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With its neat rows of classrooms and its white domed mosque glowing against a backdrop of misty hills, the Hidayatullah Islamic school on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi seems the very picture of peace. "Yes," smiles Nyupeno, a school administrator, "it's quite cozy here...
Shortly after the fall of Indonesia's authoritarian Suharto government in 1998, the country's remote, resource-rich Papua province seemed on the verge of gaining autonomy from Jakarta. But two ominous developments last week indicate that the resurgent Indonesian military may be about to bring the boot down hard on Papua's separatists, just as it did earlier this year in Aceh province. First came the appointment of Timbul Silaen as Papua's new police chief-the same job he held in Dili during East Timor's 1999 bloody independence drive. Silaen is still wanted by Dili prosecutors...
...Both moves signal the army is dictating Papua policy, says Sidney Jones, head of the Jakarta office of the International Crisis Group. A cycle of tit-for-tat violence may have begun: on Dec. 1, a Papuan mob stabbed to death an Indonesian soldier in apparent retaliation for the killing last month of at least 10 alleged members of the Free Papua Movement. Such incidents will make any crackdown more severe, says Jones: "The military see Papua as a threat to Indonesia's territorial integrity. They intend to crush the autonomy movement...
...just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals. Other targets include Fresh Del Monte Produce, which is being sued by Guatemalan laborers that claim the firm hired goons who kidnapped and tortured union organizers, and ExxonMobil, which faces claims by Indonesian villagers that the oil company is liable for the brutality of local security forces - both companies deny these claims. "We want to establish that multinationals, which are among the biggest players in the global economy, are bound by the rule of law," says Terry Collingsworth, executive director of the International Labor...
...JAKARTA: Style mavens swear by two stores in the Indonesian capital-Nvious, tel: (62-21) 719 9288, for funky street clothes, and Populo, tel: (62-21) 720 8625, for clubbing gear...