| April 15, 2008 | - There were riots in Haiti, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Cameroon over increasing food costs. Some blamed the rising price of corn (up 31 percent from 2005) on the burgeoning biofuel industry, pointing out that to fill up an SUV with a tank of ethanol uses as much corn as can feed a person for a year. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called for more contributions to the $500 million World Food Program. “We have to put our money,” he said, “where our mouth is.”
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The Age
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| February 4, 2008 | - An Indonesian housewife became the 103rd person to die from bird flu in that country.
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Indonesia's bird flu toll rises to 103
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| July 24, 2007 | -
Indonesian lawmakers discussed implanting microchip tracking devices in HIV patients.
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Breitbart
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| May 29, 2007 | - A hot-mud volcano in Indonesia had been erupting for one year.
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Reuters
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| March 15, 2007 | - At a military hearing in Guantánamo Bay Khalid Sheik Mohammed confessed to being the mastermind of the September 11 attacks; he also claimed to have been “responsible” for: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Richard Reid's attempted shoe bombing of an airplane; the bombing of a nightclub in Bali, Indonesia; and plots to assassinate several former presidents, including Jimmy Carter. “For sure,” he said, “I'm American enemies.” According to the released transcript, when asked whether his statement was the result of mistreatment by his interrogators, he said, “CIA peoples. Yes. At the beginning when they transferred me [REDACTED].”
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WP
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| February 7, 2007 | -
Indonesia, the worldwide leader in avian flu, reportedly entered negotiations to sell the deadly virus to an American vaccine company.
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NY Times
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| January 25, 2007 | - It was revealed that Government Elementary School Number 4, the public school in Indonesia that Barack Obama attended when he was six, had a painting of Jesus on the wall. Fox News acknowledged that they had given too much credence to a claim by Insight Magazine that Hillary Clinton's campaign was investigating the possibility that Obama's public school was a madrassah.
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ABC
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| November 22, 2006 | - 48 boxing orangutans retired to Indonesia from Thailand.
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BBC
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| September 13, 2006 | - In Indonesia gray mud seeping from the ground had inundated an area the size of Monaco; the chief of the hamlet of Kedungbendo met with psychics for advice. “Moses had a stick to part the sea,” explained Haji Hasan. “So, probably there is someone with powers out there who could help.”
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Reuters
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| August 22, 2006 | - Eighteen prisoners used “fiery chili peppers” to escape from the Pematang Siantar Penitentiary in North Sumatra, Indonesia,.
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Reuters
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| June 21, 2006 | - The World Health Organization said that Indonesians who contracted bird flu were ignorant.
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Reuters via Google News
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| June 7, 2006 | -
Indonesia's defense minister scolded Rumsfeld for being overbearing.
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New York Times
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| May 29, 2006 | - An earthquake in Indonesia killed more than 5,000 people.
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ABC News
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| March 21, 2006 | - The World Health Organization reported that 103 humans had died from bird flu since late 2003, mostly in Vietnam and Indonesia.
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BBC News
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Al Jazeera
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| January 16, 2006 | - An Indonesian girl died of bird flu, and Turkey had killed 306,000 birds.
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| January 4, 2006 | - A landslide in Java killed at least 14 people.
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BBC News
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| October 1, 2005 | - Thirty-six people were killed by exploding bombs in tourist areas in Bali.
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CNN.com
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| September 5, 2005 | - A plane crash in Indonesia killed at least 147 people.
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The New York Times
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| June 27, 2005 | - In Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front unsuccessfully attempted to stop a transvestite beauty show.
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BBC News
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| May 14, 2005 | - Another earthquake struck Sumatra.
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EarthTimes.org
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| May 4, 2005 | - A second case of polio was reported in Indonesia.
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BBC News
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| April 11, 2005 | -
Indonesian children, traumatized by last December's tsunami, were talking about their feelings with puppets.
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BBC News
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| March 28, 2005 | - An earthquake off Sumatra killed at least one thousand people.
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Wikipedia
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| January 19, 2005 | - Looters were running rampant in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.
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New York Times
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| January 5, 2005 | -
Colin Powell toured Indonesia and called it "amazing" and "heartbreaking."
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ABC News
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| January 5, 2005 | - and the Indonesian government made it illegal to leave Aceh province with a sixteen-year-old.
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CFRA.com
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
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Wikipedia
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New York Timesimes
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| December 24, 2004 | - The United States cut back on international food aid, a change that will affect five to seven million people in Indonesia, Malawi, Madagascar, and other countries.
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IHT
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| December 23, 2004 | - A new species of monster cockroach was discovered in Indonesia.
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Al Jazeera
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| December 15, 2004 | - The Australian government warned its citizens to avoid major hotels in Indonesia.
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USA Today
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| July 13, 2004 | - A runaway cement truck killed 17 guests at a wedding party in Java, Indonesia.
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Straits Times
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| February 9, 2004 | - People in Jakarta were watching out for the kolor ijo, or green underpants monster, that has been attacking people and raping women.
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News.com.au
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| January 26, 2004 | -
Indonesia said that millions of chickens had died of the flu in recent weeks, and workers in Thailand were bagging live chickens and burying them in pits.
