Jakarta – Hundreds of angry street hawkers rioted yesterday in the Tanah Abang textile district, leaving one government building and five vehicles…
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January 28, 1997
AFP, Reuters, DPA - January 28, 1997
January 27, 1997
Jakarta Post - January 27, 1997
Jakarta – Most workers have shown no enthusiasm over the government's recent announcement of wage increases, saying the increase would not really…
South China Morning Post - January 27, 1997
Joe Leahy, Jakarta – The inclusion of four of President Suharto's children and scores of his key ministers and supporters in the candidates list…
ASIET - January 27, 1997
On 21 January, the prosecutor in the case against Budiman Sujatmiko being held at the Central Jakarta State Court presented Wilson as a witness.…
The Indonesia Times - January 27, 1997
Jakarta – In three consecutive days, police shot dead seven men in separate places in Jakarta after neglecting order to surrender.
The men…
Kompas - January 27, 1997
Jakarta – Observers and farmers evaluated government's policy to increase the price of fertilizers at the same time with the price increase of…
The Indonesia Times - January 27, 1997
Bekasi – Tens of street vendors at the new Podok Gede market here run amok damaging an office in the complex.
The incident occurred Saturday…
reg.easttimor - January 27, 1997
This letter was sent by President Clinton to Senator Russell Feingold in response to the letter by Feingold and 14 and other Senators to the…
Bergerak - January 27, 1997
Asmawati, a worker at PT Indoshoes in Citeurep, Bogor, who appeared as a witness in the case against Petrus Haryanto, Secretary of the PRD, in the…
South China Morning Post - January 27, 1997
Reuters in Jakarta – Tension has risen in East Timor's capital Dili as Indonesian security officers continue searching for youths suspected of…
International Herald Tribune - January 27, 1997
Michael Richardson, Jakarta – A group of Indonesia's wealthiest companies has agreed to intensify a program to help smaller businesses in what…
January 26, 1997
Agence France Presse - January 26, 1997
Jakarta – The Indonesian government and military said that planned riot-alert posts will be permanent features and were not being set up just to…
Indonesian Media Sources - January 26, 1997
On January 27 thousands of street vendors attacked and set fire to the Tanah Abang sub-district offices (kecamatan). They also set fire to two…
January 25, 1997
The Economist - January 25, 1997
Jakarta – Snoozing in a glass case by the entrance to a police station just outside Jakarta lies the key to a peculiar experiment in crowd control…
January 24, 1997
Antara - January 24, 1997
Jakarta - Indonesia believes that the case of the Garuda pilot who is now under the Dutch police custody for allegedly smuggling thousands of…
Lusa - January 24, 1997
Lisbon – Indonesia's Foreign Minister Ali Alatas nomination to the country's legislative elections next May as an East Timor…
Lusa - January 24, 1997
Washington – US republican congressman Frank Wolf has urged President Bill Clinton to meet East Timors 1996 Nobel Peace Prize co-…
Jakarta Post - January 24, 1997
Jakarta - The subversion trial of union leader Muchtar Pakpahan continued yesterday with presiding judge Djazuli P. Sudibyo prohibiting defense…
Sydney Morning Herald - January 24, 1997
Bruce Hextall – BHP Petroleum and large US oil and gas group Phillips Petroleum should decide by the end of March whether to press ahead with the…
Amnesty International - January 24, 1997
Amnesty International UK (AIUK) is calling on the UK Government to urgently revoke export licences granted to a UK company, Alvis, for the sale of…
January 23, 1997
Jakarta Post - January 23, 1997
Jakarta – Union leaders said yesterday the government's planned 10 percent increase in the minimum wage level was not sufficient, while the…
SiaR - January 23, 1998 (posted by Tapol)
A document believed to have been drafted by Kopassus, the crack forces unit commander by Major-General Prabowo, son-in-law of Suharto, is…
Wall Street Journal - January 23, 1997
Pui-Wing Tam – That is the message from fund managers as they survey the prospects of the Indonesian market in 1997. While Hong Kong proved to be…
South China Morning Post - January 23, 1997
Joe Leahy, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights is to investigate allegations an East Timorese woman was raped and held as a virtual…
January 22, 1997
Lusa - January 22, 1997
Rome – East Timorese activist Josi Ramos Horta has said that the president of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace, Roman…
