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August 30, 2009

Reuters - August 30, 2009

Sunanda Creagh, Dili – As a student activist in Jakarta, Avelino Coelho da Silva sought refuge in the Austrian embassy to avoid capture by Indonesian troops.

August 29, 2009

Jakarta Globe - August 29, 2009

Ezki Suyanto – History might show that for more than two decades, the fates of East Timor and its giant neighbor Indonesia were inextricably woven together, but for many from both natio

Melbourne Age - August 29, 2009

Australia is still atoning for East Timor's suffering 10 years after the independence vote. No nation has paid a higher price for independence than East Timor.

The Australian - August 29, 2009

Joe Kelly – Ten years ago East Timor voted for its independence, triggering a contentious Australian military intervention that transformed the nation's regional profile and provoked ho

Canberra Times - August 29, 2009

Ten years ago tomorrow, the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a popular referendum sanctioned by the United Nations.

Sydney Morning Herald - August 29, 2009

Ten years after voting for independence, the Timorese have little to show for supposed freedom. Lindsay Murdoch paid a visit.

August 27, 2009

Nick Chesterfield - August 27, 2009

Often it takes the death of a white man to get the story of West Papua past the gatekeepers of the media.

August 26, 2009

United Press International - August 26, 2009

Ricky Gunawan, Jakarta – Indonesia ratified the UN Convention against Torture almost 11 years ago.

August 25, 2009

Jakarta Post - August 25, 2009

Debnath Guharoy, Consultant – Just a few weeks ago, the Mega-Pro ticket proclaimed that the "cultural invasion" by the West must be stopped.

Jakarta Post - August 25, 2009

Jonathan Wootliff – Although Indonesia covers only 1.3 percent of the planet's land surface, this island nation is home to about 17 percent of Earth's plant and animal species, some of

Asia Times - August 25, 2009

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Under former dictator Suharto, the military linked Golkar party dominated Indonesian politics for decades.

August 24, 2009

Jakarta Post - August 24, 2009

Romanus Ndau Lendong, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives (DPR) are committed to passing the state secrecy bill this month.

Illawara Mercury - August 24, 2009

Australian governments, both Labor and Coalition, knew what was happening.

Jakarta Post - August 24, 2009

HS Dillon, Jakarta – To the country's first president, Sukarno, freedom was political independence in its entirety.

August 23, 2009

Jakarta Globe - August 23, 2009

Teguh Prasetyo – While senior officials regularly make well-meaning noises about the need for food diversification, both experts and the food processing industry say what is really requ

Canberra Times - August 23, 2009

Paul Stewart recalls the day in 1975 when a newspaper banner shouted "Five Newsman Missing In Timor".

News Statesman - August 23, 2009

John Pilger – On August 30 it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum and vote for th

Sunday Star Times - August 23, 2009

Kim Knight – Felled trees, burnt stumps. Once tropical rainforest, now palm plantations spread across this Indonesian island like a plague.

August 18, 2009

Jakarta Post - August 18, 2009

Mohamad Abdun Nasir, Mataram – The jilbab (Muslim women's headscarf) has rarely been free from political debate, and is often closely related to sharia-inspired regional ordinances.

August 17, 2009

Jakarta Globe - August 17, 2009

Max Lane – Monday was Independence Day, the anniversary of the proclamation of independence by Sukarno and Hatta and the beginning of a four-year struggle by millions of Indonesians to

August 10, 2009

Jakarta Post Editorial - August 10, 2009

In May, The Jakarta Post wrote in this column that many parties were gunning for the demise of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

August 9, 2009

Jakarta Globe - August 9, 2009

Joe Cochrane – Noordin M Top has certainly lived by the sword, so it would have been fitting if he had met his demise amid a hail of bullets and bomb explosions inside a farmhouse in Ce

Jakarta Post - August 9, 2009

Eka Budianta, Cikarang (West Java) – The leading Indonesian poet and playwright, W.S.

August 3, 2009

Sydney Morning Herald - August 3, 2009

Jim Elmslie – The recent shootings at the Freeport Mine in Papua, which resulted in the death of Australian Drew Grant, is the first real test of the 2007 Lombok Treaty between Australi

July 29, 2009

Jakarta Post Editorial - July 29, 2009

The Supreme Court is publicly perceived as a corrupt institution and it is no wonder that the public has little trust in the country's highest judiciary institution.

