Word: indonesianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Police had previously identified an Indonesian named Iqbal as the likely carrier of the smaller bomb, which ripped through Paddy's Irish Pub 21 seconds before the main blast outside the Sari Club across the street. But investigators now believe he was responsible for detonating the bigger bomb outside the Sari Club, and not for the smaller blast. "He could have been sitting there in the van with people pouring out of the Sari Club, even staring in the windows, when he set it off," says a source close to the investigation...
...supports a rebellion against Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno. The rebels fail, and an American mercenary pilot working for the agency is shot down and captured with papers revealing his employer...
...When I look at my pictures?and I actually look pretty there?and see people stomping on them, I feel like ... a volcano about to explode." Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesian President, reacting to demonstrators in Jakarta...
ACQUITTED. JAFAR UMAR THALIB, 40, Muslim cleric and leader of the Indonesian militia Laskar Jihad, of charges of inciting his followers to commit violence against Christians; in Jakarta. The prosecution said Jafar had made incendiary remarks in a speech last April in Ambon, capital of the Maluku Islands, just two days before a gang of Muslims attacked a Christian village and killed 12 people. The court ruled that the speech was insufficient evidence, leading some observers to question the country's commitment to combating Islamic militancy. In recent years, Laskar Jihad has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds...
...Borobudur to draw up their own plan. Immediately after General Mardiyanto called retreat, the opposition seemed giddy, almost stunned by its victory. But suspicion soon crept in that this might be a ruse. One young firebrand told me, "Now we are entering the world of games." In the past, Indonesian government officials have been shameless about making cheery promises to gloss over problems and quell criticism, only to break them when the opportunity to make money was ripe...