Word: indonesianness
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...persuade others to want the goals it advocates. “Power is the ability to influence others to get outcomes,” he said. For example, Nye pointed to how the U.S. Navy’s assistance in tsunami relief efforts led to a measured increase in Indonesian support for U.S. government. He said that soft power is not a normative concept and thus it is not always good to employ it. Similarly, hard power, which he described as the use of force, isn’t necessarily worse than soft power, he said. “Osama...
...Sweat’s flagship product—a shoe that closely resembles Converse’s Chuck Taylor high-top sneaker—was priced at $40. No Sweat places a detailed list of the benefits earned by the Indonesian factory workers who make the shoes and challenges Nike, which owns Converse, to do the same...
...East Timorese seeking independence; in Washington. A U.S. State Department spokesman said the removal of the embargo would bolster American security objectives in Asia, such as supporting Jakarta's fight against terrorism. Some human-rights groups criticized the U.S. decision, which they said decreased the likelihood that the Indonesian military leaders accused of planning the East Timor assault will ever face trial...
Azahari Bin Husin seemed to live a charmed life. One of Asia's most wanted terrorists, Azahari, a Malaysian university lecturer who became a master bombmaker, had been on the run in Indonesia for three years and had repeatedly evaded capture-despite the biggest manhunt ever mounted by Indonesian authorities. On several occasions he slipped away just minutes before police showed up at his hideout. But last week Azahari's luck ran out: he was killed during a shootout when police raided a house he had rented in the mountain resort town of Batu in East Java...
...Indonesian police say their first break came in late October when they identified the three suicide bombers who killed 20 people in Bali on Oct. 1. That led to a massive surveillance operation in which they trailed scores of suspects believed to have links to the dead men. One of these individuals was a 27-year-old Indonesian calling himself Yahya Antoni. A police source told TIME that at 5 a.m. on Nov. 8, the day before the raid in which Azahari died, Yahya emerged from the Batu house. Having tapped Yahya's mobile phone, authorities believed...