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September 9, 2000

Straits Times - September 9, 2000

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Wednesday's killing of the three United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) workers in West Timor…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 9, 2000

Barbie Dutter, Dili – Survivors of the savage militia rampage through a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees office in West Timor told of…

South China Morning Post - September 9, 2000

Joanna Jolly, Dili – An Indonesian aid worker now in hiding in West Timor believes notorious East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres started…

South China Morning Post - September 9, 2000

Keith Loveard, Vaudine England and Agencies – The United Nations said 20 people were killed in renewed fighting in Indonesian West Timor yesterday…

Agence France Presse - September 9, 2000

Jakarta – The global group Human Rights Watch on Saturday called for an independent investigation with UN participation of the brutal murders of…

Jakarta Post - September 9, 2000

Bandung – Activists demanded on Friday that West Java Governor R. Nuriana be suspended to facilitate the legal process of the local high court…

September 8, 2000

Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia promised to send two extra battalions to the West Timor border where militia killed up to six United Nations…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch – The plan was simple and savage: kill Olivio Mendoza Moruk and the pro-Jakarta militia roaming West Timor would go berserk, as…

Asiaweek - September 8, 2000

Jose Manuel Tesoro and Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri's sunny smiles at the August 26 induction of Indonesia's new…

Associated Press - September 8, 2000 (abridged)

Irwan Firdaus, Atambua – Hundreds of gun-toting militiamen staged a show of force Friday in a West Timor village where UN officials fear the…

Associated Press - September 8, 2000

Banda Aceh – At least 12 people, including three policemen, were killed in an upsurge of violence in the Indonesian province of Aceh,…

Agence France Presse - September 8, 2000 (abridged)

Banda Aceh – An Indonesian officer and two non-commissioned officers were killed on Friday when their jeep was hit by a grenade in Indonesia's…

South China Morning Post - September 8, 2000

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Troubled Aceh prepared a hero's burial for its slain son Jafar Siddiq Hamzah yesterday as fellow human rights activists…

Straits Times - September 8, 2000

Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia yesterday signed its latest set of reform pledges with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to obtain US$400…

September 7, 2000

Indonesian Observer - September 7, 2000

Kuala Lumpur – A Malaysian businessman working in the North Sumatra capital of Medan has been kidnapped for ransom, reports said…

Far Eastern Economic Review - September 7, 2000

John McBeth, Jakarta – The day before Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid announced his new "All-the-President's-Men" cabinet, Golkar party…

Reuters - September 7, 2000

Jakarta – State-owned PT Timah Tbk, the world's largest integrated tin maker, said protests at its main Bangka island plant had halted…

Associated Press - September 7, 2000

Jakarta – General Abdul Haris Nasution, an Indonesian independence hero who narrowly escaped assassination in 1965, died yesterday at…

Straits Times - September 7, 2000

Marianne Kearney, Indonesia – In A bid to halt rampant illegal logging, Indonesia's Forestry Minister has announced a proposal to put a ban on all…

Agence France Presse - September 7, 2000 (abridged)

Jakarta – A chronoloy of major events since East Timorese voted for independence from Indonesia on August 30, 1999.

Aug 30, 1999: East…

Agence France Presse - September 7, 2000

Jakarta – When East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia last year, feared militia leader Eurico Guterres made his displeasure known by…

Detik - September 7, 2000

Budi Sugiharto/GB, Sampang – An angry mob has destroyed around 85% of the local legislature in Sampang on the island of Madura, East Java.…

South China Morning Post - September 7, 2000

Vaudine England – Tension had been escalating in the refugee camps of Indonesian West Timor for several weeks before yesterday's attack on the UN…

Associated Press - September 7, 2000

David Crary, United Nations – Six hours before he and two colleagues were murdered in West Timor, an American relief worker e-mailed a friend at a…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 7, 2000

Mark Dodd, Suai – They gathered by the thousand, many bringing tributes of flowers to mark the single worst act of militia violence in East Timor…

