Word: maluku
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...year-old Dutch colonial home in the backstreets of Bandung in West Java, the Wind Chime's tables are the most sought after in town, thanks to a combination of laid-back ambiance and classy, modern European cuisine. Perhaps that's to be expected from someone whose birthplace is Maluku - the fabled Spice Islands of culinary yore...
...Bali-bombing gang, which happened on Yudhoyono's watch as security czar. "He is persuasive, not authoritative," says Sudi Silalahi, a retired three-star general and one of Yudhoyono's key advisers. Silalahi points to the success Yudhoyono had in stopping religious fighting in areas such as Poso and Maluku through lengthy negotiations and peace agreements. "He can use both methods," concurs adviser Rachmat, who is widely tipped for a senior Cabinet position. "If the road is straight he will step on the accelerator hard. If it's winding then he'll go a little slower." Indonesians dumped Megawati...
...often produce stick figures representing various factions and points of view, who hold forth in preachy, predictable allegories. Yet in The Spice Garden, his debut novel, Michael Vatikiotis, editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review, has constructed an engrossing narrative of mass hysteria and mob violence set in the Maluku archipelago, Indonesia's spice islands, during the horrific bloodbath that swept across the area...
...Vatikiotis' Noli is a scantly fictionalized version of the Bandas, a tiny cluster of some of the most beautiful and remote islands in a region where remote, beautiful islands are the norm. Like the Bandas, Noli is separated from the other islands in the Maluku archipelago by a wide expanse of sea, and has a population nearly evenly composed of Christians and Muslims. And the Noli nut is obviously a variation on nutmeg, which made the Bandas a geopolitical prize in the age of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries...
...beginning of the novel, a wedding is being planned between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl. The social cataclysms that have begun to rack Indonesia are felt here only as faraway echoes, until a boatload of survivors of gruesome atrocities in strife-torn Ambon, the capital of Maluku, washes up on Noli's shores. Soon afterward, a gang of jihadist rabble-rousers arrives, with a mandate from sinister elements in the army to create chaos as part of an ongoing plot to destabilize the nation in the aftermath of Suharto's fall. Within days the island's idyll...