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Why Does Mitt Romney Support Violently Overthrowing Democratically Elected Leaders?

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Johann Hari - Oct. 17 (Special Report) - When you gaze at the square-jawed glisten of Mitt Romney, you do not immediately picture the kidnapping of a democratically elected president, nor the installation of a tyrant who slaughtered at least half a million people. Yet that is what this man has presented as a model for the future of US foreign policy.

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Greenpeace stages protest at Mattel office over Barbie packaging

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Margot Roosevolt - Jun. 08 (News Report) - Greenpeace accuses Mattel of using paper from Indonesian rain forests to package Barbie dolls. Activists hang a large banner on Mattel's headquarters in El Segundo. Police arrest 10 protesters.

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Huckabee: Obama Grew Up "In Kenya"

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Eric Hananoki - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama's purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if "we deserve to know more about this man." Huckabee responded, "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough."

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Cleric Ba'asyir on terror charge

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:32:27 -0800

BBC News - Dec. 13 - Abu Bakar Ba'asyir has been in custody since his arrest in August Police in Indonesia have charged radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir with inciting terrorism, a crime that carries the death penalty. Mr Ba'asyir was arrested in August in a raid

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As Obama Arrives in Jakarta, Secret Docs Show U.S.-Backed Indonesian Special Forces Unit Targets Papuan Churches, Civilians

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - President Obama arrived in Indonesia today on the second stop of a 10-day trip to Asia. It's Obama's first state visit to Indonesia after having lived there for four years as a child. We go to Jakarta to speak with investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn, who has just released secret documents from Kopassus—the feared Indonesian special forces—which has been responsible for human rights abuses since the 1950s. Earlier this year, the Obama administration lifted a 12-year funding ban for the training of Kopassus. While Obama talks about human rights, the documents indicate that Kopassus targets churches and civilians and includes a Kopassus enemies list topped by a local Baptist minister in West Papua.

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Widow of Poisoned Indonesian Human Rights Activist Munir Calls on Indonesia To Hold His Killers Responsible

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodmane - Nov. 09 (Special Report) - We look at the case of Munir Thalib, an Indonesian human rights activist and a prominent critic of the Indonesian government and military. He was poisoned to death aboard a flight to Holland in September 2004. An off-duty pilot was found guilty for his death, but prosecutors ignored the findings of an independent investigation that pointed to the involvement of Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency. We speak with his widow, Suciwati Munir, who has led the struggle for justice in her husband's murder.

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USB Warfare: The Real Electronic Nightmare

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 22 (Special Report) - But there are other ways to wage electronic war, and they tend to be more terrifying precisely because they’re tougher to fight.

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Obama backs 'Ground Zero' mosque

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Aug. 14 (News) - Barack Obama, the US president, has backed a proposed mosque and Islamic community centre near the site of the former World Trade Centre in New York that was destroyed in the September 11 attacks. He said the country's founding principles demanded no

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Rebecca Tarbotton: What's in Your Food that is Destroying Rainforests?

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - May. 07 (Opinion) - Following the release of a new report exposing Cargill's role in rainforest destruction, activists in Minneapolis occupied the offices of the nation's largest private agribusiness...

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Indonesian Economy Probably Expanded at Fastest Pace Since 2008 - BusinessWeek

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - May. 07 (News) -

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Indonesia pays a high price for its corrupt heart

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Sydney Morning Herald - May. 07 (News) -

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When presidential sermons collide

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Mar. 25 (Opinion) - President Obama gave an interview earlier this week to an Indonesian television station in lieu of the scheduled trip to that country which was canceled due to the health care vote. In 2008, Indonesia empowered a national commission to investigate human rights abuses committed by its own government under the U.S.-backed Suharto regime "in an attempt to finally bring the perpetrators to justice," and Obama was asked in this interview: "Is your administration satisfied with the resolution of the past human rights abuses in Indonesia?" He replied:

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Indonesian Police Try to Shut Susno Up in Defamation Case

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

thejakartaglobe.com - Mar. 24 (News) - Susno has gone from jailing two senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officials on questionable bribery charges to being a criminal suspect in just six months. He said he was also ready for an police hearing this week to address professional misconduct for his being off duty for 78 days without notice after being relieved of his post on Nov. 30, after he was implicated for allegedly framing the KPK commissioners. National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the hearing on Susno’s conduct was an internal police matter. “I will take responsibility and I will decide what kind of punishment we will make,” he said. Bambang acknowledged, however, that something “strange” occurred during the investigation into Gayus Tambunan, 30, a tax official who was investigated last year concerning Rp 25 billion he had in two bank accounts.

