Robert Go, Jakarta – Without clear leadership at the top, Indonesia's bureaucracy could break down over the next two lame-duck months, analysts…
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June 1, 2001
Straits Times - June 1, 2001
Straits Times - June 1, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Do not say anything, just focus on the G-15 meeting and your new grandson – that is the advice key Cabinet ministers are…
Associated Press - June 1, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Hongkong – Despite feeling uneasy over the recent political turmoil in Indonesia, the head of the International Monetary Fund…
Straits Times - June 1, 2001
Surabaya – Protesters in East Java have admitted that they were paid to hit the streets in support of President Abdurrahman Wahid,…
South China Morning Post - June 1, 2001
Reuters in Sydney – With President Wahid fighting for his political survival and his supporters vowing to lay down their lives for him, aid…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 1, 2001
Hamish McDonald – As Megawati Sukarnoputri edges closer to assuming the Indonesian presidency, she has given some signs of a more conciliatory…
UN News - June 1, 2001
The United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) today reported that the grenade attack that killed five people…
Jakarta Post - June 1, 2001
Bogor – There was a second explosion at the house of the parents of Budiman Sudjatmiko, chairman of the People's Democratic Party (PRD), in the…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 1, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Warning of a new financial crisis in Indonesia, the Federal Opposition yesterday urged a softer approach by international…
Aidwatch Briefing Notes - June 2001
By Tim Anderson for AID/WATCH
1. World Bank dictating terms of development in East Timor
While East Timorese society has…
May 31, 2001
Australian Financial Review - May 31, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's intelligence agency has named a prominent Australian academic as a potential security threat, in the latest sign of the…
Jakarta Post - May 31, 2001
Jakarta – Some 10,000 supporters of President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid occupied on Wednesday the office of Situbondo local administration in…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 31, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – A dispute over illegal trade on the East Timor border with Indonesian West Timor is thought to have caused a series…
Australia Financial Review - May 31, 2001
Brendan Pearson – East Timor's bounty from Timor Gap oil and gas revenues may hit $US1 ($1.95 billion) billion annually this decade, East Timor's…
Agence France Presse - May 31, 2001
Banda Aceh – Fifteen people were killed or found dead in two days in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, as rebels and the military traded…
May 30, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 30, 2001
London – Human rights abuses emerged in East Timor last year amid delays in rebuilding the territory after the bloody destruction carried out by…
International Herald Tribune - May 30, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor In an effort to mend an economy devastated by the violence that accompanied the Indonesian withdrawal in 1999, the…
UN Department of Public Information - May 30, 2001
The death toll in yesterday's attack along the border between East and West Timor has reached five, with up to 40 people injured, the United…
Green Left Weekly - May 30, 2001
Max Lane, Jakarta – More than 500 people, Acehnese and Indonesians, attended a series of lively debates and cultural events at conference…
Jakarta Post - May 30, 2001
Jakarta – A day ahead of the much-anticipated plenary session of the House of Representatives (DPR), thousands of President…
Green Left Weekly - May 30, 2001
Max Lane, Jakarta – If opponents of President Abdurrahman Wahid have their way, when it meets on May 30 the Indonesian parliament will call a…
Jakarta Post - May 30, 2001
Surabaya – Security forces fired warning shots into the air in an attempt to disperse thousands of supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid who…
May 29, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 29, 2001
A group of GNR (Guarda Nacional Republicana) [a security arm of Civpol], on Monday, fired warning shots at a group of RDTL supporters…
Jakarta Post - May 29, 2001
Jakarta – Pro-democracy activists, alarmed of strong signs of a reappearance of the military within politics, warned the Indonesian Military (TNI…
May 28, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 28, 2001
Jakarta – A key independence leader in Indonesia's remote Irian Jaya province told a court trying him for alleged subversion Monday that the…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 28, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Abandoned by almost all of Jakarta's political elite, some of whom think he has lost grasp of reality, Abdurrahman…
Reuters - May 28, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of enraged supporters of beleaguered Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Monday attacked buildings linked to…
Jakarta Post - May 28, 2001
Surabaya – East Java authorities have stepped up precaution measures in anticipation of possible unrest resulting from the heightened tension…
Straits Times - May 28, 2001
Jakarta – The city's hospitals are struggling to admit new patients and are having a hard time treating existing ones because a…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Gleno – Ironically, it is neglect which has produced independent East Timor's first major export crop: world-class organic, forest-…
May 24, 2001
Straits Times - May 24, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesia's six-week-old crackdown on Aceh's separatist rebels is as bad as any experienced during the worst years of…
Far Eastern Economic Review - May 24, 2001
John McBeth, Jakarta – The Indonesian military is in a sorry state at a bad time. Many of its aircraft can't take to the skies, most of its ships…
May 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 23, 2001
Banda Aceh – Four people, including two rebels and a soldier, were killed in the latest violence in Indonesia's Aceh province as clashes continued…
Straits Times - May 23, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesia's military chief Admiral Widodo Adisucipto, seeking to defuse tensions that could trigger sporadic violence…
Tempo - May 23, 2001
Jakarta – Deputy Speaker of House of Representative (DPR) for Political and Security Affairs, Sutardjo Surjoguritno, and House Commission II…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 23, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The United States has entered the political debate in Indonesia, saying that the military must obey the civilian…
Detik - May 23, 2001
Hestiana Dharmastuti/HD, Jakarta – On Wednesday, around 200 workers came to the Vice President Palace. They are demanding the…
Green Left Weekly - May 23, 2001
Jon Land – The World Bank has been prominent in East Timor's transition to full independence – so prominent in fact that the country now faces a…
Straits Times - May 23, 2001
Jakarta – Illegal loggers are suspected of moving border posts between Indonesia and Malaysia in the rainforests of Borneo island,…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Only 5 per cent of East Timorese understand the purpose of the United Nations-organised election to be held on August 30, a…
May 22, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 22, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are preparing for the registration of some 100,000 East Timorese refugees in camps in West Timor, a report said…
Detik - May 22, 2001
Indra Shalihin/HD Detik, Jakarta – Around 300 workers from the National Front for Indonesian Labour Struggle (FNPBI) staged a…
Straits Times - May 22, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid is seeking to patch up ties with his old Muslim allies, who have turned political…
Straits Times - May 22, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Jakarta has witnessed some very strange events in the last 48 hours – the army's strategic reserve chief Lieutenant-…
Straits Times - May 22, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – A change of leadership in Jakarta is crucial to Indonesia's economic recovery, say business leaders and analysts.
After…
Agence France Presse - May 22, 2001
Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Suharto was a better leader than Mr Abdurrahman Wahid, according to a readers' poll conducted by…
Detik - May 22, 2001
Rizal Maslan/HD, Jakarta – The meeting of the Army Forced generals at the Indonesian Military's headquarters last Saturday has indicated the…
May 21, 2001
Detik - May 21, 2001
Djoko Tjiptono/FW, Jakarta – The third year of the step-down of iron-fist ruler Suharto was commemorated by students across the…
BBC News - May 21, 2001
Richard Galpin, Dili – East Timor is celebrating becoming the world's newest country. It has been under United Nations administration since 1999…
Detik - May 21, 2001
Bagus Kurniawan/HD, Yogyakarta – Around one hundred students from various universities in Yogyakarta, Central Java staged a demonstration in front…