1. 5Tossy -- Gen. Sutarto is growing more powerful
1. 5Tossy -- Gen. Sutarto is growing more powerful 1 X 50 48pt Optima Bold Army under Gen. Endriartono growing more powerful JP/5/JUN
What is the current nature of relations between the government and the Indonesian Military? Jun Honna, assistant professor at the Faculty of International Relations of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, spoke to The Jakarta Post's staff writer Kornelius Purba during one of his visits to Jakarta earlier this month.
2. 1 X 30 36pt NCSB
Gen. Musharraf must give up PR
By AD Moddie
NEW DELHI: After 50 years of mapped and trodden roads of conflict, the "Agra High Road" offered at best an agreement on both sides to continue talking; at worst a reopening of the old wounds of partition around the infamous two-nation theory, a Pan- Islamic dream and the product of a frustrated Jinnah, earlier a liberal and an Indian nationalist. -- The Statesman/Asia News Network
3. 5Diploma -- No more diplomatic immunity
1 X 36 36 pt Optima Bold Is diplomatic secrecy and mystique fading? By Hywel Williams
LONDON: What do diplomats do? There was a time when the treaties they drafted made European history. But diplomatic history has now been shoved aside by sexier speculations about the mentalities of the masses and the intrigues of elites.
4. 5Inquire -- Economics over politics 1 X 30 36pt NCSB
ASEAN heads refocus on economy
MANILA: The new presidents of the most politically turbulent states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo of the Philippines and President Megawati Soekarnoputri of Indonesia -- followed one another in visiting their Southeast Asian neighbors recently.
President Arroyo visited Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore. President Megawati visited Manila, then went to Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia.