Word: jakarta
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...wallets, but they don't threaten our own health. Avian influenza is different. Though the H5N1 virus is spreading and killing mainly in Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand, the possibility that bird flu could mutate and become a pandemic is a serious threat to us all. That's why Jakarta's fight with the World Health Organization (WHO) over how an avian-flu vaccine should be developed and distributed is so important...
...guerrillas and former exiled activists among its ranks, many members of East Timor's government are woefully inexperienced. "For many of these people, this is the first real job they ever had," says the head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, Mario Carrascalão, who even as the Jakarta-appointed governor to East Timor in the 1980s and early '90s spoke out against the excesses of Indonesian rule...
...East Timor declares its independence from Portugal. Nine days later, Indonesian troops invade. Jakarta formally annexes East Timor the following year as Indonesia's 27th province...
...Rebel leader Xanana Gusmão is captured and later sentenced to life imprisonment in Jakarta's Cipinang prison...
...August-September 1999: As East Timor votes for independence in a U.N.-supervised referendum, Indonesian soldiers and militias loyal to Jakarta rampage through the territory, killing hundreds and displacing nearly half the country's population...