Lely Djuhari, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri, a staunch nationalist, said yesterday she respected East Timor's right to secede from…
Indonesia & East Timor Digest
Displaying 102001-102050 of 110178 Documents
Views 
August 17, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 17, 2001
South China Morning Post - August 17, 2001
Authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province have unearthed a grave containing the bodies of 48 people, a spokesman said yesterday.…
Agence France Presse - August 17, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least 30 bombs or grenade blasts were heard around the main city in the restive province of Aceh in the run-up to Indonesia's…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 17, 2001
Mark Riley, New York – The Prime Minister has asked to meet with the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan, as the UN comes under…
Reuters - August 17, 2001 (abridged)
Rodney Joyce, Aiwo, Nauru – South Pacific island nation leaders on Friday backed Indonesian plans for autonomy in Irian Jaya rather than the…
Lusa - August 17, 2001
United Nations civil police in the Suai region of East Timor have detained two people suspected of committing infractions of election…
August 16, 2001
Reuters - August 16, 2001
Brussels – Two Belgians held hostage for over two months by a separatist group in the Papua New Guinea jungle have been released, the…
Jakarta Post - August 16, 2001
Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) speaker Akbar Tandjung hailed on Wednesday the decision by President Megawati Soekarnoputri to appoint M.…
Straits Times - August 16, 2001
Marianne Kearney – Anti-corruption campaigners and human-rights lawyers yesterday criticised President Megawati Sukarnoputri's choice of Attorney-…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 16, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri has disappointed observers in Jakarta by appointing as Attorney-General a low-key…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 16, 2001
Aout 200 ex-Falintil members on Tuesday staged a one-day sit-in at UNTAET headquarters to demand that the United Nations fulfill its…
The Age - August 16, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – With an army of street kids recruited to plaster seafront coconut trees with stickers, and a UN vehicle pressed into service…
Agence France Presse - August 16, 2001
Jakarta – Pro-independence leaders in Irian Jaya and Aceh were unmoved Thursday by President Megawati Sukarnoputri's apology for past suffering…
Jakarta Post - August 16, 2001
Jakarta – The owner of a car repair shop who is facing a possible death sentence for the bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange building told the…
August 15, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2001
Craig Skehan, Nauru – A senior member of the Irian Jayan independence movement who slipped into Nauru for the annual gathering of Pacific island…
Agence France Presse - August 15, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri Wednesday called for dialogue rather than violence to settle separatist pressures in Aceh and…
Straits Times - August 15, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The Indonesian navy is stepping up patrols in the Straits of Malacca to block supplies to separatist rebels in Aceh,…
Wall Street Journal - August 15, 2001
Michael Schuman – A deteriorating Indonesian economy could constrain new President Megawati Sukarnoputri's efforts to pursue much-needed reforms…
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Eighty supporters of Solidarity for the Acehnese Peoples Movement, mostly non-Acehnese, held a protest in Jalan Thamrin, a central…
Straits Times - August 15, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia will sell assets cheaply, if necessary, to meet state-budget targets and to conform to the prescriptions of the…
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Sam Frost – Oil giant ExxonMobil's operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh are to be examined by a US court, after 11 Acehnese filed a suit…
Jakarta Post - August 15, 2001
Jakarta – Responding to the increasing number of terrorist attacks in the country, Coordinating Minister for Political and Security Affairs Susilo…
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Pip Hinman – It doesn't come as much surprise that PM John Howard has been so quick to visit Jakarta. Barely a day after the new Indonesian…
Agence France Presse - August 15, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri Wednesday swore in career prosecutor Muhammad Abdur Rahman as her new attorney general, a…
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Max Lane – Military generals and figures linked to the regime of former dictator Suharto have done well in the first cabinet of newly-elected…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 15, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – A former member of the independence movement Fretilin, Dr Abilio Araujo, expelled for his links with Indonesia, has returned to…
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Max Lane – Militant trade union leader and former political prisoner Dita Sari has been awarded the Raymond Magsaysay Award,…
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Max Lane – In moves which confirm activists' appraisals that her government represents a return to power of those allied with former…
Straits Times - August 15, 2001
Medan – A court in the North Sumatran capital of Medan has jailed for 11 years a man found guilty of making and posting 14 bombs to churches and…
August 14, 2001
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 14, 2001
[Source: RDP Antena 1 radio, Lisbon, in Portuguese. Excerpt from report by Portuguese radio on 14 August]
Presenter Xanana Gusmao…
Jakarta Post - August 14, 2001
Jakarta – Some 74 becak (pedicab) drivers, formed a union here on Monday to fight for the right to peddle the streets of Jakarta. The decision was…
Financial Times - August 14, 2001
Joe Leahy – Antonio, a farmer in the arid highlands south of East Timor's capital Dili, points at a distant ridgeline. That is where his family's…
Lusa - August 14, 2001
Unidentified assailants have thrown stones at a vehicle carrying Democratic Party (PD) supporters on a campaign tour of the Liquiga…
Agence France Presse - August 14, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of angry pedicab drivers set fire Tuesday to two Jakarta city council vehicles during an attempt to get them off…
Associated Press - August 14, 2001
Jakarta – Human rights groups accused the the Indonesian army of hampering the hunt for the fugitive son of former dictator Suharto, as police…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 14, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Australia has buried the hatchet with Indonesia's new government over East Timor, opening the way for renewed contact…
August 13, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Australia has urged fellow members of the Pacific Forum not to debate independence for Indonesia's Irian Jaya province at its annual…
Jakarta Post - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Former president Abdurrahman Wahid, familiarly known as Gus Dur, warned the new government against the arbitrary arrest of prodemocracy…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian police have come under fire for their half-hearted attempts at arresting the fugitive son of former…
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 13, 2001
[Source: Media Indonesia, Jakarta, August 13]
Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) will become an umbrella…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's efforts to re-establish stability in the regions will involve a temporary pulling back of…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's big-bang decentralisation programme took effect eight months ago and gave wide-ranging powers over…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 13, 2001
Thousands of people made their way to Dili on Saturday to take part in the UDT mammoth campaign. UDT supporters in buses and trucks…
BBC Monitoring Service - August 13, 2001
[Source: RDP Antena 1 radio, Lisbon, in Portuguese]
Presenter: The campaign for the parliamentary elections in East Timor, scheduled…
Reuters - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Australia's prime minister on Sunday became the first foreign leader to visit new Indonesian President Megawati, vowing to be a good…
Suara Timor Lorosae - August 13, 2001
Certain political parties have resorted to door knocking campaigns forcing people to vote for them. This was brought up at a dialogue…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 13, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – His name is distinctive, and in coming months Australians may hear a lot more of the East Timorese independence leader LuOlo.…
Associated Press - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia will not agree to an international probe into the massacre of 31 people in strife-ridden Aceh province because it would…
August 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 12, 2001
Jakarta – An investigation into the July 26, 2001 murder of Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita has revealed that fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala…
San Francisco Chronicle - August 12, 2001
Lynn Fredriksson – Recent reporting in Indonesia has predictably focused on expectations about newly appointed President Megawati Sukarnoputri.…