Word: indonesia
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...burn a comic book by Japanese artist Yoshinori Kobayashi, whose inflammatory take on Taiwan's history portrays so-called comfort women as grateful for the opportunity to work as prostitutes. Indonesians were upset earlier this year by a Japanese film Merdeka, which depicts Japan's imperial army as helping Indonesia's fight for independence. The filmmakers have agreed to delete one particularly galling scene that shows an Indonesian woman kissing the feet of an invading Japanese officer...
East Timor's tragedy was touched off when Suharto successor B.J. Habibie off-ered its people a referendum on whether they wanted to split from Indonesia. They voted yes, but Habibie wasn't in control of his own military. The men in uniform had spent two decades trying to get East Timorese to accept their place within Indonesia, and many felt betrayed. The carnage was their retaliation...
...deputies. But there is also a splinter group known as the Government Council of the Free Aceh Movement, or MP-GAM in its Indonesian acronym. Led from Europe by Husaini Hasan, the MP-GAM has declared itself opposed to armed struggle and favors some form of autonomy within Indonesia. Jakarta has raised a force of several hundred Acehnese under the MP-GAM banner, paying them to operate alongside the security forces? a setup very reminiscent of the militias that wreaked such havoc in East Timor...
...Especially Tiger, with his cafE-au-lait complexion and American serviceman father. Today, Eurasians are the flavor du jour, not only in the U.S., where mixed-race citizens personify the American melting pot, but even more so in Asia, where race-conscious policies are often encoded in law. In Indonesia, where until recently ethnic Chinese were barred from writing in their own script, the hottest celebrities are indos, or mixed-race folks like actors Karina Suwandi and Ari Wibowo. In Bangkok, where the local skin trade has spawned a multitude of luk kreung, or half-children, the once-despised offspring...
...year-old Maggie Q, a Vietnamese-American who grew up in Hawaii. "When you look at Maggie, you see the whole world in her face," says film executive Logan, who cast her in the hit flick Gen-Y Cops. "She sells because she appeals to everyone." The publisher of Indonesia's top-selling women's magazine, Femina, says a cover with an indo on it sells two to three times more copies than one with a purely local model. "Indonesian women see these girls as exotic but not exactly threatening," says Widarti Goenawan, publisher of the popular weekly...