Jakarta – Indonesia's environment minister on Wednesday branded illegal loggers as terrorists after a flood disaster blamed on tree-felling killed…
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November 5, 2003
Agence France Presse - November 5, 2003
Jakarta Post - November 5, 2003
Jakarta/Medan – Government officials have joined environmental activists in blaming inconsistent forest management and poor law enforcement as the…
Agence France Presse - November 5, 2003
Geneva – Indonesia, Guatemala and Serbia-Montenegro won an award Wednesday for failing to address a massive problem of homelessness and slums,…
Associated Press - November 5, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesian lawmakers are investigating a claim that the son of President Megawati Sukarnoputri is part of a real estate scam involving…
Reuters - November 5, 2003
Jerry Norton, Banda Aceh – It looks like its going to be a long haul for Indonesian security forces fighting separatist rebels in Aceh.
The…
Jakarta Post - November 5, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – In a show of distrust of their current House of Representatives legislators, a large group of Indonesian…
SBS Dateline - November 5, 2003
Pete Thomas: What footage will you be broadcasting?
Mark Davis: It's a rather extraordinary video that was sent to us last week from the…
Reuters - November 5, 2003
Jakarta – At least 12 people have been killed in clashes between security forces and separatist rebels in Indonesia's troubled Papua…
Jakarta Post - November 5, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Experts criticized on Tuesday the government's decision to extend military offensive in troubled Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam…
November 4, 2003
Associated Press - November 4, 2003
Jakarta – Gunmen apparently belonging to a separatist rebel group in Indonesia's Papua province attacked construction workers in a remote village…
Manly Daily (Australia) - November 4, 2003
Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the Australian-born first lady of the world's newest nation, once shared two of her husband's big dreams for an independent…
November 3, 2003
Eureka Street Magazine - November 3, 2003
July 6 was the anniversary of one of the shameful events in Australia's relationship with Indonesia. In July 1998 on Biak's tiny island just north…
November 1, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald Book Review - November 1, 2003
["A Woman of Independence". By Kirsty Sword Gusmao. Macmillan, 321pp, $30.]
Peter Pierce – Kirsty Sword Gusmao's "A Woman of Independence"…
Antara - November 1, 2003
Atambua – The Belu district government said it was treating the 26 East Timorese seeking asylum in Atambua as foreign nationals.
…Tempo Magazine - November 25-Desember 1, 2003
Sudrajat and Hanibal – Due to criticisms of human rights violations, TNI will no longer guard sites of vital national interest.
A good…
October 31, 2003
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2003
Jakarta – The Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Commander Maj. Gen. Sriyanto Muntrasan denied on Thursday allegations that his troops intimidated…
The Times (London) - October 31, 2003
Amy Chew, Semarang – Jakarta's Chinatown was ablaze and the city's shopping centres were being looted by mobs. On the streets students were baying…
Melbourne Age - October 31, 2003
Jill Jolliffe – Today's pilgrimage to Balibo by the families of the five television reporters killed in an Indonesian attack on the East Timorese…
Daily Telegraph (Sydney) - October 31, 2003 Friday
Keith Suter – The largest loss of life ever sustained by the Australian media industry took place on October 16, 1975, at the East Timor village…
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2003
A high-level Acehnese separatist rebel who was reported killed by the Indonesian military last month has made a public appearance and thanked the…
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2003
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Next year's general elections will result in the same unqualified, corrupt leaders heading the nation, political analyst…
Asia Times - October 31, 2003
Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Despite the thoroughgoing political disgrace that the Suharto family has seemingly endured since Indonesia's political and…
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2003
Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – Net profits at the publicly-listed Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI), the country's second largest bank in terms of assets,…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - October 31, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia described on Friday the recent decision by the US Senate to hold back on educational training for the country's armed forces…
Asia Times - October 31, 2003
