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...grim logic of virology, Indonesia's decision was unconscionable and self-defeating. We need surveillance in every nation to track bird flu as it changes. But Jakarta got the attention of WHO officials, who came to the Indonesian capital earlier this week for an emergency meeting at which Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari called the current distribution system "more dangerous than the threat of an H5N1 pandemic itself." On March 27 the two sides reached a temporary compromise: Indonesia would resume sharing virus samples with the WHO, but for now that access wouldn't be extended to the drug industry...
...wasn’t afraid. The Kennedy School lecturer and former National Security Council advisor has navigated Jordanian prisons and Indonesian alleys to meet terrorists and learn how they think. Now, as she looked to explore Islamic extremism in the Netherlands, she had found an unexpected holdup: not a band of gun-toting terrorists but a group of rule-bearing regulators...
With over 17,000 islands, the Indonesian archipelago has enough travel possibilities to exhaust a lifetime. But if all you can spare is a few days, consider the microcosm that is Desa Seni, desaseni.com. At this Balinese resort, the accommodation consists of 10 traditional wooden homes, offering one, two or three bedrooms each. Houses are in various ethnic styles and have been imported from different regions of Indonesia before being rebuilt and refurbished. Some are over a century old. They are laid out in the manner of a typical village, and decorated with handicrafts, antiques and paintings from all over...
...Starbucks apparently thinks so, too, because it is one of the top purchasers of Timorese coffee. Yet a search of Starbucks' U.S. website, which lists the provenance of all its bean blends, comes up with no results for coffee from East Timor. There are, however, plenty of mentions of Indonesian-based blends. There's a nasty rumor circulating in the East Timorese capital, Dili, that their beans may be masquerading as - gasp - Indonesian. This, they point out, is a travesty. East Timorese coffee beans became independent in 2002. Is there no end to the indignities small, newly free nations must...
...August-September 1999: As East Timor votes for independence in a U.N.-supervised referendum, Indonesian soldiers and militias loyal to Jakarta rampage through the territory, killing hundreds and displacing nearly half the country's population...