Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian police said yesterday they were having difficulties finding proof to link the series of bomb attacks in…
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September 16, 2000
Robert Go, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid was greeted with cheers yesterday when he disclosed the order to arrest a member of the Suharto…
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The announcement of an arrest order for Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra by an embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid may…
Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations police in East Timor have opened a formal investigation into the 1975 killing of five Australian-based…
Associated Press in Banda Aceh – The head of an Islamic university in the restive Aceh province was shot to death on Saturday, police…
Banda Aceh – Violence in restive Aceh province in the last year cost over Rp 42,8 billion (US$5.1 million) in material losses, the province's…
Jakarta – Some 100 stock traders and executives staged a demonstration in front of the bomb-hit Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building…
Alan Ramsey – It was never a secret. If you were around at the time with your eyes and your brain open, you'll remember. If you weren't or didn't…
Jakarta – Some 150 youths protested at the US consulate in the second city of Surabaya against Washington's criticism over the killings of UN aid…
Jakarta – State Minister of the Environment Sonny Keraf announced mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia misled the public in recent advertisements by…
September 15, 2000
Jakarta – The government pledged on Thursday to get to the bottom of a series of bomb attacks here and was cautiously suggesting that remnants of…
Jakarta – Despite its waning political influence, the military – especially the Army – retains several "political resources" which could enable it…
Khairul Ikhwan D/Fitri & GB, Medan – Efendy Panjaitan, North Sumatra Executive Director of the Indonesian Forum on Environment, known as Walhi…
Susan Sim, Jakarta – As strategies go, there is a certain sick brilliance in the targeting choices of whoever is behind the bombing campaign being…
Vaudine England – Whoever is behind the killings and bomb attacks in the country, brought dramatically to the centre of economic life in Jakarta,…
Bertil Lintner, Maliana – An Australian soldier holds his finger tightly on the trigger of his automatic rifle, watching with his unit for…
Jakarta – Indonesia's defense minister has accused foreign powers of inciting rioters to murder three UN aid workers in West Timor last week,…
MMI Ahyani/Swastika & GB, Bandung – Around 2,000 factory workers in West Java staged a rally at the Governor's office demanding a pay rise and…
September 14, 2000
Chris McCall – Aceh's rebels urged UN intervention in the troubled Indonesian province yesterday following the killing of 107 people there in the…
Rizal Maslan/Hendra, Jakarta – The People's Democratic Party (PRD) staged a rally following the second hearing of former president…
Jakarta – Led members of the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC), a non-governmental organization, a group of some 400 people claiming to be becak (…
Jakarta – Indonesian police fired tear gas cannisters here Thursday to try to block hundreds of anti-Suharto student protestors from…
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesia's former armed forces commander, General Wiranto, ordered the printing of counterfeit money to fund East Timorese…
September 13, 2000
Banda Aceh – Seven people, including two soldiers were killed in the latest violence in the restive Indonesian province of Aceh, residents and…
Tom Hayland – The depressing saga of Australian efforts to establish the fate of the five Australia-based TV reporters killed in Balibo…
Just-released Foreign Affairs documents show how Australia encouraged Indonesia to grab East Timor by its own early complicity in plans for the…
No check was made to see if any Australians were in the area before Indonesia's attack, Foreign Affairs documents show. Hamish McDonald reports.…
Hamish Mcdonald – Australian diplomatic cables released yesterday covering Indonesia's takeover of East Timor in 1974-76 show officials caught in…
Jon Land – The brutal murder on September 6 of three United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) staff by pro-Jakarta militia thugs at…
September 12, 2000
Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Rizal Ramli said Indonesia's five-year National Development Programs plan will adopt a more…
Jakarta – Governor Sutiyoso, a retired three-star Army general, admitted on Monday that military personnel were assigned to take over the PDI…
Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – It could be the pre-crisis boom days. Jakarta's marbled shopping malls are packed and the road to weekend villas in…
Yogi Arief Nugraha/BI & GB, Jakarta – Sixteen years after the massacre of Muslim protesters in the Tanjung Priok port area of Jakarta,…
Kerry O'Brien: First, the Timor papers, released today, which finally confirm after a quarter of a century of suspicion that Australia was warned…
Compere: Well, supporters of East Timor have long interpreted Australia's actions as a betrayal on the broad international stage of an entire…
Dan Murphy – The notion that Indonesia's civilian leaders do not really control their armed forces has swiftly evolved from frightening suspicion…
Compere: We begin by going back almost exactly a quarter of a century to the momentous spring of 1975, the time leading up to the two most…
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – It had been a disastrous few days for Kiki Syahnakri, the Indonesian military officer in-charge of West Timor. He may…
Padang – Tension gripped Pasaman regency, located some 150 kilometers southwest of here, on Monday following an overnight riot involving thousands…
Jakarta – Labor unions are allowed to be involved in practical politics in their efforts to fight for workers' political and economic…
Jakarta – Dozens of people calling themselves the Anti-Luxury Cars Movement (GAMM), staged a rally at the Jakarta Convention Center on Jl. Gatot…
September 11, 2000
Yogi Arief Nugraha/Swastika & AP, Jakarta – After ransacking the Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda) office in…
David Liebhold, Jakarta – Stephen Dowling is afraid to start his car these days. The director of AriaWest International has received death threats…
Jakarta – Claims by protestors that Maninjau Water Electric Power Plant (PLTA) in West Sumatra has polluted Lake Maninjau and damaged fishery…
September 10, 2000
Singapore – Former Indonesian president Suharto's children ignored advice to not abuse their position for financial and business gain, according…
Jakarta – Military police in the West Kalimantan capital of Pontianak raided a factory that was manufacturing firearms illegally and…
September 9, 2000
David O'Shea – On the balcony of their new home in Kupang, West Timor, her fingers covered in gold rings, Mrs Guterres watches her children play…
Jakarta – The worker's union of one of the 11 Nike subcontractors in Indonesia on Friday denied the allegations aired by antiexploitation…
Jakarta – Gold mining firm Newmont Minahasa Raya in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, resumed operations early on Friday after a blockade of the company's…
Jakarta – The Indonesian government has ruled out extending a peace deal in war-torn Aceh province beyond December, news reports said on Saturday…




