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September 30, 2006

Agence France Presse - September 30, 2006

Jakarta – Indonesia is angry at Washington's refusal to give it access to a suspected al-Qaeda member and Indonesian citizen held in Guantanamo Bay.

Australian Coalition of West Papua Support Groups Media Release - September 30, 2006

The 3rd Annual National gathering for the Australian Coalition of West Papua Support Groups affirmed the right of the people of West Papua to Self-determination and decolonisation.

Jakarta Post - September 30, 2006

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Blitar – At 78, former legislator Putmainah's eyes light up when she recounts her past activities in the women's division of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).

Jakarta Post Editorial - September 30, 2006

In communist and authoritarian countries it has been common for rulers to order historians to write official history textbooks is such a way as to dignify those in power and help ensure that they remain unchallenged. For such regimes there is zero tolerance for any efforts to question their version of history.

Jakarta Post - September 30, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A group of legislators and human rights activists lodged a protest Friday against last week's executions of three Christian men in Central Sulawesi, saying they were against the law.

Jakarta Post - September 30, 2006

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – On Aug. 11, 2006, The Jakarta Post received notice of the arrival of a small package that would prove valuable in showing that, despite all the talk of democracy and freedom of speech, little has changed in the way the bureaucracy works.

September 29, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 29, 2006

Jakarta – A new showdown is brewing between the House of Representatives and the Attorney General's Office, this time over the decision to charge a human rights campaigner with graft.

The South Sulawesi prosecutor's office has declared Achmad Ali, a member of the National Commission on Human Rights, as a suspect in a Rp 250 million (US$27,000) graft case.

Sydney Morning Herald - September 29, 2006

Lindsay Murdoch – The man appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to head a new mission in East Timor has decided not to take the job, in a setback for plans to help the country recover from months of violence.

Jakarta Post - September 29, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Former rebels may lose upcoming direct elections in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam because they have split into two rival groups, analysts say.

Jakarta Post - September 29, 2006

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Activists urged lawmakers Thursday to revise the demography bill or change it into a civil registry law, as they believe the bill still maintains religious discrimination and interferes with civil administrative affairs.

Jakarta Post - September 29, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Former chief of the Army's Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) Lt. Gen. (ret.) Prabowo Subianto denied Thursday that he berated then president B.J. Habibie as he was about to be removed from his position, or that he planned a coup to overthrow the government.

Australian Financial Review - September 29, 2006

Morgan Mellish, Jayapura – A group of 40 international donor organisations, including the Australian government and the World Bank, flew to the troubled Indonesian province of Papua this week to meet recently elected governor Barnabas Suebu.

Jakarta Post - September 29, 2006

ID Nugroho, Sidoarjo – Shrimp pond owners are resigned to losing their livelihood from the government's plan to directly dump hot mudflow into a local river from the gas exploration well disaster in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java.

Farmers from Jabon district fear dumping of the mud without treatment to remove any toxic materials will decimate their shrimp stocks.

September 28, 2006

Tempo Interactive - September 28, 2006

Riky Ferdianto, Jakarta – Yesterday (27/9) the South Jakarta District Court rejected an appeal against the Order to Stop Prosecution (SP3) in the case involving former president Suharto.

The appeal was lodged by the People's Movement to Try Soeharto (Gemas), the Association of Indonesian Legal Advisors (APHI) and the Committee Without a Name (KTN).

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2006

Jakarta/Sidoarjo – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday declared areas swamped by the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, a disaster zone and ordered some 3,000 affected families to be permanently relocated.

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Environmental activists poured some 700 kilograms of toxic mud outside the office of welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie on Wednesday to protest the government's handling of the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster.

Associated Press - September 28, 2006

Chris Brummitt, Porong – Factories that once produced watches and shoes lie under a sea of thick, stinking mud. Villagers stand on hastily constructed dams and gaze at the thousands of homes swallowed by brown sludge.

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2006

Jakarta – Dozens of former employees of Hotel Indonesia, otherwise known as Inna Wisata, staged a protest in front of the hotel management's office on Jl. Buncit Raya, South Jakarta, demanding immediate payment of an overdue retirement fund.

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – A member of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), Achmad Ali, claims the South Sulawesi Prosecutor's Office has wrongly named him as a suspect in a graft case without questioning him.

Agence France Presse - September 28, 2006

Jakarta – The challenge of staging polls in Indonesia's Aceh this year should not derail a peace pact signed in 2005 between separatists and the government, an analyst said Thursday.

Reuters - September 28, 2006

Jakarta – Peace in Indonesia's once-restive Aceh province should hold even if former separatist rebels running in December's local elections fail to win any posts, analysts said on Thursday.

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2006

Neles Tebay, Rome – The International Crisis Group (ICG) published early this month its report on Papua titled Papua: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Deutsche Presse Agentur - September 28, 2006

Jakarta – Election officials in Indonesia's strife-torn Aceh province have ordered that potential candidates for upcoming provincial polls must be able to recite from the Koran, Islam's holy book, in order to run, a local report said Thursday.

The Australian - September 28, 2006

Natalie O'Brien – Indonesia is not surprised at revelations the 43 Papuan refugees who caused a diplomatic incident when they arrived in Australia by boat in January had been hand-picked in a well-orchestrated plot to cause a rift between the two countries.

