Many here saw it as proof that press freedom is alive and well - but conservative Muslim groups did not see it that way.

BBC: Indonesia Playboy editor faces jail over ruling

You might have read over Thanksgiving weekend a piece by friend-of-the-blogger Martha Irvine of The Associated Press, who wrote about the continually recession-proof industry of youth sports, an economic engine that shows no sign of burning out thanks to ever-more parents throwing bigger and bigger piles of money into stove to stoke its fire.

FORBES: Youth Sports Arms Race Reflects Successful Exploitation Of Reasonable Parental Anxiety

Inevitably, the success of a seemingly recession-proof economy gets this country a very strong financial press - even if, as we noted a few weeks back, the talk over the coming months will be of whether it has been infected by the "Dutch disease", an over-reliance on the booming resources sector that is having a distorting effect on the economy as a whole.

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