It would seem that way if you let the Globe be your prism:
"Indonesia police arrest 2002 Bali bomb suspect" by Associated Press / June 15, 2011
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities said yesterday they arrested a suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings who later ran a jihadi training camp in the Philippines and two other men with ties to top terrorists after uncovering a plot against police....
Extremists in Indonesia have increasingly targeted police in the past year as a security crackdown has disrupted terrorists’ ability to launch large-scale attacks. One of those arrested in the cyanide raids, Budi Untung Wisesa, died during interrogation and police said an autopsy showed suffered a heart attack. Local media quoted relatives saying they had found a wound on Wisesa’s head.
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"Radical cleric convicted in Indonesia; Gets 15-year term for backing jihad training camp" by Norimitsu Onishi, New York Times / June 17, 2011
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A leading radical Islamic cleric whom the United States had pressed Indonesia to prosecute for the past decade was convicted yesterday after a four-month trial on terrorism charges.
Abu Bakar Bashir, 72, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for supporting a jihad training camp.
Jeers could be heard from his supporters outside the courthouse when the district court judge announced the sentence. In recent days, authorities had been alerted to vague threats of a bombing campaign to coincide with the ruling, and thousands of extra police officers and hundreds of soldiers had fanned out across the capital city, but no violence was reported....
The court sided with prosecutors, who said that Bashir had helped mobilize and finance a militant group that set up an armed training camp in the province of Aceh, in northern Sumatra. The group, which called itself Al Qaeda of the Veranda of Mecca but appeared to have no ties to the group founded by Osama bin Laden, was violently suppressed by the police last year.
Bashir, who denied any involvement with the group but defended its actions as legal under Islam, said during the trial that Indonesian authorities fabricated the charges to please the United States.
The ruling puts an end for now to the activities of Bashir, whom Indonesian authorities had often appeared reluctant to prosecute for fear of antagonizing Islamic extremists.
A founder of the radical Jemaah Islamiyah movement, Bashir spent a couple of years in prison in the past decade on various charges. But the courts cleared him on serious terrorism-related charges, culminating in 2006 when the Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s terrorism conviction. He is believed to have lost much of his influence in recent years with Indonesia’s radical fringes.
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Probably why he lost influence; his followers found him out.
Still, last year, police arrested Bashir after linking three members of his new, above-ground Islamic organization, Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, to the group in Aceh.
The short-lived group trained in Aceh’s remote, jungle-covered mountains and stockpiled weapons, authorities said. Last year, the police killed and arrested more than 120 people suspected of having links to the group, including Dulmatin, one of Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorism suspects. The authorities said the group had been planning attacks against foreigners and had previously made plans to assassinate moderate Muslims, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Like Bashir, the group advocated replacing Indonesia’s democratic government with an Islamic state.
The United States and Australia had long pressed Indonesian authorities to take a harder line against Bashir.
And here it is their intelligence agencies up to their elbows in it.
But Yudhoyono’s government has been repeatedly criticized by human rights activists for being soft on radical Muslim groups, particularly the Islamic Defenders Front, an organization that routinely carries out violent protests against Christians, other religious minorities and moderate Muslims.
I'm not buying the Christian vs. Muslim thing anymore either, cui bono?
In recent years, the United States has praised Indonesia’s antiterrorism campaigns, which have drastically curtailed the activities of extremists, especially against Western targets....
Well, when you order the intelligence assets to stand down.... (sigh).
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"Playboy Indonesia ex-editor is freed" by Associated Press / June 25, 2011
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Playboy Indonesia’s former editor was released from prison yesterday after the country’s top court overturned his indecency conviction for publishing pictures of scantily clad women.
The long-running case has highlighted the growing militancy of a vocal fringe wanting Islamic-based laws implemented in Indonesia, a moderate democracy that is the world’s most populous Muslim nation....
Much the way the vocal fringe of militant Zionism dominates western media and government.
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So how has the weather been this past year, dear readers from Indonesia?
