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March 5, 2001
Asian Wall Street Journal - March 5, 2001
March 4, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 4, 2001
Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro said on Saturday that police had arrested 158 people in connection with the killings of…
New York Times - March 4, 2001
Seth Mydans, Dili – Judge Maria Natircia Perreira set her face in a judicial frown and studied the nine scruffy men lined up below her in the dock…
March 3, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 3, 2001
Jakarta – Five judges have been appointed to the trial of Central Information for Aceh Referendum (SIRA) chief Muhammad Nazar in the Banda Aceh…
Straits Times - March 3, 2001
Palangkaraya – "I felt so strong; so powerful." These are the words of a 21-year-old Dayak as he narrated his experience in chopping off the heads…
Agence France Presse - March 3, 2001
Jakarta – Leading Indonesian politicians met at a Jakarta mosque for what media reports said Saturday were talks on dumping President Ambdurrahman…
Indonesian Observer - March 3, 2001
Jakarta – The closed-door meeting between some of the nations top politicians at Al-Azhar Mosque in South Jakarta yesterday was an attempt to use…
Jakarta Post - March 3, 2001
Bandung – Around 100 West Java politicians and public figures at a ceremony at the Panghegar Hotel here on Friday signed up to the…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 3, 2001
Mark Dodd – An Indonesian Army commander has told a group of East Timorese who served with the Indonesian military they should renounce violence…
Agence France Presse - March 3, 2001
Banda Aceh – Seven people were killed in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, three of them when government troops retook a town held for 14 hours…
South China Morning Post - March 3, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Anger is growing over the continued absence of President Abdurrahman Wahid at a time of ethnic slaughter on the island…
Associated Press - March 3, 2001 (abridged)
Dili – Human rights groups Friday welcomed the conviction by a UN court of an East Timorese guerrilla for killing a pro-Indonesian…
March 2, 2001
Statement by Tapol and Down to earth - March 2, 2001
Down to Earth and TAPOL express deep concern about the horrific violence and ethnic cleansing in Central Kalimantan
Violence has again…
Detik - March 2, 2001
Khairul Ikhwan D/HD & HY, Medan – Around 300 workers of PT Cipta Prima staged a demonstration at north Sumatra Provincial Legislative Council…
Reuters - March 2, 2001
Geneva – An international resettlement group said on Friday that it had restarted repatriating East Timorese refugees from the Indonesian west of…
March 1, 2001
Tapol Bulletin - Number 161 March/April 2001
Peace agreements come and go but on the ground nothing ever changes in Aceh. The death toll has continued to rise, even following a mid-January…
South China Morning Post - March 1, 2001
Jake Lloyd-Smith, Batam/Vaudine England, Jakarta – Shirley Lau says she fled her home in fear of her life, clutching just a handful of possessions…
Tapol Bulletin - Number 161 March/April 2001
An explosion of violence in Kalimantan in late February shook the entire province of Central Kalimantan. Thousands of Dayaks, armed with machetes…
Tapol Bulletin - Number 161 March/April 2001
Less than three years after the fall of Suharto amid calls for "reformasi", there are serious signs that the democratically-elected government of…
Jakarta Post - March 1, 2001
Banda Aceh – Violence has again escalated in Aceh with at least 11 people being killed in various incidents on Wednesday, while talks continue…
Jakarta Post - March 1, 2001
Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – Indonesians, who grew up believing they helped East Timor out of a civil war, must wake up to the fact that they are…
New York Times - March 1, 2001
Seth Mydans, Ermera – There is one happy thing – one glorious thing – in the shamed and broken life of Loren a Martins. Far from her family,…
Financial Times - March 1, 2001
Rohit Jaggi and Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's hold on power grew increasingly tenuous on Thursday after his…
February 28, 2001
BBC News - February 28, 2001
Jonathan Head – The clashes in the Indonesian province of central Kalimantan are part of a pattern of violence between the indigenous inhabitants…
Jakarta Post - February 28, 2001
Jakarta – Five major factions at the House of Representatives will recommend that faction members, who were on a special committee investigating…
South China Morning Post - February 28, 2001
Agencies in Sampit, Palangkaraya and Jakarta – Security forces called in to quell ethnic violence on Borneo instead turned their guns on each…
