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September 13, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 13, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Six of the seven Papuan men standing trial for allegedly killing two Americans and one Indonesian in 2002 objected to testimony by US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents Tuesday.

The agents, Ronald C. Eowan and Paul Ryan Mayers, helped arrest the seven suspects, including alleged ringleader Antonius Wamang, in Timika, Papua, in January.

Tempo Interactive - September 13, 2006

Badriah and Erwin Dariyanto, Jakarta – Around 50 major illegal loggers and thousands of small illegal loggers are still free in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China.

"The Illegal logging business network is actually there," said Malam Sabat Kaban, Forestry Minister, after meeting with Vice President Jusuf Kalla at the vice presidential office yesterday (12/9).

Agence France Presse - September 13, 2006

International police deployed to East Timor in the wake of unrest in May have formally handed over their authority to the United Nations during a ceremony in the capital.

Some 554 police now fall under the control of the new UN mission in East Timor which was set up by the Security Council last month, according to a mission spokeswoman.

Agence France Presse - September 13, 2006

Dili – A UN team probing the violence that erupted in East Timor earlier this year is on track to complete its report by next month, the commissioners said Wednesday on their second visit to the tiny nation.

September 12, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Hera Diani, Jakarta – International women's rights activists called Monday for a reinterpretation of dogmas they said were trapping women in backwardness and poverty in regions with strong Islamic traditions.

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Jakarta – The prosecution asked the West Jakarta District Court on Monday to sentence a student to six years in prison for insulting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla during a protest in June.

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid has denied helping the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) lobby the United States to lift a military embargo against Indonesia. However, Gus Dur said he did give a BIN official permission to use his name "for the sake of the nation".

The Australian - September 12, 2006

Mark Dodd – Alfredo Reinado, the East Timorese army deserter whose actions ultimately led to the ousting of prime minister Mari Alkatiri, has allegedly received financial help from the country's President.

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – More than 2,000 displaced people from 14 regencies in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam braved a heavy rain Monday to stage a protest at the Aceh-Nias Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Agency (BRR) office in Banda Aceh (photo).

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Fadli, Batam – After threatening to break up any gathering of foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Batam, the Riau Islands provincial police on Monday agreed to abide by a National Police decision to allow the NGOs to meet.

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Rusman, Bekasi – It was almost midnight on Thursday when people living around the Bantar Gebang dump in Bekasi were woken by a loud roar – a mountain of trash collapsing.

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Sidoarjo Regent Win Hendrarso demanded Monday that Lapindo Brantas Inc., which owns the gas exploration well that has spewed out a torrent of hot mud since May 29, stop disposing of the mud into Porong River.

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2006

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Simpang Kampong, a small coastal village in Mauk district in the north of Tangerang regency, has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of sand.

Agence France Presse - September 12, 2006

Sydney – A former leader of the Islamic militant group responsible for the deadly Bali bombings has warned that more attacks were likely this year.

Nasir Abbas, who once ran the Philippines branch of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the Al-Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian terror network, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the group aimed to launch an attack every year.

September 11, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 11, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Although the Cipinang Penitentiary in Jakarta has recommended the conditional release of former president Soeharto's son Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putera, who is serving a 15-year jail sentence, the government said it did not necessarily mean that Tommy would soon be a free man.

Jakarta Post - September 11, 2006

Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – Confusion among the police means it remains unclear whether a group of local and international non-governmental organizations will be allowed to hold a forum in Batam to coincide with the IMF-World Bank meetings in Singapore this week.

Jakarta Post - September 11, 2006

Rusman, Bekasi – After three days of sifting through trash to search for the bodies of more victims who may be buried under a garbage slide in Bantar Gebang dump, Bekasi, the police and dump operator PT Patriot Bangkit Bekasi decided Saturday evening to stop the search.

Jakarta Post - September 11, 2006

Jakarta – Some 500 workers staged a demonstration Sunday in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta to demand a national minimum wage.

Jakarta Post - September 11, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Human rights campaigners are questioning a report that the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) hired Washington lobbying firm Richard L. Collins & Co. in a successful effort to persuade the US Congress to resume military ties with Indonesia.

