Mark Forbes, Canberra – Jose "Xanana" Gusmao will become East Timor's first president next year despite his pledge not to nominate, according to…
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June 9, 2001
June 8, 2001
Straits Times - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's Parliament wants stiffer cuts in petrol subsidies and price hikes more drastic than the 30 per cent jump already slated by…
BBC Monitoring Service - June 8, 2001
Indonesian language Internet media sources have published comments by East Timorese refugee representatives and IX/Udayana Military Area Commander…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 8, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The bodies of six people, including a boy, have been found in Aceh, taking the death toll from a military offensive…
Agence France Presse - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank (BI) and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) on Friday agreed to repatriate the…
Jakarta Post - June 8, 2001
Surabaya – An investigation team formed by the National Awakening Party (PKB) faction at the East Java provincial legislature claims to have found…
Straits Times - June 8, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Opposition politicians with no skeletons in their closets need not fear the new Attorney-General.
Endorsing his…
Agence France Presse - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – An overwhelming majority of East Timorese refugees languishing in West Timor camps want to stay in Indonesia, early results of a…
Associated Press - June 8, 2001
Chris Brummitt, Jakarta – With calls growing for her to lead the nation, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri lashed out at critics who say she…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 8, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – In a further sign of the animosity between Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri and President Abdurrahman Wahid, Ms…
Reuters - June 8, 2001
Irwin Arieff G. K. Goh, United Nations – East Timorese refugees eager to return home are being threatened and intimidated by militia who forced…
June 7, 2001
ETAN/CIS - June 7, 2001
On June 6 and 7, the Indonesian government conducted a procedure throughout the refugee camps in West Timor. One stated objective was to allow…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres has been freed 23 days after an Indonesian court jailed him for six…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 7, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timorese languishing in Indonesian refugee camps were asked yesterday if they wanted to stay or go home as aid agencies…
Straits Times - June 7, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The younger sister of Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri lashed out at Parliament yesterday, accusing it…
Australian Associated Press - June 7, 2001
Karen Polglaze, Canberra – East Timor could not begin its life as an independent country by scaring off investors – so it would reach agreement…
BBC Monitoring Service - June 7, 2001
The East Timorese leader [currently cabinet member for foreign affairs] Jose Ramos Horta says his country cannot support the claim to…
Reuters - June 7, 2001
Jakarta – Jakarta stocks edged higher on Thursday, but the market was under pressure from rumours, later denied, that politically isolated…
Kyodo News - June 7, 2001
Kupang – Allegations of widespread fraud and reports of intimidation of voters marred an Indonesian-run vote Wednesday for thousands…
Jakarta Post - June 7, 2001
Jakarta – Legal activists made a fresh call on Wednesday for the abolishment of military courts and joint civilian-military tribunals which, they…
Far Eastern Economic Review - June 7, 2001
Sadanand Dhume and Dini Djalal, Jakarta – In most democracies, a president who has lost the confidence of parliament, the army and the business…
June 6, 2001
Agence France Presse - June 6, 2001
Jakarta – Lawyers from Aceh yesterday urged the Indonesian government to ensure that courts are run properly after judges fled the troubled…
Detik - June 6, 2001
Bagus Kurniawan/HD, Yogyakarta – On Wednesday, around 100 students calling themselves Anti New Order People Front (Frarob) from various…
Green Left Weekly - June 6, 2001
John Gauci, Sydney – "East Timorese must ask themselves, why are we still divided? We can't go on holding other countries to blame", the new…
Straits Times - June 6, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – He was autocratic, plunged Indonesia into a period of economic disaster and widespread poverty and flirted with…
Agence France Presse - June 6, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Tensions around Indonesia's leadership crisis seeped into a centenary commemoration Wednesday of the country's founding ruler Sukarno…
South China Morning Post - June 6, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The word being debated among foreign journalists in Jakarta is "mutiny". The police chief sacked last week by President…
Green Left Weekly - June 6, 2001
Max Lane, Jakarta – On May 30, an alliance of members of parliament from Golkar (the party of former Indonesian dictator Suharto), the armed…
South China Morning Post - June 6, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – Corruption in Indonesia's law courts is so deeply ingrained that it might take more than two decades to purge them…
June 5, 2001
Detik - June 5, 2001
Djoko Tjiptono/HD, Jakarta – Anti-Golkar Party demonstration keeps to move. This Tuesday, around 400 residents from Jakarta came to the Supreme…
Agence France Presse - June 5, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's charismatic founding president Sukarno is enjoying a surge in popularity 31 years after his death, as his country sinks…
Agence France Presse - June 5, 2001
Jakarta – More than 8,000 Indonesian police and troops staged a show of unity and defiance near the presidential palace Tuesday, pledging…
Agence France Presse - June 5, 2001
Jakarta – The political party of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Tuesday accused the sacked national police chief and his allies of…
June 4, 2001
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – An interim East Timorese government minister has accused Telstra of monitoring private telephone conversations within the…
Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Duri – It is a costly cat-and-mouse game played out daily by guards, the workers who install oil-exploration equipment and the thieves who…
South China Morning Post - June 4, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Observing the behaviour of President Abdurrahman Wahid, it is easy to paint a picture of a crazy, erratic, inconsistent…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 4, 2001
Andrew West – Australian Government officials have been accused of burying a crucial intelligence report about a 1998 Indonesian massacre in the…
Australian Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Canberra – Administrative action is being taken against two defence personnel following high profile document leak investigations. Defence…
June 3, 2001
South China Morning Post - June 3, 2001
Vadline England – While politicians jockey for position in Jakarta and peace talks open and close in Geneva, the death toll on the killing grounds…
June 2, 2001
Tempo - June 26-July 2, 2001
Karaniya Dharmasaputra, Adi Prasetya and Wens Manggut – Suddenly the move to force an early session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to…
South China Morning Post - June 2, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – When President Abdurrahman Wahid feels cornered, he will lash out and strike his opponents.
Despite his remarks…
Straits Times - June 2, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid had long distrusted three of the four Cabinet ministers he sacked yesterday, regarding them…
Jakarta Post - June 2, 2001
Bogor – Democratic People's Party (PRD) chairman Budiman Sudjatmiko alleged on Friday that the recent explosions at his parents' home in the…
Straits Times - June 2, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's latest move to avert dishonour yesterday included the appointment of Mr Baharudin Lopa – a…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 2, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia's political crisis was close to spinning out of control last night after an increasingly isolated President…
Indonesian Observer - June 2, 2001
Jakarta – Students of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) were involved in clashes yesterday with Police and Military who were tasked to…
Tempo - June 26-July 2, 2001
Wens Manggut and Andari Karina Anom – Where are all the laughter and hand clapping of yesteryear? They have all but disappeared from Golkar's…
June 1, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 1, 2001 (abridged)
Medan – The Medan District Court, under heavy security, began on Thursday the trial of Ligadinsyah, alias Azis bin Ibrahim Linggo, believed to be…
Jakarta Post - June 1, 2001
Surabaya – As many as 150 people were reported missing in the town of Pasuruan on Thursday as life gradually returned to normal following an…
Agence France Presse - June 1, 2001
Washington – The United States said it was watching events in Indonesia closely as it faces a test to its democracy, and called on the…