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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Elizabeth Gilbert is, in her own words, "the kind of person who, when a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man tells you that you're destined to move to Bali and live with him for four months, thinks you should make every effort to do that." She is also exactly the kind of person a ninth-generation Indonesian medicine man would say that to: charming, blond, gregarious, spiritually curious and highly mobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year of Living Happily | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...leading a drug-trafficking ring dubbed the "Bali Nine" by the Australian press; to death; by the Denpasar District Court; in Bali. The nine Australians?some as young as 19 at the time?were arrested last year on suspicion of plotting to smuggle 8.3 kg of heroin from the Indonesian island to Australia. While one woman and six men received life sentences for their roles as drug mules, Chan (pictured) and Sukumaran face death by firing squad, a punishment Australia has vigorously opposed. They plan to appeal their convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

...Lankans seem to have quickly forgotten the spirit of cooperation that flickered briefly after the tsunami. Across the Indian Ocean in Aceh, the disaster persuaded guerrillas and the Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Island on the Edge | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...most amazing mammal they saw, the 15-kg Golden-mantled Tree Kangaroo, would have a hard time wreaking havoc on Manhattan. But with claims to have discovered dozens of previously unreported species in a 10,000-sq-km expanse of virgin forest, the 11 American, Australian and Indonesian researchers may have found a biological blockbuster just the same. "Every decade there are more people, more roads, more human control over the earth," says expedition co-leader Bruce Beehler, of the environmental NGO Conservation International. "It's nice to know there are a few places we haven't got a grip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Garden of Eden | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

...Long-Lost Kin While the endangered GOLDEN-MANTLED TREE KANGAROO is known to exist on a single mountain in neighboring Papua New Guinea, this was the first time it had been found in Indonesia. The explorers say the Indonesian population could prove critical to the survival of the species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Garden of Eden | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

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