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February 1, 1998
Human Rights Watch - February 1998
January 31, 1998
Toronto Star - January 31, 1998
Paul Watson, Cikampek – On dust-blown flats that used to be good farmland, a grand shrine rises to honour the greed and sheer gall of Indonesia's…
January 29, 1998
Financial Times - January 29, 1998
Sander Thoenes, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund is to approve its second tranche of (£1.7bn) in stand-by credits to Indonesia in…
January 28, 1998
Publico - January 28, 1998
Joaquim T. de Negreiros, Lisbon – Joao Carrascalao, Chairman of the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT), is unbending: UDT will not take part in the…
New York Times - January 28, 1998
Seth Mydans - Jakarta, Jan. 28 One,by one, most of Minarsih's friends at an electronics factory here were taken aside and quiety fired. Too…
Reuters - January 28, 1998
Angry mobs have looted and trashed dozens of shops owned by ethnic Chinese in Indonesia"s Central Java province because of rising…
The Guardian - January 28, 1998
Scapegoats are suffering for a financial crisis few understand. Nick Cumming-Bruce reports from Jember, East Java
Heavy locks on the steel…
January 27, 1998
Tapol - January 27, 1998
The Alliance of Independent Journalists has sent a strong protest to the Jakarta daily, Media Indonesia for sacking one of its journalists,…
South China Morning Post - January 27, 1998
Jakarta – A prominent ethnic Chinese businessman said yesterday the military intelligence agency had cleared him of involvement with a bomb…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 27, 1998
John Aglionby, Jakarta – Forest and brush fires have flared up again in Indonesia and are threatening a bigger crisis than last year, when more…
Wall Street Journal - January 27, 1998
By Darren Mcdermott and Jathon Sapsford
Indonesia unveiled sweeping reforms of its bloated banking sector, but raised the specter of…
Agence France Presse - January 27, 1998
[This item shows the insidious campaign now being mounted by some top generals to hound the opposition and provoke anti-Chinese progroms. If…
The Australian - January 27, 1998
Andrew Perrin, Dili – The troubled Indonesian province of East Timor is facing yet another catastrophe - this one generated not by politics but by…
January 26, 1998
Wall Street Journal - January 26, 1998
By Jay Solomon and Peter Waldman
Jakarta – The local office of the Crown Worldwide moving company has asked its insurer in London to…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 1998
Jakarta – The Armed Forces (ABRI) made a surprising decision yesterday to delay all planned arms purchases, including the Russian Sukhoi30K jet…
Tapol - January 26, 1998
According to an AFP report on 23 January, the trial started in Dili of David Ximenes 44, who is being charged with "separatism". The…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 26, 1998
Louise Williams, Jakarta – In the first sign of a co-ordinated opposition movement, pro-democracy figurehead, Megawati Soekarnoputri, and Muslim…
January 25, 1998
Washington Post - January 25, 1998
George J. Aditjondro – Since seizing power in the mid-1960s, Indonesian President Suharto has translated his absolute political power into a…
January 24, 1998
Sydney Morning Herald - January 24, 1998
Indonesia's Chinese have risen far. But in accumulating wealth they have aroused envy, and as Louise Williams reports, when times get tough,…
Tempo Interaktif - January 24, 1998 (posted by Tapol)
The report starts with describing the situation at the Parliament building like a "market place" with protest delegations coming and going every…
January 23, 1998
The Age - January 23, 1998
Louise Willliams, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing the threat of hyperinflation after the rupiah plunged for a third day amid warnings of more price…
Kompas - January 23, 1998 (posted by Tapol)
Jakarta – Although still in critical conditions and being monitored round the clock in intensive care, Gus Dur has begun a rapid…
Associated Press - January 23, 1998
Geoff Spencer, Jakarta – Spooked by Indonesia's uncertain political future and worried about a mountain of debt, panicky traders dumped the rupiah…
Associated Press - January 23, 1998
Dirk Beveridge, London – The Asian financial crisis and falling oil prices have left Indonesia in a double bind.
Recent stock market plunges…
The Wall Street Journal - January 23, 1998
Darren Mcdermott – Indonesia's financial system is teetering on the edge of paralysis.
