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...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: New Terror Trail U.S.: Who will replace Gore? South Korea: New President Milestones...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: New Terror Trail U.S.: Who will replace Gore? South Korea: New President Milestones...
...financial effects of the bombs are likely to be catastrophic. Employment on the island may fall more than 20% next year, according to a model developed by Thea Sinclair and Guntur Sugiyarto at the University of Nottingham in Britain. And since Bali was a flagship destination not just for Indonesia--more than half the visitors to the country in 2001 spent time on the island--but for all of Southeast Asia, the ripple effect from the bombings may be felt throughout the region...
...served by the mass market, but they are also, in their own way, valuable to host economies. Backpackers may spend less on vacation than their parents, but most of what they do spend stays local. Mark Hampton of the University of Surrey in Britain, who has studied tourism in Indonesia, estimates that 70% of backpackers' vacation expenditures go to locally owned businesses--like small hotels and restaurants--compared with only about 30% of the cash spent by "mass" tourists, who often stay in big hotels owned by foreign firms...
...does about 50 others, in orphanages far from their birthplaces. They are part of a lost generation of East Timorese children cut adrift from their parents by civil unrest. The United Nations estimates there are 400 children like Jacinto and Marito scattered in orphanages and homes throughout Indonesia. Despite the intervention of international agencies and repeated requests from parents for their return, many remain under the guardianship of believers like Hasan who want to raise them as Muslims?as markers in the ancient struggle between Islam and Christianity. "Hasan Basri has stolen our children from us," says Pereira...