Word: indonesianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...five years, I don?t find their presence particularly jarring. First the Asian financial crisis hit us in the mid-90s, and the rupiah went from 2,500 per dollar to 11,000 per dollar in about 90 days. Then came the anti-Suharto revolution, and the beginnings of Indonesian democracy. Then the presidential election, where a plurality of popular votes went to Megawati but the politicians in Jakarta decided to give the Presidency to Abdurrahman Wahid. Then this year another crisis led the same politicians to bring down Wahid and install Megawati into power...
...news from the Internet, so every day I see ten or twenty new stories, examining the issues from every angle, including the plight of innocent people caught in the crosshairs - both in New York and in Afghanistan. Then I look at the top headlines of the Indonesian-language newspapers, which read, "America Attacks Afghanistan - bin Laden Still Safe...
...other hand, the military is solidly behind Megawati - probably even more so now that her agreement to support Washington's anti-terror campaign has revived the Indonesian military's relationship with the U.S., which had been in the deep freeze over human rights abuses in East Timor...
...Visiting Washington last week, Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri gave the Bush Administration the endorsement of the world's most populous Muslim nation. In return, she brought home an aid package worth almost $600 million. "Megawati is in the same position as Bush in that this issue could make or break her presidency," says Eros Djarot, her former adviser. The immediate consequences: international praise and strident gatherings outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta. A leading Islamic council promised jihad?though not necessarily violence?if the U.S. invades Afghanistan. And extremist groups, a tiny but vocal fraction of Indonesia's Muslims, conducted...
...East Timorese Foreign Minister JosE Ramos Horta also would like to see "a general amnesty on the day of independence, preceded by a truth and reconciliation process. The real culprits of the crimes against East Timor," he adds, "are the Indonesian government and (army) officers who are safe in Jakarta. While they escape justice, are we going to try our own people, the small fish?" Horta believes the new Parliament will heed Gusmao's advice on amnesty and that national consensus is possible...