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Google Sure to Shut Down in China


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Google Inc. has draw up detailed plans to shut its search engine in China and is "99.9 Percent" certain of going ahead with the closure, the Financial Times reported Saturday, citing a person it didn't name.

The company may make the decision very soon, while it will take time to carry out a closure to make sure staff don't suffer reprisals from authorities, the paper said, citing the person as familiar with Google, said she had no comment on the report when reached by phone.
Google said on jan. 12 that it will stop it called an infiltration of its technology and the email accounts of Chinese human-rights activist. China yesterday called Google's plan to defy goverment censorship rules "unfriendly and irresponsible".
"The usual headlines is companies are cooming into China , not companies pulling out," said Duncan Clark, Beijing-based Chairman of business advisory company BDA China Ltd. "China wants to be the leading place for research and development. They'd like to have tech companies here but they don't want the content involvement. Bit you can sparate the two".
Google may have to pull out of china pending talks with authorities, it said in january. An exit from the world biggest internet market would cost Google, whose sales growth slowed during the US recesion, US$600 Mollion in revenue, according to estimates by JPMorgan Chase & Co.
China is "a market that no company can ignore, Google included" JP Gan, managing director at Shanghai-based Qiming Venture Partners, wich oversees more than $500 million, said before the FT report. "You have to play by the local rules if you want to operate here".
The resolution of the dispute with Google rests on the company, not the goverment, Li Yizhong, minister of Industry and information of technologi, said on march 12. "if one company violates the Chinese law and is unfriendly and irresponsible, that's unwanted and means the company doesn't merit i ts world class statues".
Talks with the Chinese goverment may yeld result "soon", Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said on March 10.
Google system were targeted by "highly Sophisticated" attacks aimed at obtaining proprietary information, as well as personal data belonging to human rights activists who use the company's Gmail email service, it said in January. At least 20 other international companies in technology, finance and chemicals werw similary targeted, Google said at the time.
Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc.m the world two biggest maker of security software, said this month they are working with the US Goverment on an investigation of the source of the cyber attacks.
China may have 840 million Internet users, or 61 percent of the population, by 2013, according to EMarketer Inc. in New York. The country had 384 million at the end of last year, according to goverment data.

March 15, 2010 The Jakarta Post
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Top Indonesian Terrorist Dulmatin Believed Slain by Police Gunfire


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The body of a suspected terrorist lying near his motorcycle after he was shot by members of the police’s Densus 88 on Jalan Setiabudi in Pamulang, Tangerang. Dulmatin, a mastermind of the 2002 Bali bombings, is believed to have beenkilled in the raid. (JG Photo/Yudhi Sukma Wijaya)






Fingerprint analysis has yet to establish a definitive identity, but antiterrorism police officers were already seen praising God and rejoicing on the outskirts of the capital on Tuesday, believing a man they shot dead during a fierce gun battle was Dulmatin, one of the masterminds of the 2002 Bali bombings that claimed 202 lives.

Regardless of whether the man killed in an unassuming shop in Tangerang was indeed one of the most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia, the killing is being seen as a major victory in the country’s fight against terrorism.

“The man who was shot was an influential figure in the history of terrorism in Indonesia. He masterminded paramilitary drills in Jantho [Aceh],” said Brig. Gen. Tito Karnavian, the head of the Densus 88 antiterrorism unit.

Dulmatin, who has gone by a list of aliases, including Asmar Usman, Joko Pitono, Nova and Yahya Ibrohim, is the country’s most wanted terrorist fugitive after Malaysian national Noordin Mohamad Top was killed last September in a police raid.

“We thank God that the man we shot at the Multiplus shop-house [on Jalan Siliwangi in Pamulang] is Dulmatin. His ID card says that he is Yahya,” a source said.

Dulmatin is a leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organization and an Al Qaeda-trained bomb-making specialist.

Ansyaad Mbai, the head of the antiterrorism desk at the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal and Security Affairs, said that if the man gunned down was Dulmatin, it will have “significant implications, because the terrorist organization would have lost a very vital figure.”

“He wanted to replace Noordin Top. He was being hunted down via massive operations in the southern Philippines where he had been hiding.”

The man was one of three people killed in two raids just before and after noon in Pamulang, South Tangerang, on Tuesday. Police confirmed later that they had also arrested three suspected militants in Pamulang, including a woman.

National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Edward Aritonang said police were forced to kill the man suspected to be Dulmatin.

“He had taken a shot at police. His revolver had five bullets in the magazine and seven bullets were found in his pockets,” Edward said.

The two others killed, identified only as R and H, were shot on Jalan Setiabudi 12, about a kilo­meter from the Multiplus business service center on Jalan Siliwangi, where the man believed to be Dulmatin was shot dead.

“The two were trying to escape on a Suzuki Thunder [motor­cycle],” Edward said, adding that they pointed a gun at police.

After the shootings, police raided a house located on Asem, an alleyway not far from Jalan Setiabudi, and emerged with two men wearing only underwear.

“We believe that those captured today have terror links with the Aceh group. We, however, did not find any explosives on them or the places we raided today,” Edward said.

He added that a woman was later arrested.

