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...SEIZED. 900 KG OF POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, more than twice the amount used in last October's Bali bombings, along with 160 kg of TNT, 1,700 detonators, two M-16s and 20,000 rounds of ammunition; in Semarang and Jakarta, Indonesia. Police say Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the terror outfit accused of the Bali blasts, was planning to use the explosives for attacks in the country. Nine suspected JI members have also been arrested...
...Prosperity brings social stability?just as the boss intended. One of Purser's objectives is to create conditions that will keep young people in the village. "When kids leave for Jakarta to look for work, so often they can't find a job and they get into drugs. In Tembi there are no drugs." He surveys the scene with satisfaction. "Once I realized how much the employment opportunities offered by my business could change people's lives," Purser says, "it became my passion...
...Indonesian acts have ever found listeners outside the country, which is known abroad more for dangdut, gamelan and other ethnomusicological favorites. But Indonesians have been die-hard rock 'n' roll fans since the 1970s, when Procol Harum and Deep Purple made Jakarta a regular tour stop. The baby-boomer crowd still waxes nostalgic for classic rock licks and to this day continues to invite hair-band has-beens such as White Lion and Megadeth to embark on resurrection gigs. Subsequent generations, however, have forsworn feathered hair and eye shadow; the kiblat now is MTV. Seringai front man Arian, for example...
...hanging from the wallet, roomy pants that occasionally slip down below the belt, and old-school Vans. Seringai has carved its own niche out of a sound pioneered by the Deftones and Queens of the Stone Age. The quartet has already generated significant buzz in the critical cities of Jakarta and Bandung before even releasing an album...
...With GAM now almost irrelevant to Aceh's future and without anyone-Jakarta, the media, activists, aid workers, foreign governments-to bear witness, the military has been free to launch what many Acehnese feel is the endgame for their people. Part of this includes the replacement of the province's 114 subdistrict chiefs with retired soldiers, which would give the military a stranglehold over the province and allow the uninterrupted plunder of natural resources such as timber. It is a future the generals would wish upon other parts of resource-rich Indonesia-for example, restive Papua province-and one that...