Jim Della-Giacoma, Jakarta – Indonesian President Suharto's half-brother Probosutedjo said he had kept his PT Bank Jakarta open on Tuesday,…
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November 4, 1997
Reuters - November 4, 1997
Agence France Presse - November 4, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian armed forces are to send more officers abroad for training, especially to Britain and the United States, a report said…
Alliance of Independent Journalists - November 4, 1997 (posted by Tapol)
Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) said it welcomed Prosecutor Amrin Nain's call for the release of Dwi Sumaji alias Iwik,…
November 3, 1997
Wall Street Journal - November 3, 1997
Raphael Pura, Semarang – PT Bank Harapan Sentosa depositors who came to its big branch here Monday looking for what remains of their money were…
Wall Street Journal - November 3, 1997
Indonesia announced a spate of measures to shore up its economy as conditions to receive more than $30 billion in aid from the International…
Wall Street Journal - November 3, 1997
Richard Borsuk, Jakarta – Indonesian bankers braced for a tense day of business Monday following Saturday's closure of 16 banks.
Tens of…
Sydney Morning Herald - November 3, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The Soeharto Government has urged the public not to panic at the opening of business today after announcing the…
Sydney Morning Herald - November 3, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The massive bailout package for Indonesia goes some way to addressing economic distortions such as nepotism,…
November 1, 1997
Jornal Timor Leste (Editorial) - November 1997
On 7 August, the District Council bestowed the title of Honorary Citizen of Brasilia on the Timorese Resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao…
Sydney Morning Herald - November 1, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – For fifteen days Pak Waska has been ready: waiting under the vast, concrete highway overpass, his work bag packed, his…
Associated Press - November 1, 1997
Geoff Spencer, Jakarta – Indonesia shut down 16 insolvent banks and planned other austerity measures Saturday, a day after receiving word of $33…
Sydney Morning Herald - November 1, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Indonesia announced last night that it had reached agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a rescue package…
DIGEST No. 44 - 1 November, 1997
For the first time, clandestine East Timorese fighters are building bombs. When one went off accidentally recently it introduced a new element…
Business Times - 8 November, 1997
S N Vasuki, Jakarta – Private power firms, which are investing billions of dollars in new projects in Indonesia, are desperately trying to stall a…
October 30, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 30, 1997
When President Soeharto built himself a modern office block in the late 1960s, it was known for a time as the KISS building, an abbreviation of…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 30, 1997
Chris Lydgate in Singapore and Louise Williams in Jakarta – The Indonesian President's comments that the Singapore Government had agreed to offer…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 30, 1997
The national car
In February last year the Soeharto Government awarded exclusive tax and tariff privileges to Timor Putra Nasional, a…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 30, 1997
Tony Wright, Jakarta – The Prime Minister has told Indonesia's President Soeharto that Australia, in the spirit of "regional mateship", stands…
October 29, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - 29 October, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) is concerned for the safety of up to eight East Timorese men still in detention in Semarang and Dili,…
Dow Jones Newswires - October 29, 1997
Bernice Han, Singapore – Indonesia's National Logistics Agency (Bulog), the state-owned food price regulator, is seen targeted by the…
MateBEAN - October 29, 1997 (Posted by the East Timor International Support Center)
Semarang – Fifteen East Timor students from the East Timor Students' Association (IMAPTI) of Semarang had met members of Commission A (dealing…
Indonesia Times - October 29, 1997
Jakarta – The government is necessary to stop isolating ethnic Chinese from political life, an expert said.
"It is not healthy for our…
October 28, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 28, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund's rescue package for Indonesia is expected to be delayed until later this week after…
Associated Press - October 28, 1997
Jakarta – Police and soldiers used sticks to break up anti-government protests by hundreds of students today in two cities.
