Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has again extended the deadline for the repatriation of East Timorese refugees living…
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July 27, 2002
Jakarta Post - July 27, 2002
Radio Australia - July 27, 2002
East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta says the legal framework needed to attract foreign investment will be established by…
Melbourne Age - July 27 2002
The diplomat who nursed East Timor to nationhood is the new UN Human Rights Commissioner. Jill Jolliffe recalls his reign in Dili.
In…
South China Morning Post - July 27, 2002
Peter Kammerer – Relations with Indonesia are progressing strongly, with issues such as the return of refugees to be settled within months,…
July 26, 2002
Lusa - July 26, 2002
The head of the UN mission in East Timor met Friday with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri for discussions aimed to "…
Lusa - July 26, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao vetoed the East Timorese government's tax-hiking fiscal bill Friday, in his second clash this month with Prime Minister…
July 25, 2002
Agence France Presse - July 25, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors have demanded a prison sentence of more than 10 years for East Timor's former police chief, saying he did nothing…
Inter Press Service - July 25, 2002
Emad Mekay, Washington – Two very distinct welcomes have greeted the newest member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF): free-market advice…
July 24, 2002
Agence France-Presse - July 24, 2002
A senior Indonesian military officer was accused of ignoring massacres of at least 39 civilians by army-backed pro-Jakarta militias following East…
Associated Press - July 24, 2002
Jakarta – An East Timorese farmer testified Wednesday that he saw Indonesian soldiers fire on a pro-independence leader's house during the…
Lusa - July 24, 2002
East Timor formally joined the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Tuesday, with Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri describing the…
July 23, 2002
Lusa - July 23, 2002
The Indonesian commander of West Timor said Tuesday there were "one or two people" among his forces who "continued efforts" to derail…
Agence France Presse - July 23, 2002
Jakarta – The exiled former commander of militias in East Timor said Tuesday he and his followers are prepared to face justice after they return…
Jakarta Post - July 23, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Atambua – As many as 1,175 East Timorese refugees, or 335 families, including 35 Indonesian soldiers and civil servants, left…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 23, 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – Three Australian soldiers are being investigated over an alleged assault on a United Nations employee outside…
Agence France Presse - July 23, 2002
Jakarta – East Timor's army on Tuesday replaced United Nations peacekeepers in one district of the new nation – the first step in a 20-month…
Jesuit Refugee Service - July 23, 2002
On 22 July more than a thousand East Timor refugees set off on their journey to cross the border from West Timor and return home.
JRS in…
International Organisation for Migration - July 23, 2002
Jean Philippe Chauzy (Extract) – Yesterday some 1,100 East Timorese refugees returned home to East Timor from the towns of Soe and…
July 22, 2002
Deutsche Presse Agentur - July 22, 2002
Washington – East Timor, the world's youngest nation, was due to join the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank on Tuesday, the lending…
Agence France Presse - July 22, 2002
An Indonesian general admitted on Monday that some soldiers and civilians have been trying to discourage the tens of thousands of East Timorese…
Lusa - July 22, 2002
Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has rejected domestic and international criticism of a government amnesty and sentence reduction bill…
July 20, 2002
BBC World Monitoring - July 20, 2002
Poor countries should spend less money on weapons and seek to resolve their internal differences or differences with their neighbours via dialogue…
July 19, 2002
Sydney Morning Herald - July 19 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The British Government has told families of the two British journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 that it will…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Berni K. Mustafa, Jakarta – Legal experts have welcomed the presence of the United Nations' special rapporteur on the Indonesian judicial system,…
UN News - July 19, 2002
East Timorese officials today told a United Nations meeting on children that the new nation was on the verge of adopting an international treaty…
Lusa - July 19, 2002
Dili and a Portugal Telecom-led consortium signed a 15-year concession Friday for the Lisbon-headquartered company to establish and…
Reuters - July 19, 2002
Jakarta – A UN legal investigator looking into Indonesia's judiciary added his voice on Friday to criticism of how the trials into East Timor…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Hopes for East Timorese refugees to escape starvation went up in smoke in just 24 hours on Thursday as the East Nusa…
July 18, 2002
The Guardian (UK) - July 18, 2002
John Aglionby – Since the fall of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia's reputation in the field of law enforcement has always been near the bottom of…
Lusa - July 18, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao called Thursday to the nations of the North to grant debt relief to the countries in the South, who would, in…
Lusa - July 18, 2002
The East Timor Defense Force (ETDF) assumes responsibility next week for all aspects of security in part of the new nation, and the…
Human Rights Watch Press Release - July 18, 2002
New York – A proposed amnesty law in East Timor could undermine due process and equal protection of the law and allow those responsible for some…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – After two months of hearings by the East Timor ad hoc human rights trial, held in the absence of eyewitnesses…
Reuters - July 18, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's last governor of East Timor said on Thursday his trial for crimes against humanity during the territory's independence vote…
July 17, 2002
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2002
Jakarta – An investigation into the murder of a Dutch journalist in East Timor in 1999 is still open, a Dutch police officer said Wednesday after…
Associated Press - July 17, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors said Wednesday they would seek to reopen the investigation into the killing of a Dutch journalist in East Timor,…
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2002
A survivor of a bloody attack on a refugee-filled church compound in East Timor in April 1999 said Wednesday he saw uniformed Indonesian soldiers…
Australian Associated Press - July 17, 2002
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – Indonesian human rights prosecutors today raised the prospect of dropping charges against some defendants facing trial…
Dow Jones Newswires - July 17, 2002
Andrew Trounson, Melbourne – East Timor is getting down to business. And that means playing tough, even with your friends.
The world's…
Lusa - July 17, 2002
The Indonesian military, until recently occupiers of East Timor, may soon begin training officers for Dili's fledgling defense force,…
July 16, 2002
Lusa - July 16, 2002
After signing and approving East Timor's state budget Tuesday, President Xanana Gusmao called for revision of the measures within four months,…
Lusa - July 16, 2002
A draft bill on amnesty and pardoning of sentences has been criticized as being "unconstitutional", "too general" and open to "dangerous…
Associated Press - July 16, 2002
Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – The former commander of Indonesian troops in East Timor went on trial Tuesday on charges of crimes against humanity for…
July 15, 2002
Lusa - July 15, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao will address the East Timorese Tuesday in a nationally broadcast speech that an aide described Monday as…
July 13, 2002
The Australian - July 13, 2002
Nigel Wilson – East Timor's decision to pursue maritime boundaries that might include substantial Australian oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea…
July 12, 2002
Radio Australia - July 12, 2002
[East Timor's fledgling parliament has made a key decision about the nation's borders which could be the first big test of its relations with…
Associated Press - July 12 2002
Prosecutors yesterday demanded that East Timor's former Indonesian-appointed governor be sent to prison for 10 and a half years – just six months…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 12 2002
Two former top Indonesian ministers told a human rights trial yesterday that a savage outbreak of militia violence in East Timor in September 1999…
Asia Times - July 12, 2002
Thalif Deen, United Nations – East Timor, the world's newest nation, will ask the United Nations to designate it a "least developed country" (LDC…
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation - July 12, 2002
[The following letter to the the Sydney Morning Herald editor was issued by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Nobel Peace Prize…