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...Yudhoyono to deliver economic reform, though, he must overcome resistance from a legislature dominated by his adversaries: members of Megawati's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, who have formed an opposition alliance with members of Suharto's former party, Golongan Karya (known as Golkar). However ineffectual Megawati's administration was perceived to be, it was far from idle on the economy?her team is praised for slashing the national debt, stabilizing the currency, lowering interest rates and selling off state-controlled assets. But the toughest reforms?those that might threaten the interests of powerful bureaucrats and business leaders?have been...
...SENTENCED. BAMBANG HARYMURTI, 47, editor-in-chief of the Indonesian daily Tempo; to one year in prison for libel; in Jakarta. The court ruled that the Harvard-educated editor was guilty of "spreading wrongful information" about real estate tycoon Tomy Winata in a March 2003 story. Activists have decried the sentence as a blow to press freedom, criticizing the use of Indonesia's criminal code to prosecute a libel case. "The judges had a golden opportunity to write a new chapter in Indonesian history, but they did not take it," said Harymurti, who remains free pending appeal...
When a massive bomb exploded at the entrance of Australia's heavily fortified embassy in Jakarta Sept. 9, it rattled what had been a fairly pedestrian election campaign. Whether it was timed to unnerve Australian voters, influence the Sept. 20 Indonesian presidential election or mark the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the blast and its victims - including a gravely injured five-year-old Australian girl - skittled economic analysis off the front pages...
...DIED. MUNIR, 38, Indonesian human-rights campaigner; of a reported heart attack during a flight to Amsterdam. Munir was a vocal critic of the Indonesian military and a key member of a commission that investigated the 1999 violence in East Timor. As a lawyer and founder of Kontras, one of the country's leading pro-democracy and human-rights organizations, Munir investigated claims of abuse at the hands of the military and the former Suharto regime...
...sprawling port town of Surabaya, Yuyun Surya, a lively communications lecturer at Airlangga University, follows her faith by praying five times a day, yet disappoints many acquaintances by shunning the jilbab, the head covering worn by increasing numbers of Indonesian Muslim women. This graduate of an Australian university admires progressive Indonesian scholars for their moderation but also subscribes to the widespread conspiracy theory that Western agents are behind the terrorist attacks in her country: "They have created Islam as the common enemy." And in the dusty grounds of a pesantren in the same city, a young teacher wrestles with...