americasfuture.org - 8/3/2009
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Via the always thoughtful Dan Twining:
Last Friday, Indonesia’s electoral commission certified the winner of the country’s recent presidential election, a free and fair contest that demonstrated the strength of democratic norms in a country ruled for decades by strongmen supported by ...
article.nationalreview.com - 7/30/2009
shadow.foreignpolicy.com - 8/3/2009
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shadow.foreignpolicy.com —
By Dan Twining Last Friday, Indonesia's electoral commission
certified the winner of the country's recent presidential election,...
a free and fair contest that demonstrated the strength of democratic norms in a country ruled for decades by strongmen ...
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The Obama administration gets Indonesia right and Burma ...
google.com - 7/29/2009
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google.com —
13 hours ago JAKARTA Two luxury hotels struck
by suicide bombers less than two weeks ago re-opened...
Wednesday in Jakarta, as an Internet blog from "Al-Qaeda Organisation Indonesia" claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police said they could not ...
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AFP: 'Al-Qaeda' blog claims bombing as Indonesia ...
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OxBlog —
... is flirting with the idea of normalizing relations with Burma's military junta, at a time when Indonesia's example -- and Indonesian leaders' outspokenness about Burma's repressive political system -- should be spurring the United States toward greater support for Southeast Asian democrats, rather than legitimizing the notion that Burma should be governed by the kind of strong hand that has been thoroughly discredited in Indonesia and across the region. Cross-posted at Conventional Folly ...
Obama, Burma and Indonesia
The Moderate Voice —
... of normalizing relations with Burma’s military junta, at a time when Indonesia’s example — and Indonesian leaders’ outspokenness about Burma’s repressive political system — should be spurring the United States toward greater support for Southeast Asian democrats, rather than legitimizing the notion that Burma should be governed by the kind of strong hand that has been thoroughly discredited in Indonesia and across the region.
Cross-posted at Conventional Folly
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