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EXCLUSIVE...Journalist Allan Nairn Facing Possible Arrest in Indonesia for Exposing US-Backed Forces Assassinated Civilians

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Allan Nairn, Damien Kingsbury, Amy Goodman - Mar. 24 (Investigative Report) - In Indonesia, investigative journalist Allan Nairn is facing possible arrest for exposing that US-backed Indonesian armed forces assassinated a series of civilian activists last year. Since Allan Nairn broke the news of the assassination program on Democracy Now! on Friday, the Indonesian press has been buzzing with the allegations. A military spokesman told the Jakarta Globe that the military is considering legal action against Nairn. Earlier today, Nairn issued a public challenge to the Indonesian military to arrest him so that he could face off with the military in open court.

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Indonesian Forces Tapped By Obama for Renewed US Aid Implicated in New Assassinations

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Allan Nairn, Amy Goodman; Juan Gonzalez - Mar. 19 (Investigative Report) - In a Democracy Now! exclusive, investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn reveals U.S.-backed Indonesian armed forces carried out a series of assassinations of civilian activists in late 2009. The news comes as the White House moves towards increasing aid to the Indonesian military and lifting a 12-year ban on the training of the notorious Indonesian military unit known as Kopassus. A U.S.-trained Kopassus general who coordinated the assassinations confirmed to Nairn an Indonesian army role in the killings.

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Indonesia's vanishing forests

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Luis Sinco, John Glionna - Jan. 07 (Special Report) - illagers in Teluk Meranti, described as the ground zero of climate change, are caught between environment and economy.

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Destruction of Javan peat swamp forests 'ticking time bomb' - Feature

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Earth Times - Dec. 20 (News Report) - Their soil holds 50 times more carbon than that in other types of rainforests. When trees are felled, the soil dries out. Layers of organic matter accumulated over millennia begin to degrade rapidly and oxidize, allowing huge amounts of CO2 to escape into the atmosphere.

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Op-Ed Contributor - To Beat Al Qaeda, Look to the East

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Scott Atran - Dec. 13 (Opinion) - The key in the Afghan-Pakistani area, as in Southeast Asia, is to use local customs and networks to our advantage.

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Indonesian court overturns Garuda pilot's conviction over air disaster

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wikinews - By Iain MacDonald - Dec. 12 (News Report) - Indonesia's High Court in Yogyakarta has overturned the April conviction of a Garuda Indonesia pilot who was behind the controls in an air disaster. Captain Marwoto Komar was cleared of negligently causing the deaths of 21 when his Boeing 737 overshot the runway at Adisucipto Airport.

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Why Hillary Clinton babies Indonesia and bullies Pakistan

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By John Hughes - Nov. 14 (Opinion) - When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited Indonesia earlier this year, she said: "If you want to know whether Islam, democracy, modernity, and women's rights can coexist, go to Indonesia." When she visited Pakistan recently, she was polite but much more critical in her words, basically accusing some government officials of sheltering Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists.

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The Al Qaeda Paradox

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Steve Coll - Jul. 17 (News Analysis) - Compared with their position in the period from 2002 to 2004, Al Qaeda and its affiliates, such as Jemaah Islamiya in Indonesia (which has been involved in hotel bombings similar to the attack today on the Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta), have become politically marginalized.

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Timor-Leste: Land law will give citizens back their country

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

IRIN - By Matt Crook - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A draft Land Law recently released by the Ministry of Justice, which will affect all 1.1 million Timor-Leste citizens, is vital for the fledgling nation's development, say specialists.

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Democracy in Muslim world

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

arabnews.com - Apr. 10 (Editorial) - Islamophobes in the West (and they are invariably in the West) who boldly state that Islam and democracy are incompatible cannot continue with this patronizing lie. They should know the political picture today across the Muslim world is of democracy growing and strengthening.

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Democracy thrives in Indonesia

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Apr. 02 (Special Report) - Indonesia’s national motto is “Unity in Diversity”, and there is a surprising degree of consensus about the likely outcome of all this: the re-election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who in 2004 became Indonesia’s first directly elected president, for a second five-year term. But even if the consensus is accurate, there is great uncertainty about the shape of the coalition he will lead, which depends in part on the results of the parliamentary vote.

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Mrs. Clinton Goes to Asia

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Dan Blumenthal - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - In fashioning her Asia policy, Secretary Clinton has a chance to make a clean break with her predecessors, who tended to view every Asian challenge in isolation. The United States can begin to view Asia as a whole, with interconnected problems and multilateral solutions.

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