Craig Skehan – East Timor will receive $7 billion over 20 years under a historic agreement with Australia on the sharing of oil and gas revenues…
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July 4, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - July 4, 2001
Green Left Weekly - July 4, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Liquica – Amidst the rubble of government offices which the jungle is starting to reclaim stands a flagpole flying, not the…
Green Left Weekly - July 4, 2001
Kerryn williams, Jakarta – "It's become much worse since the economic crisis. There are more homeless people, more street singers, and more street…
Agence France Presse - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – A draft autonomy bill for Indonesia's bloodied Aceh province, which radically multiplies its oil and gas profits but has won little…
Australian Financial Review - July 4, 2001
Geoffrey Barker – It will be the ironic fate of independent East Timor to have its key international economic and security relationships with…
Jakarta Post - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – Leaders of major youth organizations warned supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid not to engage in any anarchic activity as they…
Straits Times - July 4, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's Finance Minister said yesterday the government would demand more payments from indebted conglomerates following…
Straits Times - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – More than 1,000 members of the Indonesian military and national police in riot-torn Poso, Central Sulawesi, are in dire…
Reuters - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's caretaker attorney-general has vowed to carry on the work of the country's top corruption fighter, who died from a heart-…
Jakarta Post - July 4, 2001
Jakarta – Thirteen mutilated bodies have been found in the village of Buyung Katedo, some 16 kilometers south of Poso, Central Sulawesi, following…
July 3, 2001
Lusa - July 3, 2001
The first major trial of atrocities committed in East Timor by Indonesian forces and proxy militias got underway in Dili Tuesday, with a three-…
Tempo - July 3-9, 2001
It's a big cake and it's ready for the cutting, or so they think. The cake is called Megawati Sukarnoputri's presidency. It has to be shared out…
Suara Timor Lorosae - July 3, 2001
Ten political parties, out of the 16, registered with the Independent Electoral Commission are disappointed with the aid package made…
Asian Times - July 3, 2001
Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Board or alight wherever and whenever they like. In the middle of the road, or, if there's no room, at the roadside. At the…
Lusa - July 3, 2001
East Timor's 16 parties and UN transition administration have completed the draft of a "National Unity Pact", which expresses support for the…
Tempo - July 3-9, 2001
Wens Manggut and Levi Silalahi – It is an honor to be elected a member of the House of Representatives and the salary is also considered very good…
South China Morning Post - July 3, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Jakarta's long-running power struggle reached new heights of confusion yesterday as President Abdurrahm ppens – and it…
Tempo - July 3-9, 2001
Impeachment is not here yet. President Abdurrahman Wahid is not yet absolutely certain to fall. Megawati Sukarnoputri for now remains vice…
Straits Times - July 3, 2001
New York – Indonesian envoys are among the worst parking offenders here. Diplomats at the Indonesian Consulate and at Jakarta's…
July 2, 2001
UN News - July 2, 2001
Approximately 93 per cent of the estimated population in East Timor have been registered in advance of upcoming elections, the United Nations…
Straits Times - July 2, 2001
Jakarta – A total of 740 people died at the hands of the national police during the past one year due to human rights abuses, the…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2001
Jakarta – Six people went missing Thursday after the Kijang van they rode in was attacked on the road linking Poso and Tentena in Central Sulawesi…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – While the ethnic-related tension in Pontianak, West Kalimantan has gradually ceased, fresh conflict flared up in the West…
Straits Times - July 2, 2001
Chris McCall, Mamboro, Central Sulawesi – God told him the riots were about to happen. "Allah sent me a vision," Muhammad Herlambang Badja says at…
Reuters - July 2, 2001
Wendy Pugh, Melbourne – In an upheaval of Australia's energy market, petroleum and pipeline companies are racing to nail down multi-billion-dollar…
July 1, 2001
Agence France Presse - July 1, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least 49 people were killed or found dead in the violence-plagued Indonesian province of Aceh during the weekend, hospital and…
Human Rights Watch - July 2001
June 30, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2001
Peter Kerr, Jakarta – Soon after giving birth earlier this year in a major central Jakarta hospital, nursing staff gave Indra a pack containing…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Senior United States and Australian officials yesterday joined in an unusually direct warning to Jakarta against trying to…
Straits Times - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – Corruption, collusion and nepotism are rampant in state enterprises, a top government official admits, confirming what many have long…
Agence France Presse - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – Madurese settlers in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province have asked the local government to give them two weeks to persuade…
South China Morning Post - June 30, 2001
Reuters in Manila – President Abdurrahman Wahid, threatened with impeachment by a hostile Parliament, offered yesterday to reconcile differences…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – While the fate of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid is still far from sealed, the United Development Party (PPP) and the Crescent…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2001
Banda Aceh – Optimism looms ahead of the upcoming two-day peace talks between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) scheduled…
Straits Times - June 30, 2001
Lhokseumawe – Indonesian security forces killed 22 rebels in two separate gunbattles in Aceh province, officials said yesterday. In the most…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2001
Jakarta – The House of Representatives' consultative body agreed on Thursday to put forward a controversial special autonomy bill for Irian Jaya…
June 29, 2001
Straits Times - June 29, 2001
Jakarta – Court officials said yesterday that they had not lost the documentation of a Supreme Court decision ordering a fugitive son of former…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 29, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The United Nations has told the people of East Timor they will be virtually self-governing from September 15 – but that the UN…
Lusa - June 29, 2001
The UN administration in East Timor has prepared a package of wide-ranging logistical and material aid for 16 parties and independent…
June 28, 2001
Deutsche Presse Agentur - June 28, 2001
Atambua – Facing the prospect of resettling tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees, an Indonesian government delegation on Thursday appealed…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2001
Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro had reportedly cut short his minor haj pilgrimage and returned to the capital on Tuesday,…
Agence France Presse - June 28, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday warned President Abdurrahman Wahid that declaring a state of emergency, as…
Dow Jones Newswires - June 28, 2001
Ray Brindal, Canberra – Australian and East Timorese representatives have resolved many of their outstanding differences about a planned new…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dill – The United Nations in East Timor will encourage staff to volunteer for HIV tests but cannot make them compulsory on…
Melbourne Age - June 28, 2001
Paula Doran – For half of his 30 years Domingos lived chained to a wooden bench behind his village home in the hills of East Timor. His family was…
UN Department of Public Information - June 28, 2001
The head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today presented the first State of the Nation address to the…
Lusa - June 28, 2001
A group of presumed anti-independence militiamen opened fire Thursday on a patrol of UN peacekeepers in the East Timorese district of…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of becak (pedicab) drivers held a march on Wednesday to demand that the poor be given the right to earn a living in…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2001
Poso, Central Sulawesi – Eight armed men were detained on Wednesday as they were allegedly about to attack residents working on a cacao plantation…
June 27, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2001
Jayapura – An Irianese separatist group that has taken hostage two Belgian filmmakers is demanding President Abdurrahman Wahid bring the Irian…