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April 2, 2001
Associated Press - April 2, 2001
Detikcom - April 2, 2001
Budi Sugiharto, Surabaya – Around 200 People's Democratic Party (PRD) activists blockaded a house in Jl. Darmo Kali, Number 28 in…
Associated Press - April 2, 2001
Singapore – The United Nations' transitional government in East Timor is still struggling, leaving much to "sheer luck" despite 18 months in power…
Asia Pulse - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia is the largest labor supplier contributing 50 per cent to foreign worker requirement in a number of countries, the…
Dow Jones Newswires - April 2, 2001
I Made Sentana, Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina (P.PTM) oil and gas company has raised fuel prices for industrial users to…
Indonesian Observer - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Student and Labor organizations have joined with the May 1st Action Committee to stage a major demonstration at Jakarta Police…
Agence France Presse - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian corruption fighters on Monday slammed the Supreme Court's dissolution of an anti-graft team as an attempt by judges to…
Dow Jones Newswires - April 2, 2001
Linda Silaen, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund has warned the Indonesian government of the possibility of a higher-than-…
Jakarta Post - April 2, 2001
Jakrarta – Hoodlums, locally known as preman, have established themselves in every corner of the capital, "guarding" almost every public place,…
Jakarta Post - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Police and Irian Jaya's rebels were involved in a shootout Saturday when the rebels attacked a base camp of PT Dharma Mukti…
Indonesian Observer - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – The Information Center for Aceh Referendum (SIRA) will soon file lawsuit against the Indonesian Police Chief General Surojo Bimantoro…
Straits Times - April 2, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Aceh – A simple bus trip at night can turn deadly in this violence-wracked province, where residents live in constant fear of being…
Agence France Presse - April 2, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – More than 600 people signed up on Monday to join a death squad aimed at preventing beleagured Indonesian President…
Reuters - April 2, 2001
Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – The speaker of Indonesia's top legislative assembly on Monday said President Abdurrahman Wahid should quit, accusing…
Jakarta Post - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Claims that President Abdurrahman Wahid was medically unfit for office was just a political ploy by the President's enemies, an aide…
Jakarta Post - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Legal experts have called on the government to take strict measures against judges whose verdicts spark controversy, instead of just…
Agence France Presse - April 2, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – The discovery of a headless corpse and the torching of houses have heightened tension in a district of Indonesia's Borneo island where…
Jakarta Post - April 2, 2001
Jakarta – Communal violence in Central Kalimantan which has left at least 500 dead since it first erupted six weeks ago has claimed another five…
April 1, 2001
Estafeta - April 2001
Charles Scheiner – Eighteen months have elapsed since the Indonesian military and its militia proxies devastated East Timor. A quarter century has…
Detik - April 1, 2001
Arifin Asydhad/Heather, Jakarta – The National Front for Indonesian Labour Struggle (FNPBI) is planning a demonstration for workers…
Jakarta Post - April 1, 2001
Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – The rains finally poured in late December, too much in some areas for a good corn harvest. Emergency operations over the past…
March 31, 2001
Agence France Presse - March 31, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rejected as unacceptable the trial in the United States of an Indonesian general accused of gross human…
Straits Times - March 31, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesian Parliamentary Speaker Akbar Tandjung has called on President Abdurrahman Wahid to transfer substantial powers…
Straits Times - March 31, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesia will face mass violence "worse than the riots in 1998" if President Abdurrahman Wahid is impeached…
Straits Times - March 31, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Questions over President Abdurrahman Wahid's health swept through Jakarta yesterday as two separate medical teams issued…
Straits Times - March 31, 2001
Jakarta – Former President Suharto remains unfit to stand trial despite some improvement in his health, said the chief prosecutor in the graft…
March 30, 2001
South China Morning Post - March 30, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – Senior politicians yesterday warned President Abdurrahman Wahid that discontent with his erratic 17-month rule was so intense…
Agence France Presse - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – The US embassy here on Friday deplored the "senseless" and "brutal" murder of three Indonesians involved in the peace process in…
Straits Times - March 30, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesia's biggest political party yesterday fired the first salvo against President Abdurrahman Wahid by pressing…
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – The guilty verdict handed down to Aceh Referendum Information Center (SIRA) chief Muhammad Nazar drew condemnation on Thursday with some…
Reuters - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – Two human rights activists and their driver were shot dead in Aceh in an attack that suggests humanitarian workers were being targeted…
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of workers of car upholstery producer PT Kadera AR Indonesia in Pulogadung industrial estate were attacked while on strike in…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 30, 2001
Dili – After quitting East Timor's interim legislature in a bitter row over the shape of a new constitution, independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao…
Reuters - March 30, 2001
John Ruwitch, Jakarta – East Timor leader Xanana Gusmao will remain a key figure in the impoverished territory's painful transition to…
Detik - March 30, 2001
Rita Uli Hutapea/Heather, Jakarta – East Timorese leader, Xanana Gusmao is unimpressed with the Indonesian government's handling of East Timor's…
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001
Yogyakarta – Some 30 students representing 12 universities in Yogyakarta marched to the provincial legislative council on Thursday to warn the…
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – Around 1,000 angry residents of Inderagiri Hilir, Riau, Thursday night ransacked and burned down the local police precinct building. No…
Agence France Presse - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said Friday he had ordered prosecutors to arrest a former mines and energy minister implicated in…
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001
Banjarmasin – In order to prevent the spread of ethnic clashes between local Dayaks and Madurese migrants, a Dayak and a Madurese representing…
Jakarta Post - March 30, 2001
Jakarta – Former Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. (ret) Wiranto said on Thursday that he was not responsible for the shooting incident at the…
March 29, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2001
Jakarta – Residents in Kaloran village, Temanggung regency, East Java, Wednesday put up a roadblock to their village following a plan to bury the…
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2001
Jakarta – To everyone's surprise, the capital was free from huge rallies which had been expected to mark a plenary session at the House of…
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2001
Jakarta – Police fired warning shots and eventually clashed with pro-independence protesters in the Irian Jaya capital of Jayapura on…
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2001
Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh Court sentenced Central Information for Aceh Referendum (SIRA) chief Muhammad Nazar on Wednesday to 10 months in…
Agence France Presse - March 29, 2001
Stephen Collinson, Washington – An activist from East Timor tearfully told on Tuesday of his brother's murder in violence that erupted after the…
Tempo - March 29, 2001
Jakarta – About 30 women activists held rally at the US Embassy on Jl. Medan Merdeka Selatan here today. They asked President Bush not to support…
Associated Press - March 29, 2001
Slobodan Lekic, Jakarta – Indonesia's president, defiant before a hostile parliament, denied corruption charges Wednesday and questioned the…
Reuters - March 29, 2001
Dean Yates, Jakarta – Indonesian newspapers on Thursday warned more upheaval would follow President Abdurrahman Wahid's rejection of a…
Jakarta Post - March 29, 2001
Jakarta – "Unsatisfactory" and "rhetorical" were some of the unfavorable responses from legislators to President Abdurrahman Wahid's reply to the…
March 28, 2001
Green Left Weekly - March 28, 2001
John Gauci, Sydney – The large turnout of 230 people for a March 17 dinner and public meeting here on issue "Free Aceh, Referendum now!" is an…