This is a comment on an article titled “How to think about the fuel
price rise in Indonesia?“ (The Jakarta Post, June 3, p6) by Edward
Teather, London.
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Regent Muhammad Thaib. “But I believe that the effort to preserve local
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Your comments on a suicide bomber who attacked a police post in Poso,
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the police raids on dozens of suspected…
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