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Smiling and eager to hit the beach, 79 Australian tourists streamed off a Garuda Indonesian Airways jet last week on the tropical island of Bali. Their joy turned to dismay when Indonesian authorities denied them entry because they lacked visas, which vacationing Australians are not normally required to present...
...foreign correspondent, 1997-99 was a thrilling time to be in Indonesia?but it was a terrible time to be Indonesian...
...when one changes from witness to participant, as Lloyd Parry learns during his reckoning in East Timor, the book's most gripping section. After the embattled province votes for its independence from Jakarta in 1999, Lloyd Parry watches as anti-independence militias, seemingly with the tacit approval of the Indonesian army, wreak havoc. But this time he's more than a spectator?the militias violently turn on journalists, forcing them to hole up in the United Nations' overcrowded compound. Inside, terrified, he listens to machine guns firing, grenades exploding and refugees wailing. He imagines rockets bursting through the walls...
...office with rocket-propelled grenades or a mixture of TNT and the rodenticide Rodex. Anti-American sentiment has been running high in Indonesia, with the recently retracted Newsweek report on abuses of the Koran at the U.S.'s Guant?namo Bay detention camp prompting protests in several cities. And Indonesian newspapers reported last week that a group of 23 Indonesians were believed to be back in the country after training at a camp belonging to regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.) in the Philippines. "The combination of these events may have been enough to force the embassy to take action," says...
...closures come at an awkward time for the Indonesian government, with Yudhoyono wrapping up his otherwise successful trip to Washington. The two sides reached an agreement on sales of nonlethal equipment to Indonesia's military, long withheld because of accusations of widespread human-rights abuses. But it was also hoped that Yudhoyono's visit would help entice foreign investors to Indonesia who are still skeptical over corruption and spooked by the country's terrorist rumblings?a fear that the embassy closure does nothing to assuage. It's possible, though, that the shutdown might actually strengthen Yudhoyono's hand in dealing...