Banda Aceh – Student groups in Indonesia's Aceh province Tuesday called for a full ceasefire between the government and separatist rebels as…
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January 9, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 9, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2001
Jakarta – The Coordinating Minister for the Economy Rizal Ramli said on Monday that the government would continue to discuss with the…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2001
Jakarta – The Finance Ministry said on Monday that it had issued 41 new decrees, including 38 new tax and excise decrees, in a bid to meet the…
Jakarta Post - January 9, 2001
Bandung – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto asserted here on Monday that the Army is committed to solving security matters but asked…
Agence France Presse - January 9, 2001
Jakarta – Police said Tuesday they were investigating records kept in a Jakarta mosque on Indonesian Muslims who have fought in Afghanistan, as…
Straits Times - January 9, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – In what could become another political hot potato for President Abdurrahman Wahid's beleaguered government, the country'…
January 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 8, 2001
Jakarta – Chairman of the Indonesian Prosperous Labor Union (SBSI) Muchtar Pakpahan said on Saturday that Indonesian laborers are still unable to…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 8, 2001
Denis Dragovic, Dili – For several months I have been watching the United Nations "rescuing" East Timor. The half-term report is not promising.…
Jakarta Post - January 8, 2001
Jayapura – Eleven locals from Wamena were still being detained here on Sunday after after they were apprehended on Thursday for…
January 7, 2001
Indonesian Observer - January 7, 2001
Jakarta – Mining and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said yesterday that a presidential decree will soon be issued to delay…
Indonesian Observer - January 7, 2001
Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB) says it can't ban thousands of East Java Muslims from coming to Jakarta to stage rallies in support…
Agence France Presse - January 7, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Sunday said that despite mounting criticism of his rule, he and his government faced no…
Straits Times - January 7, 2001
Jakarta – Question: What is the going rate for elected local office in most of Indonesia today? Answer: At least 1 billion rupiah (S$180,000).…
Jakarta Post - January 7, 2001
Jakarta – At least 500 Irianese are seeking refuge in Papua New Guinea (PNG) due to fear of erupting violence from clashes between…
Jakarta Post - January 7, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid revealed on Saturday that there were four major groups trying to unseat him from his…
Straits Times - January 7, 2001
Shefali Rekhi – Indonesia is lurching towards another crisis given the vulnerability of the economy and differences among the political elite, the…
January 6, 2001
Australian Financial Review - January 6, 2001
Tim Dodd – Which Asian political leader is blind, overweight and in delicate health, but likens himself to the celebrated Italian football star,…
Jakarta Post - January 6, 2001
Jakarta – A senior police detective revealed on Friday that one of four suspects in the Christmas Eve bombing case has confessed to having…
Jakarta Post - January 6, 2001
Jakarta – Make or break talks on Aceh will commence in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday with Indonesian government negotiators likely to make one…
Associated Press - January 6, 2001
Banda Aceh – Separatist violence flared in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, leaving 11 people dead, police and witnesses said Saturday. Friday'…
Agence France Presse - January 6, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank has refused an order to freeze the bank accounts of a fugitive son of former president Suharto, saying it has…
January 5, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 5, 2001
Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian capital have warned the public against a burgeoning blackmail racket in Jakarta run by groups posing as…
Associated Press - January 5, 2001
Jakarta – Rival villagers fought with guns and machetes in clashes that killed nine people on a resort island packed with tourists, police said…
Agence France Presse - January 5, 2001
Jakarta – Millions of Indonesian civil servants are pressing for new regional autonomy laws to be changed, fearing they will lose their salary…
The Australian - January 5, 2001
Robert Garran – Australia and East Timor remain far apart in crucial talks over revenue from the Timor Gap oil and gas fields that could become a…
January 4, 2001
Agence France Presse - January 4, 2001
Jakarta – Per-capita income in Indonesia in the year 2000 stood at between 600 and 700 dollars, almost no improvement over 1999, according to a…
Jakarta Post - January 4, 2001
Kupang – Following a clash between East Timorese refugees and local residents, hundreds of East Timorese refugees were returned to…
January 3, 2001
World Socialist Web Site - January 3, 2001
Peter Symonds – A series of bomb blasts at churches in Jakarta and other cities across Indonesia on Christmas Eve underscores the country's…
Agence France Presse - January 3, 2001
Banda Aceh – Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province said Wednesday they had warned Mobil Oil Indonesia, a subsidiary of US-based Exxon…
January 2, 2001
Jakarta Post - January 2, 2001
Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan – Brandishing sharp weapons, dozens of native Dayak tribesmen in the Tangkiling subdistrict here took…
Agence France Presse - January 2, 2001
Jakarta – A notorious former East Timorese militia leader went on trial here Tuesday charged with inciting criminal activities against the state…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 2, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – When district administrators in the Indonesian province of Kalimantan, on Borneo, were asked to launch pilot projects…
Jakarta Post - January 2, 2001
Jakarta – The National Police will remain a nationwide institution despite the implementation of regional autonomy, which started on Monday.
…New York Times - January 2, 2001
Calvin Sims – Cianjur – In this verdant farm belt of West Java, where sorcery and superstition have deep roots, few were surprised last September…
Chicago Tribune - January 2, 2001
Uli Schmetzer, Jakarta – Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra loved fast cars and fast women, and at the peak of his playboy days he bought his own…
Straits Times - January 2, 2001
Jakarta – Two months after former President Suharto's youngest son was ordered arrested, the ease with which he has evaded capture is causing…
Jakarta Post - January 2, 2001
Jakarta – Jakarta Police admit that the simple methods used by the Christmas eve bombers have baffled investigators in their quest to uncover more…
January 1, 2001
Inside Indonesia - January-March, 2001
George J. Aditjondro – Widespread forest fires, covering significant proportions of Sumatra and Kalimantan, with its smoke and haze drifting to…
Inside Indonesia - January-March, 2001
Jack Rieley – Southeast Asia contains seventy percent of the world's total tropical peatland, mostly in Indonesia and Malaysia. But these vast…
South China Morning Post - January 1, 2001
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Church investigators have detailed a catalogue of horrors perpetrated on Christians by Islamic militias in the Maluku…
South China Morning Post - January 1, 2001
Vaudine England – Near Jember, deep in East Java, is the Meru Betiri National Park, home to near-extinct panthers and one of the last great…
South China Morning Post - January 1, 2001
Vaudine England – The Government will keep control of foreign, defence, monetary, judicial and religious policy but devolve many other powers to…
Straits Times - January 1, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – As the architect of the regional autonomy laws that take effect throughout Indonesia today, Professor Ryaas Rasyid used to…
Inside Indonesia - January-March, 2001
Mary S. Zurbuchen – Even seasoned observers had trouble predicting how difficult the 'post-Suharto era' would be. Yet, despite economic woes,…
Agence France Presse - January 1, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday began an unprecedented devolution of power to its regions in a momentous move aimed at keeping the vast archipelago…
Inside Indonesia - January-March, 2001
Sidney Jones – Many knew Jafar as a political science student at New School University, New York. Others knew him as a leader of the very close…
Straits Times - January 1, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – A son-in-law of former President Suharto, retired Lt-General Prabowo Subianto, has made legal history in the United States as…
Pat Walsh - Australian Council for Overseas Aid April 2001
Human Rights Watch - January 2001
December 31, 2000
Associated Press - December 31, 2000 (abridged)
Banda Aceh – At least 17 people have been killed during the Muslim Eid Al-Fitr holiday in Indonesia's troubled province of Aceh,…