US Terrorism Expert Kicked Out of Indonesia Again
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Reuters
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Jakarta (Indonesia):
An American expert on terrorism and Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia has been kicked out of Indonesia for the second year in a row, the analyst and a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
Sidney Jones, Indonesia director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG), told Reuters she had been barred from entering Jakarta on Thursday after arriving back from a short trip to Taiwan. Her residency card had been confiscated, she said.
"It's just a complete mystery. There was no reason and no warning. If there had been a warning I would have taken more than two days of clothes," Jones, 53, told Reuters from Singapore. "I was allowed back at the end of July and everything seemed fine. I was assured that we were in a new era."Jones had been expelled in June 2004 under a different administration after a series of hard-hitting reports on terrorism in Indonesia.
In July this year, she was allowed back to live in Indonesia.Yuri Thamrin, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, confirmed Jones had been denied entry.
Wired News Reuters
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Jakarta (Indonesia):
An American expert on terrorism and Islamic militancy in Southeast Asia has been kicked out of Indonesia for the second year in a row, the analyst and a Foreign Ministry official said on Friday.
Sidney Jones, Indonesia director of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG), told Reuters she had been barred from entering Jakarta on Thursday after arriving back from a short trip to Taiwan. Her residency card had been confiscated, she said.
"It's just a complete mystery. There was no reason and no warning. If there had been a warning I would have taken more than two days of clothes," Jones, 53, told Reuters from Singapore. "I was allowed back at the end of July and everything seemed fine. I was assured that we were in a new era."Jones had been expelled in June 2004 under a different administration after a series of hard-hitting reports on terrorism in Indonesia.
In July this year, she was allowed back to live in Indonesia.Yuri Thamrin, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, confirmed Jones had been denied entry.
