But it may mark a watershed of a different kind, as personal hardship brought about by the crisis hits home for the first time.Newspapers in the city of Surabaya yesterday carried reports of riots in remote coastal towns in Central Java earlier this week. In Kragan and Sarang, near the border between Central and East Java, mobs smashed and looted shops owned by ethnic Chinese after rumours that they had raised the price of kerosene used in cooking stoves. The measures, supported by the use of central bank reserves to strengthen the rupiah, appear to have been timed to boost morale in advance of the holiday.If all goes to plan, Indonesians will return to work next week to embark on the long and painful task of rebuilding their economy, but without the risk of further plummets in the price of the rupiah which have undermined foreign confidence so disastrously. He died that night from a cerebral haemorrhage.The appeal court in Versailles will decide tomorrow whether, at the very least, to free the nanny while the investigation continues.. There were food riots in Indonesia yesterday, as people prepared for a holiday which may mark a watershed in its economic crisis Richard Lloyd Parry, in Java, reports.

The two-day Chinese New Year, which ends today, will be followed tomorrow by Id al-Fitr, marking the end of the month of Ramadan for the 180 million Muslims in Indonesia.
When shops and offices reopen next week, the country could find itself over the worst, or bogged down still deeper in the social unrest cause by what has, until now, remained largely an economic problem.Share prices rose yesterday, the day after the government announced banking reforms and a programme to reschedule debts owed by private companies to foreign banks. The nanny’s supporters believe that there was an element of racial prejudice in the decision to begin criminal proceedings against her.
Ms Atouillan, married with two small children of her own, was left in sole charge of an 11-month-old baby boy in a suburban house west of Paris last November. The child was taken to hospital after Ms Atouillan said that he had fallen from his bed. The case of Marie-Christine Atouillan, placed in custody two months ago, will be reconsidered by an appeal court in Versailles tomorrow. Ms Atouillan, 28, is from the French Caribbean island of Martinique; her formal document of accusation describes her as a “person of colour”, something extremely unusual in French legal procedure. A committee of French writers, singers and sports-people has started a campaign to free a French nanny accused of the manslaughter of an 11-month-old baby. His Kurdish People’s Workers Party was later shut down by court order.Kurdish rebels have been fighting for Kurdish autonomy in the south- east since 1984.

The war has killed 37,000 people and damaged Turkey’s human rights record. The report grew out of an investigation into state- underworld links, touched off by a traffic accident last year, which killed a police chief and a fugitive terrorist and injured a government party politician They were all riding in the same car.– AP, Ankara. But virtually the entire 120-page report was published in Turkish newspapers yesterday, providing new details about the state’s dirty war against groups considered a threat.
It said that in 1994, security forces killed Behcet Canturk, a Kurdish businessman who helped finance the now- defunct Kurdish newspaper Ozgur Gundem. Two bomb attacks which destroyed the paper’s buildings in Istanbul and Ankara were also carried out by the state, it said.”The state was not able to deal with Canturk .. Legal means were not enough …