September 10, 2006

ABC News Online - September 10, 2006

Australian East Timor activists say the Federal Government's decision to send a group of 42 refugees back to the country does not make sense because East Timor is still unstable.

The 42 East Timorese have been living in Melbourne and Darwin for the last three months on temporary protection visas, after they fled their home to escape civil unrest earlier this year.

Jakarta Post - September 10, 2006

Rusman, Bekasi – The search for more victims of the huge dump slide east of Jakarta continued Saturday, but the death toll remained at three, with around 20 more people still thought to be missing.

Police have begun investigating the cause of the incident, which occurred on Friday morning at Bekasi's Bantar Gebang dump and injured five others.

Jakarta Post - September 10, 2006

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – After midnight, a site near the center of Sidoarjo's mudflows remains busy – not with workers trying to stop the constant gray streams, but with mystics attempting to use their supernatural powers to end the disaster for a Rp 100 million (US$10,869) prize.

Jakarta Post - September 10, 2006

Indonesia – A woman was killed Saturday night when a bomb went off in Poso, Central Sulawesi, only two days after a homemade bomb exploded and killed a man there.

Witnesses said the victim, 20-year-old Nela Saliango, had spotted a flashlight-shaped object outside her house on Jl. Tabatoki in Kawua. When she picked it up, it exploded. She died in the hospital.

Media Indonesia - September 10, 2006

Jakarta – On September 10 the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration at the State Palace in Jakarta against new forms of colonialism and demanded that the government set a standard national wage.

Detik.com - September 10, 2006

Jakarta – The Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) is threatening to hold a national strike if the government fails to increase the national wage and abolish systems of contract labour and outsourcing.

Detik.com - September 10, 2006

Jakarta – Around 500 protesters from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration at the Hotel Indonesia (HI) roundabout it Central Jakarta on September 10 demanding a suitable minimum wage. A present they are awaiting the arrival of other workers following which they plan to march to the State Palace.

September 9, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 9, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Major factions in the House of Representatives, led by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), are opposing the government's plan to import 210,000 tons of rice from Vietnam next week.

Canberra Times - September 9, 2006

George Quinn – It is hard to describe the air of lassitude that lies like a twilight over Dili. Pigs rifle through piles of rubbish. Grass runs wild in gardens and sprouts in wiry tufts through cracks in the pavements. A haze of smoke rises from cooking fires in the squalid camps where tens of thousands of people now shelter.

The Australian - September 9, 2006

Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's most wanted man, Australian-trained army rebel Alfredo Reinado, appealed yesterday for international forces in the country not to treat him as a criminal.

Major Reinado, who is believed to be hiding somewhere in the south of East Timor, said he was continually on the move and had no immediate intention of turning himself in.

Agence France Presse - September 9, 2006

Peacekeepers have fired tear gas to stop fighting at a refugee camp in the East Timorese capital of Dili, in the latest unrest to hit the tiny territory.

Eye-witnesses say dozens of youths armed with slingshots and stones have attacked a refugee camp opposite the United Nations headquarters.

Associated Press - September 9, 2006

Canberra – Lawmakers criticized the government Saturday for forcing 42 East Timorese who fled violence in the capital Dili in May to return to their homeland.

The 42 men, women and children were told Friday that they have until midnight Monday to go home, an Immigration Department spokeswoman said Saturday.

Jakarta Post - September 9, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The National Police said Friday it would expedite the probe into the 2004 murder of leading human rights campaigner Munir Said Thalib by seeking hard evidence rather than focusing on confusing witness testimony.

Jakarta Post - September 9, 2006

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Lapindo Brantas Inc. is dumping contaminated water from the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster directly into the Porong River without treating it first as promised, witnesses claim. The company has denied it has dumped untreated water into the river.

Jakarta Post - September 9, 2006

A survey by the Civil Society Alliance for Democracy (Yappika) discovered that the implementation of regional autonomy between 2001 and 2005 gave rise to ethnocentrism and tribalism. One of the key researchers in the survey, Eko Prasodjo of the University of Indonesia, recently talked to The Jakarta Post's M. Taufiqurrahman on the pitfalls and fallacies of decentralization.