July 27, 2009

Asia Times - July 27, 2009

John McBeth, Jakarta – Despite skepticism that a business breakfast was always the primary target, there is one indisputable fact about the July 17 attacks on Jakarta's Marriott and Rit

July 24, 2009

Melbourne Age - July 24, 2009

Twenty years after the death of her brother, one of five journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, grandmother Maureen Tolfree began a painstaking search for the truth.

July 23, 2009

Asia Times - July 23, 2009

Nelson Rand – The day before last week's bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta, the Australian Strategic Policy Research Institute (ASPRI) released a report warning of possible new a

July 22, 2009

New York Times - July 22, 2009

Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's crackdown on militant Islamic groups has been widely praised in recent years, particularly by the United States.

July 21, 2009

Sydney Morning Herald - July 21, 2009

Noordin Mohammed Top is always a step ahead of authorities, writes Tom Allard in Jakarta.

Sydney Morning Herald - July 21, 2009

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – The suicide bomber at the Ritz-Carlton gave a non-existent room number as he entered its restaurant.

July 20, 2009

Crikey.com - July 20, 2009

Damien Kingsbury – Just two weeks ago, observers were congratulating Indonesia for a presidential election that was seen to consolidate that country's process of democratisation.

July 19, 2009

Melbourne Age - July 19, 2009

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As first light emerged and a soft mist hung over the rainforest, Drew Grant had every reason to be upbeat as he relaxed in the back of a Toyota LandCruiser, his ma

Christian Science Monitor - July 19, 2009

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities said Sunday that there is an increasing evidence that the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Islamist group responsible for more than 300 murders i

July 18, 2009

Asia Times - July 18, 2009

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – Experts have written the obituary of extremist violence in Indonesia, but the violent extremists keep refusing to read the script.

July 17, 2009

Jakarta Post Editorial - July 17, 2009

In November 2004, the newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised to bring the killer of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib to justice, a killing he once referred to

Melbourne Age - July 17, 2009

Greg Poulgrain – At dawn last Saturday in the Indonesian province of Papua, on the mountain-road near the world's largest gold mine, 29-year-old Australian Drew Grant was shot and kille

July 14, 2009

Asia Times - July 14, 2009

Jacqueline Hicks, Jakarta – As Indonesia's politicians and powerbrokers tentatively begin to cobble together a new ruling coalition, there is a great deal of optimism both here and abro

July 13, 2009

S. Eben Kirksey - July 13, 2009

Timika, a city in West Papua, has become a site where an open war over money, involving the Indonesian military (TNI) and the police (POLRI), is taking place.

July 9, 2009

Asia Times - July 9, 2009

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Allegations that East Timor Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao signed off on a food contract benefiting a company that listed his daughter Zenilda as a shareholder has

July 8, 2009

Christian Science Monitor - July 8, 2009

Simon Montlake, Bangkok – Voters in Indonesia appear to have handed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono a second five-year term, raising hopes for continuity in steering an underperformi

Asia Times - July 8, 2009

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Counterpunch - July 8, 2009

Allan Nairn – International Herald Tribune headlined it "A Proudly Normal Election" in Indonesia, and it was – a minimal-choice election, as normally happens in most countries (Jacob Ra

Time Magazine - July 8, 2009

Hannah Beech – At first glance, it hardly looked like a vision of democratic perfection.

July 7, 2009

The Times - July 7, 2009

Eben Kirksey – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said improving relations with Indonesia will be a priority of the Obama administration.

Jakarta Globe - July 7, 2009

Dian Ariffahmi – Indonesia tops a lot of global lists: It is the world's largest archipelago; it has the world's largest Muslim population; and, unknown to many, it is also one of the l

Jakarta Globe - July 7, 2009

The presidential election campaign has drawn criticism for being bereft of debate on specific social, economic and political policies.

July 6, 2009

Bloomberg - July 6, 2009

Daniel Ten Kate and Arijit Ghosh – Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is projected to win a second five-year term with an enhanced majority after the resources-rich nation o

Associated Press - July 6, 2009

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Just over a decade ago, mobs torched buildings across Indonesia's capital in an uprising that toppled a 32-year military dictatorship.

Green Left Weekly - July 6, 2009

[The following article is compiled from an article by Dominggus Oktavianus and reports by Ulfa Ilyas and Rudi Hartono. It has been translated by Data Brainanta.]