Foreign affairs officials today warned of a threat of imminent terrorist attacks in Indonesia, including Bali.In an upgraded travel advisory, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said terrorists were actively planning attacks which could take place at any time.The advisory says Australians should reconsider their need to travel to Indonesia."There have been recent arrests of high-level terrorist operatives in Indonesia, but we assess terrorists are continuing active planning of attacks," it says."These attacks could take place at any time and could be imminent."Particular care should be taken at this time to avoid known terrorist targets."These included Bali and the capital Jakarta."Ask yourself whether, given your own personal circumstances, you're comfortable travelling to Indonesia including Bali, knowing that there is a very high threat from terrorism and you may be caught up in a terrorist attack," the advisory says.
http://www.thejakar taglobe.com/ opinion/interloc utors-of- indonesian- islam/560447 Interlocutors of Indonesian Islam Ahmad Najib Burhani | December 08, 2012 A few months ago, the Japanese anthropologist Mitsuo Nakamura told me that studying Nahdlatul Ulama as an organization was beyond the imagination of any American scholar from the 1950s to the ’70s. But he is not the only academic to have noticed this. George McT. Kahin of Cornell University stated the same thing. Even NU-expert Martin van Bruinessen was not expecting to study NU as his primary focus when he came to Indonesia for the first time in the 1980s. During the early decades of Indonesian independence, NU was relatively unorganized and its management was largely based on the authority of religious teachers ( kyai ). Of course there were a number of scholars who studied NU-affiliated religious schools ( pesantren ) and its kyai, but not NU as an organization. Even though NU was one of the ...
Comments