Jakarta – More than 40,000 refugees packed camps in Indonesia's Aceh province Saturday, an official said, after fleeing their villages out of fear…
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July 10, 1999
Agence France Presse - July 10, 1999
Kompas - July 10, 1999
The case of (temporarily non-active) Attorney General, Lt. General Ghalib, is increasingly slipping from the rails of justice as political…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 10, 1999
Secret records of the US State Department and CIA provide evidence that the massacre of Indonesia's communists in 1965 was not a result of…
July 9, 1999
Indonesian Observer - July 9, 1999
Jakarta – Residents of Koja, an area on the northeast coast of Jakarta, are threatening to use force to take over land that was seized from them…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 9, 1999
The true story of the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people linked to the Indonesian Communist Party has remained buried since 1965. Now…
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - July 9, 1999
Since May last year, there have been constant calls for a thorough investigation into the wealth of former Indonesian President Suharto and the…
Washington Post - July 9, 1999
Keith B. Richburg, Jakarta – Following her apparent victory in democratic elections last month, Megawati Sukarnoputri has declared that the…
July 8, 1999
Australian Financial Review - July 8, 1999
Peter Hartcher and Tim Dodd – Australia and the US have intelligence that proves that the high command of the Indonesian army and a group of…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 8, 1999
David Jenkins – It is Sunday afternoon in Jakarta and a colleague of Xanana Gusmao is sitting in a deserted hotel lounge discussing political…
July 7, 1999
Agence France Presse - July 7, 1999
Jakarta – The chief of the UN Mission in East Timor asked the Indonesian armed forces on Wednesday to rein in pro-Indonesian militia before a…
South China Morning Post - July 7, 1999
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Exactly one month after Indonesia's groundbreaking general election, just 59 per cent of votes have been counted in…
Jakarta Post - July 7, 1999
Jakarta – Anxiety prevailed in the North Aceh district of Matangkuli, near Lhokseumawe, on Tuesday following an overnight gunfight involving…
July 6, 1999
Humanitarian Mission for Internally Displaced People - July 6, 1999
The situation of internally displaced people (IDP's) in East Timor is worsening by the day. They must face intimidation, terror; their houses are…
FORTILOS - July 6, 1999
With the rise of militia activity in a number of regencies in the last eight months has led to an increase in violence perpetrated against the…
Jakarta Post - July 6, 1999
Tangerang – Jailed labor activist Dita Indah Sari of the Democratic People's Party (PRD) left the women's penitentiary here on Monday after…
Agence France Presse - July 6, 1999
Jakarta – Riots in Indonesia's Irian Jaya province have left one man dead and one wounded, while rebels abducted six forestry officials in…
Financial Times (London) - July 6, 1999
Sander Thoenes, Jakarta – Former President Suharto yesterday filed a multi-billion dollar libel suit against Time magazine in a case that…
Indonesian Observer - July 6, 1999
Jakarta – Thousands of bank employees and bus drivers staged separate demonstrations in Jakarta yesterday, demanding greater rights for workers.…
July 5, 1999
Kompas - July 5, 1999
Yogyakarta – The office of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) in Yogyakarta, came under attack on Saturday evening (3/7) 23.30, by an…
Agence France Presse - July 5, 1999
Jakarta – Pro-independence Timorese leaders Xanana Gusmao and Jose Ramos Horta met Indonesian armed forces chief General Wiranto here Monday to…
Detikcom - July 5, 1999
Sigit Widodo, Jakarta – Dita Indah Sari, chairperson of the Indonesian Centre for Labour Struggle (PPBI) – which is affiliated to the People's…
Indonesian Observer - July 5, 1999
Jakarta – An unidentified group yesterday attacked an office of the Democratic People's Party (PRD), following last week's shooting of PRD…
Indonesian Observer - July 5, 1999
Jakarta – In a bid to cast off their image as ruthless supporters of the authoritarian New Order regime of ex-president Soeharto, police have…
Agence France Presse - July 5, 1999
Jakarta – Indonesian police arrested 19 separatists and shot and injured one of them Monday after they hoisted their flag in front of a district…
Serambi Indonesia - July 5, 1999 (slightly abbreviated)
