Indonesia's New Secret Police?

A controversial bill could give the country's intelligence agency broad and potentially unchecked powers to arrest and detain suspects.

November 9, 2004

FOR years A.M. Hendropriyono—now the former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief—has been pushing the House of Representatives (DPR) to broaden the powers held by BIN. Following an explosion last September in front of the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Hendro was granted a closed meeting with the DPR's Defense Committee, when he formally expressed his desire to increase BIN's authority. At the meeting, Hendro demanded that BIN be aut

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