Word: indonesianness
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...Indonesian officials have been reluctant to make a direct link between the bombings last October in Bali and al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. Many of those arrested were members of Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), an Islamic militant group with adherents throughout Southeast Asia. But as recently as Jan. 8, Indonesia's top police official said, "We haven't come to any conclusion yet whether there is a link between Jemaah Islamiah and al-Qaeda...
...reluctance by Indonesian officials to acknowledge a link? Because the Bali bombings remain controversial. J.I.'s suspected spiritual leader, the influential cleric Abubakar Ba'asyir, has been detained since October. But speculation in Jakarta continues that he is being protected by hard-line Islamic sympathizers at the top levels of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government. General I Made Mangku Pastika, the officer in charge of the Bali investigation, says he is convinced that Ba'asyir was a "teacher and inspiration" to the bombers. Pastika says Ba'asyir, who has not been connected to the Bali bombings, will go on trial...
...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...