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When the people of East Timor decided 20 months ago to secede from Indonesia, the backlash was swift and horrendous. The Indonesian military, using local militia groups, spearheaded a three-week rampage of pillage and slaughter. The toll: 1,200 dead, wanton destruction of property and a population of survivors traumatized to this...
...parallel between East Timor and Aceh isn't exact. East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, enjoyed a brief period of self-determination before it was invaded and absorbed by Indonesia in 1975. It never really cohered to the country under former President Suharto, who ordered the invasion. Aceh, in contrast?like the rest of post-independence Indonesia?had been part of the former Dutch East Indies, and has since been a major contributor to the national wealth by producing billions of dollars worth of liquefied natural...
...meet and get angry when they do not understand. If we go abroad, that is. Very few Americans make it overseas, and if they do, they go to London or Paris, maybe Rome. Those on more expansive budgets perhaps relax at a resort in Phuket (Thailand) or in Bali (Indonesia) where western food is served alongside western beds, western toilets, western people and western consumer-oriented service. Americans leave relaxed but totally ignorant about Thai or Indonesian language and culture...
...thirds of the folks who grow coffee in the world are poor, small-scale family farmers," Brody says. "They live in the mountains of Nicaragua, Indonesia and Tanzania where electricity, roads and schools exist in a very limited basis. They also don't have first hand knowledge of how coffee is traded in the world and how much people would pay for it in consumer cultures like Europe and United States...
...INDONESIA Censure President Abdurrahman Wahid appeared before Indonesia's parliament to answer a censure motion over financial scandals involving $6.1 million. "I don't accept the memorandum [of censure]," he said. "This answer is important to maintain dignity over these baseless allegations." But opposition leaders warned that the response was unlikely to save him from moves toward impeachment, which could come in August...