This caption for Photo A (left) and B (right)

This caption for Photo A (left) and B (right)

Credit A - JP/I Wayan Juniartha
Credit B - JP/Arief Suhardiman

PASTIKA AND BA'ASYIR: Head of the Bali bombing joint
investigative team Insp. Gen. Made Mangku Pastika (left) smiles,
confident that the police will be able to uproot the terrorist
network responsible for the deaths of more than 190 people,
mostly foreigners, in Kuta, Bali, on Oct. 12. Noted cleric Abu
Bakar Ba'asyir (right), leader of a pesantren (Islamic boarding
school) in Ngruki, Surakarta, Central Java, made national
headlines this year following his arrest and interrogation for
his alleged involvement in several crimes, including a plot to
assassin Megawati Soekarnoputri when she was Vice President. The
cleric is thought to be a link in the chain of terror-related
activities that have plagued the country these past few years.

Photo C Caption

M.A. RACHMAN: Attorney General M.A. Rachman retains his judiciary
seat despite his alleged corruption, which has evoked strong
criticism. President Megawati Soekarnoputri has rejected calls
for his dismissal, defending her stance in saying that there is
no guarantee that Rachman's replacement would be "clean".

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JP/Mulkan Salmona
YUSUF SYAKIR: Former chairman of the Public Servants' Wealth
Audit Commission (KPKPN) is known for his tenacity in auditing
the wealth of high-ranking government officials. To his surprise
and disappointment, the Commission was disbanded last month. It
has been reported that a new anticorruption body is to be
established in lieu.

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JP/R. Berto Wedhatama
SUTIYOSO: The retired Army Major General is dubbed to be one of
the current "strong men" in the country. President Megawati
Soekarnoputri had him reelected as Jakarta governor this year,
despite his black record during the 1996 attack on Megawati's
Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) headquarters. Sutiyoso is also
notorious for his failure to manage Jakarta, especially in
regards the widespread flooding which inundated the capital at
the beginning of 2002.
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JP/R. Berto Wedhatama
AKBAR TANDJUNG: Speaker of the House of Representatives (DPR)
Akbar Tandjung, who is concurrently chairman of the Golkar Party,
was convicted on charges of misappropriating state funds from the
State Logistic Agency (Bulog) and sentenced to two years in
prison. However, efforts to uphold the court's verdict have been
in vain, and this "strong man" remains at large, retaining his
seat in both parliament and the party.

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INDIRA DAMAYANTI SUGONDO: Despite tight competition among party
members to make the roster of the House of Representatives (DPR),
Indira made a bold point in quitting Commission IX of the House
as an open protest against the rampant bribery among legislators,
including those of her own party, the Indonesian Democratic Party
of Struggle (PDI-Perjuangan).

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JUSUF KALLA: The former minister of trade is renowned as a
stalwart promoter of national peace, and remains so in his
current capacity as Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare.
Having initiated the end of the conflict in Poso, Central
Sulawesi, through the Malino I peace deal in December 2001,
minister Kalla followed up this year with the Malino II,
initiating peace in Maluku.