Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance, opening trade with Indonesia will hardly help the plight of residents of East Timor who face constant discrimination in Indonesian labor markets and civil society. Why should a glut of dollars in the pockets of a nation's wealthy change their attitudes about minorities, or anything else except their opinion of the U.S.? Most of the profits from trade will go to those few Indonesians already in positions of power. President Clinton has repeatedly bashed trickle-down economics in this country, but now he's decided to try it in Indonesia...
...cemented this week's Asian-Pacific trade deal, wrapped up his trip to Indonesia with a small about-face. His target wasn't China, but the host country, where 29 East Timorese students continued a sit-in on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta to protest Indonesian occupation of their nearby homeland. "We cannot turn away from that cause and we will not," Clinton declared, after Indonesian President Suharto agreed not to harass the students after the U.S. contingent left. (Suharto, not known for his bleeding heart, merely promised to deal with the issue "squarely.") Secretary of State...
...officials were receptive in August 1993 when an Indonesian investment group named N.V. MUSA Indo-Suriname asked to buy the rights to Suriname's trees. Cash-starved regimes are fond of selling timber concessions because they can put money in a treasury at little immediate cost to the government, while other industries can take years to produce results. Timber operations often ultimately drain more money than they yield by burdening a nation's infrastructure and degrading precious natural assets, but it is easy for a sitting government to ignore these costs because they become a problem only for subsequent administrations...
...other publications to test the limits of the acceptable. Forum Keadilan, a biweekly newsmagazine, has used similar investigative techniques to boost its sales from 20,000 to 120,000 over the past year. Even the once cautious English-language Jakarta Post, with a 30,000 circulation, has doubled its Indonesian readership with more hard-hitting stories and editorials...
Despite its audacity, some observers are convinced that DeTik is getting high-powered support -- perhaps from the military. "You don't get this kind of information unless someone hands it to you," says an Indonesian government official. Now that the government has issued its latest warning to the brash journal, however, it remains to be seen how much support DeTik can continue to muster. Despite all the welcome and unwelcome attention, Eros seems undaunted. | "If you are afraid," he says, "then don't do anything in this country." A sensible warning no doubt, but one he at least clearly does...