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Visit to Mark Closer Ties With Jakarta

Posted on November 20, 2006

In light of President Bush’s current visit to Indonesia. “Military Cooperation Grows as U.S. Concerns on Rights Issues Recede.” Special article by Joe Cochrane to The Washington Post. In the run-up to President Bush’s visit to Indonesia this week, two dozen members of a fundamentalist Islamic group raided and occupied a historic botanical garden in the mountain town of Bogor, outside Jakarta. Their target was the site where a construction crew was building a landing pad for Bush’s helicopter. Their message was simple: Bush was not welcome in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. Within 30 minutes, hammers were pounding again and the cement mixer had resumed turning, but as a media event, the gimmick briefly worked. Other, little-known Muslim groups began protesting Bush’s visit…

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Democracy, Poverty & Radical Politics

Posted on October 19, 2006

Democracy is fine for those whose basic human needs (food, shelter, clothing, access to electricity, clean water, education) have been met. But for a large number of Indonesian (39 million living on less than 2 dollars per day; 10 million openly unemployed; 15 million families having to receive direct cash transfers) democracy has little personal meaning. The biggest challenge for President Yudhoyono is to attack mass poverty, overcome inequities in development and combat corruption. Radical groups, be they be religious or secular based, pose a threat to Indonesia’s democracy. But hope remains that within the next 3 years the threat of radical and violent extremism can be mitigated and that as democracy is underpinned by broad based social-economic development, Indonesia’s democracy can be salvaged…

Categories: Development, Nation

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India 1950

Posted on October 10, 2006

This photo taken from the book, Kilas Balik Revolusi: Kenangan, Pelaku dan Saksi, by Aboe Bakar Loebis. President Soekarno’s visit to India in 1950. Governor General C. Rajagopalachari greet President Soekarno and the First Lady, Fatmawati. Bottom-right photo, Prime Minister Nehru with both me and my sister.

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