Flying Visit

November 21, 2006

THERE are noisy demonstrations opposing the visit of the President of the United States, George Walker Bush, to Indonesia. Protests took place almost every day in almost all the major cities in the weeks run-up to the visit. In Makassar and Yogyakarta, groups of students took to the streets and carried posters with anti-Bush and anti-US sentiments. In Lampung, an effigy of Bush was burned and as a protest, the McDonalds fast-food restaurant was s

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