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CHARGED. AMROZI, 39; with involvement in the October 2002 Bali bombings; in Denpasar, Indonesia. State prosecutors said the East Java native bought bombmaking materials and the vehicle used in the blasts that killed 202 people. Last November, Amrozi was the first of the Bali suspects to be caught. (At a press conference after his arrest, he told police, "I am a naughty person.") Since then police have arrested 28 others, including Amrozi's brothers Ali Ghufron and Ali Imron. Amrozi's trial is scheduled to begin on May 12 under new Indonesian antiterrorism laws that carry a maximum sentence...
...retrospect due to the opacity and isolation of these regimes during their rule. Thus, we should be watchful for contemporary states that are masking dangerous usurpations of political power, such as in Venezuela, Zimbabwe, China, Turkmenistan, Sudan and Mauritania, to name a few. Recent regimes in Uganda, Burundi and Indonesia have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own citizens...
...successful career in the entertainment industry to launch a new chapter of her life, aboard a 197-meter cargo ship. She embarked in Brooklyn and cruised halfway around the world, tracing the route her grandfather, a sea captain, followed 80 years ago. She hooked up with me in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, where I now live, and together we sailed westward from Java, across the Indian Ocean and through the Arabian Sea to Bombay...
PORTSIDE Voyagers who get shore leave in Jakarta should make a few hours for Sunda Kelapa, the port of old Batavia and the nearby Museum Bahari, Indonesia's excellent maritime museum. Although the 800-year-old port has been eclipsed by the modern port at Tanjung Priok, high-riding Bugis boats from South Sulawesi province, one of the world's last seagoing schooner fleets, still call regularly...
...however, the exported and willfully internalized American dream has been punctured by months of failed and feckless diplomacy, by the Bush Administration's disregard for international opinion and now by sandstorms, alleged errant missiles and the fact that war is rarely quick and never clean. Last month in Yogyakarta, Indonesia's intellectual center, numerous students told me that yes, they would like to work in the U.S.?because there were no jobs at home, not because they admired America. Religious and community leaders expressed anger toward the Bush Administration?not, they stressed, at the American people?as well as disappointment...