Indonesia

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Does anyone (Doug?) have any information of what is actually going on in
Indonesia.  The official transmission belts (aka media) are notoriously
unreliable, and they focus thier coverage along the lines of "angry mob
looting the sacred cow of capitalism - private property."  I think it was
Noam Chomsky who graphically demonstrated the media bias on Indonesia
reporting by actually measuring the volume of the Mossad Information Agency
(aka New York Times) coverage and juxtaposing it with their coverage of the
alleged "communist attrocities."  

Well, the volume went up recently - it is definitely louder, but not much
better.

The only thing that caught my attention was an McNeil/Lehrer interview with
a woman who apparently had some local NGO connections -- and what she was
allowed to say was that there is a whole set of NGOs in Indonesia ready to
form an alternative gov't.  Does anyone have any reliable information about
that?  If what that woman said is true, they must be broadcasting some info
via net to the world. 

Did our friends in OZ or NZ hear anything?  It's their hood.

Regards,

Wojtek Sokolowski