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...riveting retrospective of Sudjojono's work at the Museum of the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts until Aug. 24, entitled "Strategies Towards the Real: S. Sudjojono and Contemporary Indonesian Art," now tries to shed light on his political context and artistic legacy. But it also goes a step further by hanging 16 of his rarely seen works alongside those of contemporary Indonesian artists - among them current auction-market favorites I. Nyoman Masriadi, Agus Suwage and Rudi Mantofani - in a bid to convey the influence Sudjojono has had on generations after him. "Sudjojono is regarded as the theorist...
...This combination of slowing growth and soaring inflation turns economic policymaking into a tricky tightrope act - one with potentially ugly consequences for Asian governments that get the balance wrong. In the past 40 years, rapid price rises contributed to the collapse of two Indonesian regimes; inflation was also a factor during China's Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989. Consumer price inflation stirs up the middle classes because it can quickly erase years of hard-won personal gains. And inflation can be particularly cruel to the poor, because families are forced to spend a larger share of their meager incomes...
...they have been linked to further terrorist attacks. However, the intensive search for these men seems to have drastically limited their movements and forced them to abandon cell phones, radios and air travel and fall back on very basic and slow means of transport and communication. I hope the Indonesian, Philippine and Australian police will keep up the pressure and not get distracted or lose heart. Robert T. Brown, Sydney...
...Sydney Jones, who heads ICG's Indonesian office, says there are two main theories about Noordin's location. One is that he is living in central Java "under JI's enforced protection on the condition of non-activity, spending most of his time reading downloads from the Internet." The other theory, Jones says, is based on claims by the recently arrested JI commander Abu Husna that Noordin had been helped to escape to Malaysia. Indonesian police sources tell TIME the chances that Noordin has escaped from Indonesia are very slight. "Why? He's got very good networks here," says...
...Even less is known about the fourth fugitive, Zulkarnaen. Dubbed "the grandfather" by the Indonesian media because of his seniority, the 44-year-old has virtually vanished and does not appear to be linked to any recent terror plots, says Jones. Although the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center lists Zulkarnaen as one of al-Qaeda's "point men" in Southeast Asia, Jones doubts he is active in the JI leadership. "What's striking is that he doesn't come up in conversations or interrogations. It's as though he is a non-person...