The ouster of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri has opened up a new, and likely volatile, era in Indonesia…
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August 8, 2001
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Surabaya – Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of East Java's Tapal Kuda area on Tuesday to welcome home former president and…
South China Morning Post - August 8, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Police turned up the heat in their search for former dictator Suharto's youngest son yesterday by announcing they had…
August 7, 2001
Chronicle Foreign Service - August 7, 2001
Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – Petrus Hariyanto sees the fate of his tiny political party as a symbol of what's to come under Indonesia's new president…
South China Morning Post - August 7, 2001
Vaudine England – Aid groups may be reluctant to return to refugee camps in West Timor with as many personnel as before, despite the UN giving the…
Jakarta Post - August 7, 2001
[A number of problems feature in the controversy surrounding the resumption of US-Indonesian military ties, writes Dr. Kusnanto Anggoro, senior…
August 6, 2001
Time Asia - August 6, 2001
Pramoedya Ananta Toer – I don't blame President Sukarno for my arrest in the early 1960s. I blame the army. But being a political prisoner in the…
South China Morning Post - August 6, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – In a quirk of history, two very different Indonesian women won honours recently.
Megawati Sukarnoputri became…
Time Magazine - August 6, 2001
Tim McGirk, Jakarta – When the scorpion tanks clattered to a halt outside the Istana Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesian President Abdurrahman…
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 6, 2001
[Excerpt from report by Asih Nurhayati by Indonesian Satunet news web site on 6 August.]
An East Timorese Jose Amaral (29) caught…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 6, 2001
Mark Dodd – East Timorese officials have hailed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's decision to expand the terms of an Indonesian…
Associated Press - August 6, 2001
Jakarta – Community leaders in an oil-rich Indonesian province have threatened to block the operations of a Caltex affiliate unless Jakarta…
South China Morning Post - August 6, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Scores of Acehnese activists have been arrested in Jakarta in recent days as part of the military's no-holds-barred…
Jakarta Post - August 6, 2001
Jakarta – Human rights activists applauded on Sunday the renewed presidential decree on the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal to try suspects of…
August 4, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 4, 2001
Banda Aceh – Indonesian police said Saturday they had arrested a sixth rebel peace negotiator in the restive province of Aceh amid an intensifying…
Associated Press - August 4, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Ousted president Abdurrahman Wahid returned to Indonesia yesterday after medical tests in the United States, insisting those…
Agence France Presse - August 4, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Deposed Indonesian president Aburrahman Wahid turned 61 Saturday, 12 days after a humiliating impeachment by the national assembly cut…
Straits Times - August 4, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Two fatal bombings, the assassination of a top judge and a jail breakout – all took place within the first 10 days of Ms…
Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – People who like to eat out at KFC would never have imagined that it had something to do with Cipinang Penitentiary in…
Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001
Jakarta – Political parties have submitted their candidates for the new Cabinet but the lineup will not be announced until next Thursday, largely…
Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001
Jakarta – A play highlighting human rights issues will be staged at Taman Ismail Marzuki arts center in Central Jakarta to mark the…
August 3, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 3, 2001
[Source: Kompas Cyber Media web site, Jakarta, Auguse 3]
Denpasar – If civilians refuse to surrender their weapons as…
Jakarta Post - August 3, 2001
Jakarta – The much-awaited Cabinet line-up will not be unveiled until next week, accentuating apparent horse trading among major political parties…
Financial Times - August 3, 2001
The United Nations is to reduce its presence in East Timor in spite of Security Council members' reservations about the new administration in…
Agence France Presse - August 3, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian security forces have shot dead 10 suspected separatist rebels in various clashes in the flashpoint province of Aceh, the army…
August 2, 2001
Far Eastern Economic Review - August 2, 2001
John McBeth and Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Sadly for Indonesia, the dramatic events of July 23 that saw Abdurrahman Wahid sacked as president and…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 2, 2001
East Timor's transitional government on Thursday moved forward with a controversial plan to adopt Portuguese as the country's official…
Reuters - August 2, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – A bomb blast ripped through the ground floor of a busy shopping centre in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday…
August 1, 2001
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
On 6 and 7 June, the Indonesian government went ahead with controversial plans to register East Timorese refugees in West Timor and determine…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Pip Hinman – At 4am on July 22, a tent occupied by hunger strikers in the Sumatran town of Lampung was doused with petrol and set alight by thugs…
Agence France Presse - August 1, 2001
An Indonesian military commander has ordered his troops to arrest East Timorese militiamen who are still operating from refugee camps in…
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
On 23 July, Vice President Megawati was installed as Indonesian president after the People's Assembly sacked the man it had appointed two years…
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
Since the Indonesian armed forces launched new military operations at the beginning of May, conditions for the population of Aceh have rapidly…
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
Widespread police operations have been underway since March this year in the district of Manokwari in the Bird's Head region of West Papua,…
Reuters - August 1, 2001
Will Hardie, Stockholm – Rebels from Indonesia's restive Aceh province warned new president Megawati Sukarnoputri on Wednesday that she must rein…
Agence France Presse - August 1, 2001
Banda Aceh – Five people – four suspected rebels and an Indonesian soldier – have been killed in the restive province of Aceh, police and the…
InterPress News Service - August 1, 2001
Kanis Dursin, Bekasi – Indonesia is the biggest rice importer in Asia. This is sadly ironic, because almost 70 percent of the country's 213…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Jon Land – As campaigning for the Constituent Assembly elections slowly gathers momentum across East Timor, the installation of Megawati…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001
About 19,800 coffee farmers in Timor Lorosae have to swallow the bitter pill because of sharp falls in worldwide coffee prices. On 10 May the…
South China Morning Post - August 1, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A lawsuit seeking to dissolve former president Suharto's political party, Golkar, was thrown out by the Supreme Court…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001
The United Nations Security Council yesterday decided to extend the presence of UNTAET in Timor Lorosae till early 2002. However,…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 1, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – In a surprise move, American company Phillips Petroleum and its joint venture partners have deferred indefinitely plans to build…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Max Lane – In October 1999, when Megawati Sukarnoputri won the consolation prize of being elected Abdurrahman Wahid's vice-president, tens of…
July 30, 2001
Reuters - July 30, 2001 (abridged)
Manila – A Chinese agricultural scientist and agovernment official are among the seven winners of the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Awards for…
Lusa - July 30, 2001
Ongoing corrections to preliminary voters lists in East Timor have included an additional 18,000 names and will bring the total…
Lusa - July 30, 2001
UN transition administration officials acknowledged Monday that issues of justice and human rights in East Timor remain a problem but…
Straits Times - July 30, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The fate of Indonesia's Nation Awakening Party (PKB) looks increasingly uncertain as internal politicking threatens to…
Straits Times - July 30, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – American officials are trying to recall a published history of how the United States supported anti-communist moves…
July 29, 2001
Tapol Press release - July 29, 2001
Tapol today expressed dismay at a controversial decision on Wednesday by the Dili District Court to release Dr Sergio Lobo – a surgeon at the Dili…