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July 5, 2003

Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The management of 68H radio news lodged a strong protest on Friday with the martial law administration in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam over an assault the

June 30, 2003

Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2003

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The newspaper editor Supratman is standing by his punchy page one headlines, even though they could send him to jail for six years.

June 28, 2003

Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2003

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Just five weeks into its renewed war against separatist rebels in Aceh, Indonesia has been accused of, in effect, banning foreign journalists from the province.

Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003

Jakarta – The media criticized on Friday new guidelines for media coverage in Aceh, saying that rules were effectively hampering the press from obtaining balanced reports on the current

June 27, 2003

Agence France Presse - June 27, 2003

Jakarta – A Japanese photojournalist has been arrested in the war-torn Aceh , apparently for working without a permit, police and the military said on Friday.

Agence France Presse - June 27, 2003

Martial law authorities in Indonesia's Aceh have further tightened restrictions on foreign journalists and overseas non-government organisations (NGOs).

June 26, 2003

Jakarta Post - June 26, 2003

Journalists who are based in Lhokseumawe boycotted on Wednesday a press briefing at the military operation center in protest over unfair treatment they received from military operation

June 24, 2003

June 21, 2003

Laksamana.Net - June 21, 2003

Army chief General Ryamizard Ryacudu says American journalist William Nessen, who has spent the past six weeks with separatist rebels in Aceh province, could be punished by death if he

Jakarta Post - June 21, 2003

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The martial law administration in Aceh has moved to tighten control over media reporting on the current military operation in the troubled province with defiant

Jakarta Post - June 21, 2003

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Press defenders voiced strong protests over the killing of Banda Aceh-based TVRI cameraman Jamaluddin, 30, saying that the Aceh martial law administration shoul

June 19, 2003

Jakarta Post - June 19, 2003

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The government's restrictive policy on the presence of foreign journalists in covering the military offensive in Aceh could disrupt its own efforts to

June 18, 2003

Associated Press - June 18, 2003

Michael Casey, Jakarta, Indonesia – An American journalist on the run with rebels in Aceh province said Wednesday that Indonesia's military wants to detain him on trumped-up charges and

Straits Times - June 18, 2003

Robert Go, Jakarta – An Indonesian journalist has declared himself to be the first victim of the authorities' efforts to clamp down on negative reporting – in particular, the coverage o

Jakarta Post - June 18, 2003

The "integrated operation", including a military approach in Aceh, was a hard decision to take.

June 16, 2003

June 12, 2003

Asia Times - June 12, 2003

Prangtip Daorueng, Jakarta – The Indonesian government is once again using nationalistic propaganda and media censorship to gain public support for its military offensive in Aceh, but j

June 9, 2003

Jakarta Post - June 9, 2003

Jakarta – International and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have demanded that the martial law administrator in Aceh to give the media the greatest possible access and lift

June 5, 2003

Jakarta Post - June 5, 2003

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Following an attack on the office of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) by the Pemuda Panca Marga (PPM) group last w

June 4, 2003

Kompas - June 4, 2003

Jakarta – On June 3 a number of press and non-government organisations from the Coalition for Violence Against Journalists (Koalisi Antikekerasan terhadap Wartawan) declared their conce

June 3, 2003

Radio Australia - June 3, 2003

Kevin McQuillan and agencies – Indonesian authorities in Aceh have rejected requests from about 10 overseas journalists to cover the war.

May 31, 2003

Jakarta Post - May 31, 2003

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Pressure is mounting on the Indonesian media to support the military offensive against the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), with the government insisting tha

Jakarta Post - May 31, 2003

Jakarta – A group of journalists associations revealed on Thursday a series of violent incidents and restrictions imposed on journalists covering the military operation in Aceh which be

May 30, 2003

Laksamana.Net - May 30, 2003

New York, May 29 – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is alarmed by a recent series of sniper attacks in which unknown gunmen have targeted journalists in Aceh, a conflict-riven

May 28, 2003

Jakarta Post - May 28, 2003

Tiarma Siboro, Lhokseumawe – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will sue the Koran Tempo daily newspaper for allegedly publishing incorrect reports over the killing of 10 civilians during a

May 27, 2003

Jakarta Post - May 27, 2003

Kurniawan Hari and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – A number of legislators on Monday regretted most reports on Aceh by both domestic and international media, and demanded the governm

