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...sultry day with the promise of rain in the air. That morning, about 2,000 Muslim villagers?men, women and children?gathered in a small park across the road from the police station. They had come to demand freedom for six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. But the authorities were in no mood to oblige. In the station courtyard stood hundreds of heavily armed police and soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either end of the road were parked tanks and military trucks. Behind was the Tak Bai river...
...constant threat. Among Asia's major developing economies, Indonesia's is growing the slowest. Recent years have witnessed a net outflow of foreign capital, frightened off not just by bomb blasts but corruption, red tape and a capricious legal system. The authorities have yet to resolve the stubborn separatist insurgency in the province of Aceh, and clashes between Muslims and Christians erupt periodically. When Yudhoyono, a 55-year-old ex-general, met with Time's Simon Elegant and Jason Tedjasukmana last week in his first interview since taking office, he appeared relaxed and confident, undaunted by the enormous challenges...
...general appeared relaxed and confident. In a 30-minute talk at the presidential palace in Jakarta with TIME's Southeast Asia bureau chief Simon Elegant and Correspondent Jason Tedjasukmana, Yudhoyono addressed the many daunting challenges facing his fledgling presidency: doubtful economic prospects, disappearing foreign investment, rampant corruption, terrorism, and separatist and religious strife. Excerpts...
...TIME: Will you consider restarting negotiations with the Free Aceh Movement given that the separatist struggle there continues? SBY: The current operation under way in Aceh must be maintained because if there were to be a vacuum in power a new threat to security could arise. But there should also be a new approach and concept toward finding a peaceful solution. There are signs that a peaceful solution can be reached. There is an opportunity for us to end the conflict in Aceh with a new policy. I appeal to the leaders of the separatists to reunite [with Indonesia...
...that the conflict in Darfur “can not be defined as genocide.” Why not? Because the facts on the ground do not support the claim that one ethnic group is systematically wiping out another--the violence in Darfur is a civil war and a separatist insurgency, not genocide. The relevant comparison is Chechnya’s decade-long separatist conflict, not the Holocaust. The comparison to the Holocaust is irresponsible and misleading...