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October 31, 2001
Reuters - October 31, 2001
Straits Times - October 31, 2001
Melbourne – Jakarta has failed to renew a key agreement that allowed Australian and Indonesian police to cooperate directly on…
The Guardian - October 31, 2001
John Aglionby, Jakarta – Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia's president, marked 100 days in office yesterday with the threat of national…
October 30, 2001
The Australian - October 30, 2001
Hong Kong – East Timor's future president Xanana Gusmao has recalled his fury when Australia refused to accept temporarily a handful of East…
Tempo Magazine - October 30, 2001
Setiyardi, Timor Lorosae – Floating hotels are a symbol of high living, an irony in stark contrast to widespread poverty in Timor Lorosae.
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Tempo Magazine - October 30, 2001
Disparity between the lifestyles of UNTAET personnel and the people of Timor Lorosae is sowing the seeds of social envy.
The brothers Soares…
October 29, 2001
Lusa - October 29, 2001
More than 3,200 East Timorese refugees returned home from Indonesia during October, the UN High Commission for Refugees said Monday in…
Reuters - October 29, 2001 (abridged)
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesian police on Monday forcibly evicted 100 Middle Eastern asylum seekers, some of them screaming…
Jakarta Post - October 29, 2001
Jakarta – Former minister of defense/Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. (ret) Wiranto declared on Sunday the establishment of the Garda Muda…
October 28, 2001
Agence France Presse - October 28,2001 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has decided to halt humanitarian assitance to East Timorese refugees in West Timor at the end of…
October 27, 2001
BBC Monitoring Service - October 27, 2001
Presenter: The commemoration of East Timor's newly-gained independence has been scheduled for 20 May [2002], however, the chief minister of the…
October 26, 2001
Straits Times - October 26, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The government's city clean-up programme has put thousands of street vendors, beggars, becak drivers and traffic…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2001
Fitri Wulandari, Jakarta – The government will write a new book on Indonesian history in a response to the public's rising demand for the truth,…
Jakarta Post - October 26, 2001
Jakarta – The new US Ambassador to Indonesia said on Thursday that Washington fully understood the position which President Megawati Soekarnoputri…
South China Morning Post - October 26, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Police deny allegations they forced asylum seekers at gunpoint on to a boat that subsequently sank, drowning about 350…
October 25, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2001
Ibnu Mat Noor, Banda Aceh – At least four people were shot dead in separate villages in Aceh, three of whom were believed to be members of the…
Reuters - October 25, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police said on Thursday they were investigating a report that policemen pointed their guns at asylum seekers who wanted to…
Straits Times - October 25, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – National Assembly chairman Amien Rais has quietly begun lobbying for the coveted presidential seat in 2004, making…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2001
Jupriadi, Makassar – Muslim students in Makassar ignored explicit warnings from police, attacking and severely injuring two non-Muslims on…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2001
Fitri Wulandari, Jakarta – Teachers, long deploring small pay and being treated as "cash cows" by corrupt officials, are calling for a law that…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2001
Fitri Wulandari, Jakarta – Infant formula producers denied allegations on Wednesday that they had exploited breast-feeding experts to promote…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2001
Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung met on Tuesday night with Taufik Kiemas, president Megawati Soekarnoputri's husband, to…
Jakarta Post - October 25, 2001
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – House Speaker Akbar Tandjung said on Wednesday that protests and threats against Westerners had prompted…
October 24, 2001
Lusa - October 24, 2001
A UN official of East Timor4s transitional administration Wednesday criticized Indonesia for its repeated delays in bring to trial…
Green Left Weekly - October 24, 2001
Max Lane, Jakarta – The most right-wing elements among politically organised Islam have sought to use the US "war on terrorism" to seize the…
Business Times - October 24, 2001
Shoeb Kagda, Jakarta – As emerging market assets lose their shine in the current global environment, Indonesia faces an uphill task in…
Straits Times - October 24, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Potholed roads, crumbling hospitals, torn school books – that is the bleak picture in store for Indonesia if the government…
Jakarta Post - October 24, 2001
Jakarta – The House of Representatives finally approved on Tuesday a long-awaited new oil and gas law, which will end the decades-old lucrative…
Green Left Weekly - October 24, 2001
Jo Ellis, Cairuhi – Australian solidarity activists have spent nearly two weeks here helping East Timorese counterparts begin an ambitious…
Financial Times - October 24, 2001
Virginia Marsh – If all had gone to plan, divers would now be laying a pipeline along the seabed linking Darwin to the substantial gasfields off…
October 23, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2001
Jakarta – The House of Representatives rushed to pass the special autonomy bill on Papua (Irian Jaya) into law at midnight Monday after a last-…
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2001
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Vice President Hamzah Haz repeated calls on Monday to stop the anti-US rallies in the country and underlined that…
Reuters - October 23, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament, under pressure from powerful labour unions, said on Tuesday it had postponed a plan to pass a draft labour law…
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2001
Apriadi Gunawan and Fadly, Medan/Batam – Five underage women identified as IM, A, FY, E and W had no idea that they would be traded as prostitutes…
South China Morning Post - October 23, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Parliament is set to pass seven laws this week in a plenary session starting today – although public disapproval is…
Straits Times - October 23, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Canberra's strained relationship with Jakarta was highlighted at the Apec summit over the weekend when Indonesian…
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2001
Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais expressed his support on Monday for several…
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2001
Dadan Wijaksana, Jakarta – The House of Representatives budget committee approved on Monday a government proposal to increase fuel prices by an…
Jakarta Post - October 23, 2001
Badri Jawara, Palu – Central Sulawesi Provincial Police confirmed on Monday that six people of the 42 detained for questioning were interrogated…
October 22, 2001
New York Times - October 22, 2001
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – Less than three months ago Abdurrahman Wahid was swept from Indonesia's presidency on a wave of public exasperation after a…
Jakarta Post - October 22, 2001
Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Commission B of the West Java legislative Council, along with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), is processing a…
Jakarta Post - October 22, 2001
RK Nugroho, Jayapura – The proindependence Papuan Council Presidium (PDP) asserted on Saturday in Jayapura that it would reject the Special…
Jakarta Post - October 22, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least eight people, including two Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebels, were killed in a series of incidents over Friday and Saturday,…
Straits Times - October 22, 2001
Poso (Sulawesi) – Clashes between Christian and Muslim gangs, armed with knives and homemade guns, left at least eight people dead,…
Reuters - October 22, 2001
Evelyn Leopold, United Nations – East Timor's newly elected constituent assembly asked the United Nations on Monday to grant it independence next…
October 20, 2001
Straits Times - October 20, 2001
Jakarta – Traffic police, customs and tax officials, and the judiciary were ranked the most corrupt institutions in Indonesia's public sector,…
Straits Times - October 20, 2001
Jakarta – Over 1.3 million visitors have cancelled trips to Indonesia because of heightened anti-American sentiment since the United States…
South China Morning Post - October 20, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The trial of a separatist leader in Ambon, the capital of Indonesia's Maluku islands, that began yesterday had a hidden…
South China Morning Post - October 20, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The police, the judiciary, Customs and the Tax Department are the most corrupt institutions in Indonesia, a survey has…
South China Morning Post - October 20, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Parliament adopted a new code of ethics this week, but experts said it would have little impact on…