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July 5, 2001
The Jakarta Post - July 5, 2001
The Australian - July 5, 2001
Nigel Wilson – Billions of dollars in Timor Sea investment remain in doubt despite the signing in Dili today of a framework agreement on sharing…
Sydney Morning Herald Editorial - July 5, 2001
The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, says it is "generous". The Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr Burke, calls it "extremely generous". The…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
Mark Dodd, Saburai village – After leaving the squalor of a refugee camp in West Timor, one of militia leader Victor Lopes's first acts on…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2001
Jakarta – More than 1000 students and activists grouped under the Greater Jakarta Students Movement (Gema Jaya) and the Committee for Oppressed…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
The new Timor Gap agreement was signed today with the tensions of tough negotiations still apparent.
The document was signed by Foreign…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2001
Purwokerto – President Abdurrahman Wahid officially opened the 2001 National Boy Scout Jamboree at the Baturraden tourist resort by reciting Al…
South China Morning Post - July 5, 2001
Vaudine England – The sudden death of Attorney-General Baharuddin Lopa has deprived President Abdurrahman Wahid of not just a close friend but…
Straits Times - July 5, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – If Indonesian police chief General Suroyo Bimantoro makes it into the history books, it will be because of how parliament has…
July 4, 2001
Agence France Presse - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – A draft autonomy bill for Indonesia's bloodied Aceh province, which radically multiplies its oil and gas profits but has won little…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 4, 2001
Craig Skehan – East Timor will receive $7 billion over 20 years under a historic agreement with Australia on the sharing of oil and gas revenues…
Green Left Weekly - July 4, 2001
Kerryn williams, Jakarta – "It's become much worse since the economic crisis. There are more homeless people, more street singers, and more street…
Jakarta Post - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – Leaders of major youth organizations warned supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid not to engage in any anarchic activity as they…
Green Left Weekly - July 4, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Liquica – Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the…
Jakarta Post - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – Thirteen mutilated bodies have been found in the village of Buyung Katedo, some 16 kilometers south of Poso, Central Sulawesi, following…
Reuters - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's caretaker attorney-general has vowed to carry on the work of the country's top corruption fighter, who died from a heart-…
Straits Times - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – More than 1,000 members of the Indonesian military and national police in riot-torn Poso, Central Sulawesi, are in dire…
Straits Times - July 4, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's Finance Minister said yesterday the government would demand more payments from indebted conglomerates following…
Melbourne Age - July 4, 2001
[This is an exclusive extract from "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy", the second in the Quarterly Essay…
Australian Financial Review - July 4, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – It will be the ironic fate of independent East Timor to have its key international economic and security relationships with…
July 3, 2001
Lusa - July 3, 2001
The first major trial of atrocities committed in East Timor by Indonesian forces and proxy militias got underway in Dili Tuesday, with a three-…
Tempo - July 3-9, 2001
Wens Manggut and Levi Silalahi – It is an honor to be elected a member of the House of Representatives and the salary is also considered very good…
Suara Timor Lorosae - July 3, 2001
Ten political parties, out of the 16, registered with the Independent Electoral Commission are disappointed with the aid package made…
Asian Times - July 3, 2001
Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Board or alight wherever and whenever they like. In the middle of the road, or, if there's no room, at the roadside. At the…
Tempo - July 3-9, 2001
Impeachment is not here yet. President Abdurrahman Wahid is not yet absolutely certain to fall. Megawati Sukarnoputri for now remains vice…
Lusa - July 3, 2001
East Timor's 16 parties and UN transition administration have completed the draft of a "National Unity Pact", which expresses support for the…
Tempo - July 3-9, 2001
It's a big cake and it's ready for the cutting, or so they think. The cake is called Megawati Sukarnoputri's presidency. It has to be shared out…
South China Morning Post - July 3, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Jakarta's long-running power struggle reached new heights of confusion yesterday as President Abdurrahm ppens – and it…
Straits Times - July 3, 2001
New York – Indonesian envoys are among the worst parking offenders here. Diplomats at the Indonesian Consulate and at Jakarta's…
July 2, 2001
Reuters - July 2, 2001
Wendy Pugh, Melbourne – In an upheaval of Australia's energy market, petroleum and pipeline companies are racing to nail down multi-billion-dollar…
Straits Times - July 2, 2001
Jakarta – A total of 740 people died at the hands of the national police during the past one year due to human rights abuses, the…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2001
Jakarta – Six people went missing Thursday after the Kijang van they rode in was attacked on the road linking Poso and Tentena in Central Sulawesi…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – While the ethnic-related tension in Pontianak, West Kalimantan has gradually ceased, fresh conflict flared up in the West…
Straits Times - July 2, 2001
Chris McCall, Mamboro, Central Sulawesi – God told him the riots were about to happen. "Allah sent me a vision," Muhammad Herlambang Badja says at…
UN News - July 2, 2001
Approximately 93 per cent of the estimated population in East Timor have been registered in advance of upcoming elections, the United Nations…
July 1, 2001
Agence France Presse - July 1, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least 49 people were killed or found dead in the violence-plagued Indonesian province of Aceh during the weekend, hospital and…
Human Rights Watch - July 2001
June 30, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2001
Banda Aceh – Optimism looms ahead of the upcoming two-day peace talks between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) scheduled…
Straits Times - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – Corruption, collusion and nepotism are rampant in state enterprises, a top government official admits, confirming what many have long…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Senior United States and Australian officials yesterday joined in an unusually direct warning to Jakarta against trying to…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2001
Peter Kerr, Jakarta – Soon after giving birth earlier this year in a major central Jakarta hospital, nursing staff gave Indra a pack containing…
Agence France Presse - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – Madurese settlers in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province have asked the local government to give them two weeks to persuade…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – The House of Representatives' consultative body agreed on Thursday to put forward a controversial special autonomy bill for Irian Jaya…
Straits Times - June 30, 2001
Lhokseumawe – Indonesian security forces killed 22 rebels in two separate gunbattles in Aceh province, officials said yesterday. In the most…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – While the fate of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid is still far from sealed, the United Development Party (PPP) and the Crescent…
South China Morning Post - June 30, 2001
Reuters in Manila – President Abdurrahman Wahid, threatened with impeachment by a hostile Parliament, offered yesterday to reconcile differences…
June 29, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 29, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations has told the people of East Timor they will be virtually self-governing from September 15 – but that the UN…
Lusa - June 29, 2001
The UN administration in East Timor has prepared a package of wide-ranging logistical and material aid for 16 parties and independent…
Straits Times - June 29, 2001
Jakarta – Court officials said yesterday that they had not lost the documentation of a Supreme Court decision ordering a fugitive son of former…
June 28, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2001
Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro had reportedly cut short his minor haj pilgrimage and returned to the capital on Tuesday,…