What is life like under the asphyxiating pall created by the burning forests of Sumatra? Australian radio and television journalist Andrea Thomson…
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October 10, 1997
Asiaweek - October 10, 1997
October 9, 1997
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 9, 1997
Jay Solomon &150; The playful smile on President Suharto's face as he gave the new "national motorcycle" a spin around his palace late last…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 9, 1997
David Jenkins &150; President Soeharto's decision to call in the IMF and the World Bank, his second attempt in as many weeks to staunch a…
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 9, 1997
John McBeth, Jakarta &150; Almost nightly on Indonesian television, thousands of firefighters armed with little more than water-filled…
October 8, 1997
Business Week - October 8, 1997
Michael Shari &150; For years, environmentalists have pleaded with governments in Southeast Asia to save the region's vast rain forests.…
Kompas - October 8, 1997 (summary only by Tapol)
Buyung Rachmad Buchori Nasution, private secretary of the writer and politician Soebadio Sastrosatomo, who is on trial in the South Jakarta…
Reuters - October 8, 1997
Jim Della-Giacoma, Jakarta &150; Two died in fighting at an East Timor mountain shrine including a man who tried to erect a banner bearing the…
October 7, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 7, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta &150; The Soeharto Government was facing an unprecedented crisis last night as a wave of public criticism over its…
SiaR - October 7, 1997 (Summary by Tapol)
Jakarta &150; Father Sandyawan Sumardi SJ, 38, said, after a hearing of the trial in which he and his brother Benny are the accused, that…
October 6, 1997
Jose Ramos-Horta - October 6, 1997
Lisbon &150; Jose Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-laureate, emphatically denounced the recently reported murder, in East Timor, of one…
October 5, 1997
Jakarta Post - 9 October, 1997
Jakarta – One hundred construction workers have died in work-related accidents in the city [of Jakarta] already this year. Last year 101 workers…
October 4, 1997
DIGEST No. 42 (Indonesian news with comment) - October 4, 1997
Amidst the fires furore, spare a thought for Forestry Minister Jamaludin Suryohadikusumo. As official custodian of Indonesia's vast but shrinking…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 4, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Air-particle pollution levels in Jakarta were nine times above the safe limit yesterday and meteorologists issued a…
October 3, 1997
Financial Times - October 3, 1997 (Extracts only)
Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, has been told by the prime minister to moderate his policy of blocking arms sale to countries accused of…
Associated Press - October 3, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia's currency crashed to a new low today when it hit 3,725 rupiahs against the U.S. dollar before recovering slightly.
The…
October 2, 1997
Tapol - October 2, 1997
On 29 September, the Indonesian Ministry of the Interior announced that the PRD, the People's Democratic Party, and all its associated…
Kompas - October 2, 1997 (Summary by Tapol)
Adjidar Ascha, the father of imprisoned trade union activist, Diti Indah Sari, has lodged a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission…
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 2, 1997
Margot Cohen in Jakarta and Murray Hiebert in Kuala Lumpur – President Suharto's unprecedented apology for the forest fires that are spewing smoke…
Asiaweek - October 2, 1997
Catherine Shepherd – Blue skies? Sunshine? Millions of people in Malaysia and Indonesia have a hard time remembering what that looks like. After…
October 1, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 1, 1997
George J. Aditjondro &150; The haze enveloping our northern neighbours should not be allowed to obscure a lesson for their ruling elites, who…
Reuters - October 1, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia's new national parliament, its members including 10 relatives of President Suharto and a number of his business associates,…
Friends of the Earth International Press Release - October 1, 1997
Friends of the Earth International today called for immediate and effective action by the Indonesian government to combat the continuing forest…
Hugh Ekeberg - September 31, 1997
[The original source of this posting (other that the individual's e-mail address and period that the report covers) was not specified - JB]…
Tapol - October 1, 1997
[Based on reports in Kompas and Republika, 30 September 1997]
The government has at last (!) banned the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and…