Lusa - January 22, 1997
Sydney – Indonesia's Foreign Minister Ali Alatas is on the East Timor list of candidates from the ruling Golkar Party to the…
Lusa - January 22, 1997
Rome – The East Timor issue is "an heritage from the Cold War era" that could be solved in the current new political environment, East…
Lusa - January 22, 1997
Washington – US republican congressman Frank Wolf has said that he will present the Clinton administration with solutions for the East…
Lusa - January 22, 1997
Rome – East Timorese activist Josi Ramos Horta has denied that the territorys resistance movement application to become an observer at…
January 21, 1997
Asia Times - January 21, 1997
Ong Hock Chuan, Jakarta – Family connections figure prominently in the list of parliamentary candidates for Indonesia's 1997 general elections…
Lusa - January 21, 1997
Lisbon – The apostolic administrator of East Timor's diocese of Baucau Bishop D. Basmlio do Nascimento has stressed that popular…
Lusa - January 21, 1997
Rome – East Timor's resistance movement Conselho Nacional da Resistjncia Maubere (CNRM) has announced that it will apply for observer…
January 20, 1997
Jakarta Post - January 20, 1997
Jakarta – The Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP), which shot to prominence shortly after its birth last year and has since been long…
Associated Press - January 20, 1997
Jakarta – Officials blocked Indonesia's pro-democracy leader today from running for reelection to parliament in May.
The list of…
Lusa - January 20, 1997
Lisbon – East Timorese resistance leader Mari Alkatiri has said to be "surprised" with Josi Ramos Horta's announcement last week of a…
Lusa - January 20, 1997
Sydney – The Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne, Hilton Deakin, has said that an Indonesian soldier was killed on Christmas Eve after he was…
Lusa - January 20, 1997
Lisbon – The Indonesian group that has bought Italian car maker Lamborghini was said to be a partner in the construction of a cement…
January 17, 1997
Asia Times - January 17, 1997
Ong Hock Chuan – When a group of students commandeered a 50-seat public bus to attack a rival gang last week, it was in many ways business as…
January 16, 1997
Southeast Asia On-line News - January 16, 1997
S. N. Vasuki - Though Indonesia's parliamentary elections are five months away, major political groupings have already launched an aggressive…
January 15, 1997
South China Morning Post - January 15, 1997
Agence France-Presse in Jakarta - The main Muslim political party has threatened to withdraw from this year's general election, saying campaign…
January 11, 1997
International Herald Tribune - January 11, 1997
Michael Richardson, Manado – In a country where official statistics show Muslims forming 85 percent of the 200 million population, a striking…
January 4, 1997
International Herald Tribune - January 4, 1997
Michael Richardson, Jakarta – Strong economic growth forecast for Indonesia in 1997 along with a projected increase in exports and lower inflation…
January 3, 1997
The Irish Times - January 3, 1997
David Shanks, Dublin – The East Timorese resistance to illegal Indonesian rule has called for an indefinite unilateral ceasefire in the former…
January 1, 1997
Indonesian South African Friendship Society Newsletter Issue 02 - January 1997
We the members of the East Timor House of Representatives, on behalf of our constituents of the people of East Timor, wish to express our grave…
Jakarta Post - January 1997
The government announced yesterday it is to increase the minimum wage level in all 27 provinces by an average of 10.07 percent from April 1.
…News from PIJAR - January 1997
Jakarta – The head of Nadhlatul Ulama [NU, Association of Muslim Scholars)] Abdurrahman Wahid openly and during the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Dialogue…
Timor Leste Monthly Bulletin - January 1, 1997
[The Monthly Bulletin is published by the Commission for the Rights of the Maubere People (CDPM).]
Rather than produce an exhaustive…
Indonesian South African Friendship Society Newsletter - January 1997
We the members of the East Timor House of Representatives, on behalf of our constituents of the people of East Timor, wish to express our grave…
Amnesty International - January 1997
Amnesty International (UK) is calling on the UK Goverment to urgently revoke export licences granted to a UK company, Alvis, for the sale of…
Indonesian Media - January 1997
On 27 January, student demonstrators held a free speech forum, a street march and rallied at the local parliament (DPRD) over remarks…