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January 2, 2002
Lusa - January 2, 2002
Associated Press - January 2, 2002
Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has assigned 17 judges to preside over the trials of Indonesian soldiers and militiamen accused of…
January 1, 2002
Human Rights Watch - January 2002
December 31, 2001
Agence France-Presse - December 31, 2001
Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri has scored a poor end-of-year report card from the country's human rights advocates, who accuse her of…
December 29, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 29, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Saturday called on the country's soldiers to be firm in carrying out their job…
December 28, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 28, 2001
Jakarta – Almost one third of Indonesian legislators hardly attended any parliamentary sessions in the 10 months to July, reports said…
Canberra Times - December 28, 2001
East Timorese asylum seekers might find it hard to settle back in their homeland even though it was technically safe to return, the United Nations…
Asia Times - December 28, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri has come under fire for appointing her businessman husband Taufik Kiemas as head of a…
Jakarta Post - December 28, 2001
Bambang Nurbianto and Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Reforms have come to a complete halt under the leadership of President Megawati Soekarnoputri, as…
South China Morning Post - December 28, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – An educated, professional Indonesian civil servant – let's call him Johannes – once had a senior, apparently stable job…
Straits Times - December 28, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri has come under fire for appointing her businessman husband Taufik Kiemas as head of a…
Agence France Presse - December 28, 2001
Jakarta – Almost one third of Indonesian legislators hardly attended any parliamentary sessions in the 10 months to July, reports said…
Jakarta Post - December 28, 2001
Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Hamzah Haz, who is also the vice president, is scheduled to meet with Zainuddin MZ, leader of a…
December 27, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 27, 2001
Banda Aceh – A family of three shot dead by unidentified gunmen were the latest victims of violence in Indonesia's Aceh province where at least…
Agence France Presse - December 27, 2001
Ambon – At least three people were hurt in a shootout between Indonesian police, soldiers and marines in the riot-torn city of Ambon, residents…
Reuters - December 27, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's once all-powerful army made a rare admission on Thursday that it was still struggling to instil ideals of…
Lusa - December 27, 2001
East Timor's health ministry Thursday formally confirmed the territory's first cases of HIV/AIDS infection.
In a statement, the…
International Herald Tribune - December 27, 2001
Michael Richardson, Singapore – The United States has quietly opened the way to resume military training with Indonesia despite a congressional…
December 26, 2001
Jakarta Post - December 26, 2001
Fitri Wulandari, Jakarta – Long criticized for a lack of attention to the widespread abuse of women and children – perhaps the nation's most…
Agence France Presse - December 26, 2001 (abridged)
A leading Indonesian rights group joined the fray in the public debate about President Megawati Sukarnoputri's plan to drop graft…
Jakarta Post - December 26, 2001
Jakarta – Dozens of former employees of the Shangri-La Hotel staged a protest in front of the hotel on Jl. Jend. Sudirman, Central…
South China Morning Post - December 26, 2001
Vaudine England – President Megawati Sukarnoputri tried to put a brave face on her failure to celebrate Christmas with the indigenous Papuans of…
Jakarta Post - December 26, 2001
Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim country with 210 million people, is labeled as one of the most corrupt countries. In…
Jakarta Post - December 26, 2001
Ati Nurbaiti – In a country where the first ever woman president stands proud, along with a few other women within the central and local…
Jakarta Post - December 26, 2001
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri called on all government officials and civil servants to carry out all her…
Sydney Morning Herald - December 26, 2001
Louise Williams – East Timorese journalists are dismayed over an agreement which will probably leave their newly independent nation without an…
December 25, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 25, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian soldiers have killed four suspected separatist rebels in the troubled province of Aceh, the official Antara news…
Reuters - December 25, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday as Christians flocked to churches across the world's most populous Muslim…
December 24, 2001
Straits Times - December 24, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia is witnessing a growing number of child abuse cases but does not yet have adequate legislation to cope with the problem,…
Jakarta Post - December 24, 2001
R.K. Nugroho, Jayapura – Jayapura Police apprehended 42 students involved in a violent antigovernment demonstration in the city on Saturday, but…
Jakarta Post - December 24, 2001
Jakarta – Police in Jayapura, the capital of Irian Jaya province were seen beating defiant protesters on Saturday in an attempt to break up a…
Agence France Presse - December 24, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Four bodies have been found in the Indonesian province of Aceh, a region plagued by violence exchanges between government…
Straits Times - December 24, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian government acknowledges it is simply running out of ideas to create employment for the three million new job seekers each…
Straits Times - December 24, 2001
Jakarta – The city administration's plan to conduct random identity card checks in a campaign to discourage unskilled outsiders from thronging the…
Agence France Presse - December 24, 2001 (slightly abridged)
The health of former Indonesian dictator Suharto improved slightly as a plan by Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri to withdraw…
Straits Times - December 24, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – National Assembly chairman Amien Rais, one of the fiercest critics of former president Suharto, said yesterday that…
Jakarta Post - December 24, 2001
Jakarta – Public order officers demolished on Saturday evening dozens of tents, stalls and kiosks erected by sidewalk vendors along busy roads in…
Agence France Presse - December 24, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia will not follow Argentina and halt its payment on the nation's public debt, top economic minister Dorodjatun…
Jakarta Post - December 24, 2001
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – Argentina teetering into economic chaos right under the nose of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) hammers home…
December 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2001
Banda Aceh – A policeman and five suspected separatist rebels were killed in the latest outbreak of violence to hit Indonesia's restive province…
Agence France Presse - December 23, 2001
Sydnye – East Timor has finally reached agreement with US energy giant Phillips Petroleum on a plan to pipe gas to Australia that could ease the…
December 22, 2001
Jakarta Post - December 22, 2001
Moch. N. Kurniawan, – Jakarta Oil and gas producer ExxonMobil Indonesia Inc. will not shut down its gas fields in troubled Aceh province despite…
Reuters - December 22, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Jayapura – Indonesian police beat protesters with sticks in rebellious Papua province on Saturday to break up a demonstration over the…
The Australian - December 22, 2001
John Phaceas – Development of a $1.5 billion gas pipeline to Phillips Petroleum's Bayu-Undan gasfield in the Timor Sea will go ahead after the US…
Townsville Bulletin - December 22, 2001
Max Blenkin, Dili – In two months in East Timor, the soldiers of the Townsville-based 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, have not fired a…
December 21, 2001
Jakarta Post - December 21, 2001
Ainur R. Sophiaan, Surabaya – On Thursday, following a two-month deadlock between employers and workers, the governor of East Java moved to set…
Jakarta Post - December 21, 2001
Tiarma Siboro and R.K. Nugroho, Jakarta/Jayapura – Bowing to intense public pressure, the government announced on Thursday that it was forming an…
Jakarta Post - December 21, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least seven people were killed in Aceh on Tuesday and Wednesday, three were military personnel and four others were Free Aceh…
South China Morning Post - December 21, 2001
Vaudine England and agencies in Jakarta – An Indonesian military transport plane was destroyed after being hit by rebel ground fire yesterday as…
Straits Times - December 21, 2001
Makassar (South Sulawesi) – For the fifth – but hopefully the last – time, delegates of the two warring factions in strife-torn Poso, Central…