Quoting: biznews Last year, analysts Andrew MacIntyre and Douglas Ramage published an essay for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute titled provocatively Seeing Indonesia as a normal country. Well, where's the fun in that?

We don't think of Indonesia as a rising economic power. Its output ranks only 15th in the world (a bit bigger than ours). Its market ranks 18th (a bit smaller than ours). But Indonesia is changing.Yes, there was a terrorist attack in Jakarta last month, but that was the first in four years.

Indonesian grievances over alleged theft of its songs and dances to promote Malaysian tourism may have some basis in fact. Given the way Malaysia treats its Hindu minority and obliterates its own Hindu past, it can scarcely claim the pendet dance from Bali.

TEMPO Interactive, Palangkaraya: The Governor of Central Kalimantan, Teras Narang, has threatened that he cancel the permits of some plantation companies working in the region.This is because they are suspected of burning land and creating thick smoke that has created problems for air...