"Don’t imagine it to be like Mossad"

MOHAMAD Mahfud probably never would have dreamed that he would one day be involved in the intelligence business. His profession as a professor of law at the Indonesian Islamic University in Yogyakarta surely does not equip him for the cloak-and-dagger job. Yet these days Defense Minister Mahfud has found himself on the spot over the issue of Indonesian intelligence.

It all began last week when Mahfud broached the idea of a national intelligenc

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