“We can confirm that those arrested in Jakarta and West Java [over the weekend] were gun suppliers and financiers [of terrorist activities in Aceh], including the ones shot and captured in Pamulang,” Edward said, referring to the militant group in Aceh that police have been hunting in a massive operation since Feb. 22.

To date, 22 suspected terrorists have been captured in Aceh, West Java and Jakarta since the operation began. The latest suspect, a fisherman identified as Hendri Marlan Saputra, 28, was arrested in Muara Batu, North Aceh, on Tuesday.

Three policemen, two civilians and a suspected militant have been killed in the operation in Aceh so far.

When asked whether Tuesday’s arrests had anything to do with Jemaah Islamiyah, Edward said: “What is for sure is that this group has nothing to do with the separatist Free Aceh Movement [GAM] or its former members.”

GAM disbanded after a 2005 peace pact ended almost three decades of separatist conflict in Aceh.

All three captured in Pamulang were taken into police custody and are being interrogated at the headquarters of the National Police’s elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob) in Kelapa Dua, Depok.


JakartaGlobe.com
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Time to Put Focus Back on the People


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With the House of Respresentatives clearly defining its position on how to proced with investigation of Bank Century scandal, all the politicking surrounding the controversy needs to stop.

President Susilo Bambany Yudhoyono, Vice President Boediono, Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) head Megawati Soekarnoputri have all aggreed that the country's law-enforcement agencies should take charge of a fllow-up probe and be allowed to do their job independently.

Clearly, it's time to set the record straight in the bank Century case-punish the wrongdores and leave those found innocent alone. For months, the controversy sucked the energy out of our country and distracted our leaders from attending ti issues what were more relevant to the education system, a better national healt care structure and the assurance that the rule of law was fairly enforced.

The Bank Century case has had it share of attention, but it's now time to focus on and serve a democratic country's primary needs-the people's need.

Republika / Jakarta Globe
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KPK Musketeers Must Soldier On


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The House of Representatives rejection of the goverments regulation in lieu of law, or perppu, to fill leadership void in the Corruption Eradication Commossion should not hamstring the law-enforcement agency. With its current four leaders, there should be nothing standing in the way of commission working even more diligently and courageously. There should be nothing standing in the way of commission working even more diligently and courageously. There is nothing in the law that request the agency's decisions to be made colective by five top commissioners.

Opinions differ on the fate of Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, the acting chairman of the commision, also know as the KPK, who was appointed under the perppu. Some have said the house's rejection mandates his resignation, but other belive that since the regulation was valid when president appointed him, there is no need for him to step down.
We belive that the four KPK musketeers are fully capable of leading the antigraft agency and withstanding the invetable attacks. If Tumpak is replaced, the official who steps into his role must be wholly credible with a spotless track record. The goverment and the house must learn a lesson from the election of Antasari Azhar, wich ended in disaster.

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Muslim Women Protest Segregation in US


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A group of Muslim women were nearly arrested on sunday for trying to pray in the main area of Washington DC's Islamic Center - an area ordinarly reserved exclisive for men.
The protest was the second time women have sought to share the main prayer area at the mosque in washington, after a group of 20 women first attempted it in february. One of the women in sunday's protest said was from Indonesia.

Washington. A group of Muslim women risked arrest on Sunday as they sought to pray in the main area of the Islamic Center of Washington — an area ordinarily reserved exclusively for men. 

“Wooden barriers have to be taken down and women have to be allowed to join, to pray behind the men in the main praying area. That’s our request,” said Fatima Thompson, an American Muslim who converted to the faith 18 years ago. 

“We are against gender segregation, against the fact that women are put aside or in a totally different room at the mosque,” added Thompson, who led the group of female protestors, all self-identified progressive Muslims. 

The Sunday protest was the second time women have sought to share the main prayer area at the mosque in Washington DC, after a group of 20 women first tried in February. 

“The general issue we are pushing is gender segregation and the ramifications it fosters. It’s not healthy, and not reflective of our society here. It’s very reflective of very restrictive, ultra orthodox societies,” Thompson added. 

Their hair covered with head scarves, the group of six women entered the mosque’s prayer area via the main door usually reserved for men and walked through to the room where around 20 men had already arrived. 

Women and children ordinarily enter the Washington mosque, located in the city’s embassy district, through a small door hidden behind a screen. 

“If you are black in this country they can’t tell you to sit in a corner but if you are a woman they can,” said Asra Nomani, a Muslim feminist who has participated in similar protests elsewhere in the United States. 

The imam presiding over the prayer interrupted proceedings to announce by microphone: “We are going to wait, because some people came to disturb the prayer, until the police come and take care of this issue.” 

Within minutes, three police officers arrived and told the women to leave or face arrest. 

“In Indonesia where I’m from, it’s not the way we pray,” said one woman, who declined to give her name, of the segregated prayer setup. 

“I want to make them think about it and make some change,” she added. 

“We may not get to see that in our lifetime but we do that for our daughters,” said Jannah Hannah, who converted to Islam 25 years ago and said she would continue to fight for shared prayer space. 

The group of women agreed to leave the mosque, but performed their prayers on the street outside, facing the metal gates of the building as police looked on.

Jakarta Globe
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