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November 22, 2006

Australian Associated Press - November 22, 2006

Police fired warning shots to disperse hundreds of Papuans who protested outside the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby to demand recognition as Australian citizens.

Sydney Morning Herald - November 22, 2006

Cynthia Banham, Dili – The Minister for Defence, Brendan Nelson, has warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis in East Timor if camps for internally displaced people are not moved before the wet season.

November 21, 2006

Jakarta Post - November 21, 2006

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Two foreign observers have been accredited by Aceh's Independent Election Commission (KIP) to monitor the upcoming Aceh vote.

The two are the Asian Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) and the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM).

Jakarta Post - November 21, 2006

Nani Afrida, Aceh Jaya – It was once too dangerous to dine out in Aceh Jaya's Tuwe village, a former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) stronghold and the scene of frequent fighting between guerrillas and soldiers.

But now the ominous sound of gunfire, which used to be common in the former military "black"-zoned district of Panga, has been replaced with good-natured banter.

The Tyee News - November 21, 2006

Guy Warrington – "Of course the police are just as good at torturing as the army. Some of the cruder forms [include] putting a table leg onto the foot of somebody and then somebody heavily dancing on the table, which can be extremely painful. So, I mean torture is routine."

TAPOL Press Release - November 21, 2006

Controversial British arms company, BAE Systems, is coming under renewed attack for attending this week's second Indonesia arms fair to be held in Jakarta from 22-25 November.

Jakarta Post - November 21, 2006

Abdul Khalik, Bogor – At least two of the experts who attended the bilateral talks between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and US President George W. Bush, are unsure whether their rapid-fire meetings with the American leader will amount to anything useful.

Jakarta Post - November 21, 2006

Evi Mariani, Brussels/Belgium – Poverty and human rights abuses are still serious problems in Indonesia, with non-governmental organizations presenting a bleak report on both issues at a recent meeting in Brussels, Belgium.

Asia Times - November 21, 2006

Gary LaMoshi, Bali – US President George W Bush's scheduled 10-hour trip to Indonesia on Monday has entailed vast security preparations and logistical inconveniences and has evoked mass demonstrations across the country calling for the visit to be canceled.

Jakarta Post - November 21, 2006

Bogor, Bandung, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Makassar – Some braved the rain to protest, while other chose to watch proceedings from afar during the visit of United States President George W. Bush to Bogor on Monday.

November 20, 2006

Reuters - November 20, 2006

Dili – A Brazilian missionary has been killed after being caught up in communal fighting in East Timor's capital, a UN spokeswoman and a government statement said on Monday.

Jakarta Post - November 20, 2006

Jakarta – A local human rights organization has accused the government of violating the right to freedom of expression. The Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) said that the government was monitoring and recording the online activities of Internet users.

Asia Wall Street Journal - November 20, 2006

Charmain Mohamed – Despite all its recent progress, Indonesia remains far from a fully functioning democracy. Religious intolerance is on the rise. Military reform is stalled. The normal checks and balances that form part of any democratic society remain far from taking root. Thus when US President George W.

Jakarta Post - November 20, 2006

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Muhammad Kalianda is tired of waiting for help to build a new home to replace the one destroyed in the December 2004 tsunami. So the 53-year-old teacher is slowly working alone to finish the building an aid agency promised him.

Jakarta Post - November 20, 2006

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's demand last week for a Cabinet reshuffle to enable it to place more party members in senior positions has not impressed political analysts.

The party controls 128 of the 500 seats in the House of Representatives but only has three party members in the Cabinet.

Jakarta Post - November 20, 2006

Urip Hudiono, Hanoi/Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned people not to "excessively" protest US President George W. Bush's visit on Monday, as Muslim militants publicly called for Bush's assassination and thousands of people rallied across the country to oppose the meeting.

November 19, 2006

Jakarta Post - November 19, 2006

Sydney may have led Australia in promoting its Mardi Gras marches, but this doesn't translate into widespread acceptance of sexual difference in the country next door. "Poofter-bashing" is still a hazard for homosexuals in some parts of a nation that claims to be liberal and progressive. So what about Indonesia, a land rigid with religion, tense with taboos?