The Age - September 7, 2000

Tom Hyland – His childhood was spent in the jungle, where his family had fled an invading army. By the age of 11 he was leading a unit of…

Agence France Presse - September 7, 2000 (abridged)

Banda Aceh – At least 24 people were killed in two days of violence in Indonesia's restive province of Aceh, rebels and reports said Thursday.…

Wall Street Journal - September 7, 2000

Jay Solomon, Lhokseumawe – A small plane circles to land at the massive Arun gas facility on the northern tip of Sumatra island. Below, pipelines…

Indonesian Observer - September 7, 2000 (abridged)

Jakarta – Irian Jaya Police Chief Brigadier General S.Y. Wenas yesterday ordered his personnel to continue a crackdown on separatist flags flying…

September 6, 2000

Green Left Weekly - September 6, 2000

Dili – Members of Timorese Socialist Party (PST) around East Timor have been occupying buildings left by the Indonesian government in…

Green Left Weekly - September 6, 2000

Philippa Skinner and Jill Hickson, Dili – From August 21-29, members of East Timor's seven political parties participated in the congress of the…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 6, 2000

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden has established links with Muslim radicals in Indonesia who are behind attacks on…

South China Morning Post - September 6, 2000

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Unions threatened nationwide protests yesterday after the Government vowed to press ahead with controversial fuel price…

Dow Jones Newswires - September 6, 2000

Simon Montlake, Jakarta – The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency plans to restructure 70% of its major debt cases by the end of this…

September 5, 2000

Jakarta Post - September 5, 2000

Jakarta – The joint team set up by the Attorney General's Office to investigate rights violations in East Timor has ignored the real offenders, a…

The Industry Standard - September 5, 2000

Stewart Taggart – Walk down any street in East Timor's capitol of Dili and the scene is the same: blackened, roofless buildings and heaps of…

Reuters - September 5, 2000

Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – An Indonesian commission said there were signs that some listed firms, including noodle giant Indofood and some…

Detik - September 5, 2000

Aulia Andri/Swastika & Ari P, Medan – The abduction of four activists from the Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) while protesting outside…

Straits Times - September 5, 2000

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – As the Indonesian government considers extending a civil emergency for the strife-torn region of the Malukus, local…

Agence France Presse - September 5, 2000

Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday appointed 16 judges to the Supreme Court in support of reform of the country's judicial…

September 4, 2000

Tempo - September 4, 2000

Jakarta – Dozens of older men and women belonging to the Victims of New Order Human Rights Abuse Association (Pakorba HAM) met French human rights…

The Progressive (US) - September 4, 2000

Matthew Rothschild, Dili – On August 30, a huge crowd in Dili, East Timor, gathered to celebrate the first anniversary of the independence vote…

Jakarta Post - September 4, 2000

Jakarta – Seven people, including four women, were accosted when some 100 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) attacked cafes and bars in…

South China Morning Post - September 4, 2000

Chris McCall, Jakarta – The Government and rebels from the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) yesterday half-heartedly announced that their ineffective…

September 3, 2000

Detik - September 3, 2000

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru – Protected forests at Bukit Suligi in Kampar regency, Riau province on Sumatra's west coast, are being plundered…

Straits Times - September 3, 2000

Susan Sim, Jakarta – If history is written by victors and it is left to fiction to lionise the defeated, then General Wiranto and his nemesis,…

September 2, 2000

Agence France Presse - September 2, 2000

Jakarta – An international rights group on Saturday welcomed Indonesia's naming of 19 suspects in the violence that ravaged East Timor after its…

South China Morning Post - September 2, 2000

Chris McCall and Staff Reporters – They were among the men to fear in Dili in the bloody weeks before and after last year's independence vote.…

Agence France Presse - September 2, 2000

Jakarta – Dozens of students in Lampung province took to the streets yesterday to protest against a government plan to increase fuel…

South China Morning Post - September 2, 2000

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Jakarta yesterday finally named a string of top military and police officers among 19 suspects involved in last year's…