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...after a six-hour, armed standoff, two people had died and 10 were wounded, including the directorate head of Sampit's police, who was shot twice in the back and is still in critical condition. One of those killed was a Madurese refugee. So much for help from Jakarta...
...know the President say there is little likelihood he will resign?and that he might not even accept an impeachment. "He's the kind of person who can do no wrong in his own mind," says Fachry Ali, an old friend of the President and head of a Jakarta think tank, the Institute for Business Ethics. "He's very stubborn." The President, who has suffered three strokes and is blind, is getting stranger by the day, baffling even the likes of Fachry. "Everybody is confused," he says, "his aides, his ministers, everybody...
...Dayak claim that all Madurese men carry knives which they are all too willing to use, and the Madurese become in Dayak eyes a perfect scapegoat for their woes. It is easier, after all, to blame the Madurese next door for Dayak problems than the central government in Jakarta...
...Jakarta is voluntarily loosening its control of Indonesia's 361 regions, and that may be a factor in last week's gruesome troubles on Borneo. But in at least one part of the country, West Sumatra, decentralization is raising hopes of a more comfortable?and long-term?relationship with the central government. "Decentralization should be about taking power away from the government and handing it back to the people," says Alis Marajo, the head of Lima Puluh Kota district. "That's what we're doing in West Sumatra...
...Former President Suharto believed in firm central control of the entire, far-flung archipelago. On Jan. 1, new legislation came into effect reversing his legacy. Jakarta controls foreign affairs, monetary policy and external defense, but all other government functions, including taxation, will be handled by locals. The autonomy experiment is less than three months old, and each province is different. Kalimantan, for example, has major problems with migrant communities, which have yet to surface in Sumatra...