Aceh arrests and attacks expose sham of Indonesia's commitment to peace process
Over the past week in Aceh, Indonesia has repeatedly…
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February 11, 2003
Catholic News Service - February 11, 2003
Stephen Steele, Washington – More than three years after East Timor voted for independence, access to adequate health care, education and basic…
February 10, 2003
Radio Australia - February 10, 2003
After five months jail in an Indonesian prison, Australian academic Lesley McCulloch has been finally been released. The British-born McCulloch…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 10, 2003
Matthew Moore – The academic Lesley McCulloch was yesterday released after five months' imprisonment in Indonesia's Aceh province and will return…
Detik.com - February 10, 2003
Suwarjono, Jakarta – Although [President] Megawati's supporters have come out into the streets, students are not trembling with fear. This…
Jakarta Post - February 10, 2003
Jakarta – About one thousand students from various universities in the Papua capital of Jayapura held a rally Monday to protest the…
February 9, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 9, 2003
Thousands of Indonesians hit the streets of Jakarta on Sunday, staging a peaceful demonstration against the looming US-led war on Iraq.
…
Agence France Presse - February 9, 2003
The Indonesian government and Aceh rebels on Sunday entered the crucial demilitarization stage in the process to end a bloody 26-year separatist…
Laksamana.Net - February 9, 2003
It was a palace insider, Brutus, who stabbed Julius Caesar from behind, not any external enemy. President Megawati Sukarnoputri also knows that it…
February 8, 2003
Straits Times - February 8, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia has decided to go ahead with its decision to divide the easternmost Papua province into three smaller provinces in the face of…
Melburne Age - February 8, 2003
Indonesia is gradually winding back the elaborate system of discrimination against its Chinese citizens.
Foreign travellers arriving in…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2003
Jakarta – The Riau chapter of Koham (Human Rights Commission) will sue 11 plywood and pulp and paper companies operating in Riau for…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2003
Nani Farida, Aceh – Demilitarization in the restive province of Aceh is scheduled to start on Sunday as part of last December's peace deal to end…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2003
Kornelius Purba, Aceh – As stipulated by the cessation of hostilities agreement signed by Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), the GAM…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2003
Jakarta – An estimated 140,000 out of 583,000 current tuberculosis sufferers in Indonesia die every year compared to 2 million…
Asia Times - February 8, 2003
Bill Guerin – Jakarta has officially announced that regional governments can now borrow from foreign sources if certain conditions are met.
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February 7, 2003
Reuters - February 7, 2003
Joanne Collins, Jakarta – A UN investigator examining Indonesia's legal system called on the government to take urgent and drastic action to…
Wold Socialist Web Site - February 7, 2003
John Ward and Peter Symonds – The Australian government is deliberately delaying the signing of an agreement with East Timor, known as the Timor…
Lusa - February 7, 2003
Dili – The commander of Australian UN peacekeepers in East Timor has dismissed reports that former anti-independence militiamen have infiltrated…
February 6, 2003
Straits Times - February 6, 2003
Jakarta – The Indonesian military (TNI) is undertaking a major reshuffle of 120 strategic positions, including the three deputies to the chiefs of…
Jakarta Post - February 6, 2003
Moch. N. Kurniawan and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – Workers and employers have inched closer to a workable agreement with regard to several…
BBC News - February 6, 2003
Several hundred protestors scuffled with police during a rowdy demonstration outside President Megawati Sukarnoputri's official…
Reuters - February 6, 2003
Jakarta – About 1,000 Indonesian students staged a rowdy protest outside the home of President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday…
Radio Australia - February 6, 2003
The UN Special Crimes Unit in East Timor has charged former militia commander, Joao Tavares, and four Indonesian TNI, or military, officers for…
Radio Australia - February 6, 2003
The Indonesian military has indicated for the first time that it was involved in the murder of Papuan pro-independence leader, Theys Eluay 14…
Associated Press - February 6, 2003
