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June 18, 2004

Straits Times - June 18, 2004

Salim Osman – Tucked in a side street in south Jakarta is a bamboo hut that has been attracting scores of working-class Indonesians daily.

It is a popular eatery, or warung and one of thousands that dot nooks and crannies in the Indonesian capital providing decent food and drink at budget prices for lower-income workers.

Straits Times - June 18, 2004

Devi Asmarani, Bengkulu – Standing before some 1,500 party supporters last week, Golkar chairman Akbar Tandjung was all praise for the man who only two months ago trashed him at a party convention.

June 17, 2004

Detik.com - June 17, 2004

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta - The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) believes that arrest of three Free Aceh Movement (GAM) leaders in Sweden is a political victory and they now need to lobby for GAM to be included in the list of international terrorist organisations.

Melbourne Age - June 17, 2004

A resumption of counter-terrorism training between Australia and Indonesia's controversial Kopassus forces appears closer, with Indonesia's top counter-terrorism officer attending a conference in Australia this week.

Defence Minister Robert Hill, who addressed the conference on Thursday, extolled the benefits of cooperation between regional counter-terrorism forces.

Jakarta Post - June 17, 2004

Nethy Dharma Somba, Timika – Two conflicting tribes, the Damal and Nduga, in Papua province have agreed to end the bloody clashes that have killed two tribesmen on each side.

Jakarta Post - June 17, 2004

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The detention of two Aceh rebel leaders in Sweden may have been based on a UN resolution requiring member states to take action against anyone that threatens the territorial integrity of states.

Radio Australia - June 17, 2004

Australia's Defence Minister says Asia must confront the unpalatable fact that it's a breeding ground for Islamic extremism. Senator Robert Hill was speaking at the first meeting in Australia of Asia Pacific special forces military – including officers from Indonesia's Kopassus force.

Presenter/Interviewer: Graeme Dobell

New Straits Times - June 17, 2004

Amy Chew, Jakarta – Indonesian presidential candidate and former armed forces chief General Wiranto publicly apologised for the first time for the violence in Timor Leste, then called East Timor, that killed more than 1,000 people in 1999.

Straits Times - June 17, 2004

Robert Go, Jakarta – Pollsters, who gained credibility after they predicted a win for the Golkar party ahead of April's parliamentary elections, are now forecasting a landslide victory for former military general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the presidential elections. The numbers so far are stunning.

Neil Barrett - June 17, 2004

[While President Xanana Gusmao makes overtures of friendship towards Indonesia, there are many East Timorese who may never be able to forgive their country's former oppressors. Filmmaker Neil Barrett took their testimony.]

June 16, 2004

Radio Australia - June 16, 2004

With a long tradition of supporting independence movements in the Pacific, Vanuatu has taken the lead to support dialogue on the future of the Indonesian province of Papua. Last month, Vanuatu's Foreign Minister Moana Cacasses issued an invitation to the Government of Indonesia to participate in a roundtable meeting with representatives of the West Papuan movement.

Jakarta Post - June 16, 2004

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Papuan people's campaign against the province's division has received a major boost after the State Administrative Court ruled on Tuesday against a law appointing Abraham Octavianus Atururi as West Irian Jaya governor.

Straits Times - June 16, 2004

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Where are the crowds? Campaigning for Indonesia's first presidential polls began two weeks ago with a lot of bluster.

The banners of the five candidates and their running mates are still hoisted on flagpoles and trees to remind everyone this is an election year.

Melbourne Age - June 16, 2004

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Indonesia's election authority has banned President Megawati Soekarnoputri from holding outdoor rallies in Denpasar in her heartland of Bali in a further blow to her election efforts.

Radio Australia - June 16, 2004

Police in Sweden have arrested three leaders of Indonesia's separatist Free Aceh Movement after raiding their homes in a Stockholm suburb.

Reuters - June 16, 2004

Larry Thompson – A 28-year conflict between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has killed thousands of civilians, displaced hundreds of thousands of people, and destroyed much of the infrastructure of Aceh.

