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...metric of terror measures losses far beyond the killing zone of a car bomb. In the week following the Bali explosion that killed nearly 200, Ramlah Yasin sat on the floor of an office at a shuttered factory on the outskirts of Jakarta wondering if she, too, should be counted as a victim. Yasin, 30, worked for 11 years as a cloth cutter on the assembly lines of a shoe manufacturer, but a month ago her employer was forced to close after U.S. athletic gear giant Nike stopped ordering sneakers. Yasin has been looking for work...
...economic cost of the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S. was estimated to be tens of billions of dollars. But as Indonesians like Yasin begin to assess the damage of the terrorism that has slammed into their homeland, some fear their cost ultimately could be far greater than the toll in America?that it could turn Indonesia, the world's fourth most-populous country, into a failed state. Just four years after the dictator Suharto was run out of office, the sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills...
...Neither are the workers. Yasin, who lost her job when her factory near Jakarta closed, says she can't go home to her poor rice-farming family in Bima, a town on the far-western island of Sumbawa. "The problem was that there were no jobs in my hometown," she says. Today, the cavernous buildings housing the assembly lines where she used to work are padlocked. The union and the factory's workers are camped out in the one building they have access to, which houses the union office and what used to be the "Nike School," where the sneaker...
...Tariq M. Yasin ’04, vice president of HIS, wrote in an e-mail that HIS “supports actions towards ending the current conflict...
...Yasin said that jihad is a broad struggle for control. “On a global scale, [jihad] is a struggle...for control of the big decisions—not only who controls what piece of land, but more importantly who gets medicine...