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Transcript: Profile: Islam in Southeast Asia
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SCOTT SIMON
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
04-17-2004
Profile: Islam in Southeast Asia
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
SCOTT SIMON, host:
This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon.
Coming up, let's go Latin.
But first, recent elections in Southeast Asia suggest that militant Islamist parties in that region are not catching on. In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim majority nation, two nationalist secular parties won the biggest share in parliamentary elections last week. And in neighboring Malaysia, the Islamic opposition lost ground to the secular ruling coalition. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN reporting:
Good Friday services at Jakarta's main ...