As companies make a mad grab for scarce dollars, the…
January 22, 1998
The Wall Street Journal - January 22, 1998
By Darren Mcdermott and Jay Solomon
Indonesia's failure to present a plan for repaying a crushing load of corporate debt is helping…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 22, 1998
Hamish Mcdonald – He is short, speaks shrilly and gesticulates wildly, has a decidedly Teutonic manner from his German education, has the ear of…
Straits Times - January 22, 1998
Jakarta – More than 100,000 workers in Central Java and East Kalimantan have joined the rising number of jobless in the country.
…Far Eastern Economic Review - January 22, 1998
John McBeth, Jakarta – Supremely accomplished in the art of political survival, President Suharto had little trouble stifling opposition at home…
MateBEAN - January 22, 1998
Dili – The accused Falintil bomb-maker, Constancio da Costa dos Santos alias Aquita, tore apart the District Attorney's official response paper on…
MateBEAN - January 22, 1998
FALINTIL activist Constancio stunned the court at the hearing of his trial last week when he angrily tore up the prosecutor's response…
January 21, 1998
Big Issue Magazine - January 21, 1998
Without doubt it is the women of East Timor who have suffered the most. While they have undergone what can only be described as martyrdom, the…
Straits Times - January 21, 1998
Jakarta – Two provincial leaders of the opposition Indonesian United Democracy Party (PUDI) were arrested when Indonesian security forces raided a…
January 20, 1998
Green Left Weekly - January 20, 1998
Jon Land – Foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer announced on January 12 that the federal government now recognises that East Timor has the…
Lusa - January 20, 1998
Lisbon – The five East Timorese who have sought refuge last Thursday on the French embassy in Jakarta are expected to arrive in Lisbon…
January 19, 1998
The Wall Street Journal - January 19, 1998
Jay Solomon and Kate Linebaugh, Tangerang – On a lazy Saturday afternoon in this industrialized zone 40 kilometers west of Jakarta, a group of…
Business Week - January 19, 1998
Indonesia's best-known labor leader, Muchtar Pakpahan, has long been a vocal opponent of President Suharto. Detained since mid- 1996, the 44-year-…
East Timor Human Rights Centre - January 19, 1998
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) has received a report from a reliable source that Lucas da Costa, 49, an East Timorese…
Kyodo - January 19, 1998
Jakarta – A bomb exploded in an apartment in a central Jakarta slum area Sunday night, local residents and police said Monday, while a top…
January 17, 1998
New York Times - January 17, 1998
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund got virtually everything it wanted from President Suharto. Yet on Friday, one day after he…
South China Morning Post - January 17, 1998
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Tension over soaring prices once again spilled over into rioting yesterday in East Java.
Rioters smashed windows,…
January 16, 1998
Reuters - January 16, 1998
Jakarta – Anti-Indonesian rebels shot dead two militiamen in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor in an ambush on a car carrying…
The Melbourne Age - January 16, 1998
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Indonesia's President Suharto today sacrificed the business privileges of his children and cronies in a sweeping…
Jakarta Post - January 16, 1998
Jakarta – Some twenty prominent government critics, including Megawati Soekarnoputri, Amien Rais, Ali Sadikin and Supeni, urged the government to…
January 15, 1998
Republika - January 15, 1998 (posted by Tapol)
Following a meeting with General Feisal Tanjung, commander in chief of the armed forces, US Secretary for Defence William said that the IMET…
South China Morning Post - January 15, 1998
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Almost 1,500 employees of Indonesia's top timber tycoon have taken voluntary retrenchment from six of his plywood companies…
Agence France Presse - January 15, 1998
Jakarta – Five youths from the troubled Indonesian territory of East Timor spent the night in the French embassy here today after jumping the gate…
East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) - January 15, 1998
ETHRC has received reports that Elizio Pinto Guterres Soares (also known as Mito), 25, an East Timorese man studying in Semarang, Indonesia, was…
January 14, 1998
Kompas - January 14, 1998 (posted by Tapol)
Jakarta – Some 70 percent of the 286 newspaper publishers in Indonesia are facing dissolution or cessation of publication, if the increase in…
The Melbourne Age - January 14, 1998
Louise Williams – These are terrible times, a taxi driver says openly. "Suharto is all right, but his greedy children are destroying this country…