Some students…
South China Morning Post - October 28, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Two East Timorese men could face the death penalty if found guilty of trying to topple the Government through terrorism.…
October 27, 1997
Miami Herald - October 27, 1997
Seth Mydans, Kuala Lumpur – Tigers and elephants are fleeing the burning jungles. Birds are falling from the murky skies. Schoolchildren are…
Reuters - October 27, 1997
K.T. Arasu, Jakarta – The effects of the El Nino-induced drought hitting Indonesia could worsen sharply in the coming months, causing disease and…
Straits Times - October 27, 1997
Jakarta – The number of cities covered by the thick haze from rampant forest and bush fires nearly doubled yesterday, amid uncertainty over when…
Businees Week - October 27, 1997
Michael Shari in Jakarta, with Joyce Barnathan in Hong Kong – The 60 Indonesian blue-chip company executives summoned to Bank Indonesia, the…
October 26, 1997
Straits Times - October 26, 1997
Jakarta – Outspoken Muslim scholar Amien Rais has suggested a national poll be held to determine whether the majority of Indonesians want…
Reuters - October 26, 1997
Lewa Pardomuan, Jakarta – Thick smog from rampant forest and bush fires spread to more cities in Indonesia on Sunday while uncertainties over the…
Reuters - October 26, 1997
Chris Johnson, Singapore – Choking yellow-grey smog over Southeast Asia has already closed factories, cancelled flights and lengthened queues in…
Associated Press - October 26, 1997
Jakarta – The worst drought in half a century has devastated crop harvests by as much as 40 percent, the government said Friday. Officials had…
October 24, 1997
Australian Associated Press - October 24, 1997
Stephen Spencer, Canberra – The federal ALP has moved to dramatically recast major areas of its foreign policy, in what it frankly admits is a…
October 23, 1997
Reuters - October 23, 1997
Lewa Pardomuan, Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned aircraft manufacturer Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN) said on Thursday it had found…
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 23, 1997
John McBeth with Fanny Lioe in Jakarta – On October 10, two days after Indonesia announced it was going to seek the International Monetary Fund's…
October 22, 1997
Australian Associated Press - October 22, 1997
Karen Polglaze, Jakarta – Indonesia's military has tried to link Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient Jose Ramos Horta with an alleged terrorist group…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 22, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – The Indonesian Government has warned that forest fires and smoke haze are getting worse, and monsoon rains are expected…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 22, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – In a new effort to arrest the slide of the rupiah, Indonesia's Central Bank has announced that commercial banks may…
Australian Associated Press - October 22, 1997 (excerpts)
Karen Polglaze, Jakarta – East Timorese independence advocate and Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta today rejected accusations by…
October 21, 1997
East Timor Human Rights Centre - October 21, 1997
The East Timor Human Rights Centre (ETHRC) is concerned for the safety of Manuel Afonso and Lino Xavier Nunes who are currently in detention at…
The Scotsman - October 21, 1997
Trevor Royle – Traditionally Britain's foreign interests have been dominated by a mixture of strategic initiatives to protect national interests…
Agence France Presse - October 21, 1997 (abridged)
Canberra – Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos Horta Tuesday accused the Australian government of covering up Indonesia's involvement in the deaths of…
October 20, 1997
Reuters - October 20, 1997
Lewa Pardomuan, Jakarta – Military helicopters flew rice and noodles to famine-stricken areas in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province on Monday…
October 19, 1997
Agence France Presse - October 19, 1997
Sydney – The president of the Timorese Democratic Party (UDT) said here Sunday he was asked by the Indonesian military to kill Australian…
The Australian - October 18-19, 1997
Don Greenlees – The Federal Government is facing a political contest over human rights after a decision by the ALP to call for the first time for…
October 18, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 18, 1997
With Indonesia's President Soeharto nominated by his Golkar party this week for a seventh five-year term, his unopposed re-election by a largely…
The Globe and Mail - October 18, 1997
Jacqui Birchall, East Timor – The path of most despair - Site of death and oppression since 1975, East Timor had little to offer one intrepid…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 18, 1997
A report into the death of five Australia-based journalists at Balibo in East Timor 22 years ago will be examined today at a seminar at the…
October 17, 1997
Jakarta Post - October 17, 1997
Jakarta – President Soeharto denied press reports yesterday that a food shortage has forced people in Lampung and Java to eat cassava for their…