Agence France Presse - September 28, 2006

Dili – International police in East Timor fired tear gas to disperse groups of youths fighting on the streets of the capital today and later arrested some at a refugee camp, witnesses said.

Jakarta Post - September 28, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – An Acehnese woman is fighting to contest this year's direct gubernatorial election, saying the local poll body unfairly declared her unable to read the Koran.

Passing a Koranic reading test is one of the requirements for candidates to vie for the Dec. 11 gubernatorial election in Aceh, which applies Islamic sharia law.

Tempo Interactive - September 28, 2006

Sutarto, Jakarta – Sidney Jones, President Director of the International Crisis Group for Southeast Asia, estimates that regional leaders' election in Aceh will be safe.

The indication is that the votes of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) will be divided so now there is no reason to encourage people to oppose the GAM.

September 27, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Residents of Saritem, the oldest red-light district in Bandung, West Java, were enraged Tuesday when public order officers began closing brothels as part of a plan to totally close down the area by November this year.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Jakarta – Major labor organizations are protesting what they call rampant violations of the law on social security programs by employers, as well as alleged dismissals of unionists for protecting workers.

Agence France Presse - September 27, 2006

East Timor's police force has begun returning to work in the capital Dili. It is the first time this has happened since the city descended into violence earlier this year.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – The East Java Police have issued a shoot-on-sight order against anybody trying to disrupt activities of the National Mudflow Mitigation Team at the disaster site in Sidoarjo, East Java.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – An ammonia gas leak Saturday at state fertilizer company PT Pusri in Palembang, South Sumatra, made residents living near the factory sick, an environmental group says.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Yemris Fointuna, Maumere – The National Police denied Tuesday accusations that one of three Catholic convicts, Dominggus da Silva, was tortured before being executed last week.

The family of da Silva, who was executed for inciting violence against Muslims in Central Sulawesi in 2000, insisted that his body be exhumed for a second time to check for evidence of torture.

Reuters - September 27, 2006

Indonesia is investigating a possible cluster of bird flu cases after a man died and his brother and sister were hospitalised, one of them testing positive for bird flu, a doctor said yesterday.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Two-years after the establishment of the much-hyped Jakarta Transportation Board (DTK), there has been no breakthrough achieved to resolve the city's disorganized transportation system, a study shows.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives once again engaged in heated debate Tuesday over whether to deliberate a bill on state secrecy.

Associated Press - September 27, 2006

Paul Alexander, United Nations – East Timor needs fair elections, reconciliation and a big injection of international aid to overcome the recent violence that battered the fledgling nation, Foreign Minister Jose Luis Guterres said Wednesday.

Jakarta Post - September 27, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla is under fire for his statement that democracy is less important than political stability and security in attracting foreign investors to Indonesia.

New Matilda - September 27, 2006

This week The Australian published an opinion piece by Mark Aarons attacking journalist John Martinkus, and New Matilda, for articles we have published on the recent violence in East Timor.

Green Left Weekly - September 27, 2006

Max Lane – Several prominent Indonesian historians have come under criminal investigation for writing an official history textbook in 2004 in which they no longer insisted that the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) was the mastermind of an attempted left-wing coup in September 1965.

September 26, 2006

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Jakarta – Dozens of students protested at the South Jakarta District Court on Monday, demanding the release of a fellow student being tried for defaming President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Jakarta – A political activist arrested for defaming President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono filed a request Monday for the Constitutional Court to review the defamation article of the Criminal Code.

Tempo Interactive - September 26, 2006

Tito Sianipar, Jakarta – Munir's widow, Suciwati, has filed a lawsuit against PT Garuda Indonesia Airlines for 13 billion rupiah. The civil lawsuit was heard at the Central Jakarta District Court yesterday.

Detik.com - September 26, 2006

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – Dozens of West Papuans demonstrated in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Tuesday September 26 demanding that Reverend Ishak Onawame, a defendant in the shooting case near PT Freeport Indonesia be released.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Muslims in Medan are blaming state power company PLN for recurring power cuts, which they say are disrupting special activities during the fasting month of Ramadhan.

The caretaker of Medan's main Al Ikwhan mosque, Asno Susanto, said the North Sumatra branch of PLN had broken its promise not to cut power during the month.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Jakarta – The government is initiating a program to send some 800,000 street children to school. Their parents, if they also live on the street, will be trained for work abroad or in other areas of the country.

The program will be jointly conducted by Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno and Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar Chamsyah.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Three state agencies charged with combating corruption and money laundering signed agreements Monday to improve their coordination in the fight against white-collar crime.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo admitted Monday that irregularities occurred in the disbursement of this year's operational support fund for schools due to poor student registration and monitoring systems in some regions.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The management of state-owned insurance company PT Jamsostek has transferred two leaders of the Jamsostek Workers Union (SPJ) to far-flung branch offices as an internal battle rages on.

Jakarta Post - September 26, 2006

Jakarta – The Jakarta Parks Agency plans to relocate 34 banyan trees and cut down mahogany trees along one of the city's main thoroughfares to make room for an additional fast lane for motorists.