Robert Go, Jakarta – It is getting harder to hide the extent of one's wealth in Indonesia these days. Tax collectors, under pressure…
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June 22, 2001
Straits Times - June 22, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia would gain an additional 60 trillion rupiah (S$10.8 billion) a year if citizens paid their proper taxes, according…
June 21, 2001
Lusa - June 21, 2001
The United States Senate approved Thursday a resolution condemning the "disproportionate" sentences an Indonesian court recently…
Jakarta Post - June 21, 2001
Jakarta – Irian Jaya leaders renounced on Wednesday the unenthusiastic response by legislators and government officials to a draft bill on special…
South China Morning Post - June 21, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta – The army chief has weighed into a politicised controversy over what constitutes insubordination in the forces, saying…
Reuters - June 21, 2001
G. K. Goh, Jakarta – Indonesian police fired teargas to disperse a total of 500 student protesters in two separate locations in…
Agence France Presse - June 21, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least 12 people have been murdered or found dead over recent days in Indonesia Aceh province amid violence pitting separatist…
South China Morning Post - June 21, 2001 (abridged)
Reuters in Jakarta – Popular Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri will skip another cabinet meeting on Thursday in her latest snub to…
Reuters - June 21, 2001
Dean Yates, Jakarta – Indonesia's military said on Thursday it saw little sign of a political compromise that might save President Abdurrahman…
June 20, 2001
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Peter Boyle – At 6pm on Saturday June 9, 24 hours after the detained foreign participants at the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference were…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Sue Boland – Once the news broke in Australia about the police and militia attack on the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity conference in Indonesia…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Sean Healy – The only one of the 32 foreign nationals detained after the June 8 raid on the Jakarta solidarity conference to be…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Kerryn Williams, Jakarta – "Since the police first arrived there was an increasing [number] of [militia] members and we predicted that after the…
Straits Times - June 20, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have given in to demands for transport fare increases as thousands of commuters were left stranded…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Pip Hinman – For one and a half days, from the morning of June 7, the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference, held a holiday resort outside…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Max Lane, Singapore – The police raid on the Asia-Pacific Peoples Solidarity Conference on June 8 was just one more in a string of actions taken…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
The raid by police on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in Jakarta on June 8, the brutal militia attack which followed it and the detention…
Jakarta Post - June 20, 2001
Jakarta – Central Jakarta Police arrested eight people on Tuesday, following a clash between police and protesting students outside the campuses…
Suara Timor Lorosae - June 20, 2001
The secretary-general of the Socialist Party of Timor (PST) Avelinho Coelho said Tuesday if the party gets majority seats in the 30…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Susan Price & Viv Miley – One of those detained by authorities after the June 8 raid on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference in…
South China Morning Post - June 20, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – Indonesia's biggest political party has backed away from efforts to bring forward an impeachment hearing against embattled…
Agence France Presse - June 20, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police have named as fugitive suspects the heads of two companies involved in a multi-million-dollar share sale dispute with…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Ahmed Shawki, Columbia, South Carolina – Top US labour leaders gathered for a workers' rights rally here responded immediately to the police…
Reuters - June 20, 2001
Joanne Collins, Jakarta – The IMF said on Wednesday it was optimistic Indonesia's willingness to revise controversial central bank law amendments…
Reuters - June 20, 2001
G. K. Goh, Jakarta – Fears of social unrest in Indonesia continued to chip away at consumer confidence in May, state brokerage Danareksa said its…
Agence France Presse - June 20, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Wednesday said blame for past and present human rights abuses by the country's police and…
Jakarta Post - June 20, 2001
Makassar, South Sulawesi – A student rally in Makassar welcomed the latest Indonesian Military (TNI) reshuffle on Tuesday, with some 100 Maluku…
Green Left Weekly - June 20, 2001
Viv Miley & Susan Price – Progressive forces from around the world spoke out and took action as soon as news of the police and militia raid on…
June 19, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 19, 2001
Banda Aceh – The cycle of violence in Aceh seems unending as witnesses and officials reported the death on Monday of at least another eight people…
Reuters - June 19, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesian police fired warning shots and tear gas at more than 700 students protesting over national fuel price hikes…
Jakarta Post - June 19, 2001
Jakarta – City Police arrested on Monday three activists of the umbrella student group City Forum (Forkot) for allegedly provoking public…
Reuters - June 19, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – A powerful bomb exploded at a boarding-house in the Indonesian capital Jakarta around dawn on Tuesday, seriously…
South China Morning Post - June 19, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A military tribunal yesterday charged nine police officers with the 1998 murder of anti-government student protesters,…
Australian Associated Press - June 19, 2001
Rod McGuirk, Darwin – The HIV virus had taken hold in East Timor and spread into Australia, a Dili-based doctor said today. As many as 15 foreign…
Lusa - June 19, 2001
An angry mob of street vendors stoned UN police and administrative personnel at a Dili market Tuesday, injuring three people and…
Sydney Morning Herld - June 19, 2001
Brian Robins – From being only rank hopefuls among offshore gasfields, Timor Sea projects backed by Phillips Petroleum and Woodside are racing off…
Canberra Times - June 19, 2001
Lincoln Wright – A leading United States congressman, who is a major supporter of the alliance with Australia, has called for America to renew its…
June 18, 2001
Melbourne Age - June 18, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch – Antonio da Silva rarely smiles. His left ear has been cut off, his fingers broken and he has seen some of his militia friends…
June 17, 2001
Agence France Presse - June 17, 2001
G.K. Goh, Banda Aceh – At least 18 people have been killed in violence pitting separatist rebels against government forces in the oil and gas-rich…
Detik - June 17, 2001
MMI Ahyani/HD, Bandung – Five members of Democratic People's Party (PRD) for West Java were arrested by police following unrest in Bandung last 13…
Straits Times - June 17, 2001
[Derwin Pereira looks at how these cukongs are adapting to the new political environment and who are next in line to take their place.]…
June 16, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 16, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The Bush Administration has decided to restore tentative military contact with Indonesia at a time that Australia is…
Jakarta Post - June 16, 2001
Jakarta – Eleven military personnel will be tried in a military tribunal on Monday for their alleged role in the shooting of Trisakti…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 16, 2001
Mark Dodd – Negotiations between Australia and East Timor to conclude a new agreement on revenue sharing from the oil- and gas-rich Timor Sea have…
Reuters - June 16, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian officials and rebel leaders from Aceh province will resume peace talks in Geneva next month in yet another bid to resolve a…
Straits Times - June 16, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian government yesterday temporarily revoked a controversial labour decree which cuts long-service payments,…
June 15, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 15, 2001
Bandung – A new clash between police and protesting workers erupted here on Thursday, injuring at least nine people and damaging dozens of stores…
Jakarta Post - June 15, 2001
Banda Aceh – Indonesian military (TNI) troops claimed to have raided two main bases of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) separatist rebel…
Asia Times - June 15, 2001
Canberra – Economic prospects for East Timor remained low in the medium term, the World Bank said ahead of a two-day meeting of donors to the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 15, 2001
Mark Dodd – East Timor is set to get up to 90 per cent of Timor Sea oil and gas revenue in a move Australia hopes will ensure the new nation does…