Word: indonesian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looking for a few good Pashto speakers. Also, according to an appeal posted on the FBI website today, the bureau is seeking fluent speakers and readers of Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili, Tajik, Thai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uigur, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese...
...architect at Malaysia's Polimas Polytechnic. But drawn by the lure of jihad, he made his way to Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he underwent basic military training in an al-Qaeda camp. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Lillie, according to his own account, received a letter from Hambali, an Indonesian who had started off as an activist in Islamist causes in Southeast Asia but had gone on to serve the global-reaching al-Qaeda. In the letter, Hambali asked whether Lillie was prepared to join in a suicide attack. When he replied yes, Lillie claimed, he received an invitation...
They are now. That was evident last week when Indonesian judges sentenced Abubakar Ba'asyir, a conservative cleric who started Pondok Ngruki, an Islamist boarding school in Solo, and, according to several foreign governments, allegedly co-founded Jemaah Islamiah in the early '90s, to four years in prison for treason and immigration violations. But he was acquitted of charges that he ran the radical group and planned a series of Indonesian bombings (He has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities, and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that links him to terrorism.) Only slowly are the citizens of Solo...
...Iraq becomes the kind of rallying point for jihad that Afghanistan was, Indonesia's militant radicals will have to convince potential recruits that attacking Western targets at home is an honorable way to fight the infidel. The Marriott bombing did little for that pitch. The victims were mostly Indonesian Muslims. "There's unquestionably a huge sense of outrage," says Jones, "and a lot more willingness now to say that this kind of violence is not in keeping with Islam." An 18-year-old student at a school near Solo allegedly run by a member of Jemaah Islamiah says...
There is a strange bipolarity in the Australian psyche. Compare the louche abandon of the Sydney Mardi Gras with the gruff, homophobic machismo of the outback. Contrast the shining, multicultural cities with rural outposts where shadowy, armed survivalists zealously prophesize an Indonesian invasion. And consider the country's strangely conflicted attitude to immigrants: for every legal settler that gives thanks for the unfettered hospitality of the Lucky Country?as Australia has been famously known since the 1960s?you can line up a woebegone refugee from Afghanistan, Uganda or China who rues the day he or she ever made landfall there...