Jakarta – A five-year jail term given to a prominent activist in Indonesia's rebellious Aceh was harsh and heightens the "apparent intimidation"…
Indonesia & East Timor Digest
Displaying 96901-96950 of 110178 Documents
Views 
July 3, 2003
Reuters - July 3, 2003
The Guardian - July 3 , 2003
Richard Norton-Taylor, London – The value of British arms cleared for export to Indonesia rose from 2 million Pounds in 2000 ($A4.9 million) to…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Amid the military operation to crush the separatist movement in Aceh, the government has begun to screen a total of…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
A'an Suryana, Lhokseumawe – The court martial of three soldiers for the rape of four women in Aceh will start on Friday, a court official in the…
Straits Times - July 3, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's military claimed control over the whole of Aceh province yesterday, six weeks after it launched a huge operation to crush…
Agence France Presse - July 3, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesian police yesterday warned of fresh terrorist attacks in the country after disclosing that key suspects are still in the country…
Laksamana.Net - July 3, 2003
Ethnic violence has broken out again in West Kalimantan province, while hundreds of people in South Sulawesi province have run amok during a…
Radio Australia - July 3, 2003
The new UN police chief in East Timor says one of her top priorities is to provide training to the local police force to take over policing of the…
Radio Australia - July 3, 2003
Indonesian's top security minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is reportedly preferred over incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri as the…
July 2, 2003
Melbourne Age - July 2, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A United Nations official has confirmed that an investigation is under way in East Timor into prostitution and allegations…
Antara - July 2, 2003
Makassar – Hundreds of East Timorese, currently under the care of the Al Anshar Foundation here, and other refugees and students have…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Jakarta – The number of students taking the 2003 state university admission exam (SPMB) declined by 12.11 percent to 350,306 students from 398,589…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government-initiated re-registration of civil servants failed to gain momentum on its initial day on Tuesday with…
Asia Times - July 2, 2003
Lesley McCulloch – In the police stations of Aceh, in Indonesia's far northwest corner, fear is the daily diet of the detainees. Not fear of the…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Nani Farida and A'an Suryana, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Following Monday's bomb blasts in Aceh's provincial capital Banda Aceh, authorities said…
Straits Times - July 2, 2003
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday called for civilian militias to be set up in Indonesia as the military and…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri welcomed members of the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) back to the fold of…
Australian Financial Review - July 2, 2003
Andrew Burrell – They may not like being lumped together, but Indonesia's radical Islamic terrorists and the nation's military commanders have…
OMCT press release - July 2, 2003
Geneva – The International Secretariat of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the world's largest coalition of non-governmental…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh District Court handed an unwanted birthday present to Muhammad Nazar, the chairman of the Aceh Referendum…
Green Left Weekly - July 2, 2003
In Jakarta, around 1000 people, the majority women from the Women's Claim Alliance (APM), commemorated March 8, International Women's Day (IWD),…
July 1, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 1, 2003
An international rights group criticised East Timor's new police force for arbitrary detentions, beating some detainees and a trigger-happy…
Jakarta Post - July 1, 2003
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Provincial Legislative Council decided on Friday that it would refuse to implement the newly endorsed…
Agence France Presse - July 1, 2003
Jakarta – A general on trial before a human rights court on Tuesday rejected allegations that troops fuelled the 1999 atrocities in East Timor as…
Lusa - July 1, 2003
Dili – East Timor's prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, criticized Tuesday the earlier pronouncement by Dili's Court of Appeal that a draft…
June 30, 2003
Reuters - June 30, 2003
Sidney Jones, Indonesia project director of Brussels-based analysts International Crisis Group suggests that the Jakarta government has an…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The newspaper editor Supratman is standing by his punchy page one headlines, even though they could send him to jail for…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Jakarta – Alleged irregularities in the purchase of Russian-made Sukhoi jet fighters are expected to come into the open slowly as lawmakers begin…
Agence France Presse - June 30, 2003
Three Indonesian soldiers arrested for raping four women in war-torn Aceh province have confessed to the crimes, the military said.
The…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Jakarta – About 500 people from eight villages in three subdistricts, including Jonggol, Bogor, staged a rally over the weekend to oppose the…
Associated Press - June 30, 2003
Jayapura – Forty-two rebels in Indonesia's eastern Papua province surrendered Monday, vowing to end their struggle for independence, police said.…
Reuters - June 30, 2003
Jakarta – More than 40 fighters of an armed separatist group in Indonesia's remote eastern province of Papua have surrendered to police and their…
Media Indonesia - June 30, 2003
Lhok Sukon, Banda Aceh – The management of PT ExxonMobil Indonesia began dismissing around 1000 workers on Monday, this is the third time the…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Bogor – Protected forests in Bogor, such as those on the slopes of Mt. Salak, Mt. Pangrango and Mt. Pongkor, are being destroyed by…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Human rights activists denounced the excavation of mass graves in Aceh by the Indonesian Military (TNI), saying…
June 29, 2003
Antara - June 29, 2003
Lumajang – Some 15 activists of the Moslem University Students Action Group (KAMMI) from some districts in East Java were released on…
June 28, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003
Jakarta – The media criticized on Friday new guidelines for media coverage in Aceh, saying that rules were effectively hampering the press from…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003
A'an Suryana, Lhokseumawe – Soldiers captured on Friday two alleged Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatists who acted as the rebels' district chief…
Antara - June 28, 2003
Lhokseumawe – Aceh Separatist Movement (GSA) members may have infiltrated Acehnese society over the past few weeks to obtain newly…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Politicians have blocked public demands for transparency in the campaign funds channeled to and spent by presidential…
Straits Times - June 28, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A group of senior Indonesian MPs is in the spotlight after media reports here said that they and their families had lived…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Just five weeks into its renewed war against separatist rebels in Aceh, Indonesia has been accused of, in effect, banning…
Jakarta Post Editorial - June 28, 2003
The party is over but at least we have been left with some great lessons. The recent celebration of Jakarta's 476th anniversary at the National…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2003
[The Politics of Power Freeport in Soeharto's Indonesia By Denise Leith University of Hawaii Press, 372 pp, $55.]
John Martinkus –…
Canberra Times - June 28, 2003
Nothing fades as fast as an international crisis that seems to be settled, as proved by the almost complete disappearance of East Timor from…
South China Morning Post - June 28, 2003
Marianne Kearney – One year after formal independence and almost four years after East Timorese voted in a United Nations-backed referendum to…
June 27, 2003
Straits Times - June 27, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Sobbing witnesses, lawyers walking out in protest against the judges' decision, and a defendant who never looked up from…
Asia Times - June 27, 2003
Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces might be winning the propaganda war in Aceh, thanks to "embedded" journalists, but activists warn…
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2003
A'an Suryana, Takengon – Tens of thousands of Central Aceh residents thronged Gelanggang Musara Alun soccer field in Bebesen district on Thursday…
Agence France Presse - June 27, 2003
Martial law authorities in Indonesia's Aceh have further tightened restrictions on foreign journalists and overseas non-government organisations (…