September 8, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 8, 2006

Jakarta – In an attempt to recoup the power stripped from it by the Constitutional Court, the Judicial Commission is seeking support from political factions at the House of Representatives.

On Thursday, members of the Judicial Commission met with leaders of the National Awakening Party and the National Mandate Party. Meetings with other political factions are planned.

Jakarta Post - September 8, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Malang – A human rights group is suing flagship airline Garuda Indonesia over the 2004 death of leading activist Munir Said Thalib, while his bereaved family and colleagues are demanding the formation of a new, independent team to determine who was behind the murder.

Jakarta Post - September 8, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – International NGOs have slammed the Riau Police's decision to ban them from holding a gathering next week on Batam Island to protest the annual World Bank-IMF meetings in Singapore.

Jakarta Post - September 8, 2006

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The government is seeking to create jobs for 15 million people over the next three years as part of an expanded poverty alleviation campaign.

Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie said Thursday the administration would prioritize two programs to reach that goal: people empowerment and biofuel.

Asia Times - September 8, 2006

John McBeth, Timika – For centuries, Papua's warlike mountain tribesmen have used bows and arrows, spears and knives to settle their differences over women and pigs – and not necessarily in that order of priority.

September 7, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

Jakarta/Batam – Warned they were unwelcome in Singapore, the site of an upcoming World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual conference, hundreds of NGO activists from 40 countries chose nearby Batam to host an opposition forum.

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

The government is drafting a law on domestic workers that is aimed at providing legal protection from widespread exploitation.

The draft, now under discussion with all involved parties before it is brought before national legislators, guarantees the rights of housemaids as informal workers, after many years when their employers could do as they wished.

Detik.com - September 7, 2006

Muhammad Nur Hayid, Jakarta – Two years after Munir's murder the case remains a mystery but demands for the case to be resolved are continuing to be raised. Munir's wife, Suciwati, is asking President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to form a new investigation team.

Detik.com - September 7, 2006

Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti, Jakarta – Around 500 activists from a number of non-government organisations held a demonstration at the national police headquarters on Thursday September 7. They were demanding that police solve the Munir murder that took place two years ago.

Tempo Interactive - September 7, 2006

Rudy Prasetyo, Jakarta – Around 500 people from the Solidarity Alliance for Munir demonstrated at the national police headquarters in South Jakarta today. They were demanding that the police quickly solve the Munir case and guarantee protection to all human rights defenders.

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

Jakarta – International non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the city administration to enact a short-term moratorium on all evictions in Jakarta, saying it believed many of them were human rights violations.

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Sutinah's chores start early and end late, day in and day out.

The 18-year-old from the Central Java town of Purwodadi is a housemaid for a working couple with three children aged five, three and one. She wakes at 4 a.m. to prepare breakfast, do the laundry and clean the house. When the children awake, she helps bathe them.

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

Bekasi – Thousands of workers at Japan-based electronic goods producer PT Sanyo Indonesia went on strike Tuesday following the suspension of the management of their union.

From 7 a.m., the demonstrators staged a sit-in at a factory in the East Jakarta Industrial Park, Bekasi, demanding their three colleagues be reinstated.

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

Jakarta/Sidoarjo – The government is organizing a national team to address the hot toxic mud that is flooding Sidoarjo, East Java. The move came as victims continued protesting Wednesday against Lapindo Brantas Inc., which has been blamed for the disaster.

Jakarta Post - September 7, 2006

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Although the government has agreed that military personnel should be tried for misdemeanors in civilian court, it is not likely to happen anytime soon.

ICIJ - September 7, 2006

Andreas Harsono in Jakarta and Nathaniel Heller and Susannah Hamblin in Washington – The Indonesian national intelligence agency used a former Indonesian president's charitable foundation to hire a Washington lobbying firm in 2005 to press the US Congress for a full resumption of controversial military training programs to the country, the Center for Public Integrity's International