Ati Nurbaiti, Ambon – It seems an inevitable, accepted fact of life here that while things must return to "normal", it would be wishful thinking…
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January 12, 2003
Jakarta Post - January 12, 2003
Agence France Presse - January 12, 2003
Banda Aceh – The number of killings and clashes between Indonesian forces and separatist rebels in Aceh province has plunged sharply a…
January 11, 2003
Straits Times - January 11, 2003
Jakarta – Police have uncovered a fifth military-style training camp in South Sulawesi – suspected to belong to the group behind last month's…
Straits Times - January 11, 2003
Jakarta – Domestic researchers lashed out at the government's plan to impose restrictions on foreign scholars who wish to conduct…
Asia Times - January 11, 2003
Tony Sitathan, Jakarta – "I do not know how I am going to survive with three children, an ailing mother and an unemployed husband, with the…
Jakarta Post - January 11, 2003
Jakarta – Street protests continued across the country Friday against steep increases in fuel and utility charges as the government began…
Straits Times - January 11, 2003
Jakarta – Already under investigation for corruption, Indonesia's Attorney-General was accused by police yesterday of embezzling…
Straits Times - January 11, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – After pulling up President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia's main audit body is flexing its muscles and plans to fire…
Asia Times - January 11, 2003
Bill Guerin – A year ago Indonesia's debut into the free-trade era took place when it opened its markets to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).
…Sydney Morning Herald - January 11 2003
Tom Hyland – The accused sits with his seven lawyers in the listless heat of a Jakarta courtroom. He occasionally wipes his brow and shifts in his…
Straits Times - January 11, 2003
Jakarta – Despite making progress in clamping down on suspected terrorists, Indonesia lacks a comprehensive policy to combat terrorism and puts…
January 10, 2003
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Jakarta – American nurse Joy Lee Sadler was released Friday from jail in Aceh province after four months in detention for visa…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Police fired two warning shots into the air to disperse a rally of some 1,000 former workers of PT Doson Indonesia, a…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Leniency in the labor law and lack of enforcement of standard safety measures have put the lives of millions of…
Reuters - January 10, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's troubled province of Aceh has been peaceful for a week and a Geneva-based organisation that brokered a peace deal between…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Maria Endah Hulupi and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Thousands of workers and students staged a rally in front of Merdeka Palace, Central Jakarta, on…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Ibnu Mat Noor and Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Civilian casualties have dropped significantly in Aceh in the past month, but violence has…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – Unable to force the government to cancel utility price increases despite mass protests across the country, protesters…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Jakarta – Calls for a national boycott on taxes and utility bills, and for the resignations of President Megawati Soekarnoputri and her deputy…
Radio Australia - January 10, 2003
Australia's foreign minister Alexander Downer has meet his East Timorese counterpart, Jose Ramos Horta, to discuss recent unrest in…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2003
Jakarta – The non-governmental organization, The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi), condemned on Thursday the government's…
Antara - January 10, 2003
Jakarta – Hundreds of workers grouped in the workers union of many companies joined in a rally in protest of the increase in fuel oil…
January 9, 2003
Lusa - January 9, 2003
Dili – The East Timor Defense Force (ETDF) is currently mounting counter-insurgency operations in an attempt to capture presumed anti-independence…
Associated Press - January 9, 2003
Dili – East Timor police said Thursday they arrested two former pro-Jakarta militiamen on weapons charges but declined to say if the men were…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2003
Evi Mariani, Jakarta – About 150 becak (trishaw) drivers united in the Daya Manunggal Becak Driver Group (PBDM) visited the National Commission on…
Straits Times - January 9, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputi faces one of her toughest challenges today as Indonesia's businessmen join thousands of…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2003
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – Some 25,000 workers are expected to hit the streets of Jakarta on Thursday in what will likely be the biggest…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2003
Jakarta – The government has announced a plan to restrict foreign researchers' access to conduct field work in Papua and Aceh, saying that many…
Reuters - January 9, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign direct investment pledges slumped 35 per cent last year compared with 2001, a bad sign for economic…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2003
Jakarta – The police reiterated once again that they would take very strict actions against demonstrators, if they planned to insult…
Straits Times - January 9, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – With a glut of new parties set up ahead of next year's general election, disputes are breaking out over the right to use…
Straits Times - January 9, 2003
Jakarta – In another show of deep cracks within the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), five functionaries in Lampung…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2003
Jakarta – Unable to accept the burning of her effigy, President Megawati Soekarnoputri urged the people not to insult state symbols…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2003
Jakarta – A lawyer for a Christian gang suspected of deadly bombings and shootings in Maluku said Wednesday some attacks had been assisted by…
January 8, 2003
Straits Times - January 8, 2003
Jakarta – Hundreds of students burned tyres and pictures of President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday when protests against fuel, telephone and…
BBC Monitoring - January 8, 2003
Surabaya – In the midst of a heated situation following the recent shooting of civilians, about 4,000 TNI Indonesian National Military Forces…
Agence France Presse - January 8, 2003
Recent unrest in newly-independent East Timor which claimed five lives is a purely domestic problem and has nothing to do with former ruler…
Radio Australia - January 8, 2003
A new report claims Indonesia's booming paper industry is responsible for widespread attacks on indigenous communities in Sumatra. The New York-…
Straits Times - January 8, 2003
The recent furore over Singapore Technologies Telemedia's purchase of a major stake in Indonesia's Indosat is just a case of domestic…
Straits Times - January 8, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia could be building nuclear power plants by the end of this decade, as part of government efforts to provide…
January 7, 2003
Straits Times - January 7, 2003
Dili – East Timor's defence force is to send 180 soldiers to a district where attackers killed four villagers over the weekend, a defence source…
Straits Times - January 7, 2003
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – It comes as no surprise that a handful of legislators are seeking an inquiry into the S$1.2 billion purchase of a major…
Asia Times - January 7, 2003
Richel Langit, Jakarta – Dozens of people suspected of plotting the deadly Bali bombing have been arrested, and the head of the joint…
Jakarta Post - January 7, 2003
Jakarta – The country's booming paper industry is responsible for widespread attacks on indigenous communities in Sumatra, said a…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 7, 2003
Jill Jolliffe, Darwin – United Nations officials and East Timorese government leaders are re-assessing security after a weekend border attack with…
Jakarta Post - January 7, 2003
Jakarta – Papuans demanded on Monday that the venue of the murder trial for local separatist leader Theys Hiyo Eluay be moved from the East Java…
Jakarta Post - January 7, 2003
Jakarta – Mass strikes by public transportation drivers commenced in a number of cities on Monday as street protests against recent hikes in…
Canberra Times - January 7, 2003
James Dunn – It is hard to feel sanguine about the latest acquittal of the Indonesian Human Rights Tribunal, which has been hearing charges…
January 6, 2003
Associated Press - January 6, 2003
Dili – Screaming "We are coming back for you", a gang armed with automatic rifles raided two villages in newly independent East Timor, killing…
Agence France Presse - January 6, 2003
Hundreds of Indonesians took to the streets here to protest the government's decision to raise electricity and telephone rates and fuel prices,…