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Already, the crisis is taking its toll on the single market, not least in the balkanization of the banking system which is fragmenting along national lines.

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While Indonesia's right to rule in Irian is not contested by the United Nations, as in the case of East Timor, the country's own political scientists have warned for some years of the risk of Balkanization should the imbalances between eastern and western Indonesia not be addressed.

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