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...Bali suspects to be caught. (At a press conference after his arrest, he told police, "I am a naughty person.") Since then police have arrested 28 others, including Amrozi's brothers Ali Ghufron and Ali Imron. Amrozi's trial is scheduled to begin on May 12 under new Indonesian antiterrorism laws that carry a maximum sentence of the death penalty...
SOUTHEAST ASIAN NIGHT. Hosted by The Harvard Vietnamese Association, Philipine Forum, Thai Society, Indonesian Association, and The Singaporean and Malaysian Student Association, SEA night promises a fifteen-course meal representing all nationalities involved and a slew of performaces including a Dragon Dance, Filipino Tinikling, and “Romantic Serenades.” Special to this year’s event is an exhibition of works by photographer Jacques de Roquancourt depicting the landscapes and people of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Friday, April 25, exhibition at 7:30, dinner and performances beginning at 8:30. $8. Exhibition in Leverett House...
...Less polished and more popular with the older crowd is Guan Hoe Soo at 214 Joo Chiat Road, tel: (65) 6344 2761, one of Singapore's signature Peranakan restaurants fusing Malaysian, Indonesian and Chinese cuisine. It's been serving fish-head curry and sotong, or squid, sambal since 1953. Even Lee Kuan Yew is rumored to order takeout from here. With dishes like these on Singapore's menu, eating for two has never been so easy...
...vertiginous popularity was bound to provoke a backlash, and in Indonesia it came not from teens who discovered a newer, hotter idol but from Muslim clerics condemning a false one. In a country obsessed with thy neighbor's morality, Inul's dancing was deemed pornographic. In early February, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI), concerned that Inul's performances encouraged lustful acts, declared that her dancing and costume were circumscribed by its July 2002 fatwa against pornography. Authorities in devout Yogyakarta banned Inul from performing, fearing that she would "degrade the morality of the highly civilized and educated residents...
...meet a glad-handing official for lunch in Pelaihari, Inul appears spent after a night of "drilling," as her dance has been termed by the Indonesian media. Yet one mention of her detractors is enough to energize her. "Write this down," she commands. "The MUI should realize that Indonesia is not a Muslim country, it's a democratic country." Inul, who says she prays daily, insists that her art doesn't clash with her Islamic beliefs and suspects the religious hierarchy castigates her because the real threats to Indonesia's fragile morality, particularly corrupt officials, are too dangerous to attack...