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September 16, 2000

Straits Times - September 16, 2000 (abridged)

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian police said yesterday they were having difficulties finding proof to link the series of bomb attacks in…

Straits Times - 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…

South China Morning Post - September 16, 2000

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The announcement of an arrest order for Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra by an embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid may…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 16, 2000

Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations police in East Timor have opened a formal investigation into the 1975 killing of five Australian-based…

South China Morning Post - September 16, 2000 (abridged)

Associated Press in Banda Aceh – The head of an Islamic university in the restive Aceh province was shot to death on Saturday, police…

Jakarta Post - September 16, 2000

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…

Agence France Presse - September 16, 2000

Jakarta – Some 100 stock traders and executives staged a demonstration in front of the bomb-hit Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 16, 2000

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…

Agence France Presse - September 16, 2000

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 Post - September 16, 2000

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 Post - 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 Post - September 15, 2000

Jakarta – Despite its waning political influence, the military – especially the Army – retains several "political resources" which could enable it…

Detik - September 15, 2000

Khairul Ikhwan D/Fitri & GB, Medan – Efendy Panjaitan, North Sumatra Executive Director of the Indonesian Forum on Environment, known as Walhi…

Straits Times - September 15, 2000

Susan Sim, Jakarta – As strategies go, there is a certain sick brilliance in the targeting choices of whoever is behind the bombing campaign being…

South China Morning Post - September 15, 2000

Vaudine England – Whoever is behind the killings and bomb attacks in the country, brought dramatically to the centre of economic life in Jakarta,…

Far Eastern Economic Review - September 15, 2000

Bertil Lintner, Maliana – An Australian soldier holds his finger tightly on the trigger of his automatic rifle, watching with his unit for…

Associated Press - September 15, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesia's defense minister has accused foreign powers of inciting rioters to murder three UN aid workers in West Timor last week,…

Detik - September 15, 2000

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

South China Morning Post - 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…

Detik - September 14, 2000

Rizal Maslan/Hendra, Jakarta – The People's Democratic Party (PRD) staged a rally following the second hearing of former president…

Jakarta Post - September 14, 2000

Jakarta – Led members of the Urban Poor Consortium (UPC), a non-governmental organization, a group of some 400 people claiming to be becak (…

Agence France Presse - September 14, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesian police fired tear gas cannisters here Thursday to try to block hundreds of anti-Suharto student protestors from…

Australian Financial Review - September 14, 2000

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesia's former armed forces commander, General Wiranto, ordered the printing of counterfeit money to fund East Timorese…

September 13, 2000

Agence France Presse - 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…

The Melbourne Age - September 13, 2000

Tom Hayland – The depressing saga of Australian efforts to establish the fate of the five Australia-based TV reporters killed in Balibo…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

Just-released Foreign Affairs documents show how Australia encouraged Indonesia to grab East Timor by its own early complicity in plans for the…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

No check was made to see if any Australians were in the area before Indonesia's attack, Foreign Affairs documents show. Hamish McDonald reports.…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 13, 2000

Hamish Mcdonald – Australian diplomatic cables released yesterday covering Indonesia's takeover of East Timor in 1974-76 show officials caught in…

Green Left Weekly - September 13, 2000

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

AFX-Asia - 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 Post - September 12, 2000

Jakarta – Governor Sutiyoso, a retired three-star Army general, admitted on Monday that military personnel were assigned to take over the PDI…

Reuters - September 12, 2000

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…

Detik - September 12, 2000

Yogi Arief Nugraha/BI & GB, Jakarta – Sixteen years after the massacre of Muslim protesters in the Tanjung Priok port area of Jakarta,…

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

Kerry O'Brien: First, the Timor papers, released today, which finally confirm after a quarter of a century of suspicion that Australia was warned…

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

Compere: Well, supporters of East Timor have long interpreted Australia's actions as a betrayal on the broad international stage of an entire…

Christian Science Monitor - September 12, 2000

Dan Murphy – The notion that Indonesia's civilian leaders do not really control their armed forces has swiftly evolved from frightening suspicion…

ABC Radio - September 12, 2000

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…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 12, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – It had been a disastrous few days for Kiki Syahnakri, the Indonesian military officer in-charge of West Timor. He may…

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2000

Padang – Tension gripped Pasaman regency, located some 150 kilometers southwest of here, on Monday following an overnight riot involving thousands…

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2000

Jakarta – Labor unions are allowed to be involved in practical politics in their efforts to fight for workers' political and economic…

Jakarta Post - September 12, 2000

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

Detik - September 11, 2000

Yogi Arief Nugraha/Swastika & AP, Jakarta – After ransacking the Organization of Land Transportation Owners (Organda) office in…

Time Magazine - September 11, 2000

David Liebhold, Jakarta – Stephen Dowling is afraid to start his car these days. The director of AriaWest International has received death threats…

Indonesian Observer - September 11, 2000

Jakarta – Claims by protestors that Maninjau Water Electric Power Plant (PLTA) in West Sumatra has polluted Lake Maninjau and damaged fishery…

September 10, 2000

Agence France Presse - September 10, 2000

Singapore – Former Indonesian president Suharto's children ignored advice to not abuse their position for financial and business gain, according…

Straits Times - September 10, 2000

Jakarta – Military police in the West Kalimantan capital of Pontianak raided a factory that was manufacturing firearms illegally and…

September 9, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - 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 Post - September 9, 2000

Jakarta – The worker's union of one of the 11 Nike subcontractors in Indonesia on Friday denied the allegations aired by antiexploitation…

Jakarta Post - September 9, 2000

Jakarta – Gold mining firm Newmont Minahasa Raya in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, resumed operations early on Friday after a blockade of the company's…

South China Morning Post - September 9, 2000

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has ruled out extending a peace deal in war-torn Aceh province beyond December, news reports said on Saturday…