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...SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO, top Indonesian Security Minister, in response to last week's hotel bombing in Jakarta that killed at least 10 people and injured some...
...weeks before the deadly bomb blast at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, senior Indonesian police officers delivered a briefing in that city's dilapidated police headquarters. They announced they were certain the city faced an imminent bomb attack by Islamic extremists but also tacitly acknowledged they could do little to prevent it. A militant captured during a raid in the central Java city of Semarang in early July confessed that he had recently delivered two carloads of bombmaking materials to Jakarta. During the raid, police had discovered drawings outlining specific areas of the city for possible attack by members...
...Senior Indonesian police sources concede to TIME that they were in possession of information about possible JI strikes in the days before the attack. One source close to the investigation says followup interrogation of four JI suspects arrested in the Semarang raid yielded specific information that the Grand Hyatt, Mulia and the Marriott were possible hotel targets. Also mentioned were the Citraland and Kelapa Gading malls in Jakarta, along with various sites used by Christian congregations. Although police insist that they were increasing security in these areas, in the case of the Marriott, the hotel's management says no warning...
...well-funded publicity campaigns, and Western travel media obliged with extensive coverage. In the 1990s, as the stock-market bubble unloosened discretionary loot for workers in virtually every economic bracket, long-haul travel took off like a rocket. According to Rob Langtry, a P.R. consultant who was advising the Indonesian government at that time, "annual growth in the upper teens got to be taken for granted...
...formerly very difficult to obtain, were suddenly not a problem. The Western boom in Thai cuisine and a massive promotional campaign made the Thai kingdom a hot destination; the buoyant rise of tourism in Bali in the early 1990s encouraged the building of resorts in new destinations in the Indonesian archipelago, such as in neighboring Lombok. Even creepy Burma tried to polish its image and let in private tourism companies...