Sibylle Kaczorek – In a country oppressed for 400 years by colonial Portugal, then brutalised by 24 years of Indonesian military rule, and now…
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April 25, 2001
Green Left Weekly - April 25, 2001
Green Left Weekly - April 25, 2001
Tanya Vanaja, Dili – East Timor's social and political tensions may boil over into violence during elections scheduled for August, the country's…
Melbourne Age - April 25, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – About 300 East Timorese supporters of a pro-independence party protested outside the United Nations headquarters in…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 25, 2001
The President of ASDT-Fretilin Francisco Xavier do Amaral said East Timorese from 12 districts were in Dili to deliver their…
South China Morning Post - April 25, 2001
Vaudine England, Jogyakarta – Hundreds of people are signing up for membership of a new anti-communist front at the head office of the Golkar…
Straits Times - April 25, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesia is in a mess. The rupiah is sliding, the economy is in a rut and more violence is forecast. For the ordinary…
Agence France Presse - April 25, 2001
Jakarta – A flag of the separatist South Maluku Republic (RMS) was Wednesday briefly flown in Ambon the capital of Indonesia's Maluku province…
April 24, 2001
Melbourne Age - April 24, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Viqueque – Madalena Soares fought back tears as she told how her 12-year-old daughter Cesaltina was stolen.
It was late…
Reuters - April 24, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Four thieves attacked and stabbed the Australian-born wife of East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao on Tuesday in the latest in a…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 24, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's de facto parliament was hit yesterday with the resignation of a second high-profile political leader in less than a…
Straits Times - April 24, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Pangkalanbun – Indonesia's new Forestry Minister, Mr Marzuki Usman, said after touring forests in Kalimantan that he was shocked…
Agence France Presse - April 24, 2001
Banda Aceh – Independence fighters in the Indonesian state of Aceh pledged Sunday that they were ready for all-out resistance against new…
Detik - April 24, 2001
Shinta M Sinaga/Fitri & HY, Jakarta – Around six thousands workers are set to march along the streets of Jakarta to celebrate May Day –…
Straits Times - April 24, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesian soldiers were airlifted to the restive province of Aceh yesterday to mark a new phase of a potentially long…
April 23, 2001
Straits Times - April 23, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Atambua – Tension is running high in this border town 2 1/2 years after the influx of over 200,000 East Timorese who fled the post-…
Timor Post - April 23, 2001
The President of CNRT, Xanana Gusmao said Satruday that the success of the general election this year was still the number one…
Reuters - April 23, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday outlined five key steps to keep its budget deficit at the forecast 3.7 percent of gross domestic product…
Tempo - April 23, 2001
Jakarta – The Pro-democratic Activists Network (PRODEM) and the Action Study Circle for Indonesian Democracy (LS-ADI) carried out a protest at…
Associated Press - April 23, 2001
Daniel Cooney, Nyaru Menteng – Seven-month-old Nabima often has nightmares. She wakes in the night screaming and crying, says Lone Droscher-…
Straits Times - April 23, 2001
Jakarta – Over the next two weeks, the Indonesian government will send 200 judges to riot-torn areas such as Aceh, Maluku and Irian…
Jakarta Post - April 23, 2001
Jakarta – The chairman of the former ruling Golkar Party, Akbar Tandjung, said on Sunday that Indonesia would get a lot better when…
Jakarta Post - April 23, 2001
Jakarta – Experts see the announcement of public servants' wealth as a good start in fighting corruption, but say it will take time before any…
Jakarta Post - April 23, 2001
Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – According to the official data, Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri is 17 times wealthier than President Abdurrahman…
Associated Press - April 23, 2001
Sydney – Nobel peace laureate Bishop Carlos Belo of East Timor appealed Monday for an international tribunal to punish crimes against humanity in…
April 21, 2001
Straits Times - April 21, 2001
Geraldine Goh, Jakarta – East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao said new blood is needed to lead his country towards self-rule.
The president of…
Sydney Monring Herald - April 21, 2001
Christiani Tumelap in Atambua and Lindsay Murdoch in Dili – A 16-year-old East Timorese girl allegedly kidnapped as a war prize has defended the…
April 20, 2001
Straits Times - April 20, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Chief security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono yesterday advised foreign businesses to start dealing directly with local…
Sydney Morning Herld - April 20, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – An investigation by a former Australian diplomat, Mr James Dunn, identifies a group of still-serving officers who secretly…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 20, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – As the East Timorese capital was being looted and burned on a stifling hot day in September 1999, an Indonesian Army…
Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao insisted on Thursday that overcoming the territory's complex social and economic…
Agence France Presse - April 20, 2001 (abridged)
Banda Aceh – Violence in Indonesia's Aceh province has left at least five people dead since Thursday, hospital staff said.
The body of…
Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – A policeman and three separatist rebels were killed in the continuing violence in strife-torn Aceh, an official said on Thursday.
…
Associated Press - April 20, 2001
Dili – UN officials in East Timor Friday distanced themselves from a report that accuses senior Indonesian army generals of masterminding the wave…
Agence France Presse - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's disgraced former military chief General Wiranto Friday accused the country's political leadership of driving the nation to…
Straits Times - April 20, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Surabaya – Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri's PDI-P party is launching its own counter-offensive to staunch mass violence on…
Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – A group of influential Muslim clerics and organizations in East Java launched on Thursday the Ukhuwah Islamiyah Forum (FUI) which aims…
Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid warned on Thursday of a "nationwide rebellion" against the House of Representatives (DPR) if its attempts to…
Reuters - April 20, 2001
Geniva – The United Nations urged Indonesia on Friday to bring those responsible for bloodshed in East Timor to justice and rein in militias…
Jakarta Post - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – About 40,000 refugees of the strife-torn North Maluku have returned to their homes in the regencies of Halmahera, Morotai,…
Agence France Presse - April 20, 2001
Jakarta – A former army commander Friday admitted excesses in the Indonesian military in its handling of separatist movements, and publicly…
Straits Times - April 20, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund broke an impasse over the country's swelling budget deficit problem yesterday,…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 20, 2001
The head of TNI's Information Center, Air Marshall Graito Usodo said yesterday there was an elite group that was trying to revive…
April 19, 2001
Jakarta Post - April 19, 2001
Jakarta – Formal support for Megawati Soekarnoputri to replace President Abdurrahman Wahid grew on Wednesday as two house factions stated their…
Jakarta Post - April 19, 2001
Palu, Central Sulawesi – The coordinator for the Poso refugees, Yus Mangun, said on Wednesday 3,000 packages of food aid from the…
Reuters - April 19, 2001
Jakarta – East Timor's economy has rebounded strongly after violence destroyed the tiny half-island territory nearly two years ago, with 15…
Jakarta Post - April 19, 2001
Jakarta – Efforts to settle problems in the strife-torn province of Aceh took a new turn when the government revealed on Wednesday a plan to…
Straits Times - April 19, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her husband have a net worth of around US$6 million, the country's…
Straits Times - April 19, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Banyuwangi – Leaders of Indonesia's largest Muslim group are distancing themselves from a suicide squad heading for Jakarta –…
Straits Times - April 19, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – The detention order issued against tycoon Sjamsul Nursalim of the Gadjah Tunggal Group over longstanding money-swindling…
April 18, 2001
Sydeny Morning Herald - April 18, 2001
Craig Skehan – East Timor is set to receive a much larger slice of income from the rich oil reserves it shares with Australia.
Federal…