New York Times - February 28, 2001
Calvin Sims - Jakarta – The ethnic violence that erupted 10 days ago in the Indonesian section of Borneo, where hundreds of people have been…
The Age - February 28, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The head of the UN mission in East Timor, Sergio Vieira de Mello, has given the green light to Indonesia's armed forces to…
February 27, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – Head of the Food and Drug Control Agency Sampurno revealed on Monday that the government would increase the prices of generic drugs by…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – A regulation has been issued specifically aimed at preventing forest fires by holding more parties, including forest concession holders…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 27, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia is rushing hundreds of special force troops to its Borneo province in an attempt to end the slaughter of…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – The rupiah dropped on Monday by 2 percent to its lowest level since October 1998 amid worsening ethnic violence in Central Kalimantan…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian Footwear Association (Apresindo) was cautious on Monday in responding to reported labor abuses in Nike's Indonesian…
Jakarta Post - February 26/27, 2001
[The following is excerpts from a report prepared for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom which held a hearing on…
February 26, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 26, 2001
Makassar – A skirmish erupted between student demonstrators and members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Banser civilian guards at the Makassar Islamic…
Reuters - February 26, 2001
Sonya Hepinstallm, Washington – The human rights picture in Indonesia has steadily deteriorated as Jakarta loses control over ethnic, social and…
South China Morning Post - February 26, 2001
Vaudine England – Megawati Sukarnoputri's father founded independent Indonesia and was its first president until deposed in 1966. Her constituency…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 26, 2001
Louise Williams – At the turn of the century a convention of tribal head hunters gathered beneath the towering canopy of the rainforests of Borneo…
Agence France Presse - February 26, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Surabaya – Masudi Muali said he ran as fast as he could after seeing many of his friends beheaded by indigeneous Dayak tribesmen outside his…
Newsweek - February 26, 2001 (slightly abridged)
As always, Singapore's senior minister Lee Kuan Yew is keeping a wary eye on the big powers in his region-especially Indonesia and China. In Davos…
Associated Press - February 26, 2001
Regan Morris, Singapore – East Timor's Nobel peace laureate Jose Ramos-Horta says he understands the suffering, humiliation and struggles of…
February 25, 2001
South China Morning Post - February 25, 2001 (abridged)
Associated Press in Jakarta – Australian peacekeepers clashed with suspected militiamen in East Timor, UN officials said on Saturday…
Reuters - February 25, 2001 (abridged)
Madiun – Some 4,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid hit the streets in East Java on Sunday, resuming protests…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2001
Jakarta – A man was killed and another was injured Friday night in a communal clash that broke out in Woja district, Dompu regency,…
South China Morning Post - February 25, 2001
Reuters in Sampit – Terrified refugees crammed onto an Indonesian navy ship on Saturday to escape marauding mobs in Borneo as officials said the…
February 24, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 24, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor will go to the polls on August 30 – the second anniversary of its United Nations-brokered referendum – in a historic…
Straits Times - February 24, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Most Indonesians will not be able to watch the coverage of inter-ethnic clashes like those in Central Kalimantan on their…
South China Morning Post - February 24, 2001
Agencies in Sampit and Palangkaraya – The death toll from six days of brutal ethnic clashes on Borneo island rose to at least 143 yesterday as the…
International Herald Tribune - February 24, 2001
Philip Bowring, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia faces many crises, several of his own creation. But it would be wrong to assume…
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2001
Jakarta – An official said on Friday that the long awaited trial of proindependence activist Muhammad Nazar would be transferred to…