Ray Brindal, Canberra – Australian and East Timorese representatives have resolved many of their outstanding differences about a planned new…
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June 28, 2001
Dow Jones Newswires - June 28, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dill – The United Nations in East Timor will encourage staff to volunteer for HIV tests but cannot make them compulsory on…
Melbourne Age - June 28, 2001
Paula Doran – For half of his 30 years Domingos lived chained to a wooden bench behind his village home in the hills of East Timor. His family was…
Agence France Presse - June 28, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday warned President Abdurrahman Wahid that declaring a state of emergency, as…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - June 28, 2001
Atambua – Facing the prospect of resettling tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees, an Indonesian government delegation on Thursday appealed…
UN Department of Public Information - June 28, 2001
The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today presented the first State of the Nation address to the…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2001
Poso, Central Sulawesi – Eight armed men were detained on Wednesday as they were allegedly about to attack residents working on a cacao plantation…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of becak (pedicab) drivers held a march on Wednesday to demand that the poor be given the right to earn a living in…
Lusa - June 28, 2001
A group of presumed anti-independence militiamen opened fire Thursday on a patrol of UN peacekeepers in the East Timorese district of…
June 27, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2001
Jayapura – An Irianese separatist group that has taken hostage two Belgian filmmakers is demanding President Abdurrahman Wahid bring the Irian…
Australian Financial Review - June 27, 2001
Brendan Pearson – The Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, and Indonesia's President, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid, have pledged to repair a diplomatic…
Green Left Weekly - June 27, 2001
Nick Everett & Rebecca Meckelburg, Bandung – Police have arrested six members of the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) in West Java, in…
Lusa - June 27, 2001
A group of unidentified youths set fire Wednesday to a school in the East Timorese city of Baucau, 130 kms east of Dili, causing…
Australian Associated Press - June 27, 2001 (abridged)
Joanna Jolly – East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao said he supports pardons for militiamen who are found guilty of…
Reuters - June 27, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri's expected rise to power is likely to be clouded by the same…
UN News - June 27, 2001
Sixteen political parties have nominated candidates to run in the August elections for East Timor's Constituent Assembly, meeting the…
Green Left Weekly - June 27, 2001
A leading Timorese aid worker has branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98% of East Timorese refugees…
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2001
Jakarta – Amid the topsy-turvy of preparations for the upcoming special session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), a total of 13 members…
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2001
Jakarta – Activists from the Anti-Torture Network visited on Tuesday the headquarters of the city police and the West, North and East Jakarta…
Green Left Weekly - June 27, 2001
Max Lane – On June 15 the Indonesian police kidnapped eight members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and occupied and ransacked the PRD's…
Green Left Weekly - June 27, 2001
Peter Boyle – Indonesian non-government organisations believe the June 8 raid by police on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference, during which 32…
June 26, 2001
Reuters - June 26, 2001
Jakarta – The IMF said on Tuesday it would resume a vital $5 billion loan programme with Indonesia if the government agreed to delay a debate on…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Within an hour of arriving in Canberra from a gruelling journey from Jakarta, Abdurrahman Wahid was plunged into a succession of…
Australian Financial Review - June 26, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – A wizened brown man with black teeth squatted in the dusty Balibo roadside with eight 5-litre plastic jerry cans of kerosene he…
Agence France Presse - June 26, 2001
Jakarta – Pro-independence leader Don Flassy has been arrested and is now detained in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province, a justice official…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Australia and Indonesia had agreed to put behind them the strained relationship which arose over East Timor and move on, Prime Minister John…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Craig Skehan – Australia and New Zealand will press Indonesia's visiting President Wahid to prosecute members of his country's military, and…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Is it mere symbolism for the Wahid visit that John Howard has had an apparent change of heart on Asia, asks Gerard Henderson?
Alexander…
Jakarta Post - June 26, 2001
Jakarta – More than 250 Mayasari Bhakti bus drivers went on strike on Monday, and hundreds of others are rumored to join on Tuesday to demand a…
Inter Press News - June 26, 2001
Jakarta – After weeks of nationwide, sometimes riotous agitation, Indonesia's labor unions scored a major victory last week when the Wahid…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 26, 2001
Jane Counsel – A United States company is stepping up efforts to settle a 25-year dispute over the oil and gas riches of the Timor Gap, announcing…
Xinhua News - June 26, 2001
Maputo – Guterres, visiting president of the Timorese liberation movement (Fretilin), declared here on Tuesday that he is confident…
Suara Timor Lorosae - June 26, 2001
The civil registration process has been a success. Since the start of it on 24 February till its closing on 22 June, 777,989 Timorese…
Canberra Times - June 26, 2001
George Quinn – Personally I don't think Indonesia will break up, but we are talking here of probabilities, and there is an outside chance, but a…
Straits Times - June 26, 2001
Yogyakarta – Revolutionary groups which attack gambling houses and nightspots in the name of religious beliefs are mushrooming here, causing…
Jakarta Post - June 26, 2001
Bandung – Tens of youths from various youth groups under the umbrella of the former ruling Golkar Party occupied the West Java branch…
June 25, 2001
Australian Financial Review - June 25, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – Sergio Vieira de Mello says emphatically, perhaps too emphatically, that he is convinced East Timor's coming constituent…
Jakarta Post - June 25, 2001
Jakarta – The death of a woman migrant worker upon her arrival at the Soekarno Hatta International Airport on Thursday has prompted calls for the…
Australian Financial Review - June 25, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – An armada of big, white four-wheel-drive vehicles cruises and clogs the dusty roads of Dili carrying the army of United Nations…
Australian Associated Press - June 25, 2001
A group of protesters has demonstrated outside the Indonesian consulate in Melbourne on the first day of Indonesian President…
Detik - June 25, 2001
MMI Ahyani/HD, Jakarta – Around 1,000 thousands people from various organisations which are Golkar Party's underbouw came to West Java…
Reuters - June 25, 2001
Gde Anugrah Arka, Jakarta – Indonesia's floundering president has sacked the widely respected head of the bank restructuring agency (IBRA), in yet…
Jakarta Post - June 25, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Dozens of armed men attacked a residential area in the town of Poso, Central Sulawesi, in the early hours of Sunday morning, killing two…
June 24, 2001
Agence France Presse - June 24, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least five people were killed in Indonesia's Aceh province which has been wracked by separatism, the military and activists said…
June 23, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 23, 2001
Louise Williams – As the torturous "death watch" over the presidency of Abdurrahman Wahid draws to a close his raucous political opponents will be…
Agence France Presse - June 23, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian government wants to collect 3.2 trillion rupiah in unpaid taxes from the fugitive youngest son of former president…
South China Morning Post - June 23, 2001
Agence France Presse in Jakarta – Indonesia's MPs came under fire yesterday after it emerged each is entitled to a 5.8 million rupiah…
Detik - June 23, 2001
MMI Ahyani/HD, Bandung – National Democratic Students Student League (LMND) is scheduled to file a lawsuit to West Java Police over an arrest of…
South China Morning Post - June 23, 2001
Vaudine England, Denpasar – Bali is supposed to be a powerhouse of support for Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri, but interviews with activists…
Straits Times - June 23, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Eddie, a former waterside thug, is not too worried about a local council's recently declared intention of clearing the…