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World News and Trends: Indonesia plagued by corruption and vigilantes

  • by John Ross Schroeder, Melvin Rhodes
Indonesia is a far-flung nation of 17,000 islands. It began as a modern state in 1949, emerging from the Dutch colonial regime. It has a long history of violence. The English expression "to run amok" comes from an Indonesian term, amuk, meaning to attack furiously.