This Monday, 28 April is the day of the verdict for eleven PRD activists. Although they have already stated that they do not acknowledge this show…
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April 29, 1997
Eye witness report - 28 April. 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - April 29, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The Soeharto Government has announced that it will appeal against a 13-year sentence for subversion handed down…
Kompas - April 29, 1997
Jakarta – Nine of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) were sentenced earlier today (28/4) to prison sentences of up to 13 years. The accused…
South China Morning Post - April 29, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Riot police violently broke up a protest outside a courtroom in the capital yesterday where pro-democracy activists were…
April 28, 1997
Amnesty International - April 28, 1997
As Indonesia begins its "Festival of Democracy" – the 1997 parliamentary election campaign – Amnesty International is calling for the immediate…
Kathleen J. Brahney - April 18-May 28, 1997
Independent Media Indonesia opined (5/28): "During this cooling-off week, as we ponder programs and campaigners, it is difficult to draw logical…
Republika - April 28, 1997
Bandung – Pajajaran University students held a rally in Bandung on 26 April on the first anniversary of the Ujungpandang tragedy. The rally was…
Wall Street Journal - April 28, 1997
Dili – Four men have been arrested in the killing of a member of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party during an election meeting in East…
Dow Jones News - April 28, 1997
Dili – Four men have been arrested in the killing of a member of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party during an election meeting in East…
April 27, 1997
Reuters - April 27, 1997
Jakarta – Five East Timorese, including a junior high school student, have gone on trial in the territory in connection with the death of a…
April 26, 1997
Kompas - 26 April, 1997
Tangerang - About 6,000 workers from PT HASI (Hardaya Aneka Shoes Industry) Tangerang-producer of Nike shoes-went on strike and broke the glasses…
Jakarta Post - 26 April, 1997
Jakarta - Eight groups within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia's largest Moslem organization, yesterday endorsed boycotting the election as a form…
Radio Australia - April 26, 1997
Scores of people have been injured in a riot near the Indonesian capital Jakarta by several thousand workers from a shoe factory who…
Reuters - April 26, 1997
Jakarta – An Indonesian plant producing shoes for U.S. athletic-wear maker Nike Inc shut down for the weekend following protests over wages by…
April 25, 1997
Kompas - 25 April, 1997
Jakarta – The accused in the subversion case Wilson carried out a walk out action. He objected when the testimony of the witness Didit Sutopo and…
Tapol - April 25, 1997
The General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, Bill Jordan, has written to the Director-General of the…
Amnesty International - April 25, 1997
Eighteen people believed to have been detained in East Timor on suspicion of links with the armed resistance in East Timor, Falintil, are feared…
April 24, 1997
Kompas - April 24, 1997 (from Tapol)
PRD activist and student leader, Mohamad Sholeh, 23, who is a member of the PRD's student solidarity organisation SMID, in Surabaya…
ASIET - April 24, 1997
On April 22 in Surabaya, the kangaroo court handling the case of Dita Sari handed down a sentence of six years. The prosecution had demanded nine…
Kompas - 24 April, 1997
Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri in her daily message, Wednesday (23/4), said, the entire membership and supporters of the Megawati…
April 23, 1997
Republika - April 23, 1997 (Abridged, from Tapol)
Angered by the failure of their employers to pay the increased minimum wage, at least 13,000 workers of the Hardaya Aneka Shoes…
Media Indonesia - 23 April, 1997
Jakarta – A strike wave since yesterday is continuing in Tangerang and Jakarta. The economic wheels of Tangerang city, Tuesday morning, were…
Chicago Tribune - April 23, 1997
Uli Schmetzer, Karawang – President Suharto has controlled this sprawling island archipelago for 30 years with a military fist tucked into the…
Parool - April 23, 1997
Henk Bouwmans (Original in Dutch, translation by TAPOL), The Hague – The Dutch Parliament is furious about a letter from the Indonesian embassy…
ASIET - April 23, 1997
Press reports have stated that the Surabaya court has handed down a sentence of six years for Dita Sari, President, Indonesian Centre…
April 22, 1997
SiaR - April 22, 1997
