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...Each year, thousands of refugees like those who died in the Java Sea on Oct. 19 travel what is becoming the world's best-established people-smuggling route. Cowed, diffident EmigrEs are herded into Middle Eastern and West African airports and onto planes to Malaysia, where they are hidden away in safe houses for a week or two. They are loaded at night onto buses, taken to deserted stretches of coastline and then ferried by small fishing boats across the narrow Strait of Malacca into Indonesia. Then there is the wait, sometimes for months, for another boat for the final...
...These phones will give consumers a taste of what always-on Internet connectivity can offer. But the fundamental transformation in the industry will come through a combination of several additional evolving technologies: WAP/XHTML, Java and Multimedia Messaging Service...
...tiny speck right in the middle of the incredible rainbow of cultural diversity that is Indonesia, Bali has a happy role as the tourism center of Indonesia. Traditionally an isolated society of fierce warriors, Balinese culture was shaped by a wave of kings and princes who crossed from Java to Bali about 700 years ago to escape the invading Muslims. They set up their kingdoms in Bali and then defended their turf so fiercely that even the Dutch did not bother to subjugate them until the 20th century...
...Most of the news about Indonesia that reaches the U.S. comes from the cities of Java - Jakarta, Surabaya, Solo and Yogyakarta - where demonstrations are held frequently outside US consular facilities. This is where extremist groups generally issue their threats, warning that Americans and foreigners will be "swept" out of the country by Islamic groups. The problem has been not so much the threats themselves as the government?s lack of response to them. Instead of condemning the intimidation, the government seems to first avoid making any comment and then, when pressed, to assure people that the extremists are far more...
...Java, I have heard similar stories, of American or European business owners with thousands of employees being protected and staying put. I know of an American garment maker with an operation near Solo, the city famous for its hotel "sweepers." His thousands of employees insisted he stay there, and guaranteed his safety...