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Obama postpones Indonesia, Australia trip

AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-18 17:10:24
US President Barack Obama Thursday postponed his trip to Indonesia and Australia until a later date, as he attempts to push his health care reform bill through Congress. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would now travel to Indonesia in June, but did not say whether the president would ...
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Nestle drops Indonesian company after Greenpeace demos

AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-18 16:10:28
Indonesian palm oil giant Sinar Mas rejected claims of environmental vandalism Thursday after Nestle, the world's biggest food company, dropped it as a supplier following protests by Greenpeace. It was the second embarrassing blow to Sinar Mas in three months after Anglo-Dutch company Unilever severed ties with it in ...
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Obama's Jakarta home district sees shift in Islam

Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-03-18 09:22:22
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Some things in the central Jakarta district of Matraman have barely changed since the late 1960s, when United States President Barack Obama lived and played there. Old men train their racing pigeons on the badminton court and screaming children chase each other through the winding, grimy alleyways. But ...
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U.S.-funded Detachment 88, elite of Indonesia security

Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-03-18 08:27:44
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has won praise for cracking down on Islamist militants behind a string of deadly attacks and at the core of the fight have been the heavily armed black-clad officers of its anti-terrorism unit -- Detachment 88. A symbol of improved security cooperation with Western nations, the unit has ...
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