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...Indonesia: Abdullah Gymnastiar...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Can Mega Crack Down? Japan: Business as Usual
...seriousness of the national crisis. She rushed to the scene of the tragedy, pushed through a tough anti-terror presidential decree and permitted the arrest of Abubakar Ba'asyir, the Muslim cleric suspected of being the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, which the U.S. has dubbed a terrorist organization. Indonesia was the slowest country in Southeast Asia to respond to terrorism post-Sept. 11?Xand Bali showed graphically the need to intensify its vigilance. It seemed at last that Megawati was waking up. After all, the Bali attack gave her a rare opportunity to distance herself from Indonesia's extremist...
...Last week, while the President was at an APEC meeting in Mexico, the domestic fight on terrorism stalled, due in large part to her political indecision. Megawati hasn't addressed the nation to explain the grave challenge Indonesia faces or attempted to rally its populace behind a crackdown on terrorists. Most crucially, she has given a cold shoulder to Indonesia's two largest Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, which together boast some 70 million members. These were her most obvious allies in reining in Islamic radicalism, yet she has alienated them at precisely the wrong time. The chairman...
...many, the President's aloofness comes as no surprise. "Mega is Mega," sighs Arbi Sanit, a professor of political science at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta. "Expecting more than what she has done is like expecting a horse to have horns...