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...four years, the Jakarta branch of the International Crisis Group (ICG) has provided one of the clearest windows into the troubled state of Indonesia. The Brussels-based ICG's mission is to use research to help prevent violent conflict, and it has been in the right place at a turbulent time: American human-rights activist Sidney Jones, head of the organization's Southeast Asian office, and a handful of expatriate and Indonesian researchers have produced 39 uncompromising reports on subjects ranging from bloody conflicts in Aceh, Ambon and East Timor to the origins of Islamic terror in the region...
...Jakarta has apparently decided it has had enough of the ICG's warts-and-all reports. Last week, the government refused to renew work permits for Jones and an expatriate staff member. Indonesia's powerful intelligence czar, A.M. Hendropriyono, told the press that Jones' reports had tarnished the image of the country and that "many were untrue." Jones, who has written for TIME, says she's not sure what has upset Hendropriyono's intelligence agency, known by its Indonesian acronym BIN. "The accusations against us keep changing," she says. "First it was our reports on Aceh and Papua. The latest...
...pairing just might work. Wiranto is viewed as a vibrant alternative to President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is running for re-election, and his Golkar party won the biggest number of seats in April's legislative polls. The campaign is humming along nicely: according to the Jakarta Post, Wiranto raised $450,000 at a campaign dinner last week by treating his audience of businessmen to renditions of Javanese love songs. Strange bedfellows can sometimes make sweet music...
ARRESTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, Indonesian Muslim cleric; on the day he was to be freed after serving 18 months for minor immigration offenses; in Jakarta. Authorities say they have new evidence that he heads the radical group Jemaah Islamiah and that he approved a string of bombings, including the 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people, although he has been acquitted of those charges. (He has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that linked him to terrorism...
...ARRESTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, Indonesian Muslim cleric; on the day he was to be freed after serving 18 months for minor immigration offenses and document forgery; in Jakarta. Police claim they have new evidence that he is the leader of the radical group Jemaah Islamiah and that he approved a string of bombings, including the October 2002 Bali attack that killed 202 people. (Abubakar has consistently denied involvement in terrorist activities, and is suing TIME for a 2002 article that accused him of links to terrorism...