Word: indonesianness
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...from where so much of the international action lay, we all lived on the same planet and had to see it whole. The Beagle Channel at the southern tip of Argentina, for example, was to them of compelling interest. Yet the Strait of Hormuz and the waterways through the Indonesian archipelago, industrial Japan's lifeline, were perhaps more important. I did not, I said, soon expect to see an Argentine squadron in the Indian Ocean, though it would be welcome. The faces of the admirals were wreathed in smiles...
Currently HIID is working in Indonesia a country that has been accused of human right excesses in recent years. The problem in Indonesia centers around the island province of East Timor a former Portuguese colony granted independence in 1976. Since that time the Indonesian government has tried to integrate East Timor but has met with Strong resistance...
...Island suffered a famine because thousands of its inhabitants disrupted food production when they fled their homes during fighting A year later, the Indonesian government banned food and medical assistance from abroad to the East Timorans...
During the last 10 months Harberger has worked on an HIID research project, which may be used to reform the tax structure of Indonesia. The study is not yet complete, but Harberger presented some of his findings about the Indonesian political economy at an HIID seminar in Coolidge Hall yesterday...
Suppose that, in 1965, someone at the British embassy in Jakarta passed a classified document to Indonesian Communists, with ghastly results: at a secret outpost in neighboring Malaysia, a British officer and his men were ambushed, tortured and slaughtered by marauding guerrillas. Imagine further that a top-level investigation winnowed the field of possible traitors down to two men. One, William Ludley, had resigned shortly after the atrocity, when he inherited his family fortune, and never returned to England. In the absence of hard evidence, officials interpreted Ludley's self-exile as incriminating and deduced the innocence of Leslie...