Word: jakarta
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...LIFTED. STATE OF EMERGENCY, in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, where a decades-long insurgency has cost more than 12,000 lives; in Jakarta. The expiration of the year-old state of emergency comes as the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.) negotiate a peace deal in the wake of the Dec. 26 tsunami, which killed more than 100,000 Acehnese. Although 38,000 government troops will remain on the ground, Bivitri Susanti, executive director of the Centre for Indonesian Law and Policy Studies, called the move "a very significant step for the reconstruction process...
This summer, I shall renounce 02138 and return to my home city: Jakarta, Indonesia. The city is exhilarating and alive, damp and disgusting, and I cannot wait to return. It is home to 9.5 million people (officially) and doesn’t come close to anything in North America. Sadly, however, you, my Harvard peer, will not be visiting me anytime soon, not even on the way to study abroad...
Harvard will not sanction education programs in places like Jakarta due to U.S. State Department travel warnings. What a pity this is! Because of a self-harming, unnecessary, and contradictory policy, your education and the future of my country will be compromised. To speak the language of University President Lawrence H. Summers, this is an embargo on interaction with the ideas of other parts of the world, and as in most embargoes, everybody loses...
Most damningly, these travel restrictions are inconsistent and contradictory. For one thing, they emphasize political crime above overall crime. So while according to one set of statistics, you are 19 times more likely to get murdered in Moscow than in Jakarta, the college sanctions three study abroad programs in the Russian capital. But even if we measure only political violence, how can we sanction travel to Spain—which has suffered a massive deadly political attack in the last year—but not to Jakarta, which has experienced no acts of terrorism in the same time-frame? Harvard...
...giants, but their successors gathering in Jakarta today are just half-giants. That is better than dwarfs." ROESLAN ABDULGANI, Indonesian diplomat who served as secretary general for the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung...