Word: indonesianness
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...tsunami left more than 123,000 dead in Indonesia's Aceh province. But when negotiators in Helsinki last week announced a breakthrough in talks between separatist rebels and the Indonesian government, it appeared that some good might come from the tragedy. The Free Aceh Movement, known as GAM, offered to drop its demand for independence. "There's not a single member of the GAM negotiating team who hasn't lost family members in the tsunami," says Damien Kingsbury, an Australian academic who advised the rebel negotiators in Finland. "There's a very deep sense of loss and the suffering...
...Indonesian military derives substantial income from a range of businesses in Aceh. That cash flow would be threatened by a reduced military presence in the province...
...NAMED. LIEUTENANT GENERAL DJOKO SANTOSO, 52, as Chief of Staff of the Indonesian army; in a military shake-up in which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also named new chiefs of the air force and navy; in Jakarta. Santoso replaces hard-liner General Ryamizard Ryacudu and is considered a top candidate to replace the soon-to-retire General Endriartono Sutarto as overall commander of the armed forces. Some see his selection as a move by Yudhoyono to gain greater control over the military, Indonesia's most powerful institution...
...Other places bear the same taint. In Sri Lanka and the Maldives, businesses have watched tourists disappear and dollars dry up. Even Bali, more than 4,300 km away from the hardest hit Indonesian province of Aceh, has seen canceled bookings. At an emergency summit of the World Tourism Organization in Phuket early this month, Secretary General Francesco Frangialli called the cancellations in the region "irrational." Speaking to delegates from around the globe, he urged governments to take swift action to get the tourists back "in order to alleviate the suffering of the affected populations...
...only hope the disaster has opened their eyes to how little this conflict means compared to the devastation and sorrow of the people." FACHRY ALI, Jakarta-based political analyst, on the effect of the Dec. 26 tsunami on talks last week between the Indonesian government and Acehnese separatists...