This is the first of two reports on unfinished intelligence reforms since the fall of the authoritarian Soeharto regime. With a string of terrorist attacks, sectarian conflicts and riots, questions are raised over the effectiveness of the country’s intelligence services.
Television stations run by politically connected media tycoons control more than 70 percent of audience share, cementing the widely circulated assumption that politics is not always bad for business.
It has only been since 1998 that Indonesians have enjoyed democracy and freedom of the press and it was not until the 2004 general election that most politicians became aware of the importance of the media in channeling their message to voters.
Aides, protégés help Ba’asyir’s conviction 
Why are they targeted? 
No suspects yet in triple bomb attack 
Intel services; security assets or abusers?