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...JAKARTA, Indonesia: How do you force an authoritarian regime to change its ways? Indonesians are using the only leverage they have: chaos. As the country's ruling elite huddles in Parliament, loudly promising a transition to democracy but hoping to cede as little power as possible, protesters outside the building Thursday grew to an unruly throng of 20,000 that clashed with overmatched police and left dozens injured. "They're trying to push their rulers toward genuine reforms," says TIME correspondent William Dowell, "with the threat of a widespread uprising...
...store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
...example, Perkins said that in Indonesia,investors anticipated a crisis because of thecountry's economic similarities to itscash-strapped neighbor, Thailand, and pulled theirmoney...
Saying that "our hearts go out to Indonesianswho are now in poverty [due to the Asian economiccrisis]," Ramos-Horta expressed a desire to workwith Indonesia in resolving the dispute...
Speaking after Ramos-Horta, State Rep. AntonioCabral (D-New Bedford), author of House bill 4575,which would restrict investment in Indonesia,urged students to write to their staterepresentative to express concern over thesituation in East Timor and to support the bill...