Jakarta Post - June 16, 2004

Zakki P. Hakim, Jakarta – The rapid expansion of modern retail outlets like hypermarkets and minimarkets in big cities may have forced many traditional grocery stores to close down, creating huge job losses, according to a preliminary finding of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS).

Jakarta Post - June 16, 2004

Jakarta – Yusuf Hasyim, the head of the Tebu Ireng Islamic boarding school in Jombang, East Java, filed a complaint with the General Elections Commission on Tuesday over the use of images of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) founder Hasyim Asy'ari.

Agence France Presse - June 16, 2004

Jakarta – Some 669 people have died in a widespread dengue fever outbreak in Indonesia in the first five months of this year and the disease still remains a dangerous threat, Health Minister Achmad Suyudi said Wednesday.

As of May 31, some 59,321 people had been infected with the mosquito-borne disease and 669 of them had died, he said.

Jakarta Post - June 16, 2004

Abdul Khalik and Suherdjoko, Jakarta/Semarang – The Jakarta Prosecutor's Office received on Tuesday the last two dossiers of the July 27 case from National Police headquarters, including that of Governor Sutiyoso.

Jakarta Post - June 16, 2004

Pekanbaru – Hundreds of students from the Sultan Syarif Kasim State Islamic University prevented a discussion involving vice presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla, the running mate of presidential candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, from going ahead after staging a rally against his presence on their campus on Wednesday.

Jakarta Post - June 16, 2004

Andi Hajramuni, Makassar – Hundreds of East Timorese refugees who hail from South Sulawesi sealed off the province' high court on Wednesday to vent their frustration over the court's verdict in an embezzlement case.

June 15, 2004

Straits Times - June 15, 2004

Eugene Low – The cukongs (wealthy Indonesian businessmen) are back in force. Business tycoons in Indonesia are aligning themselves with key presidential candidates, who are also out to woo them for financial backing.

Reuters - June 15, 2004

Stephen Brown, Stockholm – Swedish police on Tuesday arrested three leaders of an Aceh separatist group which has been fighting Indonesia for independence since 1976, saying they were suspected of "grave breaches of international law."

Tempo Interactive - June 15, 2004

Angelus Tito, Jakarta – The Indonesia Human Rights Monitor (Imparsial) is urging President Megawati Sukarnoputri to cancel her order to law enforcers to postpone the legal investigation into the July 27 case(1).

Reuters - June 15, 2004

Jakarta – The two front running candidates in Indonesia's presidential election sparred yesterday over policies to deal with separatism in Aceh province and endemic graft in the world's fourth most populous country.

Antara - June 15, 2004

Biak – Some 300 people in Biak Numfor district in Indonesia's Papua province staged a peaceful rally at the legislative council building on Tuesday to press for the discharge of police officers for beating a local official last June 9.

Straits Times - June 15, 2004

Robert Go, Yogyakarta – Trailing her opponents by as much as 30 percentage points in the latest opinion polls, President Megawati Sukarnoputri has much ground to cover. But with just two weeks left in the campaigning period, she's hitting it walking.

Straits Times - June 15, 2004

Jakarta – Experts have played down the impact of negative campaigning targeting candidates in the presidential election, saying it only stated the obvious about the contenders.

Straits Times - June 15, 2004

Jakarta – After two weeks of the presidential campaign, Golkar leaders have urged party executives to show support for their candidate, retired general Wiranto and running mate Solahuddin Wahid.

ABC News - June 15, 2004

An Australian man facing charges in East Timor claims he has been framed by local authorities.

Julian King, a freelance journalist and activist from Darwin, is charged with possessing ammunition and illegal documents and is still awaiting trial in Dili.

Jakarta Post - June 15, 2004

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A panel of judges dismissed on Monday defense pleas by two senior police officers charged with human rights abuses in Papua, ruling that their ad hoc rights trials must continue in Makassar, South Sulawesi.

June 14, 2004

The Independent (UK) - June 14, 2004

Kathy Marks – From the refugee camp of Sunkaer Laran, the mountains of East Timor are so close you can almost touch them. It is so close, and yet so far, for people gazing towards the border from their scruffy plywood huts in Indonesian West Timor.

