Word: indonesianness
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...Environmentalists have lobbied the Indonesian government for years to police these waters more vigilantly, but to little effect. With more than 81,000 square kilometers of coastline and 17,000 islands to patrol, the Department of Fisheries faces a herculean task, and it doesn't cost much to avert the eyes of a prying inspector. Marine biologists estimate that well in excess of half of the nation's coral reefs suffer some damage from dynamiting. Environmental education programs are having some effect, but international demand and a willingness to pay top dollar for reef delicacies like the napoleon wrasse make...
...seized by Chinese police in the grounds of the Japanese consulate in Shenyang. Japan demanded the Chinese hand them back, but talks over their fate stalled, straining already tense relations. EAST TIMOR New Nation Almost three years after residents braved a hostile militia to vote for independence, the former Indonesian territory prepared to become a sovereign nation on May 20. To help it on its way, donors representing 27 countries and organizations pledged a total of $440 million in aid, but the country will still rank as one of the poorest in the world. Half the population live on less...
...karaoke bar in Banda Aceh, and the portly drunkard everyone respectfully calls "Commander" is on the mike. "Indonesia," he wails between gulps of Guinness. "You are the red of my blood, the white of my bone." His bleary rendition wins huge applause from the bar's other customers, all Indonesian soldiers deployed in the capital of war-torn Aceh province. "I love that song," slurs the Commander, who is actually an army major. "It makes me feel so patriotic...
...Outside the smoke-filled Top Ten, where the Indonesian armed forces, or TNI, are fighting a bloody war against Acehnese separatists, a different military performance is being appraised, and with much less applause. Since the Suharto dictatorship collapsed in 1998, the Aceh conflict is viewed as one indicator of just how much the TNI has changed?or, more often, hasn't. For 32 years, the Indonesian armed forces propped up Suharto's hard-line rule with killings, torture and kidnappings, while senior officers grew rich from corrupt business deals and helped thwart political reform. By 1998, no institution...
...President of Peru, with using government funds to recruit congressmen to his party; in Lima, Peru. This is the fourth in a series of criminal charges against Fujimori, who has lived in self-imposed exile in his parents' native Japan since November 2000. SENTENCED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI, 31, Indonesian national arrested in Manila in January for ties to terrorist groups and a failed bomb plot in Singapore, to 10 to 12 years in prison for the illegal possession of explosives; in General Santos City, Philippines. SENTENCED. THOMAS CRANDALL, 47, Roman Catholic priest, to four years and three months...