Mark Dodd, Dili – His name is distinctive, and in coming months Australians may hear a lot more of the East Timorese independence leader LuOlo.…
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August 13, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 13, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Australia has urged fellow members of the Pacific Forum not to debate independence for Indonesia's Irian Jaya province at its annual…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's big-bang decentralisation programme took effect eight months ago and gave wide-ranging powers over…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's efforts to re-establish stability in the regions will involve a temporary pulling back of…
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 13, 2001
[Source: Media Indonesia, Jakarta, August 13]
Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) will become an umbrella…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian police have come under fire for their half-hearted attempts at arresting the fugitive son of former…
Jakarta Post - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Former president Abdurrahman Wahid, familiarly known as Gus Dur, warned the new government against the arbitrary arrest of prodemocracy…
Reuters - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Australia's prime minister on Sunday became the first foreign leader to visit new Indonesian President Megawati, vowing to be a good…
August 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 12, 2001
Jakarta – An investigation into the July 26, 2001 murder of Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita has revealed that fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala…
San Francisco Chronicle - August 12, 2001
Lynn Fredriksson – Recent reporting in Indonesia has predictably focused on expectations about newly appointed President Megawati Sukarnoputri.…
August 11, 2001
Straits Times - August 11, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – While Indonesia's new Cabinet has won praise for its high percentage of seasoned professionals, it will have to move…
South China Morning Post - August 11, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – An angry mob beat and burnt a man to death after he allegedly tried to steal a chicken from a coop…
Straits Times - August 11, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Market players do not expect miracles, but they see the quick signing of Jakarta's next agreement with the International…
Jakarta Post - August 11, 2001
Jakarta – Newly appointed Minister of Forestry M. Prakosa is facing calls to impose a log export moratorium to help save the country's forest…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 11, 2001
Mark Dodd – An Australian-funded program teaching East Timorese to reject corruption hopes to make an impact on political parties competing in…
South China Morning Post - August 11, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta and Banda Aceh – Indonesia's new Foreign Minister, Hassan Wirayuda, said yesterday there was still room for peace talks in the…
August 10, 2001
Associated Press - August 10, 2001
Banda Aceh – Thirty-one people were killed by unidentified gunmen on a palm-oil plantation yesterday, according to police and…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Dili – It's the road from nowhere, but it's surprisingly busy. Mafalda Florindo and Isabella Antonine walk along it, smiling…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 10, 2001
Comment by Hamish McDonald – The new Megawati Cabinet will reassure foreign lenders and investors that the Government will continue with the…
South China Morning Post - August 10, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri finally announced her cabinet yesterday and immediately won praise for achieving a…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 10, 2001
Mark Dodd in Dili and Craig Skehan in Canberra – An East Timorese militia leader who served in the Indonesian Army's special forces and is on…
Straits Times - August 10, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's failure yesterday to name a new attorney-general might be indicative of the difficulties…
Agence France Presse - August 10, 2001
Jakarta – Tommy Suharto, the fugitive son of Indonesia's former dictator, has offered to surrender to face questioning over the murder of a senior…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Jakarta – On a day when most business executives in Jakarta were chasing rumors about the possible shape of President Megawati…
Washington Times - August 10, 2001
Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – The Indonesian military directed a militia campaign of killings, terror and forced deportation against East Timorese…
Straits Times - August 10, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – By drafting respected technocrats and businessmen into her economic dream team, President Megawati Sukarnoputri made clear…
The Australian - August 10, 2001
Nigel Wilson – For months there have been rumours of problems in the "co-operative" arrangement to develop more than 12 trillion cubic feet of gas…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Dili – The big UN Land Rover that carries Xanana Gusmao and his bodyguards from event to event should have a bumper sticker that…
August 9, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 9, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of residents of Kendari, the provincial capital of Indonesia's Sulawesi province, smashed windows of Chinese-owned shops in…
South China Morning Post - April 9, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – Indonesia's Megawati Sukarnoputri has set three conditions for running to replace embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid,…
Reuters - August 9, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia's new president announced her long-awaited cabinet on Thursday, winning immediate praise for her choice of a…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 9, 2001
Almost three weeks after taking office, President Megawati Sukarnoputri announced her new cabinet today.
She said the 31-member body will…
Agence France Presse - August 9, 2001
The Indonesian government has rejected a United Nations proposal for a land link between East Timor and its Oecussi enclave in West Timor, a…
Jakarta Post - August 9, 2001
Jakarta – The chief of the justices team preparing the establishment of an ad hoc human rights tribunal, Benjamin Mangkoedilaga, expects that they…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 9, 2001
Hamish McDonald – A Sydney law professor will head an international study into whether there are grounds for a legal challenge to the…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Maliana – Every day a group of women meet at the shop called Nove Nove (Nine Nine) in bustling Maliana market. They share a chilling…
Straits Times - August 9, 2001
Yeoh En-lai – Indonesia's military will continue to play a strong role as the present crop of politicians is far from securing the future of the…
Jakarta Post - August 9, 2001
Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri has ordered the police to immediately arrest the fugitive son of former president Soeharto, Hutomo "…
Lusa - August 9, 2001
Electoral officials in Dili said Thursday that final voters' lists for East Timor's August 30 constituent assembly elections contained…
August 8, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 8, 2001
Banda Aceh – Eleven people – three rebels, four policemen and four civilians – have been killed in the latest clashes between Indonesian…
Reuters - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia said on Wednesday tax collection in the first seven months of 2001 was above target, raising hopes the government…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 8, 2001
Mark Dodd – A court holding the territory's first war crimes trial heard graphic evidence yesterday about the torture and murder of a pro-…
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Kupang – Police forcibly evacuated some 500 former prointegration militiamen from East Timor on Tuesday. Grouped under the Indonesian Veterans…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Jon Land – With elections to the country's first post-occupation Constituent Assembly due on August 30, East Timor's socialists are building up…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Pip Hinman – With Megawati Sukarnoputri freshly installed as president, and the country's armed forces, the TNI, in the ascendancy, the US…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Max Lane – An intense struggle is underway within the Indonesian elite over how to divide up the spoils after the ousting of President Abdurrahman…
Reuters - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank's private sector arm said on Wednesday it had temporarily frozen all funding to Indonesia mainly because of a…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Urgent solidarity action is needed from supporters of democracy worldwide to secure the release of activists held by police for organising against…
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Indonesian Accountants' Foundation (YAI) urged the government on Tuesday to revise political…