Associated Press - November 19, 2006

Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Thousands wound through the streets of Indonesia's capital and gathered at a grand mosque Sunday to protest President Bush's upcoming visit to the world's most populous Muslim nation, some chanting "War criminal" and "You are a terrorist!"

Reuters - November 19, 2006

Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Thousands of protesters ranging from militant youths to mothers carrying babies demonstrated across Indonesia against US President George W. Bush on Sunday, a day before he visits the world's most populous Muslim country.

Agence France Presse - November 19, 2006

Bhimanto Suwastoyo, Jakarta – Thousands of hardline Muslims have rallied against US President George W. Bush's visit to Indonesia, with some militants calling for the killing of the American leader.

November 18, 2006

Kompas - November 18, 2006

J. Osdar – Indonesian journalists roared with laughter when they witnessed the general elections or great election in the Malaysian state of Sabah in 1985. The total number of voters was only 300,000 out of a population of 1.2 million. But more than 30 political parties had registered to contest the elections.

Melbourne Age - November 18, 2006

Mark Forbes – On Banda Aceh's outskirts sits a deserted village of banana yellow fibro shacks, held together with duct tape and built without water or power in the middle of a flood plain.

Jakarta Post - November 18, 2006

Palu, Central Sulawesi – Protests against US President George W. Bush's planned visit to Indonesia on Nov. 20 continue in parts of the country.

Jakarta Post - November 18, 2006

Jakarta – The government promised on Friday that Lapindo Brantas Inc. would still be held responsible for the damage caused by the Sidoarjo mudflow, despite a change in the company's ownership.

ETAN Press Release - November 18, 2006

A wide range of U.S. organizations have urged President Bush "to refrain from promising any military assistance to Indonesia's armed forces" on his upcoming visit to Indonesia. President Bush will meet with Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Bogor on Monday.

November 17, 2006

Jakarta Post - November 17, 2006

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The government and all political factions at the House of Representatives have agreed to continue listing religion on identity cards.

Post-CAVR Technical Secretariat (STP-CAVR) Media Release - November 17, 2006

Australians are getting a rare opportunity to learn about Timor-Leste and to better understand its story through Chega!, the Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR).

Java Post - November 17, 2006

Yogyakarta - Scores of protesters demonstrated in front of the Agung State Place Building in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta yesterday criticising the state of the nation, particularly in relation to the foreign debt. The protesters came from the Yogyakarta chapter of the Preparatory Committee for the National Liberation Party of Unity (KP-Papernas).

Sydney Morning Herald - November 17, 2006

Duncan Campbell – Indonesia is of vital strategic importance to Australia. That much is generally agreed. How we should deal with that reality is not. In making another security arrangement – a second attempt – with Indonesia, the Howard Government has erred. Indonesia scrapped the first security arrangement when we stepped into the East Timor crisis.

Jakarta Post - November 17, 2006

Duncan Graham, Surabaya – There's a critical five-letter word absent from the Framework for Security Cooperation agreement signed this week (Monday Nov. 13) in Lombok between Indonesia and Australia. The missing word is "Papua".

Jakarta Post - November 17, 2006

Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations demanded Thursday that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) investigate the 1997/1998 forced disappearances of political activists.

Jakarta Post - November 17, 2006

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy appears to be on track again, growing by 5.52 percent in the third quarter ended Sept. 30 from the same period a year earlier on a revival in consumer spending and strong commodity exports, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) reported Thursday.

Jakarta Post - November 17, 2006

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Anticorruption activists say forces linked with former president Soeharto's Golkar Party are attempting to obstruct the fight against Indonesia's deep-rooted graft.

November 16, 2006

Jakarta Post - November 16, 2006

Jakarta – A high level meeting of ASEAN countries in Jakarta called on Indonesian government officials Wednesday to collaborate and approach the grassroots community to promote gender equality.

Regional Program Director of UNIFEM for East and Southeast Asia, Jean D'Cunha, said that various ministries needed to think and act to solve various gender inequality issues.

