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...international jet set who dig Phuket are a breed apart from the culture vultures who flock to the Indonesian island. "People are usually either Bali people or Phuket people," says Dominique Gallmann, the Swiss-born director of Exotiq Real Estate, which has offices in both Thailand and Indonesia. "They attract different crowds, so the idea of the two islands fighting over the second-home market isn't really true...
...global conflict research non-profit organization is planning to create a joint Southeast Asian Peace lab with Paramadina University in Indonesia with the aid of the Harvard School of Public Health, according to officials at the universities. The Peace Lab—sponsored by the International Association for Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research—will seek to educate individuals involved in conflict management by studying Indonesia’s history of conflict resolution, according to Claude Bruderlein, who directs the School of Public Health’s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. Though Harvard has been intimately...
...When Barack Obama was 6 years old, he was the only foreign child in his neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia. He didn't know the kids, didn't speak the language. At first the locals were a little freaked out, says Zulfin Adi, 47, who as a kid lived a block from Obama. "He was so much bigger than the rest of us." So they decided to haze him. One day a group of children ambushed him, carried him to the local watering hole and threw him in. They had no idea if he could swim. But when Obama came...
...Uniform policy prescriptions don't come easy for a diverse group of countries ranging from Venezuela to Indonesia. For example, banking-sector repair and reform is likely more needed in India than in China, because India's financial sector is more intertwined with Western markets than China's is. Less sophisticated economies that rely on manufacturing and agriculture may largely avoid the pain that has accompanied the worldwide breakdown of complicated financial systems...
...Lessons from the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis come with caveats, since the conditions were markedly different. The crisis was contained to a relatively small number of countries - mainly Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand - in which banks and businesses were unable to pay off debts owed to the outside world. That allowed the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in cooperation with the World Bank and Washington, to organize bailout packages that allowed Asia to get back on its feet...