Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The scene spoke for itself. In February, Indonesian generals lined up behind legislators to charge President Abdurrahman…
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April 18, 2001
Straits Times - April 18, 2001
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 18, 2001
Dr. Jose Ramos Horta, one of the political leaders of East Timor, thinks that reconciliation among the people of East Timor must be carried out in…
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - April 18, 2001 (abridged)
Soe, Indonesia – Around 70 per cent of the tens of thousands of East Timorese refugees languishing in squalid camps in Indonesia want…
Dow Jones Newswires - April 18, 2001
Farida Husna, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund told the Indonesian parliament Wednesday that a new letter of intent will only…
April 17, 2001
Jakarta Post - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the government to shelve several large projects this year in a bid to rescue the…
Straits Times - April 17, 2001
Geraldine Goh, Jakarta – A boycott on the payment of city taxes has been called by a local group fighting for the rights of the urban poor.
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Straits Times - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian officials fear the government might not meet its 6.5 trillion rupiah privatisation target this year amid weak markets.
…Agence France Presse - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – UN officials believe East Timorese refugees they met during a visit last week to camps in West Timor were instructed to challenge the…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 17, 2001
UNTAET's Timorization process is not clearly visible within the Transitional administration. Also, the transitional administration…
Suara Timor Lorosae - April 17, 2001
An ex-militia leader yesterday appealed for a general amnesty for those who committed human rights crimes in Timor Lorosae.
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Reuters - April 17, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of Indonesian suicide warriors have flooded Jakarta ready to defend embattled President Abdurrahman…
Jakarta Post - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid has endorsed the 11 names recommended by the House of Representatives Commission II for home and legal…
Jakarta Post - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – The Army's Special Force (Kopassus) officially announced on Monday the reorganization of its structure from five operational groups to…
Jakarta Post - April 17, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank canceled the second US$300 million tranche of its $600 million social safety net adjustment loan on request from the…
April 16, 2001
Jakarta Post - April 16, 2001
Yogyakarta – Many critics condemning a reversal of the burden of proof for corruption cases were those who had participated in construction of the…
Straits Times - April 16, 2001
Jakarta – With two weeks to go before legislators meet to censure President Abdurrahman Wahid yet again over two graft scandals, leaders of his…
Detik - April 16, 2001
Bagus Kurniawan/HD & HY, Yogyakarta – Eleven people from the Yogyakarta branch of the Anti Communist Piety Society Forum (Format) have…
Jakarta Post - April 16, 2001
Yogyakarta – More than 7,000 supporters of the United Development Party (PPP) attended on Saturday a mass prayer in Ngaglik, Sleman, some 12…
April 15, 2001
Agence France Presse - April 15, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least six people were killed in renewed violence in the Indonesian province of Aceh at the weekend, police and residents said.…
Jakarta Post - April 15, 2001
Jakarta – The situation in Poso, Central Sulawesi, has heated up over the past several days, with a number of mosques and churches being set…
Agence France Presse - April 15, 2001
Aras Napal – The European explorers who penetrated deepest Sumatra in the 18th century recoiled in awe at the beauty of the "dark and savage"…
April 14, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - April 14, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – A wayang kulit, or shadow puppet, called Kumbakarna sits behind President Abdurrahman Wahid's desk in his Jakarta…
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2001
Jakarta – A suspect has reportedly confessed to having received Rp 27 million (US$2,700) in return for orchestrating the recent attack on striking…
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2001
Jakarta – Referring to the ILO convention on freedom of association, the government called on labor unions on Friday to operate independently and…
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2001
Sinjai, South Sulawesi – Two people were killed on Wednesday night when armed thugs clashed with members of Forbes, a public-initiated group…
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2001
Jakarta – The city administration will launch an open-ended operation against some 1,300 hoodlums, locally known as preman, in the city's five…
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2001
Jakarta – The Jakarta Police announced on Thursday they would take proactive measures to prevent violence in the streets when the House of…
Canberra Times - April 14, 2001
Jenny Denton – At 11 o'clock on a Thursday morning, a handful of people are standing around outside the Anarchist Bookshop in Newtown, Sydney,…
Jakarta Post - April 14, 2001
Jakarta – Black market activities over the past three years have contributed to the worsening of the economic crisis, former manpower minister…
April 13, 2001
Kyodo News - April 13, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank has warned that Indonesia's richest natural habitats could be completely obliterated by 2010 if significant measures are…
BBC News - April 13, 2001
The World Bank has cancelled a three-hundred million dollar loan to help Indonesia's poor. The bank said the Indonesian authorities…
Asiaweek - April 13, 2001
Warren Caragata and Amy Chew,Jakarta – Kasmiran is a motorcyle taxi driver from Gresik, an industrial town in East Java – Gus Dur country.…
April 12, 2001
Indonesian Observer - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – The US government, under President Bush has shown a renewed willingness to open the access for military equipment and military training…
Tempo - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – Students from the Front for Anti Violence (Fomapak) staged a rally in front of the US Embassy located on Jl. Merdeka Selatan…
Jakarta Post - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Wednesday that soldiers currently stationed at the ExxonMobil gas…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 12, 2001 (abridged)
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The United Nations will face renewed pressure to set up an East Timor war crimes tribunal after receiving a report…
Christian Science Monitor - April 12, 2001
Ilene R. Prusher, Jakarta – When aides would go on tour with Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri, they used to try to get her to act…
Sydney Morning Herald - April 12, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Fears are growing of violent clashes between Indonesia's two big Muslim organisations as tens of thousands of…
Agence France Presse - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's government is delaying setting up a human rights court to try crimes committed in East Timor in 1999 because of military…
Far Eastern Economic Review - April 12, 2001
John McBeth, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid and the Indonesian military are engaged in a renewed contest of wills, this time over the…
Asia Pulse - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia is unlikely to reach its targeted 4.5 percent to 5 percent economic growth rate in 2001 on account of lower-than-expected…
Asia Pulse - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) director for the Asia-Pacific, Anoop Singh, is optimistic that the Fund's meeting with the…
Tempo - April 12, 2001
Jakarta – At about 10.20am this morning, the Director of the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) in Medan, Irham Buana Nasution, was shot with…
Detik - April 12, 2001
Khairul Ikhwan/HD & HY, Medan – Around 5,000 people from the Anti-Communist Front Across Indonesia (Faksi) staged a rally at…
April 11, 2001
Green Left Weekly - April 11, 2001
Pip Hinman – The Indonesian government's "limited" military operation, currently underway, is not just against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), but…
Straits Times - April 11, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's Parliament and government are close to splitting control of the Central Bank and unravelling the bank's…
Dow Jones Newswires - April 11, 2001
Canberra – Australia and East Timor representatives are scheduled to resume negotiations in May on a new treaty covering the share of economic…
Green Left Weekly - April 11, 2001
John Gauci Sydney – On April 6, 140 people gathered in the Resistance Centre to hear speakers discuss the political crisis in Indonesia. The event…
Jakarta Post - April 11, 2001
Jakarta – Rector of the Jayapura Institute of Science and Technology (ISTJ) Tuesday threatened to close down the school following student protests…
Washington Post - April 11, 2001
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Jakarta – The 22 people suspected by the Indonesian government of orchestrating the wave of violence after East Timor voted…