Tokyo – US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said the lack of public participation in Indonesia's government aggravated the effect of the Asian financial crisis.
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April 28, 1998
April 16, 1998
By Gwen Robinson in Jakarta and John Authers in New York
April 13, 1998
Keith B. Richburg, Jakarta – Members of the U.S.
April 11, 1998
Andrew Higgins, West Java – Wood huts scattered around fields of rice are a long way from the haggling between the International Monetary Fund and the technocrats of President Soeharto.
April 10, 1998
No memorandums have been signed, no handshakes photographed.
April 8, 1998
Jakarta – The following is a chronology of Indonesia's financial crisis and political developments in the country the last eight months.
1997
April 6, 1998
An expected IMF deal leaves him plenty of maneuvering room It's a confrontation that has pitted the might of the U.S.
April 2, 1998
Christine T.
April 1, 1998
Jakarta – Hundreds of hospital patients in Jakarta have fled their beds before making a full recovery because they cannot afford their bills, an Indonesian newspaper said on Thursday.
March 31, 1998
Peter Hartcher – The international community's $US43bn ($64bn) package for support of Indonesia is a waste of money, according to a US analyst and former senior policy maker in the Bush
March 19, 1998
Jakarta – Indonesia's economic woes should be blamed on the government's failure to implement reforms, not on deficiencies in the International Monetary Fund's programme for the country
Murray Hiebert with S. Jayasankaran in Kuala Lumpur – A late-afternoon telephone call alarmed the retired Malaysian civil servant.
Salil Tripathi, Jakarta – If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
March 15, 1998
Amien Rais has many personas. He is professor of political science at Gadjah Mada University in Jogjakarta in Central Java.
March 14, 1998
By David Jenkins – So who is to blame for the mess in Indonesia, a nation that appears to be sliding inexorably towards political, social and economic chaos?
Leon Hadar – The Clinton Administration, frustrated over its inability to persuade President Suharto to embrace economic and political reforms, has decided to adopt a "wait-and-see" pol
March 12, 1998
By Margot Cohen in Jakarta and Bandung, West Java – By all accounts, the speech was masterly. "Human rights have practically disappeared," intoned President Suharto.
Jennifer Hewett, Washington – The International Monetary Fund, responding to criticism of its tough approach to Indonesia, has indicated it is willing to be more flexible in negotiating
March 8, 1998
Phil Smith, Jakarta – Indonesia is being criticised for not implementing the International Monetary Fund's new set of economic reforms quickly enough and President Suharto has come unde
March 7, 1998
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – As an electoral assembly moved through its scripted steps Friday toward the expected re-election of President Suharto next week, the new players on the Indonesian
Washington – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will not disburse a second 3 billion dollar installment of its loan to financially beleaguered Indonesia before April, an IMF spokeswo
March 6, 1998
1997
July 8: Indonesia's currency, the rupiah, begins to fall. The Government widens its rupiah trading band from 8 to 12 percent.
Ian Stewart in Kuala Lumpur and Jenny Grant in Jakarta
Hunger is forcing thousands of Indonesians to flee to Malaysia, police there said yesterday.
March 5, 1998
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – As a decision nears on whether to infuse billions of dollars in international aid into Indonesia, a close look at President Suharto's performance shows a pattern
February 26, 1998
A defiant Suharto gambles everything on an unorthodox financial plan that could cost Indonesia the IMF's support.
February 25, 1998
Canberra – International Monetary Fund Director for Asia-Pacific Hubert Neiss Wednesday said the fund is examining ways to preserve subsidies for food, rice and cooking oil in Indonesia
February 24, 1998
Jakarta – The spectre of current food shortages leading to a famine throughout the island of Java has emerged as a major threat to President Suharto's regime, observers say, adding it c
February 23, 1998
Keith B. Richburg, Jakarta – Indonesia-Indonesia, the world's fourth-most populous country, is sliding steadily toward economic and social chaos.
February 21, 1998
Peter Hartcher – One of Indonesia's key Islamic leaders has promised to lead a "people's power" mass movement to unseat President Soeharto unless his regime can solve the country's cris
February 19, 1998
James Woodford – The Chief of the Defence Force, General John Baker, the Foreign Minister, Mr Downer, and the Defence Minister, Mr McLachlan, expressed serious concerns yesterday about
Keith B.
For all the almost hysterical reporting of unrest in the press, no one has yet tried to create an overall picture of what has happened on the ground.
February 18, 1998
Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Rioters in West Java had admitted being paid to initiate unrest, police said yesterday.
February 17, 1998
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Indonesia's ruling Golkar Party has announced that the controversial Technology Minister, Dr Jusuf Habibie, is its vice-presidential choice, a move which is c
February 14, 1998
Michael Dorgan, Jakarta – It's 5:30 a.m. and a new day is dawning.
Jim Della-Giacoma, Jakarta – At least three people have been killed and 154 detained in riots over rising prices directed mostly against shops run by Indonesia's minority Chinese, polic
Jakarta – Some 2,000 students threw stones at several stores Saturday morning on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island after their rally to protest higher basic commodity prices turned into a rio
February 13, 1998
Irwan Firdaus, Sukamandi – In the most violent day of protests yet in Indonesia's economic crisis, thousands went on the rampage in at least eight towns today, venting their anger again
Indonesia's security forces plan to tap phones to monitor dissidents calls and pull the plug on conversations that are deemed political, a newspaper said on Friday.
February 12, 1998
Raju Gopalakrishnan, Jakarta – President Suharto accused unnamed groups on Thursday of using Indonesia's economic crisis to undermine his government as the country announced the appoint
Washington – The IMF is headed for a showdown with its third largest borrower on Thursday, insisting Indonesia was not ready for a rigid currency regime and highlighting political uncer
Christopher Torchia, Jakarta – It wasn't a bomb, but the box found next to a bank machine in an airport was meant to send a warning.
Indonesia's plan for a currency board may look attractive. But it is a high-risk gamble that could cause huge damage.
February 11, 1998
Seth Mydans, Surabaya – The military officer seemed puzzled when asked about the giant Tactica armored water cannon that was parked beside him, in front of the glass-and-chrome Delta Pl
February 10, 1998
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Hundreds of people marched through Jakarta's main business district yesterday protesting against rising prices and unemployment, just a day after the armed fo
February 9, 1998
Jakarta – About 200 people attacked and set on fire shops and vehicles in an eastern Indonesian town in protest against price hikes, the Jakarta Post reported on Monday.
Raphael Pura, Jakarta – A food crisis is closing in on Indonesia.
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Riots over rising food prices hit drought-stricken eastern Indonesia over the weekend as the chief of the armed forces led thousands of troops bristling with
February 8, 1998
Seth Mydans, Semari – When hundreds of rough-looking men burst through the alleyways of the nearby town of Kraton two days ago, throwing stones and waving sharpened sickles, most of the
February 7, 1998
Jakarta – At least two shops were burned and seven others damaged in an eastern Indonesian town on Saturday during a protest against price hikes triggered by the currency crisis, the of