May 23, 2003

Agence France Presse - May 23, 2003

The Indonesian military's attempts to stop reporters quoting rebel statements in Aceh province put journalists covering the war there "at grave risk", a New York-based journalists' orga

May 22, 2003

Jakarta Post - May 22, 2003

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Truth risks becoming another casualty in the conflict in Aceh after the military ruler instructed the media not to print statements from the Free Aceh

April 30, 2003

Jakarta Post - April 30, 2003

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Tempo magazine journalists Ahmad Taufik and Karaniya Dharmasaputra testified on Tuesday that defendant David Tjioe, alias A.

April 26, 2003

Jakarta Post - April 26, 2003

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Press Council vice chairman R.H. Siregar says loopholes in press law No.

April 17, 2003

April 8, 2003

Jakarta Post - April 8, 2003

Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) strongly protested the police's decision to declare an editor of Tempo magazine, Ahmad Taufik, as a suspect in a defamation case.

March 22, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 22, 2003

Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri plans to sue Rakyat Merdeka daily for comparing her to Soemanto, a man who confessed to eating parts of dead human bodies.

March 19, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 19, 2003

Suherdjoko and Apriadi Gunawan, Medan/Semarang – Hundreds of journalists staged a demonstration in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, and Medan, the capital of North Sumatra, to con

March 14, 2003

Asia Times - March 14, 2003

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – The legendary Tempo magazine, which began life in March 1971 by copying Time's style and format, is a national institution in Indonesia.

March 12, 2003

Jakarta Post - March 12, 2003

Jakarta – Dozens of journalists rallied near the State Palace on Monday to protest against the recent attack on the offices of Tempo newsmagazine.

Jakarta Post - March 12, 2003

Jakarta – The Indonesian Press and Broadcasting Community (MPPI) issued a statement on Monday protesting violence against the press and journalists, which the organization said posed a

February 28, 2003

Jakarta Post - February 28, 2003

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – A local newspaper officially reported to police the maltreatment of its photographer by police during a violent demonstration in Bandung, West Java, on Thurs

February 24, 2003

Agence France Presse - February 24, 2003

Jakarta – Lawyers for the Indonesian armed forces said Monday they have agreed to settle their dispute with the Washington Post over a report that implicated senior officers in plans fo

February 20, 2003

Radio Australia - February 20, 2003

Linda Mottram: A West Papuan human rights campaigner says that ongoing unrest in the Indonesian province is being caused by the violently radical Islamic group, Laskar Jihad, which was

November 29, 2002

Jakarta Post - November 29, 2002

Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed on Thursday a controversial broadcasting bill despite protests it will curtail press freedom.

November 28, 2002

Interpress Service - November 28, 2002

Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – It took Indonesia's House of Representatives more than two years of often-heated debate to pass a controversial broadcasting bill on Thursday, but critics here sa

November 25, 2002

Jakarta Post - November 25, 2002

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The nation will soon have a new repressive broadcasting law after the government and the House of Representatives reached an agreement last week to pass the br

November 16, 2002

The Australian - November 16, 2002

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Indonesian armed forces commander General Endriartono Sutarto conceded this week that it was possible Indonesian soldiers carried out a deadly ambush on Freepor

November 13, 2002

Jakarta Post - November 13, 2002

Bambang Bider and Oyos Saroso H.N.

November 12, 2002

Jakarta Post - November 12, 2002

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Press activists criticized the government's plan to establish a public information dissemination agency for fear that it would only pave the way for a return to

November 7, 2002

Jakarta Post - November 7, 2002

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The latest draft of the broadcasting law, to be deliberated in the next two weeks, reveals the ignorance of the House of Representatives and the government in

November 6, 2002

Lusa - November 6, 2002

East Timor's first Portuguese-language newspaper in more than a quarter century will be formally launched in Dili Thursday.

September 27, 2002

Sydney Morning Herald Editorial - September 27, 2002

After decades of authoritarian rule, Indonesia closed its notorious Department of Information three years ago and declared censorship was dead.

September 14, 2002

Associated Press - September 14, 2002

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has delayed plans to pass a controversial new media law that would bar local broadcast outlets from relaying foreign news programmes and allow the go