Word: indonesianness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Indonesian police sources say they found Azahari's hideout after identifying the three suicide bombers who killed 20 people in Bali on Oct. 1. A massive surveillance operation ensued, trailing scores of suspects with links to the dead bombers. One of those suspects, a 27-year-old Indonesian who calls himself Yayha Antoni, emerged from the Batu house the day before Azahari died. Having tapped his mobile phone, police believed he was going to meet Azahari's chief accomplice, fellow Malaysian Noordin Mohamad Top. Yayha apparently sensed he was being tailed and tried to detonate his vest but was arrested...
...been training new bombmakers. Last Friday security forces found a bombmaking video at a house they suspect Noordin had recently occupied. Police say the tape contained confessions by the Oct. 1 bombers in which they declared they would go straight to paradise upon their death. Says a senior Indonesian police official: "Until we get the other key members, we won't be able to relax...
...will be shrink-wrapped. But all that looks set to change with the success of Aksara (www.aksara.com). The independent bookseller is zeroing in on the niche markets of Jakarta's middle classes and catering to tastes once served only by retailers in nearby Singapore. With three stores in the Indonesian capital, Aksara (the name means "letter" in Sanskrit) also encourages shoppers to simply hang out and browse-a novel experience in Jakarta...
...Winfred Hutabarat, compares the store to Collette in Paris, or 10 Corso Como in Milan. "We are a concept store selling a range of products," he says. "But whereas those stores have fashion as an anchor, ours is books." John McGlynn, publishing director of the Lontar Foundation, which translates Indonesian literature into English, describes Aksara as "a curator, choosing books and other things with a special appeal...
...Aksara's new role as a cultural producer is part of the allure. It recently launched a book on Indonesian architecture under its own imprint, and it's now working on a TV show about the creative process. Aksara Records, an offshoot, is about to release its eighth CD and recently entered into a distribution deal with Universal Music Group Indonesia. None of these works are designed to appeal to a mass audience but that isn't the point. "Aksara is more about the choice of music, the people and their vision," says Daniel Tumiwa, Universal's marketing director...