Rachel Harvey, Jakarta – The Indonesian parliament this week passed measures designed to reform the electoral system, but regular street protests…
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February 20, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 20, 2003
Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – In an apparent attempt to elude unwanted public interest in the February 3 bomb blast in the National Police's Wisma…
Radio Australia - February 20, 2003
Women's groups in Indonesia have welcomed a new law that paves the way for more women to enter parliament.
There are currently only 45 women…
Jakarta Post - February 20, 2003
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Urban activists criticized the city administration's plan to evict Angke river squatters in North and West Jakarta,…
Straits Times - February 20, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Top leaders of Indonesia's ruling Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) yesterday called on one of their own…
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2003
Jakarta – A lawyer for the jailed youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto will soon face charges of bribing a witness at…
February 19, 2003
Laksamana.Net - February 19, 2003
As hopes grow that a US war with Iraq may be averted, much attention is being paid to the Justice Party (Partai Keadilan, PK), which has…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Jakarta – Former foreign minister Ali Alatas said on Wednesday that the offer of secession from Indonesia to the East Timorese in the…
Straits Times - February 19, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Golkar, Indonesia's second-largest party which once ruled the country's politics for thirty years, is preparing to strike…
Wall Street Journal - February 19, 2003
Timothy Mapes, Jakarta – Just as Indonesia is beginning to bring its most serious armed rebellion under control, separatist tension is flaring…
South China Morning Post - February 19, 2003
John Martinkus, Jakarta – On December 28 last year a car carrying the wife and daughter of a prominent Papuan human rights activist was ambushed…
Radio Australia - February 19, 2003
Australia's Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock has been asked to establish a special visa category in a bid to allow a group of East…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Noted religious leaders grouped in the National Moral Movement (GMN) called on the government to halt the East Timor…
February 18, 2003
Kompas - February 18, 2003
Jakarta – On Monday February 17, hundreds of workers from PT Elaine who have been left in the dark by factory owners, complained to the National…
Melbourne Age Editorial - February 18, 2003
East Timorese asylum seekers have a special case to be allowed to stay in Australia.
Last month more than 1000 East Timorese asylum seekers…
Jakarta Post - February 18, 2003
Denpasar – Dozens of students and youths from Papua held a street rally in front of Bali's provincial legislative compound on Monday…
Kompas - February 18, 2003
Jakarta – Delays in planting some 413,343 hectares of rice in a number of areas have resulted in a drain of farmers' income sources.
…
Straits Times - February 18, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – There is no love for Mr Saddam Hussein in Indonesia. Members of the educated elite view him as a dictator who has waged war…
Jakarta Post - February 18, 2003
La Remi, Palu – Reinforced security forces were on alert in North Lore sub-district, part of the conflict-torn regency of Poso, on Monday after a…
Jakarta Post - February 18, 2003
Jakarta – The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) is the most corrupt party in Indonesia and will crumble during the…
Straits Times - February 18, 2003
Jakarta – The US Embassy here is now full of praise for Indonesia's fight against terrorism, in a marked departure from the sharp criticism…
Radio Australia - February 18, 2003
In Jakarta, President Megawati Sukarnoputri's PDIP party has come under fire for continuing the corruption that has long been a part of Indonesian…
Agence France Presse - February 18, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday took civil servants to task again, saying they performed badly and were frequently…
February 17, 2003
International Herald Tribune - February 17, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's economy probably expanded in the fourth quarter as Muslim holy days and other festivals spurred spending on food and gifts,…
Associated Press - February 17, 2003
Banda Aceh – Government troops and rebels in Aceh are both guilty of serious breaches of a recent peace deal, the Swiss-based group mediating the…
Time Magazine - February 17, 2003
Simon Elegant – Patricia Spier was heading home from a mountaintop picnic in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua when the ambush began. Out of…
Agence France Presse - February 17, 2003
Jakarta – A former Indonesian military chief for East Timor said Monday he tried to prevent massacres in East Timor in September 1999 and that…
The Australian - February 17, 2003
Dennis Shanahan, Jakarta – Aid agencies operating in Indonesia using Australian government funding face scrutiny after John Howard offered to…
Lakasamana.Net - February 17, 2003
More troubles surfaced last week in the government and Bank Indonesia's (BI) efforts to cover the costs of the disastrous bank bailout of the late…
February 15, 2003
Straits Times - February 15, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – The chief of Indonesia's largest Muslim organisation has warned that an attack on Iraq would spark street riots and the…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will use the occasion of the annual meeting of the United Nations…
Asia Times - February 15, 2003
Bill Guerin – Indonesia has some 200 pharmaceutical manufacturers and 1,600 pharmaceutical distributors. Several international pharmaceutical…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – West Timorese people have demanded the United Nations to revoke a security status imposed on the province after a mob…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Six of the largest political parties qualified for the general election scheduled for 2004 following the House of…
Melbourne Age - February 15, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A small group of East Timorese ex-prisoners listens, transfixed, to the text of the UN's 1987 Convention on Torture.
…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Stealing the nomination start, the Golkar Party, a political machine that backed the former, repressive New Order…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Four thousand workers of Bandung-based aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) went on strike on Friday…
Jakarta Post - February 15, 2003
Aceh – The police in Banda Aceh are still pursuing a prodemocracy activist Kautsar who mobilized Acehnese to go on strike recently…
February 14, 2003
The Australian - February 14, 2003
Paul Toohey – Critically needed containers of medical, health and school supplies have been stockpiled on Dili's wharf because of heavy smuggling…
The Australian - February 14, 2003
Jim Buckell – Pressure from the Indonesian Government has forced RMIT University to withdraw official support for a conference on West Papuan…
Asia Times - February 14, 2003
Tony Sitathan, Jakarta – Indonesia is hoping to improve its image as a safe haven for foreign direct investment, especially after the Bali…
February 13, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 13, 2003
Jakarta – Former Indonesian military chief General Wiranto on Thursday defended his record over East Timor's bloody 1999 breakaway from Jakarta,…
Asia Times - February 13, 2003
Bogor – Floods and killer landslides that followed each other in quick succession in Indonesia – flood warnings reached a peak this month – are…
February 12, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 12, 2003
Indonesian police have arrested a leading pro-independence activist in Aceh province after accusing him of organising an unauthorised rally.
…Australian Associated Press - February 12, 2003
Royal Abbott, Melbourne – Five Melbourne mayors have joined the Victorian government in appealing to Canberra to halt plans to forcibly deport 1,…
Radio New Zealand - February 12, 2003
The Free Papua Movement's representative in Vanuatu, Andy Ayamiseba, says the Indonesian plan to split Papua province into three is…
Reuters - February 12, 2003
Canberra – The United Nations and Australia agreed it was too early to withdraw peacekeepers from East Timor after riots in December but its…
February 11, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2003
Nani Farida and Ibnu Matnoor, Aceh – The Joint Security Committee (JSC) named on Monday six new peace zones to shore up the fragile peace deal…
Agence France Presse - February 11, 2003
Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh said they have begun disarming as part of a peace deal but warned that the military must relocate its troops…
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2003
Nethy Dharma Somba and Kanis Dursin, Jayapura – The Papua Legislative Council (Papua DPRD) rejected on Monday the government decision to split up…