Java’s ninja terror : Politics at play?
Black-clad men on the prowl, grotesque killings and a mounting death toll in East Java reflect a move by competing power centres
Author: Derwin Pereira
The night ninjas attacked boy, 14
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Nur Muhammad is afraid of the dark.
He was not always like this. It all changed three weeks ago, the night the
MARCHING TO HIS DEATH : A victim of ninja violence
THIS picture was taken secretly by an Indonesian journalist in Banyuwangi, East Java, last month.
The bloodied naked man is a black magic
‘Politics behind killings in Java’
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The killings are aimed at eroding the power base of the Muslim organisation NU, says a legislator
THE recent killings in
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No,
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Reborn Tempo sold out within 2 days
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Abri concedes it was tool of Suharto
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PRESIDENT B. J. Habibie yesterday
Abri to redefine political role, says Wiranto
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The military will no longer seek to be an independent actor on the political stage. It will also place less