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Endang Isnanik was stitching away at her sewing machine when she heard news of the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta last month. Though hundreds of kilometers away in Bali, the 32-year-old widow began to cry, remembering the explosion that took the life of her husband in Kuta two years ago. "We cry every time we hear that a bomb has gone off," says the slight mother of three, trembling with an almost vacant look in her eyes. "I still have trouble sleeping...
...policing equipment provided by foreign governments. "Living in fear would mean the terrorists have won, so I refuse to do it," says Theresa Disimone, a hairdresser from Melbourne. The 21-year-old admits that three of her friends decided not to join her after the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta, but three others did in the end. "Bali needs my support, and people here have actually thanked me for coming," she says while sipping a vodka tonic at Mbargo, a club packed with surfers just down the street from where the Sari Club, destroyed during the 2002 bombings, used...
Indonesia: Again Your article on the suicide bombing in Jakarta focused on the terrorism still prevalent in Indonesia [Sept. 20]. That attack came less than two years after the October 2002 bombing on the island of Bali that killed 202 people. Indonesians today are praying for peace in the region and an end to terrorist activities. The devastation in Indonesia has shocked the world and clearly shows that Muslim nations are strongly affected by terrorism, the same way other countries are. Peace is something the region demands. Akshay Mor Bombay...
...Bush, then it deserves to go the way of the Whigs and the Know Nothings. And if Bush gets re-elected, I swear I will never vote Democratic again. Cary A. Wiesner West Branch, Iowa, U.S. Indonesia Is Struck Again Your World Watch item on the suicide bombing in Jakarta made it clear that terrorism is still prevalent in Indonesia [Sept. 20]. That attack came less than two years after the October 2002 bombing on the resort island of Bali that killed 202 people. Indonesians today are praying for peace in the region and an end to terrorist activities...
...This all has resonance because Bombay, Mehta says, will be the largest city in the world 11 years from now; what happens there is just a more dramatic instance of what happens in Jakarta and Bangkok and La Paz. And the only people maintaining standards and facilities in this Jacobean society are, almost inevitably, members of the criminal underworld, who run things more efficiently than do their government counterparts. Even judges turn to mobsters for help. "Our motto," a criminal overlord tells Mehta, "is insaaniyat, humanity." When an ordinary, law-abiding citizen comes to Bombay from elsewhere, Mehta shows...