Jennie S. Bev is a regular columnist to Forbes Indonesia, The Jakarta Post, and Strategic Review.

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The Jakarta Post said two of the people killed in the capital were children, aged 13 and two.

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The three reptiles were being housed in a special display cage along with 18 other Komodos, the Jakarta Post reported.

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Dozens of houses have been torched or vandalized and two restaurants, two discotheques and an art gallery have been looted, the Jakarta Post's lead story said.

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Police said on Thursday that a mother of one of the allegedly smuggled children was under suspicion, after telling them that she had given her baby to a midwife because she did not have the money to pay for her delivery, the Jakarta Post newspaper reported.

BBC: Indonesian police probe 'baby-smuggling ring'

Even the usually tame Jakarta Post ran front-page stories quoting a former cabinet minister and a political scientist who called for new leaders.

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Both the AWSJ and the South China Morning Post noted that the release of the Jakarta report coincided with the investigation results of a parallel United Nations inquiry into violence in East Timor.

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The pictures come courtesy of Yang Canggih, which says it had a chance to demo the two devices yesterday at Sony's Partner's Conference in Jakarta (curiously, the NEX-F3 post isn't live as of this writing, but Sony Alpha Rumors has the images up).

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