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July 19, 2002
East Timor Action Network - July 19, 2002
CNN - July 19, 2002
Maria Ressa, Jakarta – An Indonesian man is being linked to the top echelons of the al Qaeda terrorist network with officials saying he allegedly…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government is still pursuing its plan to impose a state of emergency in the restive province of Aceh, ignoring strong…
Radio Australia - July 19, 2002
An Australian defence think-tank says there's a growing risk of Indonesia reverting violently to a military authoritarian government…
Tempo - July 19, 2002
Retno Sulistyowati, Jakarta – Eurico Gutteres, former commander of East-Timorese Pro-Integration Fighters, came to National Police…
Straits Times - July 19, 2002
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Confusion over the powers of local regents, or district heads, who have been empowered under Indonesia's messy…
Straits Times - July 19, 2002
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri has come under fire for issuing a decree ordering members of her Indonesian Democratic…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Thousands of people from all walks of life, from becak (pedicab) drivers and street vendors to bankers and…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Muhammad Nafik and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri, once a popular opposition leader, has developed…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 19 2002
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The British Government has told families of the two British journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 that it will…
Straits Times - July 19, 2002
Robert Go, Jakarta – Facing a meltdown in its transportation system, the Jakarta government now dreams of a high-speed subway, elevated trains and…
Radio Australia - July 19, 2002
[A new report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says there's evidence that Al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan have moved to…
Lusa - July 19, 2002
Dili and a Portugal Telecom-led consortium signed a 15-year concession Friday for the Lisbon-headquartered company to establish and…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Berni K. Mustafa, Jakarta – Legal experts have welcomed the presence of the United Nations' special rapporteur on the Indonesian judicial system,…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Anti-corruption activists say widespread corruption in procurements of goods and services in most units of the city…
Reuters - July 19, 2002
Jakarta – A UN legal investigator looking into Indonesia's judiciary added his voice on Friday to criticism of how the trials into East Timor…
Jakarta Post - July 19, 2002
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Hopes for East Timorese refugees to escape starvation went up in smoke in just 24 hours on Thursday as the East Nusa…
UN News - July 19, 2002
East Timorese officials today told a United Nations meeting on children that the new nation was on the verge of adopting an international treaty…
Radio Australia - July 19, 2002
[An Australian defence think tank says there's a growing risk of Indonesia reverting violently to an authoritarian government backed by the…
Radio Australia - July 19, 2002
Indonesia's armed forces will put mothballed equipment back into operation following a funding increase.
The armed forces –…
July 18, 2002
Straits Times - July 18, 2002
Jakarta – Sycophantic officials are getting on the Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri's nerves. Some of them, she complained yesterday,…
The Guardian (UK) - July 18, 2002
John Aglionby – Since the fall of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia's reputation in the field of law enforcement has always been near the bottom of…
Lusa - July 18, 2002
The East Timor Defense Force (ETDF) assumes responsibility next week for all aspects of security in part of the new nation, and the…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Anti-corruption campaigners questioned on Wednesday a demand from the House of Representatives (DPR) for additional…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – On his third day of his mission to investigate the independence of Indonesia's judiciary, a United Nations legal…
Human Rights Watch Press Release - July 18, 2002
New York – A proposed amnesty law in East Timor could undermine due process and equal protection of the law and allow those responsible for some…
Straits Times - July 18, 2002
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Inadequate naval patrolling and officials who can be paid off to turn a blind eye are the weak links enabling a…
Radio Australia - July 18, 2002
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has called upon party leaders to speed up the passing of key Bills which are holding up economic…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Collusion and corruption are still rampant in procurements of goods and services in nearly all units of the city…
Far Eastern Economic Review - July 18, 2002
John McBeth, Jakarta – His office overlooking Jakarta's central business district, the shirt-sleeved boss of a Western mining company gestures to…
Reuters - July 18, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's last governor of East Timor said on Thursday his trial for crimes against humanity during the territory's independence vote…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – After two months of hearings by the East Timor ad hoc human rights trial, held in the absence of eyewitnesses…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Rita A. Widiadana, Denpasar – The office of Animal Conservation for Life (KSBK) has reported that some members of the Indonesian Military (TNI)…
Lusa - July 18, 2002
President Xanana Gusmao called Thursday to the nations of the North to grant debt relief to the countries in the South, who would, in…
Jakarta Post - July 18, 2002
Dadan Wijaksana, Jakarta – As the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) opened on Wednesday the bidding for its ambitious sale of some Rp…
Agence France Presse - July 18, 2002
The Indonesian military said it has killed 12 separatist rebels in troubled Aceh province.
Soldiers killed eight Free Aceh Movement (GAM)…
Reuters - July 18, 2002
Jakarta – Most Indonesians and parliament would back the government if it imposed civil emergency status on the rebellious Aceh region, Indonesia'…
July 17, 2002
Green Left Weekly - July 17, 2002
Kathy Fairfax, Sydney – Husaini Hasan, chairperson of the Government Council of the Free Acheh Movement (MPGAM), told a meeting on…
Green Left Weekly - July 17, 2002
Max Lane, Jakarta – Sukarno, the first president of Indonesia, was 27 years old when he became chairperson of the Indonesian National Party in the…
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2002
Jakarta – An investigation into the murder of a Dutch journalist in East Timor in 1999 is still open, a Dutch police officer said Wednesday after…
Associated Press - July 17, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors said Wednesday they would seek to reopen the investigation into the killing of a Dutch journalist in East Timor,…
Dow Jones Newswires - July 17, 2002
Andrew Trounson, Melbourne – East Timor is getting down to business. And that means playing tough, even with your friends.
The world's…
New York Times Editorial - July 17, 2002
American military cooperation with Jakarta, suspended during the Suharto dictatorship over the Indonesian Army's human rights abuses, should not…
Lusa - July 17, 2002
The Indonesian military, until recently occupiers of East Timor, may soon begin training officers for Dili's fledgling defense force,…
OneWorld US - July 17, 2002
Jim Lobe – More than 50 human rights groups in Washington D.C. are pressing a key Senate committee to retain tough conditions on military aid to…
Laksamana.Net - July 17, 2002
Seven young women belonging to a pro-democracy group in rebellious Aceh province have been arrested for insulting President Megawati Sukarnoputri…
World Socialist Web Site - July 17, 2002
John Roberts – Under considerable international pressure, the Supreme Court of Indonesia on July 8 overruled a decision by the country's…
BBC News - July 17, 2002
Rachel Clarke – Indonesia's leaders are trying to work out what to do next with strife-torn Aceh.
More troops could be sent to the northern…
Australian Associated Press - July 17, 2002
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – Indonesian human rights prosecutors today raised the prospect of dropping charges against some defendants facing trial…
Agence France Presse - July 17, 2002
A survivor of a bloody attack on a refugee-filled church compound in East Timor in April 1999 said Wednesday he saw uniformed Indonesian soldiers…