Jim Lobe, Washington – Two weeks after President George W Bush announced that he was ready to normalize military ties with Indonesia, the US…
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2003
Jakarta/Bandung/Cirebon – Two JW Marriott Hotel bombing suspects, who were arrested on Wednesday morning, told police that their cohorts were…
Straits Times - October 31, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Jakarta governor Sutiyoso is feeling the heat again, this time for evicting tens of thousands of squatters from government or…
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2003
Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Councillors, labor leaders and businesspeople failed to reach an agreement here on Thursday over whether to raise…
October 30, 2003
Kompas - October 30, 2003
Jakarta - Although the initial suit was rejected by the panel of judges, the case against Presidential Decree Number 28/2003 on the declaration of…
Antara - October 30, 2003
Waingapu – East Timorese President Xanana Gusmao has expressed anger over attitude of the country's citizens seeking asylum in Atambua, Belu…
Antara - October 30, 2003
Kupang – The leaders of two ex-East Timorese refugee organizations have urged the Indonesian government to refrain from deporting 26 East Timorese…
October 29, 2003
Cendrawasih Pos - October 29, 2003
Jayapura – XVII/Trikora Commander, Maj-Gen Nurdin Zainal MM, on Thursday (28 October) fulfilled his promise to meet with students and residents of…
Agence France Presse - October 29, 2003
Jakarta – Masked attackers threw petrol bombs at homes in Bali on Monday in revenge for a deadly weekend clash between supporters of rival…
Green Left Weekly - October 29, 2003
Protests against US President George Bush were staged in several cities across Indonesia on October 21, one day ahead of his brief…
Jakarta Post - October 29, 2003
Evi Mariani, Jakarta – The evictions of the city's poorest inhabitants continued on the second day of Ramadhan, despite promises from Governor…
Associated Press - October 29, 2003
A former militia leader, who was sentenced to 10 years for his role in the 1999 East Timor violence, unfurled a giant Indonesian flag…
Jakarta Post - October 29, 2003
Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Around 20 victims of the 1984 Tanjung Priok violence and their families asked the police to protect them from people…
October 28, 2003
Jakarta Post - October 28, 2003
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Timor President Xanana Gusmao called on East Timor asylum seekers on Monday in the Indonesia's territory of Atambua…
Radio Australia - October 28, 2003
In Indonesia, for the first time, military officers are being tried for human rights abuses during the regime of former President Suharto. The…
October 27, 2003
Financial Times (London) - October 27, 2003
Shawn Donnan – A.M. Fatwa, the deputy speaker ofIndonesia's parliament, has cause to be angry.
In 1984, after protesting against the…
Antara - October 27, 2003
Atambua – The Indonesian military and police have agreed to deport 26 East Timorese who are seeking asylum at Belu police resort in…
October 25, 2003
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2003
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Hundreds of students and local Papuans staged a protest on Friday in Jayapura, to reject a plan by the…
October 24, 2003
Agence France Presse - October 24, 2003
The continuing terror threat from Islamic radicals will overshadow Ramadan this year in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated nation.…
Antara - October 24, 2003
Jayapura – Hundreds of Papuans, including students, launched a peaceful rally at the provincial legislative building on Friday to…
Jakarta Post - October 24, 2003
[The article below was published in a slightly abridged form in the Post's opinion pages.]
Max Lane – Prime Minister Mohummad Mahathir's…
Antara - October 24, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's economy might enter a crucial period from April to September next year but its overall situation would not be…
Jakarta Post - October 24, 2003
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – The government has wasted a golden opportunity to resolve the secession issue in Aceh and Papua by failing to show goodwill…
Letter published in the Guardian (UK) - October 24, 2003
The Australian High Commissioner believes that the interim legal framework for Timor Sea petroleum development is a winner for East Timor (letters…
October 23, 2003
Asia Times - October 23, 2003
Lesley McCulloch, Kuala Lumpur – When her husband died in January, Faridah (not her real name) fled with her two-and- a-half-year-old son from the…
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2003
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Alarmed by the increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has decided to…