Jakarta – To everyone's surprise, the capital was free from huge rallies which had been expected to mark a plenary session at the House of Representatives to hear President Abdurrahman
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March 29, 2001
March 28, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's reply to a censure motion today could trigger a last-ditch round of corrupt deal-making to try to ensure his political survival,
March 17, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid was publicly snubbed by his deputy on Saturday, adding to growing signs of a politically explosive rift at the top of the troubled admin
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Thirteen. That was the number of ministers and top generals President Abdurrahman Wahid had fired up until Thursday.
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid has sacked a minister from one of the political parties trying to oust him in an apparent bid to remove disloyal aides from his Cabi
March 16, 2001
Terry Frie, Malang – Indonesia's leading Muslim group and fanatic supporters of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid threatened to call millions on to the streets of the capital to def
Chris McCall and Reuters in Jakarta – Beleaguered President Abdurrahman Wahid won a much-needed boost yesterday when two cabinet ministers opted to stay in his Government and leave the
Surabaya – More than 5,000 supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid, armed with sickles, machetes and bamboo spears, blocked Ketapang Port in Banyuwangi, some 290 kilometers east of Su
March 15, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian vice president Megawati Sukarnoputri no longer supported President Abdurrahman Wahid and was ready to replace him, despite mistrusting her new allies, according to
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The presidential office yesterday denied that the US$300,000 sent to President Abdurrahman Wahid while he was on an overseas trip in Saudi Arabia was obtained i
March 14, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian students Wednesday abandoned a sit-in at parliament demanding the resignation of President Abdurrahman Wahid, amid rumours his supporters were descendi
Chris McCall and agencies in Jakarta – Indonesians are bracing for more economic misery as their currency crumbles, sparking fears of a repeat of its 1997 collapse.
March 13, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Investors took fright yesterday as thousands of protesters blockaded the tightly guarded palace of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his most senior minister wa
Jakarta – No bullets or tear gas were fired when more than 10,000 protesters, mostly students, besieged Merdeka Palace on Monday, intensifying the pressure on President Abdurrahman Wahi
Jakarta – The Jakarta Student Executive Boards' (BEMs) call for a national strike received a mixed response from both the people and university students nationwide, and life practically
Jakarta – A large number of President Abdurrahman Wahids loyalists left East Java for Jakarta yesterday as their rivals mounted protests to demand the resignation of the national leader
March 10, 2001
Jakarta – Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais said on Friday that should Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri replace Abdurrahman Wahid as President, she wil
March 8, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid arrived home after midnight on Thursday, an hour after some 4,000 youths from different camps rallied peacefully in front of the Merdeka
Shefali Rekhi – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid might well hold on to power, despite the criticism against him in the wake of the Kalimantan crisis, because the forces opposing h
March 7, 2001
Jakarta – Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri should treat mounting support from Islamic political parties with suspicion as the parties might be courting her favour in return for shor
March 3, 2001
Jakarta – The closed-door meeting between some of the nations top politicians at Al-Azhar Mosque in South Jakarta yesterday was an attempt to use religion for political purposes, says a
Jakarta – Leading Indonesian politicians met at a Jakarta mosque for what media reports said Saturday were talks on dumping President Ambdurrahman Wahid, now overseas, and replacing him
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Anger is growing over the continued absence of President Abdurrahman Wahid at a time of ethnic slaughter on the island of Borneo and alleged corruption charge
March 1, 2001
Rohit Jaggi and Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's hold on power grew increasingly tenuous on Thursday after his vice-president broke her silence to stress
February 28, 2001
Jakarta – Five major factions at the House of Representatives will recommend that faction members, who were on a special committee investigating two financial scandals allegedly linked
February 26, 2001
Vaudine England – Megawati Sukarnoputri's father founded independent Indonesia and was its first president until deposed in 1966.
Makassar – A skirmish erupted between student demonstrators and members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Banser civilian guards at the Makassar Islamic University compound on Saturday.
February 25, 2001
Madiun – Some 4,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid hit the streets in East Java on Sunday, resuming protests against efforts to oust the beleaguered Muslim cleric.
February 24, 2001
Jakarta – Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) chief Lt. Gen.
Philip Bowring, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia faces many crises, several of his own creation.
February 23, 2001
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid left Jakarta yesterday on an overseas trip which takes him out of the country for two weeks while a leadership crisis grows at
February 22, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of students who have been protesting across Indonesia in the past few weeks might argue that replacing President Abdurrahman Wahid is the only
February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Pro-reform organizations across Java and Sumatra yesterday stepped up their demands for the former ruling Golkar Party to be dissolved and investigated over its involvement in
Jakarta – After days of rallies – some of them violent, the capital enjoyed an arts performance on Sunday aimed at easing the political tension.
February 17, 2001
Jakarta – The country could see another round of political probes into financial scandals if the National Awakening Party (PKB) has its way by setting up a special committee to investig
Yogyakarta – After eulogizing about the long road to democracy which Indonesia must travel, President Abdurrahman Wahid found out later on Friday that not all roads are open to him afte
Jakarta – Thousands of students took to the streets of three Indonesian cities Friday, calling on President Abdurrahman Wahid to resign, police and witnesses said.
February 16, 2001
Aulia Andri/GB, Jakarta – If the Golkar Party pointed the finger at the 'communist bogeyman' and specifically the People's Democratic Party (PRD) for the arson attack on their East Java
Ian Timberlake – A telephone rings somewhere inside Eggi Sudjana's denim jacket.
February 14, 2001
Jakarta – The wave of support for President Abdurrahman Wahid continued in Central Java on Tuesday with demands that the President remain in office until 2004 and that the Golkar Party
Vaudine England, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's aides were trying to put together a deal yesterday to fend off pressure for him to resign, as demonstrations continued across Ja
Jakarta – Around 1,000 high school students on Wednesday defied a ban on protests to call on President Abdurrahman Wahid to step down and denounce attacks on schools by his supporters i
February 13, 2001
Susan Sim – Senior cadres of the top Indonesian political parties, who have been meeting secretly for the past two months, are close to signing an agreement to back Ms Megawati Sukarnop
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – One of President Abdurrahman Wahid's brothers has called on him to step down and hand power over to Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri in the best interest
February 12, 2001
Jakarta – Public opinion surveys published here Monday suggest a majority of Indonesians support parliament's censure of President Abdurrahman Wahid, but were less eager for him to resi
Aulia Andri/Fitri & GB, Jakarta – An unlikely group joined the calls for President Abdurrahman Wahid to stand down.
February 11, 2001
Surabaya – Accusations that left-wing groups were behind last week's attacks on opposition offices in President Abdurrahman Wahid's home province were misguided attempts to turn his sup
February 10, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – As embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid fights off moves to impeach him, analysts fear this week's unrest throughout Java could easily spin out of control a
February 9, 2001
Jakarta – Defence Minister Muhammad Mahfud has confirmed rumours that President Abdurrahman Wahid proposed to impose martial law prior to parliament's decision to censure him last Thurs
Pasuruan – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Friday suggested that a "third hand" had been inciting his followers to excessive violence in East Java, and urged his people to con