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...worry for Asia is that it's more exposed than other parts of the world to future oil shocks?whether caused by China's newfound love of automobiles or, say, by a pipeline explosion in Iraq. That's because the region is poor in oil resources. Only Indonesia and Malaysia are net exporters of oil; the rest of the region depends heavily on expensive imports of Middle Eastern supplies. Asia's oil imports as a percentage of GDP are three times higher than the U.S.'s and the European Union's, according to a recent report by Goldman Sachs. Industrialized...
...commenting on human-rights issues related to the police's Mobile Brigade. The placement of my quote, however, gives the impression that I was criticizing the training for Task Force 88, which is not the case. The Asia Foundation supports U.S. government-funded police training and reform programs in Indonesia. Santiago Villaveces The Asia Foundation Jakarta...
...Terrestrial-TV viewers in Indonesia, the only competing country in which broadcasters, citing costs and timing, have declined to air the Games...
...ANNOUNCED. OVERTURNED CONVICTIONS for four members of Indonesia's security forces, for alleged crimes against humanity during East Timor's violent 1999 independence referendum in which as many as 1,500 were killed; by an Indonesian appeals court in Jakarta. The decision, made last month but announced on Aug. 6, leaves standing the convictions of just two (both East Timorese civilians) of the 18 originally indicted...
...Back at his desk Whittaker juggles phones and e-mails between checking online news bulletins and fielding text messages from a journalist chasing a terrorism lead in rural Indonesia. He's in the middle of his own whirlwind, the newsroom largely empty of journalists, who are off like honey bees, foraging and collecting. By 3 p.m. he's running again to make the next conference, which hears from each bureau chief via speakerphone, and decides that while the free trade story is firming, it needs more independent confirmation. But the paper is taking shape, and at the next conference...