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...chosen by parliament to replace Megawati as Vice President after she was elected by the same body to succeed the impeached Abdurrahman Wahid. Haz is the head of Indonesia's main Muslim political group, the United Development Party, the third largest party in parliament; in 1999 he opposed Megawati's first bid for the presidency on the ground that the world's largest Muslim country should not be run by a woman. Megawati's secular Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle controls just one-third of the seats in parliament. High unemployment and chronic government corruption have caused many to doubt...
...Wolfowitz: "Americans need to understand we're dealing with a country that only recently became free after 50 years of dictatorship. Indonesians are leery about giving too much authority to the police." Whatever the causes, says Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on al-Qaeda at St. Andrews University in Scotland, Indonesia is "the only place in the world" where radicals linked to bin Laden "aren't being hunted down...
Last month the U.S. began ratcheting up the pressure on Indonesia. In early September, Omar al-Faruq, a senior al-Qaeda operative arrested in Bogor, Indonesia, in June, confessed to U.S. investigators his involvement in a string of planned terrorist attacks in the region. According to a cia account of the interview, first disclosed by TIME last month, al-Faruq said Jemaah Islamiah's Ba'asyir had conspired in several of the plots and had ordered his followers to cooperate with al-Qaeda. (Ba'asyir has long denied any connection to terrorism, and is suing TIME over its report...
...Islamic hard-liners--or worse, incite violence from Ba'asyir's followers, who had promised to revolt if their leader were arrested. Though radical groups make up a tiny minority of the population, there is the possibility that they could further undermine the authority of the central government, making Indonesia even more hospitable to terrorists. "Al-Qaeda is already here and capable of launching more attacks," says a Western diplomat in Jakarta. "It's obvious there don't have to be many of them to do damage." --Reported by Simon Elegant, Zamira Loebis and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta and Massimo Calabresi, Mark...
...network of kiosks has doubled to 60 in the past four months, and Insects Inter aims to have 200 outlets in Thailand by the end of next year. The company's bugs come from 5,000 farmers who breed them. Thanomkait and Polprapas are negotiating with investors from Indonesia to open franchises there, and they're also targeting South Korea, where street vendors already peddle bugs. --By Sean Gregory