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...first visit to the hotel ended abruptly on New Year's Day, 1998, when I was forcibly escorted from my room at dawn, then driven 10 minutes to an isolated beach and instructed by my "guide"?a member of Indonesia's Elite special forces?to kneel down on the headland that overlooked a tranquil, turquoise bay. He then placed a handgun to my head and asked, "Are you a journalist...
...Flash forward a few years. Two months ago, East Timor became an independent nation, though at a terrible price. In 1999, when Timorese voted to cut their ties with Indonesia, militia proxies of the Indonesian military went on a murderous rampage that left the country in ruins. Few foreigners have been able to forget the scenes of bloodshed and burning; tourists in East Timor are practically nonexistent. But it's time now to forget. The men who caused the destruction have fled, leaving behind a people basking in freedom and peace. They have also left behind one of the most...
...master it they will. After 450 years of colonial rule?first by Portugal, then Indonesia?the Timorese are adapting quickly to the independence they had craved. "I love this freedom," says a shopkeeper selling wine at the bottom of the hill from the Pousade de Maubisse. "In Indonesia time no one at the hotel drank alcohol. All Muslim soldiers, only here for bad time. Now many tourists come and buy wine from me. They all here for good time. Much better...
...Southeast Asian front hasn't been shut down as much as temporarily shifted. Counterterrorism experts have long insisted that Indonesia has served as both staging area and refuge for terrorism. Along with Malaysia, Indonesia is one of the likely operational bases for Jemaah Islamiah, a pan-Southeast Asian terrorist group with al-Qaeda connections. While President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government has long denied the presence of substantial terror networks on the archipelago, it is willing to take Washington's $50 million. As the cold war painfully taught us, it takes time, money, and unfortunately, boots on the ground...
Person of the Week As a voice of moderation in foreign policy, he has lately seemed the odd man out in the hawkish Bush administration. But after gaining a bit of rapprochement with "axis of evil" member North Korea and scoring $50 million in anti-terror aid for Indonesia at last week's asean meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell regains credibility...