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...Loea used to work as a supervisor at the Gold Ridge gold mine, which closed down in 2000. One of ramsi's economic priorities is to revive the lucrative mine; another dormant project, a palm oil plantation, is closer to reality after a deal with a Papua New Guinean company. So tiny are the country's export industries that even these two mid-sized ventures will make a huge difference...
...military, especially in Aceh. What can be done to stop the abuses? YUDHOYONO: The military's respect for human rights is getting better. The number of cases of human-rights abuses in conflict areas is much less now. If there's still violation in places like Aceh and Papua, we will hold military trials. None of these cases will be delayed or suspended just because they're in operational areas...
...done to improve their human rights record and stop the abuses? SBY: The military's respect for human rights is getting better. The number of cases of human rights abuses in conflict areas is much less now. If there's still violation in places like Aceh and Papua we will hold military trials. None of these cases will be delayed or suspended just because they're in operational areas. We want to keep improving the military and police's respect for human rights...
...DIED. LEONARDUS BENYAMIN (BENNY) MURDANI, 71, Indonesian general who plotted the 1975 invasion of East Timor; in Jakarta. A lifelong soldier, Murdani rose to prominence as a member of Indonesia's ?lite parachute battalion during the 1962 invasion of then Dutch-controlled West Papua. The attack on East Timor and subsequent occupation sparked a guerrilla war and led to the deaths of some 200,000 East Timorese over two decades. Jakarta withdrew its forces after a U.N. supervised referendum in 1999 in which the onetime Portuguese colony voted overwhelmingly for independence...
...Isolated though it is, the Strait is alive with activity: there are container vessels, fishing trawlers, supply barges, pleasure yachts and the small craft of Torres Strait Islanders and visiting Papua New Guineans. Among them are the boats of people trying to exploit cracks in the system to fish illegally and traffic in drugs, firearms and people. Starting on Thursday Island, the region's administrative hub, Time tags along with marine and land-based Customs officers to find out exactly what border protection means in this key outpost. "It's busy - or it's busier," says Steve Jeffs, Customs' Torres...