Word: indonesianness
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...modern furnishings, marble bathrooms, satellite TV and Internet connections on demand. Guest amenities include a business center, a health club, a swimming pool and a beauty salon. There's an international buffet restaurant, the Caf? Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian specialty restaurant, the Silk Route, which offers Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Thai cuisine...
RIDUAN ISAMUDDIN Indonesian Headed operations in Southeast Asia; planned the 2002 Bali bombing...
...WITHDRAWN. INDONESIAN ARMY TROOPS; from war-torn and tsunami-devastated Aceh province; after a bloody, 26-year conflict against the separatist Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.). The last of 24,000 nonlocal troops departed in accordance with a peace deal prompted by the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami, which killed as many as 170,000 in Aceh; 14,500 local troops will remain. "I hope this really means peace is at hand," said G.A.M. spokesman Irwandi Yusuf...
...where the H5N1 virus first appeared in 1997 and where SARS killed 300 in 2003, more than half of those surveyed called avian flu the biggest issue for 2006. In South Korea, 46% put economic woes at the top of their list, a fear shared by one in three Indonesian respondents. Australians said terrorism will be the biggest issue, while Japanese put global warming and climate change first. The remaining two choices, pollution and AIDS, were at the bottom of most of the lists. At least there are two things in this uncertain season that people don't seem...
Like many other Indonesians, Erwin has only one name. But he has been many things. He is unemployed, but before Dec. 26, 2004, he was a flower seller. Then the tsunami hit the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, and for a moment Erwin became a hero. Trapped with hundreds of people seeking higher ground, he stood on the city's humpback bridge. Below him were thundering waves. "I stood there, staring helplessly at black water that looked more like heavy mud," he recalls. "It was filled with corpses, cars, dead animals and rubble from destroyed houses." Then he heard...