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...capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption (a survey conducted last year by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International ranked Indonesia as the 12th most corrupt country in the world), an often whimsical legal system, high labor costs and an obstructionist bureaucracy poisonous to commerce. Last year, investors pulled $597 million in investment capital out of Indonesia; a net $13.6 billion has fled since...
...biggest obstacle?and Yudhoyono plans to follow through on his promise to lead the fight against it personally. Sofyan says the new administration in its first 100 days may file charges against big-name government officials suspected of wrongdoing. There are also plans to strengthen a government antigraft watchdog, and, importantly, to ensure that the incoming Cabinet is uncompromised by questionable business entanglements and conflicts of interest. "To clean the floor, you have to have a clean broom," Sofyan says. "We have to send a strong signal to the markets, and to the society, that this government means business...
Facing 30 days imprisonment and a $100 fine, James A. Herms—head of the controversial police watchdog group Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy—was arraigned Friday on trespassing charges filed against him by Harvard University...
...year - was gathering force in the Atlantic . Respite from the big storms might not come until Nov. 30, when the all-too-memorable 2004 hurricane season finally recedes into history. - By J. Madeleine Nash A Watchful Eye UNITED NATIONS The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, called on Iran to immediately cease all uranium enrichment-related activities at a key meeting of the 35 nation group in Vienna . Iran, which denied U.S. claims that its enrichment activities were part of a weapons program and insisted that its program is for peaceful energy production, said it would consider...
...James A. Herms of the Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy, an independent watchdog group, said HUPD has improved but is still not doing enough...