Word: sulawesi
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...Asia tsunami destroyed villages, towns and lives. But in calamity there is sometimes opportunity?a wiping of the slate that, for better or worse, allows people to start over. In the aftermath of the disaster, Tisna Nando, a 35-year-old environmentalist from Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, saw that kind of clean-slate opportunity. As an education-and-awareness manager at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), a U.K.-based environmental NGO, Nando has worked for the past two years to help the people of devastated Aceh province create a better future for themselves by learning to live in greater harmony...
...EXECUTED. Fabianus Tibo, 60, Marinus Riwu, 48, and Dominggus da Silva, 42, Christian militants convicted of plotting the massacre of at least 70 Muslims on Sulawesi during sectarian violence on the Indonesian island in 1998-2000; in Poso, Indonesia. Rights groups criticized the trio's 2001 conviction, claiming that Muslims had received lighter sentences for similar crimes, while the Vatican issued a plea for clemency last month. Christians rioted across eastern Indonesia following the executions...
...Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able to understand. It runs to some 300,000 lines?roughly 20 times the length of Homer's Odyssey?making it one of the longest literary works in existence. The creation myth of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, I La Galigo (which takes its name from one of its protagonists) is a stirring saga of gods and demons and heroes, love sacred and profane, and the eternal struggle between good and evil...
...germination of the show dates to 1995, when New York City-based filmmaker Rhoda Grauer was traveling in Sulawesi to research a documentary about the Bugis and learned about the epic poem. Dazzled by its dramatic potential, Grauer decided to bring the work to the stage, and recruited her friend Restu Kusumaningrum, a dancer and the creative director of Bali Purnati. Both women had previously worked with Wilson and they wanted him to stage their discovery. After their presentation at his summer workshop in Water Mill, New York, Wilson agreed to take on the project...
...LOST. By KORAN TEMPO, a leading Indonesian daily newspaper; a libel lawsuit brought by tycoon Tomy Winata over a February 2003 story reporting rumors that Winata planned to open a casino in Central Sulawesi province despite laws against gambling; in Jakarta. The court ruling was seen by media groups as threatening press freedoms that emerged after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. The newspaper, which was ordered to pay Winata $1 million, said it planned to appeal...