Online Opinion - November 16, 2006

Adam Henry – The enigmatic Jakarta Lobby is "... an informal group of like-minded people who regard Indonesia as a special case". It is not a clandestine conspiracy, but an alliance of elites although some would deny the group's very existence.

Jakarta Post - November 16, 2006

Jakarta – In another twist to the Sidoarjo mud volcano disaster, PT Energi Mega Persada (EMP) says it has sold PT Lapindo Brantas Inc., its unit that operates the gas well that caused the massive mud eruption in East Java, to an unaffiliated company.

Jakarta Post - November 16, 2006

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Clean air campaigners were careful about selecting a smoke-free dining establishment as the venue for a public discussion in Cikini, Central Jakarta, on Thursday.

The waitresses, however, had gone about placing ashtrays on every table, encouraging some participants to light up.

Jakarta Post - November 16, 2006

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Criminologist Adrianus Meliala laments the government's lack of action against crimes involving state officials.

During the inauguration Wednesday of his professorship at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, Adrianus said that taking no action to stop crimes was a crime in itself.

Human Rights First Press Release - November 16, 2006

President Bush should ask the Indonesian president about his government's failure to convict anyone for the fatal poisoning of Munir Said Thalib two years ago, a leading human rights advocacy organization wrote in a letter this week. President Bush meets his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in Bogor, Indonesia, on November 20.

Agence France Presse - November 16, 2006

Dili – Four people are believed to have died in the latest East Timor violence which also saw 10 homes torched, Prime Minister Jose Ramos Horta said today.

"There is as yet no confirmation on the number killed, but initial information said four (were killed) and 10 houses were set on fire," Mr Ramos Horta said.

November 15, 2006

Democracy Now - November 15, 2006

Amy Goodman – The troops marched slowly, their US-made M-16s raised. It was Nov. 12, 1991, a day that would forever be seared into my memory, and into history. I was reporting in East Timor, a small island nation 300 miles north of Australia, brutally occupied by Indonesia since 1975.

Herald Sun (Australia) - November 15, 2006

Ellen Whinnett – East Timorese refugees say they have been threatened with visa cancellations if they do not support the Labor Party.

Several sources have told the Herald Sun that many members of the East Timorese community living in Richmond have been bullied by ALP officials, who ordered them to sign up as members or otherwise make cash donations.

Agence France Presse - November 15, 2006

Dili – Nearly 1,000 soldiers and police paraded on the streets of East Timor's capital Dili Wednesday in an apparent gesture of reconciliation after their differences contributed to unrest earlier this year.

Sydney Morning Herald - November 15, 2006

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – After months of violence, hundreds of youths from rival gangs have gathered on the streets of Dili to embrace each other, shed tears and celebrate a fragile peace.

"It seems that peace, not war, is breaking out in East Timor," the country's Prime Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, said yesterday.

Associated Press - November 15, 2006

Niniek Karmini, Mantangai – With smoke from nearby forest fires stinging his eyes, the conservationist aims his tranquilizer dart at the orangutan high in the Borneo jungle. After several misses he manages to knock her out.

Jakarta Post - November 15, 2006

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A noted Papuan figure criticized the Indonesian government on Tuesday, saying it was only interested in the province's natural resources, not its people, but praised former president Abdurrahman Wahid.

Jakarta Post - November 15, 2006

Jakarta – Local and foreign analysts are upbeat that Indonesia will be able to meet its economic growth target of 6.3 percent next year despite an expected slowdown in world trade.

Jakarta Post - November 15, 2006

Jakarta – The country's antimoney laundering watchdog, the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK), says it has noticed a significant jump in the number of suspicious transactions over the course of the year.

Jakarta Post - November 15, 2006

Jakarta – With six days to go before the arrival of US President George W. Bush in Indonesia, protests against his 10-hour visit reached a new volume across the country Tuesday.

Jakarta Post - November 15, 2006

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Protesters demanding an increase in the minimum wage scuffled with security officers Tuesday in front of the offices of the Bandung regency and local legislative council in Soreang.