Building peace in Indonesia: religion is both a help and a complication as country struggles with new democracy. (Cover Story).(includes facts about Indonesia and neighbors)(Interview)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: June 6, 2003| Author: Jeffrey, Paul | Copyright information

Ismartono's map of Indonesia is hard to see. The 17,000 islands of the sprawling archipelago stretch across one wall of the Crisis Center that the Jesuit priest runs for the Indonesian bishops' conference. Yet all the little pieces of paper he has tacked to the map, each sporting a number that denotes a violent conflict detailed in the center's file cabinets, end up covering almost all the land. Indonesia is reduced to clumps of yellow and white papers with stretches of water in be...

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