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Turborama

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Wed Nov-10-10 12:18 AM
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8. I don't know much about what's going on in Papua, but the 'stifling of descent' in the rest of Indo

Edited on Wed Nov-10-10 12:26 AM by Turborama

...is aimed at terrorists.

As you must know, there has been a problem with terrorist acts of mass murder carried out by radical Islamists here and the Indonesian government has had some success at cracking down on it since the 2002 bombings in Bali.

On edit...

I saw a really good report on this on Al Jazeera English a while ago and will try and find it to share. Meanwhile, here's a report from the NYT: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2007/04/12/weekinreview/1194817104440/indonesia-s-fight-against-terrorism.html

And the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7610192.stm

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