SiaR - October 1, 1997 (posted by Tapol)
Jakarta – The government's decision to ban the Peoples' Democratic Party and all its affiliates will not affect the activities of the…
September 30, 1997
Republika - September 30, 1997
Jakarta – The government has officially banned the Peoples' Democratic Party (PRD) along with its affiliated organisations according to Department…
SiaR - September 30, 1997
Bekasi – The trial of Romo Sandyawan Sumardi SJ and his older brother, Benny Sumardi, started yesterday (29/9) at the Bekasi State Court. Romo…
September 29, 1997
Straits Times - September 29, 1997
David Miller, Sumatra – Malaysian firefighters eager to get on with the job of fighting the forest and peat fires here have been forced to play a…
Straits Times - September 29, 1997
Derwin Pereira, Indonesia – has rejected blame for the haze blanketing large areas of South-east Asia, saying that one of the culprits is the El…
Human Rights Watch/Asia - September 29, 1997
In a new report, "Deteriorating Human Rights in East Timor," Human Rights Watch/Asia says the conflict in the disputed territory has intensified…
Press Release by UNA - September 29, 1997
Mrs Wilhelmina Rennie, now of Ramsay, Isle of Man, flies to Australia on Friday October 10 to give evidence on the cover-up of her son…
Reuters - September 29, 1997
Eugene Moosa, Tokyo – Aviation experts discount the theory that zero visibility in dense smog could have caused the crash of an Indonesian Garuda…
Human Rights Watch/Asia - September 29, 1997
September 28, 1997
American Reporter - September 27-28, 1997
Azhar Basri, Jakarta – An Indonesian ministerial report has blamed 176 logging and plantation firms over the huge forest fires which had already…
Info-Pembebasan (Liberation) - September 28, 1997
[The following is a translation of an interview sent to ASIET by the underground Peoples Democratic Party (PRD)]
Reports have been heard…
September 27, 1997
The Guardian - September 27, 1997
John Vidal – The scale of one of the world's greatest manmade environmental catastrophes was becoming clear last night as poisonous fog blanketed…
September 26, 1997
INFO KNPD - September 26, 1997
Yesterday morning, September 25, 30 activists from the National Committee for Democratic Struggle (Komite Nasional Perjuangan Demokrasi, KNPD) and…
Reuters - September 26, 1997
Lewa Pardomuan, Jakarta – Forest fires in Indonesia have spread to rubber and palm oil plantations and are likely to hit output, officials and…
Reuters - September 26, 1997
Ian MacKenzie, Jakarta – Burning forest peat, too hot and thick to be put out by fire-fighting equipment alone, is now the major cause of choking…
Tapol press release - September 26, 1997
The announcement in New York yesterday by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook that the Foreign Office has blocked the sale of military equipment to…
September 25, 1997
Lusa - September 25, 1997
Sydney – More than 10,000 Australians have said to be ready to provide shelter to East Timorese refugees facing deportation, despite…
September 24, 1997
Lusa - September 24, 1997
Jakarta – Bureaucratic problems are blocking the departure of six East Timorese who have sought sanctuary in the Austrian embassy in…
Jose Ramos Horta - September 24, 1997
The twenty two year old conflict in East Timor can come to an end if the two main parties engaged in armed violence in the territory are inspired…
Jakarta Post - September 24, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian Footwear Manufacturers' Association (Aprisindo) contested yesterday U.S. shoe giant Nike Inc's reason behind the termination…
OMCT - September 24, 1997 (posted by Tapol)
The International Secretariat of OMCT has received new information on the detention and trial of Mr Mochtar Pakpahan in Indonesia.
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Jakarta Post - September 24, 1997
Jakarta – More than 1,300 workers at two shoe factories in North Jakarta went on strike yesterday and demonstrated at the House of Representatives…
September 23, 1997
Indonesia Times - September 23, 1997
Jakarta – The wife of Dwi Sumaji, alias Iwik, the defendant on the murder of Bernas daily's reporter Udin, said that her husband was at home in…
INFO KNPD - September 23, 1997
[The following is an abridged translation of a leaflet sent to ASIET by the National Committee for Democratic Struggle (KNPD) which was…
ASIET - 23 September, 1997
8.45 am - 1.800 workers from several factories (each from different organisations), from the JABOTEK industrial area [outside Jakarta…
Straits Times - September 23, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian military has accused East Timorese rebels of killing five soldiers and seven civilians in the troubled territory, it was…