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Since he became governor, Chris Sununu has rarely clashed with President Donald Trump, supporting the travel ban on citizens from several mostly Muslim nations and quick to play up visits he has made the White House. But when Trump’s immigration crackdown reached the state’s tiny Indonesian community this year, Sununu wrote a letter to his fellow Republican in October in which he said he was “respectfully requesting your administration reconsider its decision to deport these individuals” and urging it consider a “resolution that would allow them to remain in the United States.” Sununu insisted the case of the Indonesians was...

Five suspected terrorists were reportedly killed during police raids at two different locations in Bali late on Sunday. Police have yet to issue an official statement on the nature of the raids and details on the casualties. The first raid took place at around 10:15 p.m. in a budget hotel, Laksmi, on Jl. Danau Poso 99X, Sanur. The area is known as one of the most famous red-light districts in Bali, where people can easily obtain a cheap room from staff at budget hotels who rarely ask for valid identification from their guests. Neighbors said that they heard a burst...

From BBC: Angry Indonesians have tried to break into a jail which houses convicted Bali bombers, on the third anniversary of the 2002 attacks on the island. Hundreds of protesters are said to have stormed the prison, demanding the execution of three militants sentenced to death for their role in the attacks.The three men - Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas - were moved to another jail on Tuesday amid security concerns. The bombings on 12 October 2002 killed more than 200 people. Earlier this months, suicide bombers struck again in Bali, killing 20 people. Correspondents say there has been...

There is a strong but previously undisclosed undercurrent running through the Coast Guard’s investigation of yesterday’s cruise ship accident that left 92 passengers seriously injured, two of them critically. The questions are being whispered, but there is no denying them; “Was this a terrorist attempt to sink the ship?” This much is known. The 3000 passenger 22-knot floating hotel "Crown Princess" was 11 miles south of Port Canaveral, heading out on a Western Caribbean cruise when suddenly, everything turned topsy-turvy. According to passengers, the ship listed somewhere between 20 and 40 degrees as the vessel made a violent and unnecessary...

THEY may be arch enemies on the sports field, but Australians still like Poms and Kiwis more than Yanks and other foreigners, a survey has found. Americans came third in the Crosby-Textor Mood of the Nation poll but fell short on questions of trust and worldliness. Indonesians did not fare very well – the close neighbours being ranked second last of the 15 nations respondents were asked about. The United Kingdom scored highest overall among Australians with a country index rating of 79, just ahead of New Zealand on 78.3 and the United States 63.4. Saudi Arabia ranked last with...

BATAM: Suspected terror group Jemaah Islamiyah uses a network of overseas Indonesian workers to smuggle money across borders to elude an international clampdown on suspicious transactions, a top official said Wednesday. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States, countries have tried to halt terrorists' access to funds by scrutinizing suspicious electronic transfers of money. ``We've cut off much of their money supply,'' Indonesian intelligence chief Hendropriyono told the media. ``But their money comes from private donations sent to Jemaah Islamiyah through couriers, such as Indonesian workers who work in foreign countries and then return home. This...