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August 6, 2001

BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 6, 2001

[Excerpt from report by Asih Nurhayati by Indonesian Satunet news web site on 6 August.]

An East Timorese Jose Amaral (29) caught…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 6, 2001

Mark Dodd – East Timorese officials have hailed President Megawati Sukarnoputri's decision to expand the terms of an Indonesian…

South China Morning Post - August 6, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Scores of Acehnese activists have been arrested in Jakarta in recent days as part of the military's no-holds-barred…

Associated Press - August 6, 2001

Jakarta – Community leaders in an oil-rich Indonesian province have threatened to block the operations of a Caltex affiliate unless Jakarta…

August 4, 2001

Agence France Presse - August 4, 2001

Banda Aceh – Indonesian police said Saturday they had arrested a sixth rebel peace negotiator in the restive province of Aceh amid an intensifying…

Agence France Presse - August 4, 2001 (abridged)

Jakarta – Deposed Indonesian president Aburrahman Wahid turned 61 Saturday, 12 days after a humiliating impeachment by the national assembly cut…

Associated Press - August 4, 2001 (abridged)

Jakarta – Ousted president Abdurrahman Wahid returned to Indonesia yesterday after medical tests in the United States, insisting those…

Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – People who like to eat out at KFC would never have imagined that it had something to do with Cipinang Penitentiary in…

Straits Times - August 4, 2001

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Two fatal bombings, the assassination of a top judge and a jail breakout – all took place within the first 10 days of Ms…

Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001

Jakarta – A play highlighting human rights issues will be staged at Taman Ismail Marzuki arts center in Central Jakarta to mark the…

Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001

Jakarta – Political parties have submitted their candidates for the new Cabinet but the lineup will not be announced until next Thursday, largely…

August 3, 2001

BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 3, 2001

[Source: Kompas Cyber Media web site, Jakarta, Auguse 3]

Denpasar – If civilians refuse to surrender their weapons as…

Agence France Presse - August 3, 2001

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces have shot dead 10 suspected separatist rebels in various clashes in the flashpoint province of Aceh, the army…

Jakarta Post - August 3, 2001

Jakarta – The much-awaited Cabinet line-up will not be unveiled until next week, accentuating apparent horse trading among major political parties…

Financial Times - August 3, 2001

The United Nations is to reduce its presence in East Timor in spite of Security Council members' reservations about the new administration in…

August 2, 2001

Far Eastern Economic Review - August 2, 2001

John McBeth and Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Sadly for Indonesia, the dramatic events of July 23 that saw Abdurrahman Wahid sacked as president and…

Reuters - August 2, 2001

Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – A bomb blast ripped through the ground floor of a busy shopping centre in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday…

Deutsche Presse Agentur - August 2, 2001

East Timor's transitional government on Thursday moved forward with a controversial plan to adopt Portuguese as the country's official…

August 1, 2001

Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001

Jon Land – As campaigning for the Constituent Assembly elections slowly gathers momentum across East Timor, the installation of Megawati…

Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001

About 19,800 coffee farmers in Timor Lorosae have to swallow the bitter pill because of sharp falls in worldwide coffee prices. On 10 May the…

Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001

Max Lane – In October 1999, when Megawati Sukarnoputri won the consolation prize of being elected Abdurrahman Wahid's vice-president, tens of…

Suara Timor Lorosae - August 1, 2001

The United Nations Security Council yesterday decided to extend the presence of UNTAET in Timor Lorosae till early 2002. However,…

Sydney Morning Herald - August 1, 2001

Mark Dodd, Dili – In a surprise move, American company Phillips Petroleum and its joint venture partners have deferred indefinitely plans to build…

Agence France Presse - August 1, 2001

An Indonesian military commander has ordered his troops to arrest East Timorese militiamen who are still operating from refugee camps in…

Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001

Pip Hinman – At 4am on July 22, a tent occupied by hunger strikers in the Sumatran town of Lampung was doused with petrol and set alight by thugs…

Agence France Presse - August 1, 2001

Banda Aceh – Five people – four suspected rebels and an Indonesian soldier – have been killed in the restive province of Aceh, police and the…

Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001

On 23 July, Vice President Megawati was installed as Indonesian president after the People's Assembly sacked the man it had appointed two years…

Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001

Since the Indonesian armed forces launched new military operations at the beginning of May, conditions for the population of Aceh have rapidly…

Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001

Widespread police operations have been underway since March this year in the district of Manokwari in the Bird's Head region of West Papua,…

Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001

On 6 and 7 June, the Indonesian government went ahead with controversial plans to register East Timorese refugees in West Timor and determine…

South China Morning Post - August 1, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – A lawsuit seeking to dissolve former president Suharto's political party, Golkar, was thrown out by the Supreme Court…

Reuters - August 1, 2001

Will Hardie, Stockholm – Rebels from Indonesia's restive Aceh province warned new president Megawati Sukarnoputri on Wednesday that she must rein…

InterPress News Service - August 1, 2001

Kanis Dursin, Bekasi – Indonesia is the biggest rice importer in Asia. This is sadly ironic, because almost 70 percent of the country's 213…

Human Rights Watch - August 2001

July 30, 2001

Straits Times - July 30, 2001

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The fate of Indonesia's Nation Awakening Party (PKB) looks increasingly uncertain as internal politicking threatens to…

Straits Times - July 30, 2001

Vaudine England, Jakarta – American officials are trying to recall a published history of how the United States supported anti-communist moves…

Lusa - July 30, 2001

Ongoing corrections to preliminary voters lists in East Timor have included an additional 18,000 names and will bring the total…

Lusa - July 30, 2001

UN transition administration officials acknowledged Monday that issues of justice and human rights in East Timor remain a problem but…

Reuters - July 30, 2001 (abridged)

Manila – A Chinese agricultural scientist and agovernment official are among the seven winners of the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Awards for…

July 29, 2001

Tapol Press release - July 29, 2001

Tapol today expressed dismay at a controversial decision on Wednesday by the Dili District Court to release Dr Sergio Lobo – a surgeon at the Dili…

July 28, 2001

Straits Times - July 28, 2001

Enrique Soriano and Devi Asmarani – Deposed and dejected, Mr Abdurrahman is helped down the stairs of the presidential palace on Thursday before…

Straits Times - July 28, 2001

Jakarta – Indonesian journalists are mounting a campaign to dissuade new president Megawati Sukarnoputri from re-opening the…

Reuters - July 28, 2001

Sydney – Justice and human rights in East Timor are still not guaranteed even though a UN administration in the former Indonesian territory will…

South China Morning Post - July 28, 2001

Associated Press in Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian capital were yesterday questioning 18 witnesses and working with intelligence agencies to…

South China Morning Post - July 28, 2001

Reuters in Jakarta – New President Megawati Sukarnoputri left Jakarta yesterday for the provinces, putting the critical task of forming a…

Straits Times - July 28, 2001

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Politicians will dominate the new Indonesian Cabinet. Their empowering will be a form of payback for the support they…

Straits Times - July 28, 2001

Hamzah Haz, leader of Indonesia's largest Muslim political party, was elected Vice-President on Thursday. In its editorial yesterday, The Jakarta…

Asia Times - July 28, 2001

Kanis Dursin, Jakarta – The unreserved support of new President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) for the…

Sydney Morning Herald - July 28, 2001

Craig Skehan – The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Howard, said yesterday he was impressed by the "warmth and spontaneity" of an invitation for him…

July 27, 2001

Lusa - July 27, 2001

Four groups of international observers and eight East Timorese organizations have already registered with Dili electoral officials to monitor the…