Word: indonesianness
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...thickets of stubby palm trees where the constant smugglers' traffic has flattened an area the size of a basketball court. It is littered with the yellow hessian bags used to carry contraband and the remains of smugglers' campfires. "I see the police about once a week," says Alfredo, an Indonesian petrol smuggler. Other smugglers say the regular local police patrol consists of two unarmed officers who walk to the clearing and turn back...
...health situation is extraordinary, so we have to take extraordinary action.' WEYNAND WATARI, Indonesian lawmaker, on a proposal to use microchips to track sexually aggressive HIV/AIDS patients...
...People with AIDS aren't animals. We have to respect their rights.' TAHI GANYANG BUTARBUTAR, an Indonesian activist, saying such a bill would violate privacy rights...
...Indonesian peatland fires in 1997 resulted in the release of 80 to 250 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, according to a study of those fires in the journal Nature...
...Japan Paradigm As a kid growing up on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, Alimansyar knew Japan stood for one thing: really hip stuff. His parents' generation might have looked askance at the historic aggressor, given its wartime record in East Asia. But for Alimansyar and other younger Indonesians, Japan represents a nation that transformed itself in record time from vanquished pauper to cutting-edge innovator. Today, Alimansyar teaches Japanese at the University of North Sumatra, and the school's rapidly growing Japanese-language program is filled with 500 students who are often lured by Japanese cars, electronics and anim...