Tempo Magazine - June 8-14, 2004

The meeting between Xanana Gusmao and General (ret) Wiranto reaped condemnations in Timor Leste. As soon as he landed at Nicolau Lobato Airport, Dili, unlike his usual self, Timor Leste President Xanana Gusmao descended the steps with a sour expression. Carrying his son, accompanied by his wife, Kirsty Sword Gusmao, he stepped outside the airport on Monday, two weeks ago.

Straits Times - June 14, 2004

Salim Osman – Presidential front runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wants to put an end to a raging controversy over one issue that has threatened his bid for the top job in the country.

Agence France Presse - June 14, 2004

An Indonesian court has rejected a lawsuit brought by lawyers for terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir which sought his release from police detention.

Dow Jones Newswires - June 14, 2004

Jakarta – Sales of new vehicles in Indonesia jumped 41% on year in May to 39,955 from 28,272 in the same month a year ago, the Indonesian car assemblers' association Gaikindo said Monday.

It added that new vehicle sales in the country rose 0.3% in May from 39,841 in April. Falling interest rates in Indonesia have helped motor vehicle sales in the country.

Detik.com - June 14, 2004

Khairul Ikhwan, Medan – Burning photographs of a presidential candidate has become commonplace. In the South Sumatra provincial capital of Medan however, five photographs of candidates for the national leadership were burnt at the same time.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2004

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Transparency International (TI) Indonesia alleges that all five presidential candidates have been involved in some form of vote-buying, known as money politics, during their electoral campaigns.

Straits Times - June 14, 2004

Salim Osman – Thousands of people lined the streets as presidential front runner Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono turned up on his first campaign trail stop in the North Sulawesi capital.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2004

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – A political expert and an anticorruption activist said Saturday that heads of local government administrations may also be involved in the recent spate of corruption cases committed by local legislative members.

Detik.com - June 14, 2004

Astrid Felicia Lim, Jakarta – The People's Democratic Party (PRD) is pushing for the investigation into the July 27 case(1) to be continued including the investigation of the generals [who have been implicated in the affair]. If former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) is found to be involved then he must be disqualified as a presidential candidate.

Tempo Interactive - June 14, 2004

Suryani Ika Sari, Jakartar – The People's Democratic Party (PRD) is calling for the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri to conduct a thorough investigation into the July 27 case(1) and the human rights violations which were committed during the period of the New Order regime of former President Suharto.

Deutsche Presse Agentur - June 14, 2004

Jakarta – Jakarta city authorities on Monday started the construction of a 600-million-dollar monorail project aimed at easing the Indonesian capital's gridlock traffic and chronic pollution.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2004

A. Junaidi, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) said on Saturday that the victimization of women was on the rise in recent years.

Komnas Perempuan's deputy chairwoman Myra Diarsi said her commission had recorded over 6,000 cases of violence nationwide in 2003, up from some 5,000 in the previous year.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2004

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – An independent forestry research group in Medan shared on Saturday its findings that the development of a road connecting Karo and Langkat regencies was environmentally damaging to Mount Leuser National Park.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2004

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Some 82 percent of 1,061 of industrial firms in Tangerang municipality do not have waste treatment facilities as required by law. Therefore, most of them do not process their waste effectively. Some even just dump their untreated waste directly into the river.

Laksamana.Net - June 14, 2004

Laksamana.Net – Divestment of the country's largest banks may not proceed as the government or the central bank plan as Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) gears up to expand through a merger and push for the retrieval of funds stolen last year.

Jakarta Post - June 14, 2004

Zakki P. Hakim, Jakarta – The number of jobs in key industries such as manufacturing, construction and trade has contracted significantly as an unfavorable labor environment has prompted companies to hire fewer workers and cancel investment plans, according to the latest government labor data.

Jakarta Post Editorial - June 14, 2004

The Supreme Court, as widely expected, duly overturned the Jakarta Commercial Court's bankruptcy ruling of April 23 against the Indonesian subsidiary of British insurance company Prudential PLC, asserting that the case had been mishandled.