Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – After two months of martial law in war-ridden Aceh, the situation in the province turned more uncertain as…
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July 22, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 22, 2003
Jakarta – Rebels trying to extort money from a family in Aceh have killed a woman and wounded her journalist husband and their…
July 21, 2003
Asia Times - July 21, 2003
A Lin Neumann, Jakarta – Using tactics inspired by the US military during the war in Iraq, the Indonesian military is keeping the domestic press…
Asia Times - July 21, 2003
Kirsten E Schulze – As Indonesia's military operation against the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakin Aceh Merdeka, or GAM) is entering its third month,…
Jakarta Post - July 21, 2003
Jakarta – Residents of Kuala district, Nagan Raya, took the law into their own hands over the weekend, taking hostage 36 family members of…
July 20, 2003
Financial Times - July 20, 2003
Shawn Donnan, Lhokseumawe – Major General Bambang Darmono believes his mobile telephone proves the popularity of Indonesia's military operation…
July 19, 2003
Kompas - July 19, 2003
Jakarta – The military operation in Aceh to incapacitate Free Aceh Movement (GAM) forces will result in prolonged trauma in children. After they…
Associated Press - July 19, 2003
Jakarta – An American reporter detained after hiding out with rebels in Aceh has been charged with immigration violations and is…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – The number of refugees in war-torn Aceh keeps changing, but their misery remains due to poor sanitation at…
July 18, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2003
Jakarta – Security personnel shot dead at least 25 rebels in two of the bloodiest days of the military offensive against the Free Aceh Movement (…
July 17, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2003
Indonesian troops waging war on separatist rebels in Aceh province have shot dead at least 15 guerrillas in one of the bloodiest days of their two…
Jakarta Post - July 17, 2003
Jakarta/Lhokseumawe – Responding to widespread allegations of rights abuses in Aceh, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is…
Jakarta Post - July 17, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Lawyers have raised concern over the government's failure to provide defense lawyers for members of the Free Aceh…
July 12, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 12, 2003
A'an Suryana and Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Entering the eighth week of the integrated operation to restore security and order in Aceh…
July 11, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 11, 2003
The European Union will question the Indonesian government about a "disturbing" lack of access to war-torn Aceh province after one of its aid…
July 10, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 10, 2003
Max Lane – On July 11 at the Taman Ismail Marzuki Jakarta Arts Center, more than 30 community, cultural, human rights and other organizations are…
July 9, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2003
A'an Suryana and Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Despite the military's recent claim of territorial control over Aceh, the war between the…
Agence France Presse - July 9, 2003
Jakarta – At least 71 members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) will face charges of subversion, police in the Indonesian…
Green Left Weekly - July 9, 2003
James Balowski, Jakarta – The Indonesian military's (TNI) vicious little war against the people in its northern-most province of Aceh is reaching…
July 8, 2003
New York Times - July 8, 2003
Jane Perlez, Jakarta – The Indonesian military has now declared that its tough offensive against rebels in the northern province of Aceh,…
Reuters - July 8, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's military has warned rebels in Aceh province to free five hostages, including a local TV crew, by a Tuesday evening deadline…
July 7, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 7, 2003
Jakarta/Lhokseumawe – The number of Acehnese who have fled their homes has soared to 48,000 as the Indonesian military (TNI) intensifies its…
July 5, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003
Jakarta – At least 150 civilians have died, 80 have been wounded, and another 71 have gone missing since the government launched the integrated…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003
A'an Suryana, Lhokseumawe – At first she refused to be interviewed but then relented on the condition that she be quoted under a false name,…
Straits Times - July 5, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's top general says Aceh operations are "ahead of schedule", but admit the authorities may extend martial law for…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said on Friday that the military operation against the…
July 4, 2003
Radio Australia - July 4, 2003
Indonesia's military claims it now controls all of Aceh province, six weeks after imposing martial law to crush separatist rebels. But local human…
The Guardian (UK) - July 4, 2003
John Aglionby, Jakarta – Separatists in the Indonesian province of Aceh yesterday dismissed military claims that Jakarta had taken…
July 3, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Amid the military operation to crush the separatist movement in Aceh, the government has begun to screen a total of…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
A'an Suryana, Lhokseumawe – The court martial of three soldiers for the rape of four women in Aceh will start on Friday, a court official in the…
Straits Times - July 3, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's military claimed control over the whole of Aceh province yesterday, six weeks after it launched a huge operation to crush…
July 2, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Nani Farida and A'an Suryana, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Following Monday's bomb blasts in Aceh's provincial capital Banda Aceh, authorities said…
Asia Times - July 2, 2003
Lesley McCulloch – In the police stations of Aceh, in Indonesia's far northwest corner, fear is the daily diet of the detainees. Not fear of the…
OMCT press release - July 2, 2003
Geneva – The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the world's largest coalition of non-governmental…
June 30, 2003
Agence France Presse - June 30, 2003
Three Indonesian soldiers arrested for raping four women in war-torn Aceh province have confessed to the crimes, the military said.
The…
Reuters - June 30, 2003
Sidney Jones, Indonesia project director of Brussels-based analysts International Crisis Group suggests that the Jakarta government has an…
June 28, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003
A'an Suryana, Lhokseumawe – Soldiers captured on Friday two alleged Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatists who acted as the rebels' district chief…
Antara - June 28, 2003
Lhokseumawe – Aceh Separatist Movement (GSA) members may have infiltrated Acehnese society over the past few weeks to obtain newly…
June 27, 2003
Asia Times - June 27, 2003
Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces might be winning the propaganda war in Aceh, thanks to "embedded" journalists, but activists warn…
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2003
A'an Suryana, Takengon – Tens of thousands of Central Aceh residents thronged Gelanggang Musara Alun soccer field in Bebesen district on Thursday…
Agence France Presse - June 27, 2003
Martial law authorities in Indonesia's Aceh have further tightened restrictions on foreign journalists and overseas non-government organisations (…
Associated Press - June 27, 2003
Jakarta – Twenty bodies were uncovered in two mass graves in Aceh province, police said yesterday, as President Megawati Sukarnoputri…
June 26, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 26, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights is drafting tough regulations to limit the presence of foreign non-governmental…
June 25, 2003
Newsweek - June 25, 2003
The spectre of past human rights abuses in East Timor and West Papua haunts the people of Aceh, where the Indonesian armed forces have begun…
Agence France Presse - June 25, 2003
Health officials in Indonesia's conflict-hit Aceh province have treated thousands of refugees for illnesses since they were moved into camps…
Green Left Weekly - June 25, 2003
James Balowski, Jakarta – It has now been a month since martial law was declared in Indonesia's northern-most province of Aceh. But the "…
June 24, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 24, 2003
Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta/Jakarta – Chairman Ahmad Syafii Maarif of Muhammadiyah, the country's second largest Muslim organization, reiterated on…
Associated Press - June 24, 2003
Nisam – An American holed up with rebels in Aceh province presented himself on Tuesday to the Indonesian Military which has threatened…
Melbourne Age - June 24, 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The Indonesian army has sent dozens of British-made Scorpion tanks to Aceh ignoring concerns that it is defying British…
Jakarta Post - June 24, 2003
Berni K. Moestafa, Lhokseumawe – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has asked foreign and Indonesian journalists working for foreign media to…