Indonesian Political, Business & Finance News

1. 5Tossy -- Gen. Sutarto is growing more powerful

1. 5Tossy -- Gen. Sutarto is growing more powerful
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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.

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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

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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
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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.

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