Word: sulawesi
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...which would make it the largest snake ever discovered; in Curugsewu, Java, Indonesia. The dark-colored male reticulated python, which is capable of eating up to five dogs a month, would be almost 5 m longer than the previous record holder, a 10-m python shot on Sulawesi, Indonesia...
With its neat rows of classrooms and its white domed mosque glowing against a backdrop of misty hills, the Hidayatullah Islamic school on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi seems the very picture of peace. "Yes," smiles Nyupeno, a school administrator, "it's quite cozy here...
...police interrogation that the school was used as a way station by militants traveling to and from the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines for combat training. No, says Nyupeno, he has never heard of Suryadi Mas'ud, currently imprisoned for involvement in several bombings in the south Sulawesi city of Makassar in December 2002. Suryadi told police he spent several years guiding militants from a JI-affiliated group in Makassar to Mindanao, and in mid-2001 spent a month living at the school along with several of his charges while awaiting transport...
...Jemaah Islamiah (JI)?blamed for bombings across the region, including the devastating attack in Bali a year ago?appears to be on a chilling new tack in its fight to establish an Islamic state in Southeast Asia: slaughtering Christians, in the hope of reigniting murderous inter-religious conflict in Sulawesi...
...shore leave in Jakarta should make a few hours for Sunda Kelapa, the port of old Batavia and the nearby Museum Bahari, Indonesia's excellent maritime museum. Although the 800-year-old port has been eclipsed by the modern port at Tanjung Priok, high-riding Bugis boats from South Sulawesi province, one of the world's last seagoing schooner fleets, still call regularly...