Sigli – Some 25,000 people have fled their homes in Pidie district up to Sunday, 4 July and sub-district Tangse is almost entirely deserted.…
BBC - July 5, 1999
The Indonesian Government has condemned an attack by pro-Jakarta militias on a United Nations-escorted aid convoy in East Timor, and has promised…
July 4, 1999
KPP-PRD Press Release - July 4, 1999
This morning, at 3am, the offices of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) in East Jakarta located on Jalan Utan Kayu was stoned by an…
July 3, 1999
Detikcom - July 3, 1999
Budi Sugiharto, Surabaya – Around 200 Surabaya students from a number of tendencies demonstrated in the center of Surabaya on Friday, July 2.…
PRD Press Release - July 3, 1999
On Saturday, July 3, at 11.20pm, the People's Democratic Party (PRD) offices in Yogyakarta was raided by unrecognised group armed with knives,…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 1999
Jakarta – Military and police officials are blaming supporters of the Democratic People's Party (PRD) for provoking the bloody clash with police…
Detikcom - July 3, 1999 (slightly abridged)
Bogi Rianto and Sigit Widodo, Jakarta – In the aftermath of the Bloody KPU Incident on July 1 on Saturday, July 3, it was announced that the…
Kompas - July 3, 1999
Jakarta – Nearly 300 protesters from the People's Democratic Party, known by its Indonesian short as PRD, pressed on Friday with a rally outside…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 1999
Semarang – A military court here sentenced on Friday former Bantul regent Army Col. Sri Roso Sudarmo to nine months imprisonment after finding him…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 1999
Jakarta – Muslim clerics and students stepped up their opposition on Friday to Megawati Soekarnoputri's presidential candidacy, citing Islamic law…
Waspada - July 3, 1999 (abbreviated)
4,000 people fleeing from villages in the sub-district Tangse, Pidie. who were on their way to the mosque in Beureuneun yesterday Friday, were…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 1999
Jakarta – Minister of Defense and Security/Indonesian Military Commander Gen. Wiranto says an investigation into rights abuses from the 10-year-…
July 2, 1999
International statement of solidarity and condemnation - July 2, 1999
We vigorously condemn the Indonesian military and police for the violent and bloody attack on peaceful, unarmed protesters campaigning for…
Detikcom - July 2, 1999
[The following was compiled and translated by ASIET from three reports by Detikcom dated July 2, the day after riot police fired on People's…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 1999
Medan – Police here defended on Thursday the use of severe measures against alleged looters in Dua Puluh Baru village last week in an incident in…
ASIET - July 2, 1999
Sam King, Jakarta – PRD activists in Jakarta again took to the streets in protest of the previous days military attack, once again calling for the…
Kompas - July 2, 1999 (abridged)
Jakarta – A People's Democratic Party (PRD) demonstration in front of the National Election Commission (KPU) building [on June 1], demanding the…
People's Democratic Party Media Release- July 2, 1999 (abridged)
Agence France Presse - July 2, 1999
Manatuto – The UN mission in East Timoris checking allegations of an illegal voter registration drive ahead of an August ballot on autonomy or…
Associated Press - July 2, 1999
Sydney – Rebel leader Jose Alexandre Gusmao should be released from Indonesian custody and allowed to take part in the ballot on East Timor 's…
ASIET - July 2, 1999
In the 50s and 60s, Hasyim Rachman was the publisher and editor of the anti-imperialist daily newspaper, Bintang Timur, one of Indonesia's highest…
Asiaweek - July 2, 1999
Jose Manuel Tesoro, Blitar – The answer to what Indonesia would look like under Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle…
July 1, 1999
Agence France Presse - July 1, 1999
Dili – The UN mission in East Timor (UNAMET) has withdrawn seven staff from its unarmed outpost in the town of Viqueque after the second incident…
ASIET - July 1, 1999
[The following is an eyewitness report by Jill Hickson and Sam King, two ASIET members who are currently in Jakarta and were at the…
Reuters - July 1, 1999
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – At least three people were wounded on Thursday when Indonesian police fired on protesters demanding that the ruling…
ASIET - July 1, 1999
[The following is a summary of four reports by Detikcom compiled and translated by ASIET on the shooting of as many as 14 People's Democratic…