Participants at a weekend discussion seminar, organized by the human rights NGO Yayasan Hak, expressed their frustration at UNTAET. Many said they…
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May 14, 2001
Timor Post - May 14, 2001
Straits Times - May 14, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Three years after the shooting of four student protesters from the elite Trisakti University which sparked days of…
Reuters - May 14, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of Indonesian students rallied in the streets of the capital on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the…
Australian Financial Review - May 14, 2001
Scott Burchill – Given advance notice that the street bully is about to beat up your neighbour, three courses of action are open to you. The first…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 14, 2001
The leader of the Catholic Church in Dili, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo urged academics at the National University of Timor Lorosae to…
May 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - May 12, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank has expressed its full support of the government's fiscal adjustment package, which contains various measures to prevent…
Jakarta Post - May 12, 2001
Jakarta – A number of independent labor unions are planning a series of strikes to force the government to revoke an amendment of a ministerial…
Straits Times - May 12, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Aceh declared a state of emergency yesterday, blaming the military offensive for the rising…
South China Morning Post - May 12, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid raised the stakes in Indonesia's political crisis yesterday, saying he would not hand further…
Jakarta Post - May 12, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI) condemned on Friday a planned sweep and burning of "leftist" books and rejected any ban…
Straits Times - May 12, 2001
Jakarta – A majority of Indonesians are fed up with the ongoing political bickering and protracted economic crisis, and long for the stability of…
Straits Times - May 12, 2001
Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday denied any involvement in a bomb blast in Jakarta that killed two people.
…May 11, 2001
Associated Press - May 11, 2001
Joanna Jolly, Dili – The head of the UN Central Payments Office, which manages the territory's tiny and shattered economy, told reporters that the…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 11, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations economic planners have launched a campaign to ensure the US dollar is the sole legal tender in East Timor. To…
Jakarta Post - May 11, 2001
Jakarta – PILAR biweekly magazine photographer Rudi P. Singgih was in the midst of covering some long-term investigation when he was shot dead by…
Agence France Presse - May 11, 2001
Jakarta – Separatist guerillas from Indonesia's restive Aceh province on Friday denied involvement in a Jakarta bomb blast as police found a third…
Agence France Presse - May 11, 2001
Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta have raided book sellers, impounding hundreds of titles considered leftist or communist-…
May 10, 2001
Straits Times - May 10, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – The next time rioters run amok through Jakarta's streets, they will come face to face with elite police units armed with…
Sydney Morning Herald - May 10, 2001
The Australian government knew about Indonesian military plans to massacre East Timor independence supporters in 1999 and thought clever diplomacy…
May 9, 2001
Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001
Max Lane – Contrary to many predictions circulating in Jakarta during the last few weeks, the Indonesian capital remained calm after the Golkar-…
SBS Dateline (Australia) - May 9, 2001
[In an extraordinary investigation, reporter Mark Davis returns to East Timor to disclose disturbing new revelations about Australia's secret…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001
Partai Asosiacao Social Democrat Timor (ASDT) will this week try to get itself registered with the Independent Election Commission.…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 9, 2001
The General Co-ordinator of CPD-RDTL Antonio Aitahan Matak yesterday rejected allegations that the group was behind the threats…
Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor…
Lusa - May 9, 2001
A report by members of the Portuguese parliament criticizes the UN Transition Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) as being "costly and not very…
South China Morning Post - May 9, 2001
Chris McCall, Dili – Once branded a gang of dangerous left-wingers, Fretilin is out in the open and may be set to win through the ballot what it…
Melbourne Age - May 9, 2001
Jill Jollife, Dariwn – An Australian Army intelligence officer who served in East Timor has accused the Federal Government of concealing vital…
Green Left Weeky - May 9, 2001
Max Lane – At least 50,000 workers, mostly members of the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), joined protests in 19 cities in…
Agence France Presse - May 9, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least three people were killed and four others were wounded in the latest violence between separatist rebels and government forces…
May 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - May 8, 2001
Jakarta – Labor unions are threatening massive strikes following Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Al-Hilal Hamdi's decision to amend…
South China Morning Post - May 8, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Fresh signs of Government fragmentation came last week with the demand from Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri's…
Straits Times - May 8, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Golkar leader Akbar Tandjung once again pushed Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri into a more prominent role in the process…
New York Times - May 8, 2001
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – She is the immovable object of Indonesian politics – stolid, silent, imperious, a puzzle to her countrymen even as she…
May 7, 2001
Australian Financial Review - May 7, 2001
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – For more than 30 years until Soeharto's fall in 1998, the writings of Indonesia's pre-eminent novelist and political prisoner…
South China Morning Post - May 7, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A spate of recent anti-communist incidents and violent threats is part of a plot to destroy Indonesia's fledgling…
Reuters - May 7, 2001
Melbourne – Tough negotiations over a Timor Sea oil and gas production treaty are likely to resume between Australia and East Timor later this…
Suara Timor Lorosae - May 7, 2001
Fifteen militia commanders on Saturday accepted the 30 August 1999 referendum result, because it was, as they said, the decision of…
May 6, 2001
Agence France Presse - May 6, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Banda Aceh – Continuing violence involving Indonesian government forces and separatist rebels of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has left at least…
May 5, 2001
South China Morning Post - May 5, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The pillaging of the nation's forests has increased dramatically since the fall of former president Suharto and within…
South China Morning Post - May 5, 2001
Vaudine England – The survival of several animals key to global biodiversity – the Sumatran tiger, the Asian elephant and the orang-utan – have…
South China Morning Post - May 5, 2001
Agencies in Jakarta and Geneva – The United Nations and foreign diplomats yesterday condemned as a mockery jail terms imposed by a Jakarta court…
Straits Times - May 5, 2001
Jakarta – An anti-communist group in Indonesia has said it will stage vigilante-style raids on book stores in the capital on May 20 to rid them of…
Jakarta Post - May 5, 2001
Jakarta – Despite a massive crackdown against hoodlums by the city administration, thugs are still operating freely in a number of markets in the…
Jakarta Post - May 5, 2001
[Despite a legacy of organized crime, Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has said that freeing Jakarta of thugs is "easy." Researcher Tim Lindsey,…
Straits Times - May 5, 2001
Jakarta – Police have arrested both a leader of the ethnic Dayaks who killed more than 500 settlers on Borneo island this year, and the commander…
May 4, 2001
Reuters - May 4, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – As Indonesia's politics descends deeper into gloom, Indonesia's tarnished military is repolishing its image and trying…
May 3, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - May 3, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Negotiators for Australia and East Timor yesterday began a secrecy-shrouded meeting in Brisbane in the search for agreement on…
Agence France Presse - May 3, 2001
Jakarta – The Catholic church in Indonesia on Thursday disassociated itself from a separatist group in the violence-torn Maluku islands.
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Melbourne Age - May 3, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch – Indonesia has dropped prosecutions against six people who have been under investigation for more than 12 months over crimes…
Jakarta Post - May 3, 2001
Jakarta – Sixty-seven people were killed in Aceh province between April 11 and April 29, Aceh's Human Rights Care Forum (Forum Peduli…