A Step Back in Batam
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The IMF and World Bank annual meeting in Singapore was colored by the ban on NGO activists. Even Batam considered banning demonstrations.
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IN 1998, Indonesia prided itself in being one of a few Asian countries that succeeded in implementing reform. But events in Singapore and Batam last week brought back vivid memories of the authoritarianism of the New Order regime. No less a personage than the President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, used the word authoritarianism in connection with the banning of activistsincluding Indonesian activistsfrom entering Singapore.
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