Shoeb Kagda, Jakarta – Indonesian bumiputra business conglomerate Bakrie and Brothers and state-owned airline Garuda have reached landmark debt…
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January 26, 2001
Business Times - January 26, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2001
Jakarta – Papua New Guinea (PNG) Police have arrested an Irian Jaya separatist leader and 12 rebel members, officials said on Thursday.
"We…
Agence France Presse - January 26, 2001
Jakarta – Students protested in at least two Indonesian cities including the capital on Friday demanding that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign…
Agence France Presse - January 26, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's foreign minister on Friday said the government had imposed new restrictions on foreign journalists travelling to the country…
Detik - January 26, 2001
Hestiana Dharmastuti/Fitri & GB, Jakarta 00 Coordinator of the Commission for Disappearances and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Munarman, has…
January 25, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 25, 2001
Banda Aceh – At least four people, including two soldiers, were killed in the latest violence to hit the Indonesian province of Aceh, the military…
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2001
Ambon – Fresh violence erupted in Hatualang village in Pirus district, West Seram island in Central Maluku on Wednesday, resulting in the death of…
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2001
Jakarta – Central Jakarta District Court judges trying a lawsuit filed by the Democratic People's Party (PRD) against a number of…
Associated Press - January 25, 2001
Dili – In the first successful prosecution for the destruction of East Timor in 1999, an international court sentenced a pro-Indonesian…
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2001
Matdon, Bandung – Five young artists have come together for an exhibition with the provocative title "Dasar Babi-Babi. Hancurkan Sisa-Sisa Orde…
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2001
Jakarta – Minister of Industry and Trade Luhut Pandjaitan denied on Wednesday reports claiming that some export-oriented companies had fled…
January 24, 2001
Far Eastern Economic Review - January 24, 2001
John Mcbeth, Jakarta – The deadly Christmas and New Year bombings in Indonesia and Manila, which killed 40 people and left hundreds injured, have…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Peter Johnston, Darwin – "We expect over 50% of the first elected parliament – definitely", Estanislau da Silva reassured trade…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Robyn Marshall, Dili – Aurora Ximenes, the coordinator of the East Timor Women's Network, which comprises 15 grassroots organisations, is angry…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Jon Land – Speculation is increasing that, after the stalemate that occurred at the first round of talks in October, the federal government and…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
Vanya Tanaja, Dili – Workers at three World Food Program warehouses here took strike action on January 8 and then went to the headquarters of the…
Indonesian Observer - January 24, 2001
Jakarta – The left-wing Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) and the nations biggest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) are to hold a joint rally…
Agence France Presse - January 24, 2001
Jakarta – The US administration of George W. Bush will continue to support Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid in his efforts to build a strong…
Agence France Presse - January 24, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta – The foreign minister of East Timor's transitional goverment – in a shock move on Wednesday – threw his support behind Jakarta's calls…
Agence France Presse - January 24, 2001
Jakarta – Crowds of ethnic Chinese, with mixed feelings of fear and a new sense of pride, flocked openly to temples in Jakarta Wednesday to…
Detik - January 24, 2001
Budi Sugiharto/Hendra & GB, Surabaya – 182 village heads from Sampang regency, on the island of Madura, East Java province, have occupied the…
Green Left Weekly - January 24, 2001
John Gauci, Sydney – One hundred and fifty people rallied outside the Australian Defence Force headquarters here on January 20 to support self-…
Jakarta Post - January 24, 2001
The public should watch out for military control of civilian institutions, says political analyst Kusnanto Anggoro of the Jakarta-based Center of…
Jakarta Post - January 24, 2001
Jakarta – An ad hoc committee of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) for the amendment of the 1945 Constitution will discuss numerous crucial…
January 23, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid on Monday left legislators dumbfounded as he abruptly walked out of a meeting with the House of…
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2001
Jakarta – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto told soldiers on Monday not to be discouraged by claims by certain groups that the military…
Detik - January 23, 2001
Aulia Andri/GB, Jakarta – Around 500 members of the notorious Ka'bah Youth Movement (GPK) snuck in through the back gate at the parliament and…
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2001
Jakarta – Unlike in the past, political parties are now the vanguard of corruption in the country, as a result of democratization and…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 23, 2001
Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's hope for national reconciliation will take a step towards realisation this year with the introduction of a…
January 22, 2001
Detik - January 22, 2001
Budi Sugiharto/Fitri & GB, Surabaya – Surabaya bus terminal, the biggest terminal in Surabaya, capital of East Java, has been paralysed by a…
Agence France Presse - January 22, 2001
Ambon – Eight Muslims were killed and 19 injured Monday after an attack on an Indonesian military patrol in Ambon, a city ravaged by two years of…
Straits Times - January 22, 2001
Banda Aceh – The Indonesian government and separatist rebels in Aceh have agreed to work together to implement a one-month truce in…
South China Morning Post - January 22, 2001
Chris McCall, Meulaboh – He races as fast as he can in his battered minibus, but screeches to a halt for the men with big guns. Roads in the…
January 21, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 21, 2001
Jakarta – Police said on Saturday a woman arrested at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) on Friday in the possession of three bombs admitted she…
Dow Jones Newswires - January 21, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank's board in Washington has approved a new lending program for Indonesia of $400 million annually over the next three years…
January 20, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – His full name is said to be Ely Foho Rai Boot, which translates from the main Timorese language Tetum as something like…
South China Morning Post - January 20, 2001
Associated Press in Sydney – Protesters seeking independence for the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh called on Saturday for…
Jakarta Post - January 20, 2001
Ambon – The Ambon capital of Maluku was paralyzed on Friday in the wake of the commemoration of start of the bloody conflicts that have gripped…
South China Morning Post - January 20, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – Four people have died in fresh violence in Indonesia's troubled Maluku islands, a Muslim cleric said on Saturday.…
Jakarta Post - January 20, 2001
Banda Aceh – The implementation of law in Aceh has almost come to a halt as many judges have fled the province because of security…
Jakarta Post - January 20, 2001
Jakarta – Employers tend to try to block the establishment of labor unions, and this is a violation of the law, the head of the Jakarta Legal Aid…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 20, 2001
Hamish McDonald – Next month the legendary guerilla army Falintil, an acronym for Armed Forces of the Liberation of East Timor, will cease to…
January 19, 2001
The Age - January 19, 2001
Gay Alcorn, Washington – The new Bush administration wants Australia to take the lead in dealing with Indonesia's problems of violence and…
Jakarta Post - January 19, 2001
Jakarta – The Army's Special Force (Kopassus) will be reorganized to meet the demands of security environment in the future, a senior military…
Agence France Presse - January 19, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Separatist rebels in remote Irian Jaya have seized seven negotiators trying to win the release of 11 abducted plywood workers and now…
Jakarta Post - January 19, 2001
Jakarta – In yet another desperate attempt to locate the fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, police announced plans on Thursday to drill and…
Jakarta Post - January 19, 2001
Jakarta – The political history of bombings in Indonesia took a sharp turn after the 1998 May riots, in which all of the cases involving bomb…
Straits Times - January 19, 2001
Shefali Rekhi – The man behind the reforms and privatisation efforts of Indonesia's state-owned enterprises has criticised his government for the…
Straits Times - January 19, 2001 (abridged)
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) is demanding 30 million rupiah (S$5,700) for each firearm they give up.…
Straits Times - January 19, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The kidnapping of 12 hostages, including a South Korean businessman, in Indonesia's troubled Irian Jaya province, is…