Jakarta – Head of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) Goenawan Ibrahim warned on Thursday that the haze problem in Kalimantan might worsen…
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August 24, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 24, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International urged Indonesia's new President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Friday to bring policemen and soldiers to…
Associated Press - August 24, 2001
Dili – A US-based election monitoring group said Friday it was satisfied with conditions for East Timor's first free elections next…
Lusa - August 24, 2001
Some East Timorese political forces have set up security-style partisan groups in preparation for next week4s elections but have not…
Reuters - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's crude oil output is expected to fall by an average 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) next year due to security disruptions in…
Agence France Presse - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Separatist guerillas in Aceh are increasingly cornered and disunited, Indonesia's top security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said…
Jakarta Post - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – As it is difficult to curb international terrorism in the country, the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) will focus on fighting its…
August 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 23, 2001
Bronwyn Curran, Dili – East Timorese voters are relishing their first-ever taste of democracy but some parties in next week's elections have tried…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – An East Timorese anti-independence leader said yesterday he would tell refugees in camps in West Timor that the world's newest…
Asia Times - August 23, 2001
Andi Asrun, Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Suharto has been out of power for three years now, but authorities agree with the suspicions of…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 23, 2001
Jane Counsel – Delicate negotiations over a new Timor Gap revenue sharing agreement were further unhinged yesterday, after a small American group…
Jakarta Post - August 23, 2001
Jakarta – Observers welcomed the Indonesian Military (TNI) headquarters' plan to drop its territorial function and to focus on defense duties,…
The Age - August 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The UN Serious Crimes Unit, charged with investigating human rights violations in East Timor in 1999, says it is investigating…
Dow Jones Newswires - August 23, 2001
Tom Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia's independent debt restructuring review body issued a report late Thursday criticizing key deals which it said…
August 22, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 22, 2001
Canberra – Australia is unable to dictate a solution to a dispute between East Timor and a US-based oil company that has stalled construction of a…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 22, 2001
An American Civpol officer stationed in Bobonaro District was stoned by a group of Timorese at the border area. The Indonesian…
South China Morning Post - August 22, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The political party of East Timor's independence heroes, Fretilin, has been accused of using intimidation, threats and…
Australian Associated Press - August 22, 2001
The Senate has rejected a proposal for an international war crimes tribunal covering the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Instead, it backed…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 22, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Those responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed in East Timor in 1999 are likely to escape prosecution by a special…
Lusa - August 22, 2001
The number two in East Timor's Fretilin party hierarchy, Mari Alkatiri, strongly critized Wednesday the territory's Independent Eletoral Mediation…
Jane's Defence Weekly - August 22, 2001
Robert Karniol, Bangkok – Indonesia's new government appears intent on completing intelligence-related reforms, including an expanded role for the…
Straits Times - August 22, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia will fight corruption by focusing on bureaucratic reforms, not on the prosecution of serving and former government…
Reuters - August 22, 2001
Jakarta – An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced an army corporal and a former soldier to life in jail for a devastating blast at the stock…
Reuters - August 22, 2001
Lewa Pardomuan, Kuala Lumpur – A rally in palm oil prices is fuelling widespread looting in plantation areas in Indonesia, with armed gangs…
Agence France Presse - August 22, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned forestry company could lose its profitable "ecolabel" certificates if it does not act to stamp out illegal…
South China Morning Post - August 22, 2001
Nick Squires, Sydney – The Government planned to help build a counter-terrorist training base in Indonesia for the country's elite special forces…
Asia Times - August 22, 2001
Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday drew a "clear commitment" from the Indonesian government to accelerate its economic…
August 21, 2001
Reuters - August 21, 2001
Canberra – Australia said on Tuesday it would urge Phillips Petroleum Co chairman and chief executive Jim Mulva to talk tough with East Timor over…
Lusa - August 21, 2001
East Timorese women's rights groups have gathered more than 10,000 signatures backing the inclusion of a "Women's Rights Charter" in…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – Dita Indah Sari, a noted woman activist who is the one of the recipients of the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Award, said here on Monday that…
Tempo - August 21, 2001
Muhammad Abdul Rachman had some trouble uttering his oath of office as he was sworn in as attorney general last week. His voice tripped up a bit…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – More than 1,000 disadvantaged people, mostly becak (pedicab) drivers and street vendors, staged a rally at the Office…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – A live bomb was found outside the family residence of human rights activist Munir in Batu, Malang, East Java, in the early…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court sentenced two defendants to 20-years imprisonment each on Monday for their role in last year's bombing…
Reuters - August 21, 2001
Terry Friel, Jeunieb – Indonesia's generals insist they are winning the war against the rag-tag rebels fighting for independence for the bountiful…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – Legislators of the National Awakening Party (PKB) resumed their participation in proceedings at the House of Representatives (DPR) on…
August 20, 2001
Lusa - August 20, 2001
East Timor's UN Transition Administration (UNTAET) praised Monday the weapons collection campaign conducted last week by the…
Financial Times - August 20, 2001
The International Monetary Fund was fiercely criticised for its failure to salvage the Indonesian economy in 1997-98. Much of the criticism was…
Republika - August 20, 2001
The Asia Director of Human Rights Watch has serious doubts about therecently appointed attorney-general, MA Rachman, considering his…
New York Times - August 20, 2001
Seth Mydans – Just at the start of his ill-starred presidency, Abdurrahman Wahid slipped out of his official palace and made a secret pilgrimage…
South China Morning Post - August 20, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – A leading international rights group yesterday accused Indonesia's security forces and Aceh rebels of violating human rights…
Straits Times - August 20, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Banned from Jakarta's streets in the late 80s because they were considered inhumane and backward, becaks – or pedicabs…
Financial Times - August 20, 2001
Joe Leahy, Dili – Something resembling a commercial bustle has returned to Dili, East Timor's capital. Beaten-up taxis cruise streets frequented…
August 19, 2001
Reuters - August 19, 2001
Terry Friel, Lhokseumawe – Rebels in Indonesia's battered Aceh province said on Sunday they could not work with new nationalist President Megawati…
Jakarta Post - August 19, 2001
Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Fitri, Jakarta – "Being a becak driver is easy. I just have to use my muscles," said Yatim.
The 30-year-old man…
Straits Times - August 19, 2001
Abdul Razak Ahmad – Only one road leads to the house of Pramoedya Ananta Toer and I am not on it. Lost instead in a maze of back lanes in the…
August 18, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 18, 2001
Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Apocalyptic predictions are rife in East Timor as the territory approaches political freedom after centuries of Portuguese…
Jakarta Post - August 18, 2001
[The following is the state-of-the-nation address delivered by President Megawati Soekarnoputri before the House of Representatives on August…
Straits Times - August 18, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Less than four weeks after she became Indonesia's leader, Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri presided over an emotional Independence…
August 17, 2001
Straits Times - August 17, 2001
Jakarta – With an unstable security situation and well-entrenched separatist movements, Indonesia has become fertile soil for international…