Asia's Week: Lovable Indonesia, Get a Move On

With even the spluttering from North Korea growing more muted, bird flu relatively isolated and General Musharraf's troubles in Pakistan so far seen as comic, the world greatly turned away from Asia this week, to more attention-grabbing scenes. Yet, contributing to a a general global malaise were the slowing growth prospects in once-vibrant economies. China's cooling off is foremost in that respect, though the more surprising pause may be coming in Indonesia.