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New York Times
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| January 26, 2004 | -
Indonesia's agriculture minister said that his government can't afford to dispose of the dead chickens.
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Laksamana.net
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| August 7, 2003 | - At least 16 people died and more than 150 were wounded in a car-bomb attack on a Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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New York Times
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| December 10, 2002 | -
McDonald's restaurants in Indonesia and India were blown up, and four movie theaters filled with families celebrating the end of Ramadan exploded simultaneously in Bangladesh, killing at least 17 and wounding hundreds.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, the Philippines, Indonesia, and North Korea were also being mentioned as future targets.
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| October 9, 2001 | -
Islamic radicals in Indonesia were roaming around looking for Americans to kill.
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| September 11, 2001 | - President Megawati Sukarnoputri visited the unhappy province of Aceh and apologized for Indonesia's “shortcomings” in the region, which might have been an oblique reference to the mass graves recently discovered there.
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| July 31, 2001 | - Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid finally ended his occupation of the presidential palace nearly a week after his impeachment.
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| July 31, 2001 | - In his last press interview before flying to the U.S. Wahid predicted dark times ahead for Indonesia but ended with a joke about the difference between American and Japanese
farmers.
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| July 3, 2001 | - President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia said he would declare a state of emergency and use the military to prevent parliament from removing him from office; the military suggested that it would do no such thing.
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| June 26, 2001 | - There were more riots in Indonesia, this time over rising fuel costs, and in Northern Ireland, for the usual reasons.
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| June 5, 2001 | -
Indonesia continued to disintegrate; parliament voted 365-4 to begin hearings to impeach President Abdurrahman Wadid a few days after the attorney general absolved him of corruption charges; great mobs of his supporters ran amok.
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| May 8, 2001 | -
Indonesia's
parliament voted to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid for corruption and incompetence.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
Indonesia's president Abdurrahman Wahid was sightseeing in the Middle East and north Africa while machete-wielding Dayak tribesmen in Borneo continued to hunt down Madurese settlers and chop off their heads.
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| February 27, 2001 | - In Indonesia, Dayak headhunters were killing hundreds of Madurese migrants on the island of Borneo, where Madurese have settled recently as part of a program to reduce overcrowding.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Political violence continued in Afghanistan, China, Colombia, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Kashmir, Liberia, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere.
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| January 2, 2001 | - There were bombings in Pakistan and Indonesia and Israel.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
East Timor charged an Indonesian army officer with crimes against humanity.
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| November 14, 2000 | -
Zimbabwe's supreme court declared that the recent seizures of white-owned farms were illegal and ordered the government to evict black squatters occupying the farms; the government, which has ignored two previous court orders on the subject, said there was “no going back.” Indonesian troops in Aceh, on the island of Sumatra, were killing civilians suspected of collaborating with rebels; bodies of men arrested by security forces routinely turn up dead, mutilated, dismembered.
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| November 14, 2000 | - “The Year of Living Dangerously,” a film about the rise of former president Suharto, was shown publicly in Indonesia for the first time.
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| October 31, 2000 | -
Islamic students demonstrated in front of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, chanting “Kill All Jews.” Music by Richard Wagner was performed in concert in Israel for the first time; the “Siegfried Idyll” was protested briefly by a Holocaust survivor who stood up before the concert and made loud noises with a rattle.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Gangs of young men from the Islamic Defenders Front, wearing white outfits accessorized with green scarves and wooden rods, prowled the Jakarta, Indonesia, airport looking, unsuccessfully, for Israeli Jews to kill.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Refugees in West Timor, many of whom believe that United Nations peacekeeping forces will rape and kill them if they return to East Timor, were being held in virtual captivity by pro-Indonesia militias.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Political violence continued in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Indonesia, and elsewhere.
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| September 19, 2000 | - Unknown terrorists bombed the Jakarta, Indonesia, stock exchange, killing at least thirteen.
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| September 19, 2000 | - Former Indonesian president Suharto, whose son has been implicated in the recent bombings, called in sick again for his corruption trial; the court ordered medical tests to determine his true state of health.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Several UN workers were beaten to death in West Timor; the next day, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said “I think now the situation is very good there. That is according to the full report I got this morning.”
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| September 5, 2000 | - Former Indonesian president Suharto called in sick on the first day of his trial; his lawyers said that three strokes had left him without a memory or the ability to speak.
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| August 15, 2000 | - President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia apologized for his shortcomings as head of state in a speech read by an aide as Wahid, who is nearly blind, sat nearby in a red armchair, sucking on hard candy and occasionally nodding off.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Former Indonesian president Suharto's lawyers claimed that he was too brain damaged to be tried on corruption charges.
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| August 1, 2000 | - Pro-Indonesian militia members killed and mutilated a UN peacekeeper in East Timor.
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| January 23, 2000 | -
Indonesian dictator Suharto, Archbishop Christodoulos of the Greek Orthodox Church, Mormon church president Gordon B. Hinckley, and actor Heath Ledger died.
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New York Times
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