Jakarta – Indonesia's chief economics minister said on Thursday the haggard economy would be hard pressed to grow more than five percent next year…
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August 30, 2001
Reuters - August 30, 2001
Reuters - August 30, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police on Wednesday released five key negotiators from the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) days ahead of…
The Independent - August 30, 2001
Richard Lloyd Parry – Two years to the day after the 1999 referendum on independence, the East Timorese people vote again on Thursday in the first…
Financial Times - August 30, 2001
Woodside Petroleum, Australia's biggest independent oil and gas group, is to evaluate competing proposals from Royal Dutch/Shell and Phillips…
South China Morning Post - August 30, 2001
At the Toko Lay hardware store in central Dili, Charles Tan was checking a newly arrived generator to sell to the burgeoning construction industry…
Australian Financial Review - August 30, 2001
Rowan Callick – The emergence of democratic government in an independent East Timor is a miracle. The obstacles in its path, through erratic and…
Agence France Presse - August 30 2001
Washington – The State Department's top Asia hand is due in Jakarta this weekend in the latest sign of a new US drive to engage Indonesia – but…
Associated Press - August 30, 2001
Slobodan Lekic, Dili – Women nursed babies held in shoulder slings and people joked with UN monitors as they waited in long lines to vote Thursday…
Kyodo News - August 30, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Christine T. Tjandraningsih, Kupang – As hundreds of thousands of East Timorese went to the polls Thursday in the UN-administered territory's…
August 29, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 29, 2001
Dili – Justice must come before amnesty for people guilty of human rights violations in East Timor, a lawyer working to establish a truth…
Green Left Weekly - August 29, 2001
Jon Land – The August 30 election for East Timor's Constituent Assembly signifies an important step towards the conclusion of the United Nations…
The Australian - August 29, 2001
Don Greenlees – The Indonesian army has extended an olive branch to East Timor's fledgling defence force, by offering to train former Falintil…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 29, 2001
Joe Cochrane, Ermera – The farmers of Ermera are fiercely proud of their long tradition of growing East Timor's finest coffee, but these days that…
South China Morning Post - August 29, 2001
Vaudine England, Dili – East Timor's president-in-waiting, Xanana Gusmao, yesterday restated his belief that amnesties should be considered for…
Financial Times - August 29, 2001
Joe Leahy – Building a central bank from scratch in one of the world's poorest countries was never going to be easy.
But Fernando DePeralto…
Jakarta Post - August 29, 2001
Jakarta – Britain is ready to resume sales of weapons to Indonesia, saying that it has accepted the assurances from the Indonesian Military (TNI)…
Straits Times - August 29, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The economic crunch in Indonesia is spurring a new deadly handicraft in its eastern islands: bomb-making. Police believe…
August 28, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Jakarta – Two soldiers were killed and five people were wounded in a shootout between police and troops in Indonesia's easternmost…
Lusa - August 28, 2001
The leader of East Timor's Social Democratic Party (PSD) said Monday in Dili he hoped his party would obtain between 30 and 40 percent of the vote…
Lusa - August 28, 2001
The upcoming Constituent Assembly elections in East Timor serve "only to comply with the calendar and are neither free nor fair", the leader of…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Nobel Peace Prize-winner Bishop Carlos Belo has made a new appeal to the international community to establish a war crimes…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – He was East Timor's first president, the head of the short-lived Fretilin administration that unilaterally declared independence…
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Vamasae – In one of the thousands of charred and gutted buildings that still scar East Timor's landscape, 200 villagers squat before the man who…
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Dili – East Timor's president in waiting, Xanana Gusmao, said Tuesday that amnesties must be considered for those who led the violence surrounding…
Jakarta Post - August 28, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of activists of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Monday staged a rally at the People's Consultative Assembly (…
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Jakarta – Authorities in a haze-shrouded Indonesian city will make artificial rain to wash away choking smoke from forest and ground fires, the…
Reuters - August 28, 2001
Jakarta – An Indonesian court ordered mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia on Tuesday to improve its toxic waste management after it was found…
August 27, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – A coalition of watchdogs on legal affairs has lashed out at two court's decisions to dismiss cases against three Supreme Court justices…
BBC Monitoring Service - August 27, 2001
Fretilin Party Secretary-General Mari Alkatiri has guaranteed there would be no radical behaviour on the part of his party as Fretilin were no…
Jakarta Post - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – Activists have urged the government to reform the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas-HAM), which they said was ineffective as…
Dow Jones Newswires - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – Following are the key points of Indonesia's agreement with the International Monetary Fund Monday. The agreement, known as a letter of…
Jakarta Post - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – Drastic restructuring measures introduced by the new leadership of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) to improve the agency…
Canberra Times - August 27, 2001
James Fox – Parliamentary elections will be held in East Timor on Thursday, two years from the day when the East Timorese turned out en masse to…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001
[Speaking for the first time, former Indonesian president B.J. Habibie tells David Jenkins how and why he made the fatal decision to leave…
Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001
Lisbon – East Timor's UN administrator said in a newspaper interview Friday that a broad-based government will be named to govern the territory…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The East Timor independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has decided not to retire from politics to grow prize pumpkins…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 27, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – East Timor's leaders are planning an international campaign to pressure the Indonesian Government to allow Timorese…
Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001
Bronwyn Curran, Baucau – In a good month Carlos Bovida makes 20 dollars selling sweet potatoes and bananas on a lonely road, winding through the…
Agence France Presse - August 27, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least 11 more people have been killed in clashes between Indonesian troops and police and separatist rebels in Aceh province,…
Lusa - August 27, 2001
Predicting his Fretilin party would win East Timor's first free elections by a landslide, Mari Alkatiri warned the territory's UN…
August 26, 2001
Straits Times - August 26, 2001
Jakarta – Clothes make the man, or the governor, in this case. Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has proposed increasing his wardrobe allowance this year…
Los Angeles Times - August 26, 2001
David DeVoss – The East Timor branch of Portugal's Banco Nacional Ultramarino in Dili looks like a modern financial institution. It has a smiling…
Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 26, 2001
Dili – It is easy to be optimistic about East Timor's future when you are sitting at the villa of its de facto king – UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de…
August 25, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dare Mulo – Some people wept. Others sang national songs they had rehearsed for days and stamped their bare feet in the dust.…
Straits Times - August 25, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's intelligence chief has confirmed US government warnings that American interests in the country face possible terrorist…
Straits Times - August 25, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesian police have said they will question an entertainer for allegedly inciting hatred against the state by…
Associated Press - August 25, 2001
Jakarta – The military is losing patience with peace efforts in Indonesia's Aceh province and should be allowed to crack down on separatist…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 25, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's Cabinet member for foreign affairs, Mr Jose Ramos Horta, has blasted the United Nations mission in Dili for…
Agence France Presse - August 25, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian newspapers yesterday rapped Jakarta city councillors for going on 'foreign junkets' at a time of economic crisis…
August 24, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Nearly 300,000 people were displaced by communal and sectarian conflict in various parts of Indonesia between January and August,…