Jakarta – A free speech action was held by PRD supporters in the grounds of the Central Jakarta State Court, Monday (21/4). Scores of PRD…
Agence France Presse - April 22, 1997
Jakarta – Supporters of Indonesia's popular ousted politician Megawati Sukarnoputri disrupted a rally held by a rival faction of her opposition…
South China Morning Post - April 22, 1997
Fresh violence between supporters of rival political parties erupted in four towns in Java province at the weekend injuring at least…
Reuters - April 22, 1997
Jakarta – Fifteen East Timorese will face trial in the territory this week for their alleged involvement in the killing of a soldier on Christmas…
Agence France Presse - April 22, 1997 (Abridged, from Tapol)
A court in East Java Tuesday handed down six and four year jail sentences for two pro-democracy activists accused of subversion, their lawyer said…
South China Morning Post - April 22, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – An activist on trial for the capital crime of subversion yesterday lambasted President Suharto, the Government and court…
April 21, 1997
South China Morning Post - April 21, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Two of the nation's largest Christian organisations have made statements backing the right of their congregations to vote…
April 20, 1997
New York Times - April 20, 1997
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – Parliamentary elections will not be held in Indonesia until the end of May, but the governing party has already announced…
Tapol - April 20, 1997
As members of the PRD, we have decided no longer to attend the court sessions that will decide our fate.
We value the hard work of those who…
April 19, 1997
Kompas - April 19, 1997 (from Tapol)
Speaking to a thousand Golkar activists in Padang, West Sumatra, the party chairman, Harmoko (who is also Information Minister) said…
April 18, 1997
Straits Times - April 18, 1997
Jakarta – Hit by poor sales, Indonesia's national distributor has offered to sell "Timor" cars to government officials in various…
Buisiness Times - April 18, 1997
S N Vasuki – Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday issued a manifesto, ahead of next month's parliamentary elections,…
April 17, 1997
ASIET - April 17, 1997
Between 10000 and 15000 PDI supporters massed on the streets of Jakarta on April 15 demanding that the elected leader of the Indonesian Democratic…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 17 April, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre still holds grave fears for the safety of Ildefonso de Deus dos Santos (also known as "Maudino"), a…
April 16, 1997
Media Indonesia (abridged) - April 16, 1997
Some five thousand pro-Megawati members of the PDI filled the street in front of the DPR/MPR building on Tuesday, 15 April, causing extensive…
Republika - April 16, 1997 (from Tapol)
For the second day running, 350 workers of PT Farmindo, a wood processing company, stopped work. The company is situated in Tangerang, part of the…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 16, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of Muslim migrant workers will be repatriated from West Kalimantan following months of ethnic clashes…
Straits Times - April 16. 1997
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Supporters of ousted opposition leader Megawati Soekarnoputri yesterday broke down the gates leading to Parliament House as…
April 15, 1997
Kompas - April 15, 1997 (Abridged from Tapol)
The prosecutors in the nine cases against PRD activists in two district courts in Jakarta presented their summing up to the court on…
Kompas - April 15, 1997
Jakarta – Although the People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists refused to appear in court, the public prosecutor announced the sentence it has…
Antara - April 15, 1997
Jakarta – Sixty people have been interrogated by police inconnection with the destruction of a building housing the office ofthe South…
Bisnis Indonesia - April 15, 1997
Tangerang – Around 4,000 workers from four factories in Tangerang yesterday held a strike demanding they be given the new minimum…
Pikiran Rakyat - April 15, 1997 (Abridged from Tapol)
Bandung – Thousands of workers have gone on strike in the industrial belts of Purwakarta and Tangerang, demanding that their employers…
April 14, 1997
Asiaweek - April 14, 1997
These are busy days for Indonesia's courts. The youthful leaders of a leftist – and therefore illegal – group are on trial for subversion. Soon,…
Lusa - April 14, 1997
Geneva – The European Union (EU) resolution proposal introduced to the 53 annual meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission…