Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Activists warned authorities in North Sumatra about the possibility of environmental damage following a plan to extract…
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October 20, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 20, 2001
Straits Times - October 20, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's honeymoon with her deputy is over as both leaders tussle over Indonesia's response to…
Jakarta Post - October 20, 2001
Banda Aceh – Seven people, including two members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist group, were killed in separate violence on Thursday…
Antara - October 20, 2001
Dili – Indonesia-East Timor trade relations have good prospects in future so that there is glimmer of hope that certain parts of their common…
Antara - October 20, 2001
Dili – Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, especially of the Rp 5000 to Rp 50000 denomination, is still legally accepted as a means of exchange in…
October 19, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2001
R.K. Nugroho, Jayapura – Trikora Military Command chief Maj. Gen. Mahidin Simbolon confirmed on Wednesday in Jayapura that the military had…
Reuters - October 19, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – More than 10,000 Muslims, some singing "our blood is boiling", marched through the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on…
Straits Times - October 19, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Inspired by Aceh, the only province where the Islamic Law or Syariah is officially in place, Muslim groups in several…
Straits Times - October 19, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia stands to lose three million jobs if it decides to sever diplomatic ties with the United States, Minister of…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2001
Jakarta – The green turtle (Chelonian) found on the southern coast of Sukabumi regency in West Java province is acing extinction due…
Jakarta Post - October 19, 2001
Jakarta – Public pressure has been increasing for the House of Representatives to set up a special committee in charge of investigating the State…
October 18, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2001
Banda Aceh – Gunmen killed a local government official on Thursday in the latest violence to rock the rebellious Indonesian province…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2001
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The government reaffirmed on Wednesday its support for combating global terrorism, but warned that the continued…
Straits Times - October 18, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Batu Keras (West Java) – This town is situated in one of Indonesia's most devout Muslim provinces.
The road to the…
Straits Times - October 18, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Declaring a jihad or holy war against America and its citizens in Indonesia has become a surefire way for radical…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2001
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – For the first time, nine private companies in North Sumatra have withdrawn from the social security programs due to their…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Atambua – At least 800 East Timorese refugees, formerly grouped under the Mahidi militia group from Ainaro regency, returned to…
UN News - October 18, 2001
Over 500 refugees crossed the border this morning in the second day of mass refugee returns from camps in Indonesian West Timor.
The…
Straits Times - October 18, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Golkar chief and Parliament Speaker Akbar Tandjung has come under fire on allegations of corruption, which observers said…
Straits Times - October 18, 2001
Jakarta – Long criticised for its lack of action, the Indonesian government has moved to lower vehicle-emission levels in major cities.
With…
Asia Pulse - October 18, 2001
Jakarta – At least half of the factories in Indonesia face bankruptcy if the country cuts diplomatic ties with the United States, sending millions…
Jakarta Post - October 18, 2001
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Despite separation between the National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) since 1999, a reform bill currently…
Reuters - October 18, 2001
Jeremy Page, Shanghai – A senior Indonesian minister denied on Thursday that President Megawati Sukarnoputri had condemned US-led strikes on…
October 17, 2001
Agence France Presse - October 17, 2001
Jakarta – A mob ransacked and torched a church in the south of Indonesia's Sumatra island, a report said Wednesday.
About a…
Green Left Weekly - October 17, 2001
Ramani de Silva, Dili – The Constituent Assembly elected in September had been in place for less than two weeks when on September 26 a…
Agence France Presse - October 17, 2001
Jakarta – East Timor's foreign minister Jose Ramos Horta has supported the US-led air attacks on Afghanistan, saying his people have personal…
Jakarta Post - October 17, 2001
Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Thousands of employees of state-owned aircraftmaker PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) staged a strong protest at the…
Agance France Presse - October 17, 2001
Jakarta – A Muslim group waging a "holy war" against Christians in Maluku said yesterday it would not join rallies against the US military attacks…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 17, 2001
Craig Skehan – The Prime Minister, John Howard, has cautioned Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri against her growing criticism of United…
October 16, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2001
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Idi, East Aceh – Yasdi, 40, has abandoned his job as a truck driver because he can no longer endure the rife extortion by…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2001
Ridwan Max Sijabat, Banda Aceh – There seems no right policy for Aceh. Whatever policy is pursued by the government seems to reach a dead end. The…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2001
[This is a special report of The Jakarta Post's reporter Ridwan Max Sijabat and photographer R. Berto Wedhatama, on their recent journalistic…
Straits Times - October 16, 2001
Banda Aceh – Indonesian troops shot and killed a former negotiator for separatist guerillas in Aceh province after he resisted arrest, a military…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 16, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri has condemned the United States-led air strikes on Afghanistan as her…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2001
Leo Wahyudi S, Jakarta – The government should retake the initiative in reforming the nation's defense sector from the hands of the Indonesian…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2001
Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Dozens of people were injured and 12 were arrested as some 1,500 people who staged an anti-US rally in front of the House…
Straits Times - October 16, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday ordered her deputy to meet several Muslim clerics and leaders of militant…
Jakarta Post - October 16, 2001
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – City councillors could possibly commit corruption, but not on the same scale as that which may have been…
October 15, 2001
Straits Times - October 15, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, in comments indicating a degree of discomfort with the United States-led strikes on…
In These Times - October 15, 2001
Frida Berrigan – Things seemed to be looking up for Indonesia in July, when President Abdurrahman Wahid, widely viewed as corrupt and incompetent…
Jakarta Post - October 15, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesian policemen often do a double-take when they wheel bloodied corpses in to Oktavinda Safitry at Jakarta's…
Jakarta Post - October 15, 2001
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Hamzah Haz, in his capacity as chairman of the Muslim-based United Development Party (PPP),…
South China Morning Post - October 15, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – With about 20 people killed in fighting between separatist and government forces in Aceh in under a week, the…
Tempo Magazine - October 9-15, 2001
An Indonesian general has been found guilty in an American court. Is there any resounding impact?
The end of February 2000; a man greets…
Reuters - October 15, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Many Indonesians regard Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden as a fighter for justice and support efforts by the ruling…
October 14, 2001
Reuters - October 14, 2001 (abridged)
Dean Yates, Jakarta – Two German tourists have been kicked and punched after being mistaken for Americans on Indonesia's Lombok island while other…
Associated Press - October 14, 2001
Slobodan Lekic, Dili – When the Indonesian army helicopter suddenly appeared above a rebel camp hidden in East Timor's towering mountains,…
Reuters - October 14, 2001 (abridged)
Grace Nirang, Jakarta – Indonesian police said on Sunday they had arrested 65 anti-American demonstrators in Jakarta and would charge them with…
October 13, 2001
Reuters - October 13, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Step inside a McDonald's restaurant in Indonesia's capital, scene of daily anti-American protests over US-led strikes on…
October 12, 2001
Straits Times - October 12, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – One in three Indonesians living in big cities are suffering from some form of mental illness because of increased poverty and…