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Daily Dose

Time for a daily dose of Indonesia! Pondering what it all means and how it fits into the exciting, complex and terrifying global world, I spend another day in Jabotek, learning new words and breathing bad air.

A local company recently pubilshed a bi-lingual newsletter, the Jakarta Security Assessment. They do research and write about possible security risks to different sectors of Indonesia, specifically Jakarta. Not surprisingly, the newsletter was focused on terrorism. I found it extremely... interesting... that one of the qualifications that they use to identify a possible terrorist target is "a place that has relations with the United States or gives space to American interests."

14 Catholics were arrested today on the island of Sulawesi, where they are accused of bludgeoning two Muslim men to death two weeks ago, after an argument broke out following the execution of the Catholics that had been sentenced to death in the killings there in 2000. The Golden Rule.

Indonesia's government has condemned North Korea over its report of nuclear tests.

In some cases, flights are being cancelled in Indonesia because the haze is getting so bad.  Forest fires, not to mention the constant trash burning everywhere, is a major problem in Indonesia. It's one of the things that can make life less pleasant here.