The Government delayed a controversial fuel price rise in the face of more unrest yesterday as President Abdurrahman Wahid prepared to leave his…
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June 15, 2001
South China Morning Post - June 15, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta Post - June 15, 2001
Jakarta – The city administration announced on Thursday its plan to recruit some 50,000 civilians to help safeguard the city during the special…
Australian Associated Press - June 15, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – International donors today signed-off on East Timor's 2001-02 budget, the blueprint that will take the new country…
June 14, 2001
Agence France Presse - June 14, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian workers yesterday held massive rallies in several cities, including the capital, to demand the…
Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001
Jayapura – Five on-duty officers of the Indonesian Police Mobile Brigade were killed in a pre-dawn attack by an unidentified group of…
South China Morning Post - June 14, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta – In a new attempt to stay in power, President Abdurrahman Wahid has authorised prosecutors to launch corruption…
Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001
Jakarta – Many state officials have demonstrated their unwillingness to disclose their wealth and assets as only 13 percent of the total forms…
Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001
Jakarta – Police Wednesday detained 76 people following a three-day bloody communal clash in Cirebon regency, West Java, in which four…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 14, 2001
Hamish McDonald – The United Nations is running out of patience with the Indonesian Government's move to avoid prosecuting army, police and…
Expresso (Portugal) - June 14, 2001
Tony Jenkins – East Timor has acquired a powerful and unexpected new ally, a man some Americans still refer to as Dr Death: Henry Kissinger. In a…
Straits Times - June 14, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Lee Siew Hua, Washington – The United States has been urged to help Indonesia to regain the world's confidence and help it to improve its…
Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001
Jakarta – The National Police released Laskar Jihad Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jammaah commander Ja'far Umar Thalib from custody on Tuesday, though the…
Jakarta Post - June 14, 2001
Jakarta – A coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), grouped under the Ornop Coalition, urged police on Wednesday to take stern action…
June 13, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2001
Jakarta – The city administration should discriminate in its handling of hoodlums and street vendors. The city should not arrest street vendors…
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2001
Kupang – Changes in the results of last week's registration of East Timorese refugees have aroused suspicion in Kupang of the possible…
UN News - June 13, 2001
A security operation conducted by United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor has resulted in the surrender of 34 suspected militia…
Reuters - June 13, 2001
Joanne Collins, Jakarta – The IMF on Wednesday urged Indonesia's new economic team to forge ahead with the revised 2001 budget, saying it was an…
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid turned down on Tuesday the demands of the Federation of All Indonesian Workers Union (FSPSI) to nullify two…
Agence France Presse - June 13, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian workers held massive rallies in several cities on Wednesday to demand the scrapping of a ministerial labor…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 13, 2001 (abridged)
President Abdurrahman Wahid, fighting for his political life, named the deputy governor of the central bank, Mr Burhanuddin Abdullah, as the new…
Jakarta Post - June 13, 2001
Makassar, – Fifty students of the Indonesian Muslim University (UMI) put on a theater roadshow in Makassar on Tuesday as part of a…
Agence France Presse - June 13, 2001
Jakarta – Eight people were killed, and 12 others wounded in armed attacks on a Christian neighbourhood and a passenger boat in the…
June 12, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 12, 2001
Hamish McDonald – A score of Australians has just been caught up in a nasty example of the repressive violence that could easily become the norm…
Associated Press - June 12, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid changed his economics team Tuesday in a bid to rebuild his support ahead of impeachment proceedings and to…
Associated Press - June 12, 2001
Dili - East Timor's UN administrators Tuesday said they would push ahead with historic elections in August despite fears of unrest. UN…
South China Morning Post - June 12, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – While foreign activists at the Justice Ministry tried to avoid being fingerprinted, the prime local target of a police…
Lusa - June 12, 2001
East Timor may be forced to apply its future revenues from oil and natural gas exploration in the Timor Gap to cover its operational budget,…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 12, 2001
Scott Rochfort – Eight Australians detained by Indonesian police after attending a Labor rights conference in Jakarta returned, relieved, to…
Agence France Presse - June 12, 2001
Washington – A leading Timorese aid worker on Wednesday branded as a "sham" an Indonesian canvassing drive which found that 98 percent of East…
Koridor - June 12, 2001
Hundreds of protesters from the Student Action Front for Reform and Democracy (FAMRED), All-Indonesia Front (FIS), Peoples Action…
AFX Asia - June 12, 2001
Aloysius Bhui, Jakarta – The revised budget currently being debated in parliament designed to contain the fiscal deficit to 3.8 per cent of GDP…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 12, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesian immigration officials yesterday freed 29 foreigners, including 18 Australians, who were detained at an…
Straits Times - June 12, 2001
Jakarta – The 13 rivers in the Indonesian capital are turning into a major health hazard as factories and families dump untreated toxic waste into…
Jakarta Post - June 12, 2001
Jakarta – Minister of Foreign Affairs Alwi Shihab claimed here on Monday that the United States government under President George W. Bush had…
Jakarta Post - June 12, 2001
Banda Aceh - Police claimed on Monday that at least 16 people had been killed in guerrilla attacks on transmigration sites in Central Aceh since…
June 11, 2001
Reuters - June 11, 2001
G. K. Goh, Jakarta – Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has stepped up his defiance saying he will not resign and challenged the…
Reuters - June 11, 2001
Jakarta – Around 2,500 workers rallied in front of Indonesia's presidential palace on Monday demanding the government drop plans for a 30.1…
Laksamana Net - June 11, 2001
The decision by Indonesian police to detain local and foreign participants at a human rights and labor rights seminar on the outskirts of Jakarta…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 11, 2001
Craig Skehan, Malcolm Brown and Lindsay Murdoch – Australian diplomats warned protesters last night against inflammatory action as attempts…
Straits Times - June 11, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – In a bid to cut down pollution in one of the world's most polluted cities, the government is planning to phase out the…
Straits Times - June 11, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Originally imported from India in the 70s as a faster alternative to the motorised rickshaw, the bajaj –…
Straits Times - June 11, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – The economic crisis, as much as fashion, is responsible for the current fad among Indonesians for wearing body-hugging, belly…
UN News - June 11, 2001
Sergio Vieira de Mello, the head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), has called the dissolution of the East…
June 10, 2001
Straits Times - June 10, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – For cabby Sutardjo, the petrol-price increase scheduled for this coming Friday could erode his daily take-home earnings of…
June 9, 2001
Melbourne Age - June 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili - Amid emotional scenes, the organisation that united ordinary East Timorese in the struggle to end Indonesian rule dissolved…
Straits Times - June 9, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's new Attorney-General pledged yesterday to restart corruption proceedings against former President Suharto, who…
Reuters - June 9, 2001
Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – Indonesian police said on Saturday that more than 30 foreigners, including a four-year-old girl, detained at a human…
South China Morning Post - June 9, 2001
Agence France Presse in Jakarta – Disgraced and ailing former dictator Suharto was moved to tears by an orphan when he marked his 80th birthday…
Straits Times - June 9, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of East Timorese still languishing in West Timor's camps are not free to choose to return to home as…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 9, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – As its final act, the organisation that united ordinary East Timorese in the struggle to end Indonesian rule called for all…