Vaudine England – President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday brushed off calls for his resignation from students and lawmakers, saying his opponents…
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January 19, 2001
South China Morning Post - January 19, 2001
January 18, 2001
Associated Press - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – The generals are back. With civilian leaders mired in political infighting and unable to tackle Indonesia's mounting crises, the army…
Far Eastern Economic Review - January 18, 2001
Sadanand Dhume, Jakarta – With a shaky currency, the former president's son on the run from police and a series of recent bomb blasts in major…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – While expressing support for a united territory of Indonesia, United States Ambassador to Indonesia Robert S. Gelbard offered on…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – South Aceh Police found a mass grave with 14 bodies, three of which were suspected to be those of the missing researchers…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – Speaker of the House of Representatives Akbar Tandjung rejected calls by the National Awakening Party (PKB) faction for an investigation…
Far Eastern Economic Review - January 18, 2001
Dini Djala, North Sulawesi and West Kalimantan – At a crowded refugee camp in Bitung, North Sulawesi, some 3,000 children pass their days jumping…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Makassar – The South Sulawesi Police sent 300 personnel from its Mobile Brigade (Brimob) unit to the restive regency of Poso in Central Sulawesi…
Associated Press - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – Police fired warning shots at stone throwing protesters outside a trial of three Christians accused of provoking bloody…
Jakarta Post - January 18, 2001
Jakarta – The Central Jakarta District Court commenced the trial of Bank Indonesia (Central Bank) governor Syahril Sabirin on Wednesday regarding…
January 17, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 17, 2001
Jakarta – Police on Wednesday fired volleys of teargas at 2,500 protestors who gathered outside parliament calling on Indonesian President…
Green Left Weekly - January 17, 2001
Max Lane – The process of overthrowing the Suharto dictatorship did not go sufficiently deep enough to deliver a deathblow to the political…
Straits Times - January 17, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – While President Abdurrahman Wahid gave his backing for another ceasefire between Acehnese rebels and the government,…
Green Left Weekly - January 17, 2001
Pip Hinman – Acehnese activist Kautsar has been struggling for his people's right to self-determination for some years. In 1998, he helped to form…
Agence France Presse - January 17, 2001
Jakarta – An Indonesian court has dismissed a case against an author charged seven years ago with insulting former president Suharto by suggesting…
Straits Times - January 17, 2001
Jakarta – A group representing the Chinese community in Indonesia yesterday met Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to ask for help…
Green Left Weekly - January 17, 2001
Kerryn Williams – "We see the potential energy among urban poor youth, whose power has been shown many times in Indonesian history. They are brave…
Straits Times - January 17, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesian police yesterday denied reports that they were investigating the involvement of former army generals in the…
Dow Jones Newswires - January 17, 2001
Jeremy Bowden, Singapore – East Timor is raising the stakes in talks on sharing offshore oil and natural gas revenues with Australia, according to…
January 16, 2001
South China Morning Post - January 16, 2001
Chris McCall, Banda Aceh – "Let our people go quickly or Indonesia will suffer the same fate as Yugoslavia." That was the dire warning from…
Agence France Presse - January 16, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police in easternmost Irian Jaya province have questioned four people including a woman cleric over separatist activities, a…
January 15, 2001
Straits Times - January 15, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesia's Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri has vowed to clean up her Indonesian Democratic Party-Perjuangan (PDI…
The Guardian - January 15, 2001
Maggie O'Kane – The discovery of the bodies of four women murdered with machetes in different parts of the country last summer passed almost…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 15, 2001
Hamish McDonald, Dili – The Australian Government is retreating from its tough opening stance on the oil revenue split in a new seabed boundary…
January 14, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 14, 2001
Jakarta – Vice President and chairperson of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) Megawati Soekarnoputri scolded…
Straits Times - January 14, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Indonesian Foreign Minister Alwi Shihab has reassured Asean members that the South-east Asia grouping is still central…
Straits Times - January 14, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Even though the police are taking extra precaution to secure the capital against mass demonstrations rumoured to begin…
Agence France Presse - January 14, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri Sunday told 100,000 supporters of her Indonesian Democracy Party- Struggle (PDIP) that…
Jakarta Post - January 14, 2001
Jakarta – The government is under the control of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and has to obtain IMF approval for every…
South China Morning Post - January 14, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – Three people have been killed and four wounded in a fresh bout of violence in Indonesia's restive Aceh province, showing the…
January 13, 2001
Straits Times - January 13, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian police have detected an underground bunker below the central Jakarta home of former president Suharto's fugitive son Hutomo "…
South China Morning Post - January 13, 2001
Chris McCall, Banda Aceh – The controversial trial of Aceh's top civilian independence activist is expected to start in the course of a new one-…
South China Morning Post - January 13, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Banking magnate James Riady's conviction for illegal funding of US politicians will ruffle feathers in the US Congress…
Kyodo News - January 13, 2001
Jakarta – More than 150 East Timorese journalists, gathering at their inaugural congress in the East Timor capital of Dili, have agreed to build…
Jakarta Post - January 13, 2001
Ambon – One hundred people marched to the Maluku Police Headquarters in Batumeja on Friday to protest Thursday's arrest of Alex Manuputty, chief…
January 12, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 12, 2001 (abridged)
Banda Aceh – At least six people, including a soldier on guard at an Exxon-Mobil oil company complex were killed, and eight others injured in…
South China Morning Post - January 12, 2001
Chris McCall, Banda Aceh – Behind Banda Aceh's landmark Baiturrahman mosque, a street vendor was scratching a living as he does every day, mashing…
Jakarta Post - January 12, 2001
Jakarta – The State Official Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) functionaries and members were sworn in by President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid at…
Jakarta Post - January 12, 2001
Yogyakarta – Activists from various groups representing laborers, peasants, fishermen and youths have launched a new organization called the All-…
Jakarta Post - January 12, 2001
Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court began on Thursday the trial of six pro-integration East Timorese for the murder of three United Nation…
January 11, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 11, 2001
Wamena – The wreckage of the ill-fated Navy Cassa plane was located in a remote mountainous area of Jayawijaya regency on Wednesday with all…
Jakarta Post - January 11, 2001
Jakarta – An Australian-based laboratory has jump-started the 1993 rape-murder case of female labor activist Marsinah as it had found out that the…
South China Morning Post - January 11, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A busload of militant Muslims walked into the offices of the English-language Jakarta Post to "deliver a strong protest…
Associated Press - January 11, 2001
Jakarta – At least three people were killed in religious clashes on Thursday in Indonesia's Maluku province, as police arrested the…
January 10, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2001
Kalasan, Sleman – A group of people ransacked a Biblical Church in Taman Martani village, Kalasan, on Tuesday some 14 kilometers east of…
South China Morning Post - January 10, 2001
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Sitting in jail waiting to hear his fate, feared East Timor militia chief Eurico Guterres is accusing his nemesis Xanana…
Australian Associated Press - January 10, 2001
Catharine Munro, Jakarta – An unlikely gathering of Indonesian rock stars, criminals and retired soldiers yesterday converged on a Jakarta…
Jakarta Post - January 10, 2001
Jakarta – Security authorities called on the country's political elite on Tuesday not to mobilize the masses to the streets, but to sit at the…
January 9, 2001
The Guardian - January 9, 2001
John Aglionby, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has devolved a number of government powers from Jakarta to the provinces and districts. The aim…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 9, 2001
Arrested by Indonesian police in Irian Jaya for reporting while on a tourist visa, Swiss journalist Oswald Iten spent 11 days in jail before being…