Suspicion Mounts Toward Military Group in Sleman Prison Shooting | The Jakarta Globe

More indications have emerged that point to a rogue military unit as the heavily armed group who infiltrated a police detention center in Yogyakarta last week and shot dead four detainees.
Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar, a spokesman for the National Police, characterized the actions of the group of 17 masked gunmen as highly disciplined and professional.

Suspicion Mounts Toward Military Group in Sleman Prison Shooting | The Jakarta Globe

SBY Rejects Rumor of Brewing Coup d’Etat | The Jakarta Globe

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday dismissed rumors that a coup d’etat would topple his government later this month, at the tail end of a week that saw at least eight military generals meet with the chief of state.

The president had rounded up seven former generals of the Indonesian military (TNI) on Thursday, after an intelligence report suggested a coup might take place on March 25, a year before the 2014 legislative elections.


SBY Rejects Rumor of Brewing Coup d’Etat | The Jakarta Globe

Indonesia Keeps Politically Sensitive Fuel Subsidies, May Limit Use | The Jakarta Globe

ndonesia may restrict subsidized fuel use by private vehicles in major cities but will only raise fuel prices as a last resort, the government said on Thursday, as Southeast Asia’s largest economy struggles to contain ballooning fuel spending.


Indonesia Keeps Politically Sensitive Fuel Subsidies, May Limit Use | The Jakarta Globe

Indonesia's SBY in Trouble | Koran Online Indonesia: Berjuang Tanpa Kebencian

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is said by political analysts in Jakarta to be a major crisis, with his governing Democrat Party's fugitive former treasurer leveling charges of widespread corruption against top party members.

Political analysts say the scandal could affect the party's chances in 2014 legislative races, with Golkar and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the next two biggest political parties looking forward to making inroads. Aburizal Bakrie, the billionaire tycoon who heads Golkar, has ambitions to replace Yudhoyono as president in the next election as well. The Democrats, who lead a ruling coalition of 314 seats in the 560-seat legislature, hold 150 seats against Golkar's 125 and the PDI-P, as it is known under its Indonesian initials, with 95.


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The Grand Bargainer » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

The Grand Bargainer » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
In democracies, the demos rules.  According to the original meaning of the term, that means the popular masses, as distinct from social or economic elites.  More usually nowadays, the term has no class content; “demos” denotes an undifferentiated citizenry.