Big Loan, Big Leverage: Will West Push Indonesia to Let Freedom Ring? $43 Billion IMF Loan Is a Chance to Demand Political Changes, Say Human Rights Activists
Cameron W. Barr, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
In return for an internationally funded rescue package, the Indonesian government has agreed to make its trade practices fairer and its markets more open. But at the same time, some officials and activists are wondering why the world's powerful nations seem to be missing an opportunity to help Indonesia's people become freer.
The human rights situation here has worsened lately. Hundreds of Indonesians have been detained this year for protesting the government's handling of its economic crisis and some activists and students have disappeared.
"We've never been more important here," asserts one foreign official, speaking on condition of anonymity, whose country …
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Article title: Big Loan, Big Leverage: Will West Push Indonesia to Let Freedom Ring? $43 Billion IMF Loan Is a Chance to Demand Political Changes, Say Human Rights Activists.
Contributors: Cameron W. Barr, writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: April 13, 1998.
Page number: 7.
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