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...Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her husband, Taufik Kiemas, rang in 2003 in style. They celebrated New Year's Eve at the presidential palace in Bali, where Megawati crooned Indonesian classics from the 1970s. Earlier that same day, they had celebrated Taufik's birthday and launched his book Without the People Leadership Means Nothing at the five-star Grand Bali Beach Hotel...
...After the Makassar bombings, police arrested 16 people, including five Laskar Jundullah members. When they raided the houses of those five suspects, they found semi-automatic rifles, bomb materials and, in the workshop of the alleged bomb maker, detailed sketches of Christian churches. (Laskar Jundullah is openly anti-Christian; Indonesian intelligence officials suspect that the group has been provoking tension in Maluku and Poso.) According to National Police Chief Da'i Bachtiar, one of the men arrested, Suryadi, is an associate of Imam Samudra, whom police say was the mastermind of the Bali bombings and a devotee of Abubakar...
...Lemorai Foundation, some of them scattered as far afield as Sumatra and Sulawesi. Reunions, however, are not likely to happen quickly for those in Hasan's care?or for hundreds of other displaced East Timorese children. The U.N. can only make requests. After that it's up to the Indonesian authorities. I. Gusti Wesaka Puja, the official handling the issue at the Foreign Ministry in Jakarta, says the government is doing all it can to help. But "the fact is we have other priorities that demand much more of our attention than just these children," he says. Bureaucratic inertia...
...Hasan vehemently denies he is doing anything wrong. He says funds for his Lemorai Foundation come from "alms given by Indonesian Muslims who care about our misfortune." He proffers documents indicating everything is on the up-and-up. Children's surnames written on the papers are frequently either "Freitas" or "da Silva," Hasan's family name and that of his wife. Filling out the documents that way strengthens his claim over the children, making Hasan appear to be their nearest relative, says Qodri of the Riantara...
...Hasan also produces other papers, these relating to what he cheerfully calls "my terrible past." The documents indicate he was once a low-level agent for the Indonesian military intelligence service in East Timor, a group blamed by human rights activists for hundreds of killings and disappearances. Hasan, a small man who on this day is wearing a cotton sarong, tracksuit top and traditional pillbox hat, is proud of his service as an informer. He seems puzzled as to why others might not be. In fact, he says, it was through the military that he first...