10 SWEDENS

Former CIA officer Thomas Carroll has offered rare praise for Indonesia's role in the War on Terror:

As the Bush administration begins its second term, it is time Americans came to appreciate a few of these unsung allies, so newly important to our own national security.
Southeast Asia is a good place to start. Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, suffered its own 9/11 when Jamaah Islamiya (an Islamic terrorist group with close operational ties to al Qaeda) bombed a Bali tourist spot on 12 October 2002, killing 202. Since then, Indonesian cooperation with the U.S. and Australia against the Islamo-fascists, while by no means flawless, has been significant. Many JI members and leaders have been rounded-up, and indications are that Indonesia’s new President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, wants even closer cooperation. An ally like Indonesia is worth 10 Swedens.

As Indonesia is the home to a known terrorist group and the victim of terrorist attacks, it does have a more vital role to play in the War on Terror than Sweden. Still, I have reasons to believe that the country has not yet fully grasped what is at stake.

19 Bali bombers get sentence reductions on Idul Fitri holiday
JAKARTA (Agencies): Nineteen men convicted for their roles in the 2002 Bali bombings received reductions in their sentences on the Idul Fitri holiday, a prison official was quoted as saying on Sunday.
The reductions did not apply to the three key bombers who received death sentences and one serving a life term, said Tulus Widjajanto, head of a prison on the resort island of Bali.
Widjajanto was quoted by the official Antara news agency as saying that the 19 other Bali bombers at his prison received sentence reductions ranging from 15 to 45 days.
The Idul Fitri holiday is a traditional time for inmates with records of good behavior to get their sentences shortened. Numerous other prisoners in Bali and other parts of the country also received remissions.

Indeed, for Indonesian authorities, it seems abetting the murder of 200 people is still a less serious offense than some other crimes:

Schapelle Leigh Corby, 27, a beauty-school student from Queensland's Gold Coast, was arrested at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport last month and accused of trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into Indonesia. Indonesian police have recommended prosecutors charge her under laws that carry the death penalty.