District Court sentence which had reduced the sentence to nine years for the radical Muslim religious leader, accused of financing terrorist groups, overturned. Recently, the U.S. State Department declared his organization a "terrorist group".
U.S. president's call tolerance and the necessity of Indonesia to accredited itself with the international community as an example of moderate Islam focus of post visit analysis
Findings by a special parliamentary committee absolve Lapindo Brantas of any responsibility for the 2006 disaster that impacted 10,000 people. Victims’ anger boils over compensation as lawmakers talk about “political interests”. One of the stakeholders in the company involved is in fact the country’s Social Affairs minister.
After five days of rain, the city is returning to normal but hundreds of people are still sitting on the roofs of their homes, waiting for aid to reach them. Around 430,000 people have been displaced.
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