Jakarta – Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) chief Lt. Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu confirmed on Friday he had assured Abdurrahman Wahid of his…
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February 24, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2001
Banda Aceh – Violence continued in Aceh as Indonesian Police and Military officers held talks with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) on Thursday and…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 24, 2001
Hamish McDonald – The World Bank warned yesterday that if a political or economic crisis broke out in Indonesia it would cease all new lending…
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2001
Jakarta – A pro-integration East Timorese militia member told the North Jakarta District Court on Thursday that he had stabbed a UNHCR…
February 23, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – The government will proceed with its plan to raise fuel prices in April despite concerns that it could trigger a new wave of social…
Straits Times - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Audit Board said yesterday that government departments, including the presidential office, had misused 8…
Agence France Presse - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – The official death toll from six days of brutal ethnic slayings on Borneo island rose to more than 200 Friday, a medical worker said.…
Jakarta Post - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency disclosed on Thursday that it found 1,760 instances of financial irregularities involving a total sum of more…
Agence France Presse - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – East Timorese leaders told Indonesian parliamentary heads Friday that unless Jakarta moves soon to try those accused of committing…
South China Morning Post - February 23, 2001
Associated Press in Portland – Workers at nine of Nike's contract factories in Indonesia have witnessed verbal and physical abuse by supervisors…
Dow Jones Newswires - February 23, 2001
Washington – The International Monetary Fund sought Friday to reassure financial markets that it wasn't turning away from engagement with…
Australian Financial Review - February 23, 2001
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid left Jakarta yesterday on an overseas trip which takes him out of the country for two…
Straits Times - February 23, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The recent ethnic bloody violence in central Kalimantan was orchestrated by two civil servants who were furious at…
Reuters - February 23, 2001
Indonesia's stock market watchdog has issued a ruling allowing mainly listed firms to make substantial transactions without shareholder approval…
February 22, 2001
Straits Times - February 22, 2001
Three days after mobs torched some 100 houses in the town of Selat Panjang in Riau, the village is now a ghost town as most of the 6,000-odd…
Agence France Presse - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – A retired Indonesian general accused of killing five Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975 told a parliamentary hearing…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – The police have found indications of the commission of a crime in an alleged land scam linked to House of Representatives Speaker and…
Straits Times - February 22, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of students who have been protesting across Indonesia in the past few weeks might argue that replacing…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Makassar – Makassar District Court commenced on Wednesday the trial of deputy South Sulawesi governor Masnawi on corruption charges.…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid fired another shot in the battle against corruption on Wednesday, approving the establishment of a special…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
No sooner after President Abdurrahman Wahid had pledged "zero tolerance" for past corruptors this month, the Attorney General's Office went into…
Asiaweek - February 22, 2001
Warren Caragata – Wimar Witoelar, the spokesman for Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, has said that decision-making within the Indonesian…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Surabaya – The situation in Sampang regency, Madura Island, has become increasingly tense as opposing forces of elected regent Fadhilah Budiono on…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 22, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Jakarta plans a crackdown on separatist movements in Aceh and Irian Jaya that observers say will almost certainly end…
Agence France Presse - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian military observers have warned the country's newly-empowered MPs pose a serious threat to the armed forces' attempts to…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has found irregularities involving over Rp 260 billion (about US$27.36 million) in insurance firm PT Tugu…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 22, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – The Australian wife of the independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has blasted Indonesian authorities over their lack of action in…
Inter Press Service - February 22, 2001
Danielle Knight, Washington DC – Indonesian pulp and paper facilities, supported in the 1990s by financial institutions in Europe, Japan and North…
February 21, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 21, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – A member of the Indonesian Military/National Police faction in the Aceh provincial council said rogue forces in the province had…
Green Left Weekly - February 21, 2001
Max Lane – The Indonesian political elite is becoming increasingly fearful of a radicalisation of the country's masses, which is being provoked by…
Green Left Weekly - February 21, 2001
Jon Land – The Australian government is attempting to prevent East Timor from gaining full sovereign rights over vast oil and gas reserves in the…
South China Morning Post - February 21, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Prosecutors yesterday began questioning the eldest daughter of former dictator Suharto over corruption allegations…
Straits Times - February 21, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Dozens of Indonesian maids working in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have fled their jobs due to sexual harassment or…
Reuters - February 21, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia said yesterday that a number of mining companies have suspended exploration due to uncertainty over new regional…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 21, 2001
Indonesia's top economics minister left yesterday for crucial talks with the International Monetary Fund, after an advisory panel warned that the…
February 20, 2001
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2001
Jakarta – The civil servant who set off a national corruption scandal when he released 3.9 million dollars of state funds a year ago was convinced…
South China Morning Post - February 20, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The renewal of a ceasefire between secessionist rebels and the Government in Aceh was greeted by more violence, but…
Jakarta Post - February 20, 2001
Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung ruled out on Monday independence for Irian Jaya, dealing a blow to separatist rebel…
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2001 (abridged)
Banda Aceh – At least two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in the latest violence to hit the troubled Aceh province despite a new…
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's economy grew 4.77 percent last year but is likely to slow to around four percent this year, the government said Tuesday.…
February 19, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – After days of rallies – some of them violent, the capital enjoyed an arts performance on Sunday aimed at easing the political tension.…
Detik - February 19, 2001
Djoko Tjiptono/Hendra & GB, Jakarta – Students grouped in the Golkar Disbursement Alliance (ABG) wanted to take over the Jakarta offices of…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Police have increased the number of personnel guarding offices of the Golkar Party following an attack by hundreds of students on the…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 19, 2001
Mark Dodd – One of East Timor's most notorious militia leaders will today meet representatives of the community he left devastated to discuss his…
Indonesian Observer - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Eighteen syndicates of illegal loggers operating from Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan cost the state an annual Rp1.2 trillion (US$125…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Chairman of the executive board of the Corps of Indonesian Muslim Students Alumni (KAHMI), Fuad Bawazier, warns of resurgent communism…
Indonesian Observer - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Pro-reform organizations across Java and Sumatra yesterday stepped up their demands for the former ruling Golkar Party to be dissolved…
February 18, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 18, 2001
Tual – Humanitarian activists slammed on Saturday the Social Welfare Agency in Southeast Maluku for allegedly swindling approximately…
Straits Times - February 18, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Karta – Prominent international economic advisers yesterday called on Indonesia not to sever ties with the International Monetary…
Jakarta Post - February 18, 2001 (abridged)
Yogyakarta – Twelve students were arrested by Yogyakarta Police on Saturday following a protest against the political elite to mark the visit of…