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The lure of Asia INDONESIA is coming back and is set to resume its rightful leadership of Southeast Asia. This week its President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, decisively reshuffled his cabinet, substantially strengthening the economics team. Two months ago SBY's Government took the crucial domestic economic reform step of cutting fuel subsidies after already enduring a huge increase in the external price of oil. Even Suharto had baulked at this reform. Recently, Indonesian authorities eliminated one of the worst terrorists in the region, Azahari bin Husin. Indonesia also recently surpassed, for the first time, its peak per capita income level from...

In order to avoid the misconception that this article is regarded as rubbing salt in the wound in light of China and South Korea's large-scale anti-Japanese movement, lets me first speak clear writing the basic mood/state of mind. The Asian region/the series gathers (re/integration) again, is the all critiques circle intellectual's common responsibility, but in the current historical heading, the biggest barrier which the series gathers is as if Japan's government (and society). Must send looks Japanese the critique circle to be able already to have the function, from internal reverse situation, we is in the Asian different area the...