Vaudine England – The timber tycoon and golfing buddy of former Indonesian president Suharto, Mohammad "Bob" Hasan, has been moved to a high-…
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March 28, 2001
South China Morning Post - March 28, 2001
Green Left Weekly - March 28, 2001
Starting March 27, a United States court in Washington, DC, will hear evidence that Indonesian General Johnny Lumintang is responsible for gross…
Green Left Weekly - March 28, 2001
Jon Land – Chances are increasingly remote that the Indonesian legal system will bring to justice those responsible for war crimes and human…
Green Left Weekly - March 28, 2001
Pip Hinman – The Indonesian military is stepping up its war against the Acehnese people.
Jakarta has declared a "limited military operation…
Jakarta Post - March 28, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of activists of the Aceh Referendum Information Center (SIRA) held a rally in front of the Dutch Embassy on…
Jakarta Post - March 28, 2001
Jakarta – Fire raged in Kuala Kapuas, the capital of Kapuas regency in Central Kalimantan, turning the town into a sea of fire all day…
Agence France Presse - March 28, 2001
Jakarta – Ethnic violence in Indonesian Borneo claimed another five lives, police and the military said Wednesday, a month after similar bloody…
South China Morning Post - March 28, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's reply to a censure motion today could trigger a last-ditch round of corrupt deal-making…
March 27, 2001
UN News - March 27, 2001
The National Council of East Timor today voted against setting up a mechanism that would have allowed the East Timorese people to provide input to…
Associated Press - March 27, 2001
Dili – UN prosecutors in East Timor condemned on Tuesday the downgrading of charges against six people accused of killing international aid…
March 18, 2001
Straits Times - March 18, 2001
Former workers of the Shangri-La hotel, Jakarta, have clashed with baton-wielding Indonesian police, after threatening to enter the…
Agence France Presse - March 18, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least 14 people were killed in a series of clashes between government forces and separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive province…
Reuters - March 18, 2001
Dili – East Timor, preparing the way for eventual independence, will hold its first democratic elections on August 30, the head of the United…
March 17, 2001
Straits Times - March 17, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid has sacked a minister from one of the political parties trying to oust him in an apparent bid…
Straits Times - March 17, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Thirteen. That was the number of ministers and top generals President Abdurrahman Wahid had fired up until Thursday.
…
Straits Times - March 17, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Jakarta municipal authorities are complaining that the daily anti- and pro-government protests in the Indonesian capital are…
Agence France Presse - March 17, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid was publicly snubbed by his deputy on Saturday, adding to growing signs of a politically…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 17, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Death threats and intimidation this week forced United Nations officials to abandon efforts to reunite children living…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 17, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – Seven suspected Indonesian spies have been detected in East Timor, prompting warnings by United Nations officials that saboteurs…
Associated Press - March 17, 2001
Daniel Cooney, Jakarta – Indonesia has deployed about 1,500 troops to protect Exxon Mobil oil fields from rebel attacks in the violence-plagued…
March 16, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 16, 2001
Jakarta – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto dismissed on Thursday speculation that there would soon be a major reshuffle in the…
The Economist - March 16, 2001
Ambon – There is still gunfire every night in Ambon, the capital of the Moluccas, and sometimes a shattering bomb blast. Once a thriving…
Reuters - March 16, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank said on Friday it expects to keep raising interest rates to help ease inflationary pressures stemming from the…
Jakarta Post - March 16, 2001
[The following is an article based on a conference paper by sociologist George J. Aditjondro, a lecturer at Australia's Newcastle University.…
Agence France Presse - March 16, 2001
Jakarta – The chief of police in the capital of Indonesia's restive Irian Jaya province was quizzed Friday over the deaths of three students in…
Jakarta Post - March 16, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – The United States government maintained on Thursday its opposition to separatism such as that in Aceh, but warned the Indonesian…
Reuters - March 16, 2001
Terry Frie, Malang – Indonesia's leading Muslim group and fanatic supporters of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid threatened to call millions…
South China Morning Post - March 16, 2001
Chris McCall and Reuters in Jakarta – Beleaguered President Abdurrahman Wahid won a much-needed boost yesterday when two cabinet ministers opted…
Jakarta Post - March 16, 2001
Surabaya – More than 5,000 supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid, armed with sickles, machetes and bamboo spears, blocked Ketapang Port in…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 16, 2001
Jakarta – Lawyers for the Indonesian timber tycoon Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, a close associate of former president Soeharto, say they will…
Straits Times - March 16, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Madura – There seems to be no safe haven for the thousands of Madurese refugees who are fleeing the brutal ethnic violence in…
March 15, 2001
Associated Press - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – The estimated number of East Timorese refugees still in camps in Indonesia has been reduced to about 50,000, a UN official…
Agence France Presse - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – Police stormed a top-security prison here early yesterday, killing one inmate and injuring three others as they quelled a riot over…
International Herald Tribune - March 15, 2001
Mark Dodd, On board the Curtis Wilbur, East Timor – The deck of an American guided missile destroyer might seem a strange place to train East…
Straits Times - March 15, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The presidential office yesterday denied that the US$300,000 sent to President Abdurrahman Wahid while he was on an…
Agence France Presse - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian vice president Megawati Sukarnoputri no longer supported President Abdurrahman Wahid and was ready to replace him, despite…
South China Morning Post - March 15, 2001
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Rebel leaders in war-torn Aceh yesterday denounced plans by Jakarta to mount a new military operation there and said it…
Associated Press - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – Prosecutors Thursday ordered the temporary release of five political activists facing subversion charges for alleged…
March 14, 2001
Agence France Presse - March 14, 2001
Banda Aceh – A leading supporter of independence for Aceh walked out of his trial Wednesday when it refused to call Indonesian President…
South China Morning Post - March 14, 2001
Chris McCall and agencies in Jakarta – Indonesians are bracing for more economic misery as their currency crumbles, sparking fears of a repeat of…
Green Left Weekly - March 14, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – The "Draft Regulation on the Election of a Constituent Assembly to draft the Constitution of an Independent and Democratic…
Green Left Weekly - March 14, 2001
Chris Latham & Pip Hinman – On February 20 the "cease-fire" between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian military (TNI) was…
Agence France Presse - March 14, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian students Wednesday abandoned a sit-in at parliament demanding the resignation of President Abdurrahman Wahid,…
March 13, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Banda Aceh – The judges of the Banda Aceh District Court ruled on Monday that the court could continue to try Acehnese independence activist…
Indonesian Observer - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – A large number of President Abdurrahman Wahids loyalists left East Java for Jakarta yesterday as their rivals mounted protests to demand…
Associated Press - March 13, 2001
Viqueque – Gang violence in an East Timorese town has left at least two men dead and forced dozens of residents and aid workers to shelter in a…
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2001
Chris McCall, Ambon – They are the shock troops of a crusade to defend the Christian faith and they are mostly still at school.
They call…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – The government decided on Monday to raise fuel prices for industries by 50 percent up to 100 percent on April 1 but keep kerosene and…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 13, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Investors took fright yesterday as thousands of protesters blockaded the tightly guarded palace of President…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – The Jakarta Student Executive Boards' (BEMs) call for a national strike received a mixed response from both the people and university…