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...investigation. The announcement aimed to boost confidence and revive investment in Russian business. Mission Incomplete INDONESIA The U.N.'s refugee agency pulled out of tsunami-hit Aceh ahead of new regulations for foreign relief agencies that could severely restrict aid workers there. The organization, which has experienced tension with Jakarta in the past over its support of Acehnese political refugees, was told the absence of refugees in Aceh made its presence unnecessary. Thirty-three million dollars raised by the group for reconstruction may now have to be returned to donors or diverted to other causes. MEANWHILE IN JAPAN... Sumo Squabble...
When Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most prominent human-rights campaigner, died during a Garuda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam and was later found to have been poisoned with arsenic, his murder became a test of new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's pledge to run an open and accountable administration. Yudhoyono set up a 12-member commission consisting of human-rights activists, legal and justice department officials, and a police brigadier. Based on its early findings, police last week arrested a Garuda pilot, Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, on suspicion of involvement in the activist's death...
...first denied making, but which were recorded on Munir's cell phone. Pollycarpus then boarded the flight for its first leg to Singapore, and, say the authorities, swapped his business class seat with Munir's in economy; he took a 6 a.m. plane the next morning back to Jakarta. "Garuda doesn't have any reason to murder Munir," says commission member Rachland Nashidik, an activist and a friend of Munir's. "The question is: who has the power to use Garuda for their own benefit...
...Although no unauthorized copies of the cast have surfaced, Morwood has drafted a letter asserting that the intellectual property rights to the bones, including casts, belong to the Jakarta Center for Archaeology, whose scientists are on his team. Morwood is seeking a senior figure from the center to sign the protest letter. By March 11, he'd found no one prepared to do so. The center's director, Toni Djubianto, says such action would only make matters worse. "It might light a fire," he says. "It might blow up." Unlike the fragile bones, the dispute is unlikely to be laid...
...CONVICTED. ABUBAKAR BA'ASYIR, 66, jailed Islamic cleric suspected by the U.S. of heading an al-Qaeda-linked terror group in Southeast Asia; of one count of criminal conspiracy in the Bali nightclub bombings in October 2002 that killed 202 people, by a five-judge panel, in Jakarta. Abubakar was, at the same time, cleared of terror charges related to the August 2003 bombing of a Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12, and the more serious charges of directing the Bali attack. Sen-tenced to 30 months in prison, he was given credit for the 10 months...