Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung denied stealing any money from the 40 billion rupiah in non-budgetary…
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October 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 12, 2001
Jakarta – Amid growing anti-American sentiment in some parts of the country, some 400 farmers from Bali's Pacung Baturiti village staged a rally…
Jakarta Post - October 12, 2001
Makassar – Hundreds of students from the Indonesian Muslim University (UMI) in Makassar sent an ultimatum on Thursday for the Japanese government…
Jakarta Post - October 12, 2001
Jakarta – As a group of former Shangri-La workers continued its demonstrations in front of the hotel demanding their jobs back, the…
October 11, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 11, 2001
Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Hundreds of drivers and owners of public minivans remained in their offices in Medan on Tuesday, some even choosing not…
Jakarta Post - October 11, 2001
Yogyakarta – Hundreds of students from various universities in Yogyakarta staged two separate rallies on Wednesday to protest the US-led attack on…
Straits Times - October 11, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The local administration is considering a reversal of a 23-year-old ban on gambling to profit from the billions of rupiah…
Reuters - October 11, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – About 1,000 Indonesian Muslim students rallied outside parliament on Wednesday, with some trying to knock down the…
Jakarta Post - October 11, 2001
Despite mounting public pressure from small, vocal groups for the government to sever ties with the United States, the government said on…
Jakarta Post - October 11, 2001
Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to the revision of key assumptions in the 2002 state budget draft,…
October 10, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 10, 2001
Annastashya Emmanuelle, Jakarta – The Central Jakarta District Court ruled on Tuesday in favor of a class action filed by Kapak LPG against the…
Associated Press - October 10, 2001
Dili – In its first concrete step toward drafting a new constitution, East Timor's national assembly Wednesday set up four commissions tasked with…
Christian Science Monitor - October 10, 2001
Simon Montlake, Jakarta – More than two years after Indonesia's bloody revenge on East Timor for a pro-independence vote, hopes of justice for…
Jakarta Post - October 10, 2001
Ibnu Mat Noor, Banda Aceh – After serving his full 12-month jail term at the Banda Aceh prison, Muhammad Nazar, chairman of the Aceh Referendum…
Jakarta Post - October 10, 2001
Jakarta – Students in Makassar, South Sulawesi, and Surabaya, East Java, defied a government ban and burned US flags in separate anti-US rallies…
Agence France Presse - October 10, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament, taking a harsher line than the government on the US-led attacks in Afghanistan, has summoned Foreign Minister…
Jakarta Post - October 10, 2001
Ainur R.Sophiaan, Surabaya – The Madurese refugees from Sampit and Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, now living in shelters and camps in Bangkalan…
Straits Times - October 10, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta-The state wants the death penalty for one jailed grandson while two daughters and a son-in-law are under fresh graft probes…
Jakarta Post - October 10, 2001
Makassar-Another police officer was killed in the city on Monday, further straining ties between the Provincial Police headquarters and the…
October 9, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – A lawyer expressed the fear here on Monday that no Indonesian would be capable of meeting the criteria for…
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Along with government aid for the 290,000 East Timorese remaining in Indonesia being discontinued at the end of December…
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Ibnu Mat Noor, Banda Aceh – Five dead bodies with gunshot wounds were found in separate locations after a gunfight between security forces and…
Reuters - October 9, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesian police fired warning shots, teargas and water cannon during a clash with 400 Muslim protesters outside the US…
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Jakarta – Muslim organizations in Yogyakarta and Solo, Central Java, noisily condemned the US-led retaliation on the Taliban's military…
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Damar Harsanto and Hanifah Abu, Jakarta – Over a thousand demonstrators from several militant groups here staged rallies on Monday in front of the…
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) and leaders of Muslim groups condemned the US attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, and demanded that…
Straits Times - October 9, 2001
Jakarta – Discord between Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice-President Hamzah Haz is becoming increasingly obvious now, with the…
Jakarta Post - October 9, 2001
Jakarta – Expressing deep concern at the United States' decision to launch a military strike against Afghanistan, Indonesia urged Washington on…
October 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 8, 2001
Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Amien Rais has criticized government policies, saying they only benefit big…
Reuters - October 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia has asked the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to ease conditions required for the release of an up to $600 million…
Straits Times - October 8, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Trader Dani Hermawan wants to open shop in Jakarta but cannot find space in a decent location. "Kiosks in malls are tough to…
Jakarta Post - October 8, 2001
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – An increasing number of legislators are playing a game of "musical chairs" in that while their colleagues are seriously…
October 7, 2001
Cox News Service - October 7, 2001
Julie Chao, Dili – After Salvador Ferrera cast his ballot two years ago for independence for East Timor, he fled into the hills. When he came back…
October 6, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001
Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Some 50 fishing families lost their homes after the North Jakarta public order office on…
Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Disgusting. That might be the comment that most people would make when seeing them begging on the street or at other…
Straits Times - October 6, 2001
Jakarta – The prolonged drought in Central Java, which has lasted for five months already, has caused residents in several provinces…
Straits Times - October 6, 2001
Jakarta – Ousted Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid has said that he is ready to run for the post again if there are no other…
Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001
Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) legislators questioned on Friday the performance of President Megawati Soekarnoputri's government in the…
Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001
Asip A. Hasani, Yogyakarta – Soldiers in Yogyakarta came up with an novel way of responding to a student demonstration on Friday by blasting out…
Straits Times - October 6, 2001
Robert Go, Batam – After migrating from Medan in July, it took Mr Gunawan Nasution more than two months before finding a job in Batam. He now…
South China Morning Post - October 6, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday urged Indonesia's powerful military to stop meddling in politics and…
New York Times - October 6, 2001
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – For the past year, the Jakarta police have been bustling about town, raiding apartments, smashing their way into cellars,…
Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001
Fabiola Desy Unidjaya, Jakarta – Former deputy Army chief of staff Gen. Johny Lumintang denied on Friday any responsibility over systematic human…
Jakarta Post - October 6, 2001
Yongker Rumthe, Manado – North Sulawesi Governor A.J. Sondakh has ordered M.Zaini, head of the Pertamina branch office here, and Rosman Idris,…
October 5, 2001
Jakarta Post - October 5, 2001
An article in the official criminal code stipulates that court trials should be a cheap, quick and simple way to see that justice is done. But…
Jakarta Post - October 5, 2001
After a seven-month delay, the House of Representatives finally has begun deliberating on a Child Protection bill.
All party factions in the…
UNTAET Daily Briefing - October 5, 2001
Dili-East Timor's newly elected Constituent Assembly today unanimously adopted a set of Rules and Procedures for the 88-member body…
Agence France Presse - October 5, 2001
Jakarta – A plan by Indonesia's attorney general to appeal against the Supreme Court's controversial acquittal of Tommy Suharto came under fire…
Jakarta Post - October 5, 2001
Jakarta – The government issued on Thursday afternoon a four-point political statement against terrorism following the terrorist…
Jakarta Post - October 5, 2001
An employee with the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) in the regency of Bireun, Aceh, Jafar Syehdo, 57, was found dead – with gunshot wounds to his head…