Topic: Jakarta
Indonesia says understands Obama trip delay
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia understands the reason for President Barack Obama's last-minute cancellation of his visit to Jakarta and Bali, officials in the Southeast Asian nation said on Friday. But ordinary Indonesians expressed disappointment that Obama would not be returning to the place where he lived as a child. Obama ...
Obama's Jakarta home district sees shift in Islam
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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 ...
U.S.-funded Detachment 88, elite of Indonesia security
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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 ...
Indonesian militants recruit fighters in video
AP News
Video shows militants training at camp in western Indonesia that was raided last weekFrom the safety of a forest camp, a commander of a new Indonesian militant group looks into a camera and ridicules the notorious extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah: They are not violent enough, come and join us, he ...
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