Jakarta – In the first public admission that the military was behind the killing of Papuan independence leader Theys Eluay, an Indonesian army…
Asia Times - February 6, 2003
Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – The market is dirty, is chaotic and reeks of animals. Called the Pramuka pet market, its bazaar-like atmosphere, punctuated…
February 5, 2003
Jakarta Post - February 5, 2003
Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – The World Bank is calling on the government to proceed with its higly criticized plan to actively involve the…
Jakarta Post - February 5, 2003
Nani Farida, Aceh – Residents of the troubled Aceh are angry about what they see as their exclusion from the peace process, which has yet to bring…
Reuters - February 5, 2003
Jakrta – Indonesian prosecutors demanded on Wednesday that the former military chief in East Timor be jailed for 10 years for failing to halt…
Jakarta Post - February 5, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – As demands from within Golkar grow for chairman Akbar Tandjung to quit his post, party leaders…
Jakarta Post - February 5, 2003
Dadan Wijaksana and Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – In an apparent bid to appease public criticism, the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA)…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 5, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – United Nations investigators have indicted ageing militia chieftain Joao Tavares and two senior Indonesian officers for…
Green Left Weekly - February 5, 2003
Ralf Scharmann, Darwin – Traditional owners in several Top End communities have offered sanctuary to 84 Darwin-based East Timorese asylum seekers…
February 4, 2003
Straits Times - February 4, 2003
Warren Fernandez, Jakarta – Brace yourselves – the next 18 months are going to be tense and turbulent as Indonesia heads down a bumpy road to the…
Associated Press - February 4, 2003
Jakarta – The UN on Tuesday indicted 32 people- including 15 Indonesian soldiers – for murdering and torturing East Timorese during the country's…
Jakarta Post - February 4, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Lhokseumawe – Compensation money is often given in exchange for a loss of property or a relative, but it cannot bring back a loved…
Jakarta Post - February 4, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – With the signing on December ember 9, 2002 of the cessation of hostilities agreement between Indonesia and the Free Aceh…
Agence France Presse - February 4, 2003
Banda Aceh – Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday said that they were ready to start handing over weapons under a December…
Associated Press - February 4, 2003
Jakarta – The Indonesian army announced Tuesday that it will replace its commander in Papua province amid allegations his troops killed two US…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 4, 2003
Sarah Crichton – The Federal Court has ruled it cannot hear a US oil company's multi-billion dollar compensation claim against the Commonwealth…
Radio Australia - February 4, 2003
To East Timor, where a reported militia insurgency has put a spotlight on Australia's peacekeeping efforts in properly securing the border. Local…
Melbourne Age - February 4 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Indonesia's national police headquarters was rocked by a bomb blast early yesterday.
While the explosion injured no…
Jakarta Post - February 4, 2003
Yuli Tri Suwarni and Agus Maryono, Bandung/Cilacap – State-owned forestry company PT Perhutani has increasingly come under fire for its failure to…
Bloomberg News - February 4 2003
Indonesia's exports rose 1.2 per cent to $US57 billion ($97.3 billion) in 2002 from a year earlier, helped by higher oil and commodity prices as…
Jakarta Post - February 4, 2003
Dadan Wijaksana, Jakarta – The country's export performance turned out last year to be better than many had expected, thanks to stronger exports…
February 3, 2003
Agence France Presse - February 3, 2003
A bomb which exploded at Indonesia's national police headquarters has heightened fears of new attacks in the country, the police chief said.
…Jakarta Post - February 3, 2003
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – Debuts by new Indonesian artists may soon become a thing of the past.
Digital piracy, through the duplication…
Jakarta Post - February 3, 2003
Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – The 2003 city budget, which amounts to Rp 10.98 trillion, will better serve the city administration and council, instead…
Australian Financial Review - February 3, 2003
Sri Jegarajah, Jakarta – The United States embassy in Jakarta has denied a New York Times report alleging Indonesian soldiers killed two US…