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...position of the Western countries toward Sudan, and the international funding institutions like the IMF and the World Bank, we did not waste time and we started to look for new partners. From the first day, our policy was clear: To look eastward, toward China, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and even Korea and Japan, even if the Western influence upon some [of these] countries is strong...
Which of the world's stock markets will benefit most from China's rapid growth? Big players like Japan and Taiwan, or the smaller basket of Southeast Asian stock markets? I think it's the smaller basket of Asian markets, and that includes Indonesia, which is lately the hottest of the Asian emerging markets because they've come through this [economic crisis] very well and they seem to have their act together in terms of fiscal and monetary policies. Indonesia's political process has improved tremendously; it also has a big population and a lot of natural resources. The stock...
...Experts say that Top, an accountant by training, was inducted in 1998 as a member of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Southeast terror network with links to al-Qaeda. Top, a Malaysian who went to Indonesia after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., is believed to have been involved in all of the suicide bomb attacks in Indonesia since two night clubs in Bali were blown up in 2002, killing 202 people. Experts say he planned the first bombing of the JW Marriott hotel in Jakarta in 2003 with fellow Malaysian Azhari Husin, who was killed by Indonesian police...
...former head of Indonesia's state intelligence called the operation to hunt down Top "brilliant" but warned that the country must still be vigilant. "We still have to be alert because the brain behind all this is al-Qaeda and the hand moves when the brain tells it to," A.M. Hendropriyono told a reporter on Jakarta's MetroTV. "The brain is outside the country but the tentacles are here and they could regenerate." Still, he said the killing of Top was a victory in that Top's charisma and ability to recruit was as much a threat as his technical...
...Read "Indonesia Tense After Terrorism Executions...