Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Eros and 40 energetic staff members have created an appetite for controversy in the Indonesian reading public that will not be easily slaked. "DeTik's young journalists have captured a mood," comments Aristides Katoppo, a publishing consultant whose own newspaper was shut down during a purge in the 1980s. "They have a different vision of what society looks like. They aren't corrupted. They are articulating issues that need to be articulated. The undercurrents are not undercurrents anymore." Says founder- editor Eros: "If you were Indonesian, you would understand why we needed DeTik. Look at the front page...
...Western-inculcated ideas. "I was so overwhelmed," Eros says, "that a doctor advised me to lie down for three months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman who led an armed rebellion against the colonial Dutch in the late 19th century. Shortly thereafter Eros started up DeTik with a ragtag crew of 16 volunteers. Using the name of a defunct crime tabloid, Eros published his first commercial issue...
Confidence is much stronger in the ages put on the Indonesian Homo erectus fossils. The leaders of the team that did the analysis, Carl Swisher and Garniss Curtis of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, are acknowledged masters of the art of geochronology, the dating of things from the past. Says Alan Walker of Johns Hopkins University, an expert on early humans: "The IHO is doing world-class stuff." There is always the chance that the bones Swisher and Curtis studied were shifted out of their original position by geologic forces or erosion, ending up in sediments much older...
...Nature article came only a week after an even more surprising report in the competing journal Science. U.S. and Indonesian researchers said they had redated fossil skull fragments found at two sites on the island of Java. Instead of being a million years old, as earlier analysis suggested, the fossils appear to date back nearly 2 million years. They are from the species known as Homo erectus -- the first primate to look anything like modern humans and the first to use fire and create sophisticated stone tools. Says F. Clark Howell, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley: "This...
More than 200 people were killed and 3,000 injured when a severe earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S. Geological Survey in Washington estimated the quake's strength at 7.2 on the Richter scale...