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There is growing support in Indonesia for the view that the 87% Muslim majority in the country should take control of the economy from the ethnic-Chinese minority, which accounts for only 3% of the population. This stance is creating concern among foreign investors, who fear that growing opposition to Indonesia's mainly Catholic- and Buddhist-Chinese entrepreneurs would have a negative impact on economic recovery and on the value of the rupiah. It remains uncertain how far Muslim economic nationalism will progress.
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Religious riots in Indonesia's province of E Timor have captured headlines and prompted widespread calls among the country's Muslim majority for a crackdown on the mostly Catholic Timorese. That violence in Sept 1995 was aimed mostly at new immigrants, but other, pro-independence fighting in Oct was generally ignored, as were charges of human-rights abuses against Muslims in the province of Aceh in 1990-91. E Timor has a long history of religious tolerance and cooperation, but recent migration has strained that.
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Indonesian Muslims hope to raise their profile and improve communications via an internet site. The site, at http://www.inkom.lipi.go.id./muslim.html, provides information on various aspects of Islamic life and the ability to communicate with e-mail. Users cannot talk directly because there is no moderator to filter inflammatory communications. The intent of the site is to help heal long-standing religious disagreements and to improve Indonesian Muslim lives through information on education and business skills.
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