Mister Lee, Where is Your Proof?

Jakarta and Singapore are locked in a war of nerves over terrorism. Meanwhile, top Indonesian police have been flying to the city state and hope to meet some terrorist suspects.

March 5, 2002

The meeting took place outside the president's normal working hours. Singapore Ambassador Edward Lee was summoned specially by President Megawati Sukarnoputri to her house in Jalan Teuku Umar, Menteng, Central Jakarta, on a Friday evening. Although there was no official statement on the meeting from the palace, the natural presumption would be that they touched on issues of `bilateral ties', which have become rather warmer recently. The root of

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