Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid shared the public's disappointment on Tuesday over the conclusions of the House of Representatives (DPR) on…
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July 11, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 11, 2001
UN News - July 11, 2001 (abridged)
With Wednesday passing as the final deadline for East Timorese to challenge the list of proposed candidates for the upcoming elections…
July 10, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 10, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Indonesian security forces have arrested 23 hardcore militiamen including the notorious leader of the gang involved in the 1999…
Associated Press - July 10, 2001
Dili – As a UN security team toured refugee camps near Indonesian controlled West Timor's border with East Timor Tuesday, officials of…
South China Morning Post - July 10, 2001
Chris McCall in Tentena, Central Sulawesi – With guns that look like cut-out toys, a Christian army is fighting a war to hold on to its ancestral…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's army chief has played down President Abdurrahman Wahid's renewed threat to declare a state of emergency if political parties…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – More than 100 middle-ranking Indonesian police officers yesterday spoke out against their chief, who has defied his sacking…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials in East Timor raised concern Tuesday about the fate of refugees who chose to be repatriated from squalid camps in Indonesia…
Jakarta Post - July 10, 2001
Jakarta – Relatives and parents of students slain in the Trisakti and Semanggi shootings expressed disappointment at the findings of a House of…
Lusa - July 10, 2001 (abridged)
Only 666 of the 1,250 East Timorese refugees Indonesian authorities said wanted to return to their homeland last month have been able…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
G.K. Goh, Jakarta – Smoke from land clearing by fire on Tuesday cast a haze over the skies of several cities in Borneo and Sumatra island, causing…
Agence France Presse - July 10, 2001
Banda Aceh – Clashes in Indonesia's oil-rich province of Aceh have killed at least 12 people including five suspected separatist rebels, and…
July 9, 2001
Agence France Presse - July 9, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least nine people and possibly up to 14 died in weekend violence in Indonesia's blood-drenched Aceh province, the military and…
Straits Times - July 9, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – While the KPPU anti-monopoly commission is concerned that mini-mart chains such as Indomaret are driving out…
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2001
Jakarta – American congressman Tony P. Hall said on Saturday that he fully endorsed US humanitarian programs in Indonesia, in spite of Jakarta's…
Straits Times - July 9, 2001
Lee Siew Hua, Washington – US President George W. Bush's administration is seeking congressional support to restore a modest level of contact with…
Asia Times - July 9, 2001
Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky said "there is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it". The long-…
Detik - July 9, 2001
Maryadi/HD, Jakarta – In rejection to Trisakti-Semanggi House special committee's recommendation to bring the case into military's…
South China Morning Post - July 9, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A meeting between political leaders and Abdurrahman Wahid set for today will probably fail, making the embattled…
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2001
Bandung – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) has asked its supporters across the country to revive community…
Straits Times - July 9, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Mini-marts selling everything from cold drinks and milk to bread and snacks in colourful packages are changing the way…
July 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - July 8, 2001
Jakarta – Embattled President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid received a rare show of support from those who were jailed and persecuted…
Jakarta Post - July 8, 2001
Jakarta – The United States government has maintained its support for the unitary state of Indonesia, saying it will never back any effort by Aceh…
July 7, 2001
Reuters - July 7, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has stepped up pressure on national police chief General Bimantoro, demanding he relinquish all…
Straits Times - July 7, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Finance Minister Rizal Ramli advised the IMF yesterday to stop micromanaging Indonesia's economy and refrain from setting…
Jakarta Post - July 7, 2001
Jakarta – The government called on Friday for more international aid to fulfill the need for free distribution of contraceptives to 8.25 million…
The Age - July 7, 2001
The UN has its own investigation team in East Timor. Some prosecutions have started against minor players. But the power to investigate stops…
July 6, 2001
Source unknown - July 6, 2001
East Timor's big hope for independence was signed yesterday – a pact ensuring the soon-to-be nation has economic security through oil and gas…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Australia and East Timor signed a multi-billion dollar agreement Thursday on dividing royalties from oil and gas reserves in the Timor…
Jakarta Post - July 6, 2001
Poso, Central Sulawesi – At least five people attacking the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) troops in the village of Toyado in Lage district,…
Reuters - July 6, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Kediri – Juniarsih has been hand-rolling tobacco for the last 17 years at a big factory run by Gudang Garam, Indonesia's largest…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 6, 2001
Dili – East Timor's political parties have agreed to sign a non-violence pact to avoid bloodshed before and after historic elections…
Jakarta Post - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – The Supreme Court continued hearing on Thursday a lawsuit demanding the dissolution of the Golkar Party following allegations of graft…
Straits Times - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – In a move against money politics, Indonesia's largest political party has proposed an open vote on the political fate of…
Straits Times - July 6, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's decision yesterday to avail himself again of the services of a savvy politician from Golkar –…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 6, 2001
Edward Gargan, Bangsri – The last of central Java's great teakwood forests ends up in places like this, a place filled with the whine of buzz-saws…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid Friday again threatened to declare a state of emergency if a hostile parliament tries…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has sent a written warning to President Abdurrahman Wahid over his sacking of the national police chief and…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia has suspended a joint committee with Acehnese rebels that was monitoring security in the province where about 1,000 people are…
Antara - July 6, 2001
Jakarta – The assemblyman for Irian Jaya has warned controversial mining company PT Freeport Indonesia not to interfere in the…
July 5, 2001
Straits Times - July 5, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – If Indonesian police chief General Suroyo Bimantoro makes it into the history books, it will be because of how parliament has…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
The new Timor Gap agreement was signed today with the tensions of tough negotiations still apparent.
The document was signed by Foreign…
Sydney Morning Herald Editorial - July 5, 2001
The Prime Minister, Mr Howard, says it is "generous". The Northern Territory Chief Minister, Mr Burke, calls it "extremely generous". The…
South China Morning Post - July 5, 2001
Vaudine England – The sudden death of Attorney-General Baharuddin Lopa has deprived President Abdurrahman Wahid of not just a close friend but…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2001
Purwokerto – President Abdurrahman Wahid officially opened the 2001 National Boy Scout Jamboree at the Baturraden tourist resort by reciting Al…
The Australian - July 5, 2001
Nigel Wilson – Billions of dollars in Timor Sea investment remain in doubt despite the signing in Dili today of a framework agreement on sharing…
The Jakarta Post - July 5, 2001
The United Nations war crimes tribunal against former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic has begun. How will this affect many unsettled cases…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2001
Mark Dodd, Saburai village – After leaving the squalor of a refugee camp in West Timor, one of militia leader Victor Lopes's first acts on…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2001
Jakarta – More than 1000 students and activists grouped under the Greater Jakarta Students Movement (Gema Jaya) and the Committee for Oppressed…
July 4, 2001
Melbourne Age - July 4, 2001
[This is an exclusive extract from "Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy", the second in the Quarterly Essay…