millionaire or an internationally known religious figure. Ordinary people like Astita who can overcome...
...another case that lasted two years, responding to Calixto’s complaints, Indonesian authorities threatened the president of Harvard International University in Indonesia with house arrest until he agreed to cease using Harvard’s name...
...protest alleged environmental and human-rights abuses. That was the scene in New York City and Chicago last month as dozens of people in white haz-mat suits converged on the offices of JPMorgan Chase to decry what they claimed was the bank's underwriting of illegal logging in Indonesia, and human-rights abuses tied to a Chase-funded mining operation in Peru. Oil companies and industrial giants may be accustomed to such treatment, but not JPMorgan Chase, the second largest bank in the U.S. Two weeks after the protests, the firm announced that it would introduce policies to promote...
...was pleased that your list included Indonesia's Dina Astita, the teacher and survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami who is coordinating efforts to restart schooling in her remote Sumatra town. It was a great relief and pleasure to read about someone who isn't a millionaire or an internationally known religious figure. Ordinary people like Astita who can overcome tragedy and put a positive idea in motion are the ones who are truly influencing and changing our world...
...were seeking to pick up arms left behind by Jemaah Islamiah is "consistent with what we know from depositions of arrested J.I. members," says Sidney Jones of the International Crisis Group, who has studied the network intensively. "They were running arms out of southern Thailand, through Malaysia and into Indonesia in 2000 in cooperation with the Thai [insurgents]." But Jones cautions that these past links don't necessarily mean that J.I. is forging new bonds with the Thai separatists. "It's possible, of course," she says, "but we need more information before we can make a definite judgment...