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...help. They are desperate for a breakthrough. The investigators are still a long way from naming a suspect, establishing a motive or connecting the deadly strike to jihadis. "Our net is still cast very wide," says Major General I. Made Mangku Pastika, the Balinese-born police chief appointed by Jakarta to head the investigation. General Pastika occupies one of the hottest seats in Indonesia. Getting some solid arrests?none have been made so far?will reassure the international community that President Megawati Sukarnoputri is serious about the need to reverse her country's image as a haven for terrorist groups...
...positive sign is that the man hailed by Australian police as the best cop in Indonesia has shown no sign of succumbing to outside pressure. Last week there were fears that hasty arrests would be made to appease Jakarta and an outraged public in Australia, which suffered an estimated 96 casualties. Instead, the investigation has been characterized by patience and precision. With the support of the Australian Federal Police and counterterrorism and forensics experts from Scotland Yard and the FBI, Pastika has methodically assembled evidence from the crime scene. The picture he has painted so far is chilling...
...Even in the clothing manufacturing business?a bulwark of developing Asian economies?the country seems to be giving away any competitive advantage it once had by way of a cheap labor force. Minimum wages in Indonesia have grown rapidly?in Jakarta, by nearly 40% this year alone?and now are higher than in more developed Thailand, relative to each country's per capita income. Unions are now pushing for ill-conceived labor laws that call for employers to pay workers whenever they go on strike?effectively forcing manufacturers to underwrite crippling work stoppages at their own factories...
...Neither are the workers. Yasin, who lost her job when her factory near Jakarta closed, says she can't go home to her poor rice-farming family in Bima, a town on the far-western island of Sumbawa. "The problem was that there were no jobs in my hometown," she says. Today, the cavernous buildings housing the assembly lines where she used to work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker...
...Within hours of the Bali attacks, TIME had mobilized a team of six journalists and photographers who flew to Indonesia to join our two correspondents based there. Southeast Asian correspondent Simon Elegant, business correspondent Michael Schuman, contributing writer Andrew Marshall and contributing photo-grapher John Stanmeyer headed to Jakarta. Elegant, along with reporters Jason Tedjasukmana and Zamira Loebis, uncovered the real story of what the Indonesian government knew before the blasts and its belated responses to the terror. Schuman set out from Jakarta to piece together how these attacks will economically cripple Indonesia. Marshall and Stanmeyer headed for eastern Java...