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...four years, the Jakarta branch of the International Crisis Group (ICG) has provided one of the clearest windows into the troubled state of Indonesia. The Brussels-based ICG's mission is to use research to help prevent violent conflict, and it has been in the right place at a turbulent time: American human-rights activist Sidney Jones, head of the organization's Southeast Asian office, and a handful of expatriate and Indonesian researchers have produced 39 uncompromising reports on subjects ranging from bloody conflicts in Aceh, Ambon and East Timor to the origins of Islamic terror in the region...
...Jakarta has apparently decided it has had enough of the ICG's warts-and-all reports. Last week, the government refused to renew work permits for Jones and an expatriate staff member. Indonesia's powerful intelligence czar, A.M. Hendropriyono, told the press that Jones' reports had tarnished the image of the country and that "many were untrue." Jones, who has written for TIME, says she's not sure what has upset Hendropriyono's intelligence agency, known by its Indonesian acronym BIN. "The accusations against us keep changing," she says. "First it was our reports on Aceh and Papua. The latest...
...routinely jailed. As for Jones, whose visa expires on June 10, she continues to press for a renewal but isn't hopeful. Still, she says, even if she's obliged to move to another country in the region, "That's certainly not going to stop me from writing about Indonesia...
...slowly came to realize the bad faith Australia was showing," says Gusm?o of Australia's 2002 withdrawal from the International Court of Justice on maritime boundary disputes. "?Be realistic, it's only a dream,' Australia said about our claims. They wanted to preserve what they had secured from Indonesia when we were occupied. As if we were blind...
Elections often produce strange bedfellows, but Indonesia came up with a particularly choice union last week. Presidential candidate Wiranto, the former military chief of former strongman Suharto, announced that his running mate in July's election would be Solahuddin Wahid, deputy chairman of the country's Commission on Human Rights. Wiranto was in charge of the army in 1999 when hundreds died in East Timor at the hands of anti-independence militias allegedly funded and armed by the military. Wiranto continues to be dogged by these accusations: last week he was ordered arrested by a U.N.-backed court in East...