Jakarta – A coalition of Indonesian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on Thursday called on the country's main donors meeting here to…
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November 8, 2001
Agence France Presse - November 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – Justice will remain elusive if the government's move to install 60 judges for human rights courts is not complemented by…
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Firm in its first vote on the contentious issue of presidential elections on Wednesday, the Golkar faction at the People…
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Jakarta – The current People's Consultative Assembly Annual Session, costing 18 billion rupiah (US$1.6 million), is talking gibberish, which…
Straits Times - November 8, 2001
Lhokseumawe – Indonesia might grant amnesty to rebels in Aceh province if they abandon their armed, separatist struggle, Vice-…
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – As of January 2002, the government will no longer provide any financial or food assistance to East Timorese refugees in…
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Jakarta – More than one thousand protesters from various non governmental organizations (NGOs), grouped into the newly-formed…
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court sentenced two student activists to five months in jail each on Wednesday for…
Jakarta Post - November 8, 2001
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Only eight of 286 cases of trafficking of women reported to the police during the last two years have gone to court,…
Straits Times - November 8, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji, the first senior Chinese leader to visit Jakarta since diplomatic ties resumed in 1990,…
Reuters - November 8, 2001
Joanne Collins and Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – International donors threw crisis-hit Indonesia a generous lifeline of $3.73 billion in aid on…
Agence France Presse - November 8, 2001
Jakarta – Jakarta will maintain the status quo on a local government's unilateral takeover of a major cement firm's affiliate, Home Minister Hari…
November 7, 2001
Jakarta Post - November 7, 2001
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – The Ministry of Agriculture has accounted for Rp 125 million following its settlement of 35 financial-related…
Jakarta Post - November 7, 2001
Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Some 100,000 textile workers may lose their jobs next year due to a combination of the global economic slump and…
Reuters - November 7, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police said on Wednesday they had arrested an Egyptian suspected of being the chief smuggler responsible for organising a…
Straits Times - November 7, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Dr Amien Rais, house speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), chastised legislators for skipping…
Jakarta Post - November 7, 2001
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Remember the old politicians who made a scene jostling and screaming at each other at the first-day meeting of the…
Jakarta Post - November 7, 2001
Jakarta – Activists criticized on Tuesday the city administration's policy on the eviction of poor urban people, including those living along…
South China Morning Post - November 7, 2001
Jake Lloyd-Smith – Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday fired a parting shot as the Asean summit wound up, saying the US-led…
Tempo - November 7, 2001
Bagja Hidayat, Jakarta – About a thousand farmers staged a rally at the legislature complex today, demanding the People's Consultative Assembly (…
South China Morning Post - November 7, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Lost in the recent hoopla of Parliament's approval of special autonomy for Irian Jaya is the fact that four of the…
November 6, 2001
Jakarta Post - November 6, 2001
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court sentenced on Monday former chief of the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) Beddu…
Jakarta Post - November 6, 2001
Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – City officials complained on Monday over the interference of city councillors in their drafting of next year's city…
Jakarta Post - November 6, 2001
The rupiah plunged to near 11,000 per US dollar late on Monday, the lowest level during President Megawati Soekarnoputri's three-month-old…
Jakarta Post - November 6, 2001
R.K. Nugroho, Jayapura – A legislator has called on Jayapura District Court to free the Papua Presidium Council's functionaries from subversion…
Reuters - November 6, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's Attorney General's Office said on Tuesday it had formally asked the country's central bank to freeze assets of…
Straits Times - November 6, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Three Islamic parties in Parliament are pushing for the inclusion of Islamic Syariah law in the Constitution to pave the…
Agence France Presse - November 6, 2001
Kupang – Afghan and Iraqi asylum-seekers staying at an Indonesian police college here quietly protested Wednesday against their treatment by the…
November 5, 2001
Reuters - November 5, 2001
Jakarta – A majority of factions in Indonesia's top assembly have agreed to hold the country's first ever direct presidential election in 2004,…
Agence France Presse - November 5, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank on Monday urged Indonesia to immediately defy provincial government attempts to take-over affiliates of state-owned…
The Australian - November 5, 2001
Robert Garran – Indonesian troops attacking the East Timorese town of Balibo in October 1975 had good reason not to want five Australian-based…
Reuters - November 5, 2001
Dean Yates, Jakarta – The World Bank said on Monday it expected Indonesia to "muddle through" its economic woes, adding the most urgent tasks were…
November 3, 2001
The Age - November 3, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – The news that Japan has authorised its troops to serve overseas, despite the country's pacifist constitution, sends shudders…
Straits Times - November 3, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesians will find out next week whether they will be able to vote directly for their choices of president and vice-…
Straits Times - November 3, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Running low on rice and other staple goods, Indonesia is mulling over a barter programme with other Asean countries to trade…
November 2, 2001
Associated Press - November 2, 2001
Surabaya – Around 3,000 Muslims Friday demonstrated against US-led attacks on Afghanistan in Indonesia's second largest city.
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November 1, 2001
Sydney Monring Herald - November 1, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Craig Skehan, Kelly Burke and AAP – Indonesia accused Australia of a failure in diplomacy over boat people yesterday, attacking Canberra's "…
Agence France Presse - November 1, 2001
Sydney – Australian Prime Minister John Howard was forced to acknowledge Thursday the testiness of his country's relationship with Indonesia as a…
Jakarta Post - November 1, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Atambua – East Timorese refugees living in Atambua, East Nusa Tenggara, have destroyed some 700 hectares of protected forests in…
Agence France Presse - November 1, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesians working abroad often become victims of extortion at the airport when they return home, a minister said in a…
Straits Times - November 1, 2001
Jakarta – Central Bank Governor Sjahril Sabirin was convicted of fraud for his role in allowing an illegal payment to PT Bank Bali,…
Straits Times - November 1, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Former Defence Minister and military chief General Wiranto yesterday denied having misused 10 billion rupiah (S$1.7…
Straits Times - November 1, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian media, assessing President Megawati Sukarnoputri's first 100 days in office, said she did not live up to…
October 31, 2001
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned electricity company, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), is seeking foreign loans to avert a likely…
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001
United Nations – The Security Council decided Wednesday that the UN-administered territory of East Timor should become independent on May 20 next…
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – In line with the planned establishment of an independent East Timor early next year, Indonesia and East Timor have…
Jakarta Post - October 31, 2001
Jakarta – Chief of the Udayana Military Command overseeing Bali, East and West Nusa Tenggara, Maj. Gen. Willem T. da Costa, said on Tuesday that…
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001
Jakarta – The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said Tuesday that it has helped repatriate 188,646 East Timorese refugees from Indonesia's…
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least four people have been killed and three badly wounded in the latest violence to hit the restive Indonesian…
Agence France Presse - October 31, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's cash-strapped state television station is to start carrying advertising for the first time since it was set up…