Topic: Jakarta
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
Reuters US Online Report World News
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 ...
Obamas Indonesia
AP News
FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2010, file photo an Indonesian man plays with his son under the statue of President Barack Obama as a 10-year-old boy at Menteng Park in Jakarta, Indonesia. Memories of the four years Obama spent in Jakarta are set to be stirred further next week when ...
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