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Until now, fear of a devastating domestic backlash has restrained Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri from cracking down on her nation's increasingly vocal and active supporters of Osama bin Laden. Now, she may have no choice but to bite the bullet. The weekend bomb blast in Bali that killed 189, mostly foreign revelers at two local nightclubs could force Megawati to choose between Washington and the mainstream Muslim political parties on whose support she has been partly dependent...
...Bali, he explains. There have been rare tribal disputes in the past, but nobody has ever targeted foreigners. A tragedy like this, explains Ketut, will be devastating for the tourism industry in Bali and the rest of Indonesia. "We are going into bankrupcy," said Ketut. For Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, already facing criticism for not pulling her weight in the war on terror, the attacks reveal the horrible human cost of delaying a crackdown on domestic terrorism...
...central Sulawesi province. Beginning in mid-1999, al-Faruq claims, he launched a succession of audacious but generally unsuccessful terrorist plots. In May of that year, al-Faruq met with several potential accomplices at a villa in west Java and hatched a plan to kill current Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who was then a candidate for the presidency. The plot involved buying weapons in Malaysia and the Philippines, but the group failed to get the guns into Indonesia. Last year a second assassination scheme--it involved detonating a bomb at a meeting of Megawati and other ruling party leaders--fizzled...
...time, the choice for most frontline governments was stark: join up or face the wrath of the world's military and economic superpower. One year on, the war has indeed turned out to be a global conflict. But in Jakarta, local politics may outweigh geopolitics as President Megawati Sukarnoputri's administration last week wrestled over whether to cooperate with the U.S., or risk being labeled a pariah state in this new, antiterror world order...
...direct elections for president and vice president - previously, the Assembly chose the holders of both offices. The Assembly abolished the 38 seats reserved for the military and police, and rejected a call by two parties to introduce Islamic law. Increasing democratization has been contentious. Last month, President Megawati Sukarnoputri questioned whether Indonesians were politically mature enough to elect their leaders directly. U.S. Rogue Mail Postal inspectors investigating the anthrax mailings linked to five deaths last fall inched closer to a solution to the mystery. They found a mailbox in Princeton, New Jersey that tested positive for traces of the bacteria...