Dili – Four men have been arrested in the killing of a member of Indonesia's ruling Golkar party during an election meeting in East…
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April 28, 1997
April 27, 1997
Jakarta – Five East Timorese, including a junior high school student, have gone on trial in the territory in connection with the death of a…
April 26, 1997
Tangerang - About 6,000 workers from PT HASI (Hardaya Aneka Shoes Industry) Tangerang-producer of Nike shoes-went on strike and broke the glasses…
Jakarta - Eight groups within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia's largest Moslem organization, yesterday endorsed boycotting the election as a form…
Scores of people have been injured in a riot near the Indonesian capital Jakarta by several thousand workers from a shoe factory who…
Jakarta – An Indonesian plant producing shoes for U.S. athletic-wear maker Nike Inc shut down for the weekend following protests over wages by…
April 25, 1997
Jakarta – The accused in the subversion case Wilson carried out a walk out action. He objected when the testimony of the witness Didit Sutopo and…
The General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Union, Bill Jordan, has written to the Director-General of the…
Eighteen people believed to have been detained in East Timor on suspicion of links with the armed resistance in East Timor, Falintil, are feared…
April 24, 1997
PRD activist and student leader, Mohamad Sholeh, 23, who is a member of the PRD's student solidarity organisation SMID, in Surabaya…
On April 22 in Surabaya, the kangaroo court handling the case of Dita Sari handed down a sentence of six years. The prosecution had demanded nine…
Jakarta – Megawati Soekarnoputri in her daily message, Wednesday (23/4), said, the entire membership and supporters of the Megawati…
April 23, 1997
Angered by the failure of their employers to pay the increased minimum wage, at least 13,000 workers of the Hardaya Aneka Shoes…
Jakarta – A strike wave since yesterday is continuing in Tangerang and Jakarta. The economic wheels of Tangerang city, Tuesday morning, were…
Uli Schmetzer, Karawang – President Suharto has controlled this sprawling island archipelago for 30 years with a military fist tucked into the…
Henk Bouwmans (Original in Dutch, translation by TAPOL), The Hague – The Dutch Parliament is furious about a letter from the Indonesian embassy…
Press reports have stated that the Surabaya court has handed down a sentence of six years for Dita Sari, President, Indonesian Centre…
April 22, 1997
Jakarta – A free speech action was held by PRD supporters in the grounds of the Central Jakarta State Court, Monday (21/4). Scores of PRD…
Jakarta – Supporters of Indonesia's popular ousted politician Megawati Sukarnoputri disrupted a rally held by a rival faction of her opposition…
Fresh violence between supporters of rival political parties erupted in four towns in Java province at the weekend injuring at least…
Jakarta – Fifteen East Timorese will face trial in the territory this week for their alleged involvement in the killing of a soldier on Christmas…
A court in East Java Tuesday handed down six and four year jail sentences for two pro-democracy activists accused of subversion, their lawyer said…
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – An activist on trial for the capital crime of subversion yesterday lambasted President Suharto, the Government and court…
April 21, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Two of the nation's largest Christian organisations have made statements backing the right of their congregations to vote…
April 20, 1997
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – Parliamentary elections will not be held in Indonesia until the end of May, but the governing party has already announced…
As members of the PRD, we have decided no longer to attend the court sessions that will decide our fate.
We value the hard work of those who…
April 19, 1997
Speaking to a thousand Golkar activists in Padang, West Sumatra, the party chairman, Harmoko (who is also Information Minister) said…
April 18, 1997
Jakarta – Hit by poor sales, Indonesia's national distributor has offered to sell "Timor" cars to government officials in various…
S N Vasuki – Indonesian opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday issued a manifesto, ahead of next month's parliamentary elections,…
April 17, 1997
Between 10000 and 15000 PDI supporters massed on the streets of Jakarta on April 15 demanding that the elected leader of the Indonesian Democratic…
The East Timor Human Rights Centre still holds grave fears for the safety of Ildefonso de Deus dos Santos (also known as "Maudino"), a…
April 16, 1997
Some five thousand pro-Megawati members of the PDI filled the street in front of the DPR/MPR building on Tuesday, 15 April, causing extensive…
For the second day running, 350 workers of PT Farmindo, a wood processing company, stopped work. The company is situated in Tangerang, part of the…
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of Muslim migrant workers will be repatriated from West Kalimantan following months of ethnic clashes…
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Supporters of ousted opposition leader Megawati Soekarnoputri yesterday broke down the gates leading to Parliament House as…
April 15, 1997
The prosecutors in the nine cases against PRD activists in two district courts in Jakarta presented their summing up to the court on…
Jakarta – Although the People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists refused to appear in court, the public prosecutor announced the sentence it has…
Jakarta – Sixty people have been interrogated by police inconnection with the destruction of a building housing the office ofthe South…
Tangerang – Around 4,000 workers from four factories in Tangerang yesterday held a strike demanding they be given the new minimum…
Bandung – Thousands of workers have gone on strike in the industrial belts of Purwakarta and Tangerang, demanding that their employers…
April 14, 1997
These are busy days for Indonesia's courts. The youthful leaders of a leftist – and therefore illegal – group are on trial for subversion. Soon,…
Geneva – The European Union (EU) resolution proposal introduced to the 53 annual meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission…
Comrades in struggle!!, in the framework of giving support to the struggle of Mega, let's go to the parliament in Senayan [South-Central Jakarta]…
London – The London newspaper, Sunday Business, yesterday (April 13th) broached the heretical possibility that US mining giant Freeport McMoran…
April 13, 1997
The Australian Greens party is calling on people to join an organisation which is offering to hide asylum seekers from East Timor if…
Susan Berfield and Keith Loveard, Jakarta – Siti Hardyanti Rukmana is a woman of considerable means. She is Indonesia's foremost businesswoman –…
Jakarta – Indonesian President Suharto yesterday warned the country to guard against rumours which could spark unrest following a wave of mass…
April 12, 1997
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Students at one of the most prestigious state-run universities are expected to join the swelling ranks of protest voters at…
Gianyar – Scores of pro-Megawati PDI supporters in Gianyar besieged the pro-Soerjadi Secretariat during a protest on Friday (11/4). Wearing…
April 11, 1997
[As reported in an earlier posting, the students were calling for a boycott of the elections. This is not mentioned in the Republika report. TAPOL…