Jakarta – A US lobbyist for Indonesia revealed on Wednesday that he would try to help foster dialog between the United States government and the…
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July 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 12, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 12, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia has started forming East Timor-style militias in oil- and gas-rich Aceh, where scores of civilians are being…
Straits Times - July 12, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A three-day registration period now under way for the start of the new school year is bringing smiles – and extra income…
Far Eastern Economic Review - July 12, 2001
John McBeth, Jakarta – Smartly dressed in a suit, tie and polished shoes, the nervous Indonesian visa applicant gave the American consular…
Agence France Presse - July 12, 2001
Jakarta – Smoke haze attributed to underground fires continued to choke the city of Pontianak on Indonesian Borneo Thursday, local officials said…
July 11, 2001
UN News - July 11, 2001 (abridged)
With Wednesday passing as the final deadline for East Timorese to challenge the list of proposed candidates for the upcoming elections…
Jakarta Post - July 11, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid shared the public's disappointment on Tuesday over the conclusions of the House of Representatives (DPR) on…
Green Left Weekly - July 11, 2001
On July 5, representatives of the East Timor Transitional Cabinet, the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the Australian…
Jakarta Post - July 11, 2001
Jakarta – While neighboring countries have been complaining about the choking haze caused by Indonesia's forest fires and have called on Indonesia…
Straits Times - July 11, 2001
London – The situation within the Sukarno family is deteriorating with a clear split between the sisters widening and "becoming more serious now…
Straits Times - July 11, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Political compromise, intimidation, constitutional deadlock and a divide-and-rule approach to weaken his enemies are some…
Jakarta Post - July 11, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid appointed on Tuesday his old friend and current Minister of Justice and Human Rights Marsillam Simanjuntak…
July 10, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – Relatives and parents of students slain in the Trisakti and Semanggi shootings expressed disappointment at the findings of a House of…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
G.K. Goh, Jakarta – Smoke from land clearing by fire on Tuesday cast a haze over the skies of several cities in Borneo and Sumatra island, causing…
South China Morning Post - July 10, 2001
Chris McCall in Tentena, Central Sulawesi – With guns that look like cut-out toys, a Christian army is fighting a war to hold on to its ancestral…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's army chief has played down President Abdurrahman Wahid's renewed threat to declare a state of emergency if political parties…
Lusa - July 10, 2001 (abridged)
Only 666 of the 1,250 East Timorese refugees Indonesian authorities said wanted to return to their homeland last month have been able…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials in East Timor raised concern Tuesday about the fate of refugees who chose to be repatriated from squalid camps in Indonesia…
Associated Press - July 10, 2001
Dili – As a UN security team toured refugee camps near Indonesian controlled West Timor's border with East Timor Tuesday, officials of…
Melbourne Age - July 10, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Indonesian security forces have arrested 23 hardcore militiamen including the notorious leader of the gang involved in the 1999…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – More than 100 middle-ranking Indonesian police officers yesterday spoke out against their chief, who has defied his sacking…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Banda Aceh – Clashes in Indonesia's oil-rich province of Aceh have killed at least 12 people including five suspected separatist rebels, and…
July 9, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2001
Bandung – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) has asked its supporters across the country to revive community…
South China Morning Post - July 9, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A meeting between political leaders and Abdurrahman Wahid set for today will probably fail, making the embattled…
Detik - July 9, 2001
Maryadi/HD, Jakarta – In rejection to Trisakti-Semanggi House special committee's recommendation to bring the case into military's…
Asia Times - July 9, 2001
Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said "there is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it". The long-…
Agence France Presse - July 9, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least nine people and possibly up to 14 died in weekend violence in Indonesia's blood-drenched Aceh province, the military and…
Straits Times - July 9, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Mini-marts selling everything from cold drinks and milk to bread and snacks in colourful packages are changing the way…
Straits Times - July 9, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – While the KPPU anti-monopoly commission is concerned that mini-mart chains such as Indomaret are driving out…
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2001
Jakarta – American congressman Tony P. Hall said on Saturday that he fully endorsed US humanitarian programs in Indonesia, in spite of Jakarta's…
Straits Times - July 9, 2001
Lee Siew Hua, Washington – US President George W. Bush's administration is seeking congressional support to restore a modest level of contact with…
July 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 8, 2001
Jakarta – Embattled President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid received a rare show of support from those who were jailed and persecuted…
Jakarta Post - July 8, 2001
Jakarta – The United States government has maintained its support for the unitary state of Indonesia, saying it will never back any effort by Aceh…
July 7, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 7, 2001
Jakarta – The government called on Friday for more international aid to fulfill the need for free distribution of contraceptives to 8.25 million…
The Age - July 7, 2001
The UN has its own investigation team in East Timor. Some prosecutions have started against minor players. But the power to investigate stops…
Straits Times - July 7, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Finance Minister Rizal Ramli advised the IMF yesterday to stop micromanaging Indonesia's economy and refrain from setting…
Reuters - July 7, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has stepped up pressure on national police chief General Bimantoro, demanding he relinquish all…
July 6, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 6, 2001
Dili – East Timor's political parties have agreed to sign a non-violence pact to avoid bloodshed before and after historic elections…
Straits Times - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – In a move against money politics, Indonesia's largest political party has proposed an open vote on the political fate of…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Australia and East Timor signed a multi-billion dollar agreement Thursday on dividing royalties from oil and gas reserves in the Timor…
Jakarta Post - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – The Supreme Court continued hearing on Thursday a lawsuit demanding the dissolution of the Golkar Party following allegations of graft…
Source unknown - July 6, 2001
East Timor's big hope for independence was signed yesterday – a pact ensuring the soon-to-be nation has economic security through oil and gas…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has sent a written warning to President Abdurrahman Wahid over his sacking of the national police chief and…
Jakarta Post - July 6, 2001
Poso, Central Sulawesi – At least five people attacking the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) troops in the village of Toyado in Lage district,…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid Friday again threatened to declare a state of emergency if a hostile parliament tries…
Straits Times - July 6, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's decision yesterday to avail himself again of the services of a savvy politician from Golkar –…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 6, 2001
Edward Gargan, Bangsri – The last of central Java's great teakwood forests ends up in places like this, a place filled with the whine of buzz-saws…
Reuters - July 6, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Kediri – Juniarsih has been hand-rolling tobacco for the last 17 years at a big factory run by Gudang Garam, Indonesia's largest…
Antara - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – The assemblyman for Irian Jaya has warned controversial mining company PT Freeport Indonesia not to interfere in the…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia has suspended a joint committee with Acehnese rebels that was monitoring security in the province where about 1,000 people are…