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...spotted are in the picturesque bay nearby, where fishermen paddle wooden canoes. The mine's operator, Perth-based Archipelago Resources, has faced delays because of a political battle that has raged from the villages outside the mine's gate to the ministries of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. So Morrison, the project's chief operating officer, waits with as much patience as he can muster. "It is literally a gold mine," Morrison says, but "that doesn't stop social and political issues from coming up. That's Indonesia...
...other Asian strongmen of his era, was able to guide the country toward prosperity. After he was forced to step down in 1998 amid an economic meltdown, a new government set about erasing his dictatorial imprint; in 1999 an effort began to decentralize the once all-encompassing power of Jakarta, giving provinces and cities more influence over local affairs. Today, Indonesia's political system is more inclusive and remarkably stable. Some 34 political parties will participate in next year's parliamentary elections and, unlike in Thailand and the Philippines, where election results have been contested on the streets, Indonesians have...
According to Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based terrorism expert with the International Crisis Group, the breakdown of negotiations may have freed the most radicalized faction of a fluid coalition of homegrown separatists, criminals, and foreign jihadis trained by Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaeda-linked international terrorist group. "The MILF was keeping a fairly tight lid on the radical elements," Jones says. "When things were looking bright for a peace agreement, they were even providing intelligence on foreign jihadis to the armed forces of the Philippines." Such cooperation is unlikely to continue, Jones says...
...says Pastika, their two fellow fugitives relied on an extensive network of supporters and family in central Java, Indonesia, to escape and regroup. Of all the wanted men, Noordin Top is regarded as the most dangerous, accused by Indonesian police of orchestrating the bombings of the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta in 2003, the Australian embassy in 2004 and the second Bali bombings in 2005. "He's very good at recruiting people and getting them to commit suicide, not at making bombs," says General Pastika. The ICG, in a 2006 report on Noordin's networks, told how he would "ripen" suicide...
...After a brief post in Jakarta, Sheehan returned to Vietnam in 1965 to cover the war for The Times...