Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's hope for national reconciliation will take a step towards realisation this year with the introduction of a…
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January 23, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 23, 2001
January 22, 2001
Detik - January 22, 2001
Budi Sugiharto/Fitri & GB, Surabaya – Surabaya bus terminal, the biggest terminal in Surabaya, capital of East Java, has been paralysed by a…
Agence France Presse - January 22, 2001
Ambon – Eight Muslims were killed and 19 injured Monday after an attack on an Indonesian military patrol in Ambon, a city ravaged by two years of…
Straits Times - January 22, 2001
Banda Aceh – The Indonesian government and separatist rebels in Aceh have agreed to work together to implement a one-month truce in…
South China Morning Post - January 22, 2001
Chris McCall, Meulaboh – He races as fast as he can in his battered minibus, but screeches to a halt for the men with big guns. Roads in the…
January 21, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 21, 2001
Jakarta – Police said on Saturday a woman arrested at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) on Friday in the possession of three bombs admitted she…
Dow Jones Newswires - January 21, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank's board in Washington has approved a new lending program for Indonesia of $400 million annually over the next three years…
January 20, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – His full name is said to be Ely Foho Rai Boot, which translates from the main Timorese language Tetum as something like…
South China Morning Post - January 20, 2001
Associated Press in Sydney – Protesters seeking independence for the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh called on Saturday for…
Jakarta Post - January 20, 2001
Ambon – The Ambon capital of Maluku was paralyzed on Friday in the wake of the commemoration of start of the bloody conflicts that have gripped…
South China Morning Post - January 20, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – Four people have died in fresh violence in Indonesia's troubled Maluku islands, a Muslim cleric said on Saturday.…
Jakarta Post - January 20, 2001
Banda Aceh – The implementation of law in Aceh has almost come to a halt as many judges have fled the province because of security…
Jakarta Post - January 20, 2001
Jakarta – Employers tend to try to block the establishment of labor unions, and this is a violation of the law, the head of the Jakarta Legal Aid…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Next month the legendary guerilla army Falintil, an acronym for Armed Forces of the Liberation of East Timor, will cease to…
January 19, 2001
The Age - January 19, 2001
Gay Alcorn, Washington – The new Bush administration wants Australia to take the lead in dealing with Indonesia's problems of violence and…
Jakarta Post - January 19, 2001
Jakarta – The Army's Special Force (Kopassus) will be reorganized to meet the demands of security environment in the future, a senior military…
Agence France Presse - January 19, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Separatist rebels in remote Irian Jaya have seized seven negotiators trying to win the release of 11 abducted plywood workers and now…
Jakarta Post - January 19, 2001
Jakarta – In yet another desperate attempt to locate the fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, police announced plans on Thursday to drill and…
Jakarta Post - January 19, 2001
Jakarta – The political history of bombings in Indonesia took a sharp turn after the 1998 May riots, in which all of the cases involving bomb…
Straits Times - January 19, 2001
Shefali Rekhi – The man behind the reforms and privatisation efforts of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises has criticised his government for the…
Straits Times - January 19, 2001 (abridged)
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) is demanding 30 million rupiah (S$5,700) for each firearm they give up.…
Straits Times - January 19, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The kidnapping of 12 hostages, including a South Korean businessman, in Indonesia's troubled Irian Jaya province, is…
South China Morning Post - January 19, 2001
Vaudine England – President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday brushed off calls for his resignation from students and lawmakers, saying his opponents…
January 18, 2001
Associated Press - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – The generals are back. With civilian leaders mired in political infighting and unable to tackle Indonesia's mounting crises, the army…
Far Eastern Economic Review - January 18, 2001
Sadanand Dhume, Jakarta – With a shaky currency, the former president's son on the run from police and a series of recent bomb blasts in major…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – While expressing support for a united territory of Indonesia, United States Ambassador to Indonesia Robert S. Gelbard offered on…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – South Aceh Police found a mass grave with 14 bodies, three of which were suspected to be those of the missing researchers…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – Speaker of the House of Representatives Akbar Tandjung rejected calls by the National Awakening Party (PKB) faction for an investigation…
Far Eastern Economic Review - January 18, 2001
Dini Djala, North Sulawesi and West Kalimantan – At a crowded refugee camp in Bitung, North Sulawesi, some 3,000 children pass their days jumping…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Makassar – The South Sulawesi Police sent 300 personnel from its Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit to the restive regency of Poso in Central Sulawesi…
Associated Press - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – Police fired warning shots at stone throwing protesters outside a trial of three Christians accused of provoking bloody…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – The Central Jakarta District Court commenced the trial of Bank Indonesia (Central Bank) governor Syahril Sabirin on Wednesday regarding…
January 17, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 17, 2001
Jakarta – Police on Wednesday fired volleys of teargas at 2,500 protestors who gathered outside parliament calling on Indonesian President…
Green Left Weekly - January 17, 2001
Max Lane – The process of overthrowing the Suharto dictatorship did not go sufficiently deep enough to deliver a deathblow to the political…
Straits Times - January 17, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – While President Abdurrahman Wahid gave his backing for another ceasefire between Acehnese rebels and the government,…
Green Left Weekly - January 17, 2001
Pip Hinman – Acehnese activist Kautsar has been struggling for his people's right to self-determination for some years. In 1998, he helped to form…
Agence France Presse - January 17, 2001
Jakarta – An Indonesian court has dismissed a case against an author charged seven years ago with insulting former president Suharto by suggesting…
Straits Times - January 17, 2001
Jakarta – A group representing the Chinese community in Indonesia yesterday met Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to ask for help…
Green Left Weekly - January 17, 2001
Kerryn Williams – "We see the potential energy among urban poor youth, whose power has been shown many times in Indonesian history. They are brave…
Straits Times - January 17, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesian police yesterday denied reports that they were investigating the involvement of former army generals in the…
Dow Jones Newswires - January 17, 2001
Jeremy Bowden, Singapore – East Timor is raising the stakes in talks on sharing offshore oil and natural gas revenues with Australia, according to…
January 16, 2001
South China Morning Post - January 16, 2001
Chris McCall, Banda Aceh – "Let our people go quickly or Indonesia will suffer the same fate as Yugoslavia." That was the dire warning from…
Agence France Presse - January 16, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police in easternmost Irian Jaya province have questioned four people including a woman cleric over separatist activities, a…
January 15, 2001
Straits Times - January 15, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesia's Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri has vowed to clean up her Indonesian Democratic Party-Perjuangan (PDI…
The Guardian - January 15, 2001
Maggie O'Kane – The discovery of the bodies of four women murdered with machetes in different parts of the country last summer passed almost…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 15, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – The Australian Government is retreating from its tough opening stance on the oil revenue split in a new seabed boundary…
January 14, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 14, 2001
Jakarta – Vice President and chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) Megawati Soekarnoputri scolded…
Straits Times - January 14, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab has reassured Asean members that the South-east Asia grouping is still central…
Straits Times - January 14, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Even though the police are taking extra precaution to secure the capital against mass demonstrations rumoured to begin…
Agence France Presse - January 14, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri Sunday told 100,000 supporters of her Indonesian Democracy Party- Struggle (PDIP) that…