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...church argued that the word Allah predated Islam and was commonly used by Copts, Jews and Christians to denote God in many parts of the world. They argued that Allah is an Arabic word for God and has been used for decades by the church in Malaysia and Indonesia. And they said that the Herald uses the word Allah for God to meet the needs of its Malay-speaking worshippers on the island of Borneo. "Some people have got the idea that we are out to convert [Muslims]. That's not true," the lawyers said on behalf of the Herald...
...It’s a testament to the vision and the forward thinking of a lot of people in Indonesia that...despite all the political problems, despite all the natural disasters and other crises, there are people thinking about how to move the country forward politically," Chang said...
...donation will allow the Kennedy School to dedicate new staff to research Indonesia and to work directly with Indonesian academics and politicians, who will be invited to Harvard for training sessions and meetings with other political leaders. The Institute will also encourage Indonesian students to enroll in graduate school programs at the Kennedy School in an effort to foster cross-university research and collaboration...
...Vietnam encouraged the donation, according to Chang. After reading reports on socioeconomic development from the Ash Center’s Vietnam Program, Peter Sondakh—the billionaire owner and director of the Rajawali Corporation—had approached the Kennedy School to perform a similar competitive analysis of Indonesia. The initial report that Sondakh requested will be completed by the end of the month...
...This gives us the opportunity to leverage what we’ve been doing in China and Vietnam to help the Indonesian government to think about their progress moving forward,” Chang said. “We can link Indonesia to other countries in the region in ways that they may not have linked before...