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May 16, 2001

Agence France Presse - May 16, 2001

Jakarta – Indonesian police have ransacked a Jakarta office of an Acehnese group linked to a fatal explosion here as the military picked up an…

May 15, 2001

Tempo - May 15, 2001

Jakarta – About 100 demonstrators from the Freedom of Speech and Thought Alliance (AKBB) held a rally at Police Headquarters today. The action was…

South China Morning Post - May 15, 2001

Agence France Presse in Jayapura – The subversion trials of five high-profile independence leaders from the remote Indonesian province of Irian…

South China Morning Post - May 15, 2001

Vaudine England – With two weeks left before Parliament decides on possible impeachment moves against President Abdurrahman Wahid, the decibel…

Jakarta Post - May 15, 2001

Jakarta – A rally by students demanding the dissolution of the former ruling Golkar Party turned violent on Monday when demonstrators clashed with…

May 14, 2001

Timor Post - May 14, 2001

Participants at a weekend discussion seminar, organized by the human rights NGO Yayasan Hak, expressed their frustration at UNTAET. Many said they…

Straits Times - May 14, 2001

Robert Go, Jakarta – Iced coconut juice seller Budiman, 43, set down his 30-kg gear wearily and fanned himself with a folded tabloid newspaper…

Straits Times - May 14, 2001

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Three years after the shooting of four student protesters from the elite Trisakti University which sparked days of…

Reuters - May 14, 2001

Jakarta – Hundreds of Indonesian students rallied in the streets of the capital on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the…

Jakarta Post - May 14, 2001

Jakarta – The management of Shangri-La Hotel has accepted the decision of the government-sanctioned Central Committee for the Settlement of Labor…

South China Morning Post - May 14, 2001

Chris McCall, Dili – Fed up with Indonesia's feeble attempts at administering justice to accused war criminals, the families of East Timor's dead…

Sydney Morning Herald - May 14, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – The plight of a 15-year-old East Timorese girl kept as a sex slave for more than 18 months in a militia-controlled refugee camp…

South China Morning Post - May 14, 2001

Vaudine England – Theys Eluay is a loud man, in both his wardrobe and choice of political rhetoric. As a self-styled leader of the independence…

Jakarta Post - May 14, 2001

Banda Aceh – Mobile Brigade Police (Brimob) personnel have been combing villages in Pidie regency, Aceh, over the past two days, in what is…

Australian Financial Review - May 14, 2001

Scott Burchill – Given advance notice that the street bully is about to beat up your neighbour, three courses of action are open to you. The first…

Suara Timor Lorosae - May 14, 2001

The leader of the Catholic Church in Dili, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo urged academics at the National University of Timor Lorosae to…

May 12, 2001

Jakarta Post - May 12, 2001

Jakarta – A number of independent labor unions are planning a series of strikes to force the government to revoke an amendment of a ministerial…

Jakarta Post - May 12, 2001

Jakarta – The World Bank has expressed its full support of the government's fiscal adjustment package, which contains various measures to prevent…

Straits Times - May 12, 2001

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Aceh declared a state of emergency yesterday, blaming the military offensive for the rising…

South China Morning Post - May 12, 2001

Agencies in Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid raised the stakes in Indonesia's political crisis yesterday, saying he would not hand further…

Straits Times - May 12, 2001

Jakarta – A majority of Indonesians are fed up with the ongoing political bickering and protracted economic crisis, and long for the stability of…

Straits Times - May 12, 2001

Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday denied any involvement in a bomb blast in Jakarta that killed two people.

Jakarta Post - May 12, 2001

Jakarta – The Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI) condemned on Friday a planned sweep and burning of "leftist" books and rejected any ban…

May 11, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - May 11, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations economic planners have launched a campaign to ensure the US dollar is the sole legal tender in East Timor. To…

Agence France Presse - May 11, 2001

Jakarta – Separatist guerillas from Indonesia's restive Aceh province on Friday denied involvement in a Jakarta bomb blast as police found a third…

Agence France Presse - May 11, 2001

Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta have raided book sellers, impounding hundreds of titles considered leftist or communist-…

Associated Press - May 11, 2001

Joanna Jolly, Dili – The head of the UN Central Payments Office, which manages the territory's tiny and shattered economy, told reporters that the…

Jakarta Post - May 11, 2001

Jakarta – PILAR biweekly magazine photographer Rudi P. Singgih was in the midst of covering some long-term investigation when he was shot dead by…

May 10, 2001

Sydney Morning Herald - May 10, 2001

The Australian government knew about Indonesian military plans to massacre East Timor independence supporters in 1999 and thought clever diplomacy…

Straits Times - May 10, 2001

Robert Go, Jakarta – The next time rioters run amok through Jakarta's streets, they will come face to face with elite police units armed with…

May 9, 2001

Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001

Vanya Tanaja, Dili – News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor…

Lusa - May 9, 2001

A report by members of the Portuguese parliament criticizes the UN Transition Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) as being "costly and not very…

Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001

Max Lane – Contrary to many predictions circulating in Jakarta during the last few weeks, the Indonesian capital remained calm after the Golkar-…

SBS Dateline (Australia) - May 9, 2001

[In an extraordinary investigation, reporter Mark Davis returns to East Timor to disclose disturbing new revelations about Australia's secret…

Agence France Presse - May 9, 2001

Banda Aceh – At least three people were killed and four others were wounded in the latest violence between separatist rebels and government forces…

South China Morning Post - May 9, 2001

Chris McCall, Dili – Once branded a gang of dangerous left-wingers, Fretilin is out in the open and may be set to win through the ballot what it…

Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001

Max Lane – At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in…

Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001

Partai Asosiacao Social Democrat Timor (ASDT) will this week try to get itself registered with the Independent Election Commission.…

Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001

The General Co-ordinator of CPD-RDTL Antonio Aitahan Matak yesterday rejected allegations that the group was behind the threats…

Melbourne Age - May 9, 2001

Jill Jollife, Dariwn – An Australian Army intelligence officer who served in East Timor has accused the Federal Government of concealing vital…

May 8, 2001

Jakarta Post - May 8, 2001

Jakarta – Labor unions are threatening massive strikes following Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Al-Hilal Hamdi's decision to amend…

South China Morning Post - May 8, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Fresh signs of Government fragmentation came last week with the demand from Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri's…

Straits Times - May 8, 2001

Robert Go, Jakarta – Golkar leader Akbar Tandjung once again pushed Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri into a more prominent role in the process…

New York Times - May 8, 2001

Seth Mydans, Jakarta – She is the immovable object of Indonesian politics – stolid, silent, imperious, a puzzle to her countrymen even as she…

May 7, 2001

Reuters - May 7, 2001

Melbourne – Tough negotiations over a Timor Sea oil and gas production treaty are likely to resume between Australia and East Timor later this…

Suara Timor Lorosae - May 7, 2001

Fifteen militia commanders on Saturday accepted the 30 August 1999 referendum result, because it was, as they said, the decision of…

South China Morning Post - May 7, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – A spate of recent anti-communist incidents and violent threats is part of a plot to destroy Indonesia's fledgling…

Australian Financial Review - May 7, 2001

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – For more than 30 years until Soeharto's fall in 1998, the writings of Indonesia's pre-eminent novelist and political prisoner…

May 6, 2001

Agence France Presse - May 6, 2001 (slightly abridged)

Banda Aceh – Continuing violence involving Indonesian government forces and separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has left at least…

May 5, 2001

South China Morning Post - May 5, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The pillaging of the nation's forests has increased dramatically since the fall of former president Suharto and within…