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...plane airline in Kuala Lumpur. He now has 18 planes and is looking to buy 80 more over the next eight years. From starting with only 12 flights a day, AirAsia currently has a hundred. On July 1 alone, AirAsia launched its first flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta, added a second to Bangkok and announced two more to Malaysian cities. Four days later, Fernandes was on AirAsia's first flight from Bangkok to the gambling mecca of Macau. Upcoming in August: flights to Bali. He's also eyeing China and India. Fernandes boasts, "We have transformed the way people...
...best halls anywhere. In Kuala Lumpur, oil money built a stunning new hall at the base of the Petronas Towers for the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, which celebrates its sixth birthday in August. Futuristic opera houses are going up in Beijing and Guangzhou, challenging Shanghai's Grand Theater. In February, Jakarta opened a 1,500-seat mixed-use hall as a home for Indonesia's semiprofessional Nusantara Symphony Orchestra; Bangkok, too, is building a classical-music venue, an opera house on the sixth floor of a shopping mall...
...even by Aceh's standards, the past year has been grim, and there is scant promise of relief. Last May, after the collapse of peace talks, Jakarta launched a massive military campaign against G.A.M.?a move that many saw as politically expedient for President Megawati Sukarnoputri, bestowing upon her an image of toughness that would belie her reputation as a remote and indecisive leader. The campaign was also popular with senior army brass, still smarting at their loss of prestige and power after dictator Suharto's toppling in 1998. But the quick success the generals predicted...
...Ominously, the past year of bloodshed, dislocation and military law has only intensified the sense of alienation among ordinary Acehnese. "It's totally polarized what was left of civil society in Aceh so that there is effectively no third way between Jakarta and G.A.M.," warns Damien Kingsbury, an Indonesia specialist at Melbourne's Deakin University. Some hope the situation will improve after Indonesia's July 5 presidential election. Retired military chief Wiranto, one of the three leading candidates, told TIME that "the use of force" in Aceh is a mistake, noting: "the problem of Aceh is not a security problem...
...imagine not living in Indonesia. My life is here." SIDNEY JONES, Jakarta-based human-rights analyst, after her work visa was not renewed by Indonesian authorities, who have strongly criticized her probing reports on the country