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THE military chief of West Papua's Jayapura district last night denied his troops had shot into a crowd of pro-independence activists and killed at least one. Major General Erfi Triassunu said TNI troops and police had only fired into the air to break up the Third Papuan People's Congress after an activist began reading a declaration of independence from Indonesia. According to two reporters at the scene at the Lapangan Zakeus sports ground in Jayapura, police and soldiers broke up the congress's final session, scattering about 5000 activists and taking away at least 100 under arrest. They included Papua Customary Council chairman Forkorus Yaboisembut, who had had just been elected president of a "transitional government for the Republic of West Papua", according to the Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy. Trouble erupted when he led the reading of the declaration and raised a banned Morning Star flag. However, the reporters did not confirm initia...

Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country and potentially the largest market for Islamic finance, has received a major boost to press ahead with the issuance of its proposed benchmark global Islamic trust certificates (sukuk) which will be issued by Perusahaan Penerbit SBSN Indonesia II (PPSI II), a special purpose vehicle (SPV) on behalf of the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia.  The issuance, which has been assigned a “BB+” long-term foreign currency issue rating by Standard and Poor's and a provisional rating of Ba1 by Moody's Investors Service, was subject to the right market conditions, especially pricing. In fact, there was talk of a delay because of the volatility in the global markets as a result of the European sovereign debt crisis and the economic recession especially in the West where economies are struggling even to achieve a 1 percent GDP growth rate.  The boost came from neighboring Malaysia, where Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the country's sovereign wealth f...

NDONESIAN security forces opened fire on thousands of striking workers at Freeport-McMoRan' s gold and copper mine early yesterday, killing one man and critically wounding six, a union official said. Police said it was too early to comment and officials from Arizona-based Freeport were preparing an official statement. Workers at the Grasberg mine in West Papua kicked off a strike on September 15, demanding pay increases to $17.50 to $43 an hour from the present $2.10 to $3.50 an hour. About 90 per cent of the mine's 12,000 employees are taking part. Union leader Manuel Maniambo said thousands of striking workers headed to the mine in the mountains by bus and by foot to try to stop replacement workers. When security forces tried to block them, they became angry, throwing rocks and yelling insults, he said. The troops opened fire, killing one worker and leaving another hospitalised in critical condition, Mr Maniambo said. A man named Hanseba died in hospital of gunshot woun...

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JULIA Gillard is preparing for her first contact with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono since the live cattle row.  The Prime Minister is organising a telephone call to Dr Yudhoyono ahead of leaders' summits in Cannes and Bali next month and the visit of US President Barack Obama to both Australia and Indonesia. Ms Gillard has not spoken to Dr Yudhoyono since the Australian government suspended live cattle shipments without warning in June after ABC1's Four Corners' coverage of the abuse of Australian cattle in Indonesian abattoirs. The failure to alert Jakarta to the suspension of the $330 million trade damaged relations between Australia and Indonesia. Ms Gillard also caused resentment in Indonesia last year by announcing her plan to establish an offshore processing centre for asylum-seekers in East Timor, without alerting Jakarta to the significant change to policy. As she prepared to repair leader-to-leader relations, she welcomed the beginning of the I...

IN THE aftermath of last week's suicide bombing by a rogue Islamist of a church in the Central Java city of Solo, messages flew around the social networking site Twitter urging followers to go to an extremist website. There, on arrahmah.com, was an article condemning Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his strong and quickly delivered words against the violent act in Solo, contrasting it with a supposedly weak response to the alleged attacks on Muslims by Christians in Ambon. It continued with a litany of falsehoods, including claims that a village had been burnt down and that thousands of Muslims remained in mosques in Ambon, seeking refuge from the crusader hordes. In two days some 20,000 people had retweeted the message. Disturbingly, it was just the latest in a series of highly inflammatory tweets, SMS and Facebook postings sowing the seeds of disharmony and promoting terrorism in Indonesia. Last month, there were two striking examples of the power of social m...