Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – A senior Indonesian official said the government wanted to change controversial laws giving greater autonomy to its…
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September 5, 2001
Reuters - September 5, 2001
Reuters - September 5, 2001
Joanne Collins, Jakarta – Indonesia will unveil on Friday a draft budget constrained by a mountain of debt that has left President Megawati…
September 4, 2001
Straits Times - September 4, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Millions of poor Indonesians are among the hardest-hit by corruption, as various unofficial levies charged by low-level…
AFX Asia - September 4, 2001
Jakarta – The gap between transparency and accountability within Indonesia's public sector is a major challenge to its economic reform program,…
Jakarta Post - September 4, 2001
Jakarta – Minister of Manpower Jacob Nuwa Wea here on Monday criticized an International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention which…
September 3, 2001
Straits Times - September 3, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – They are valuable for criminals on the run; handy for men who want to take a second wife, and indispensable for people…
September 1, 2001
Associated Press - September 1, 2001
Chris Brummitt, Nusakambangan Island – A group of Afghan refugees detained for two weeks after their ship sank off an Indonesian prison island…
Straits Times - September 1, 2001
Jakarta – Desperate officials are scrambling to find funds, including taking commercial loans if necessary, to pay striking teachers demanding…
Jakarta Post - September 1, 2001
Annastashya Emmanuelle, Jakarta – Complicated bureaucratic procedures await street vendors who wish to claim their belongings after being…
Straits Times - September 1, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank has warned the Indonesian government to seriously tackle corruption, saying that progress in stamping out loan abuse was…
Straits Times - September 1, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia must properly punish the killers of three UN workers before the United States can resume full military ties, a senior US…
August 31, 2001
Straits Times - August 31, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – A military reformer, once tipped as a leading candidate to head the powerful Indonesian armed forces (TNI), died…
August 30, 2001
Reuters - August 30, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's chief economics minister said on Thursday the haggard economy would be hard pressed to grow more than five percent next year…
Agence France Presse - August 30 2001
Washington – The State Department's top Asia hand is due in Jakarta this weekend in the latest sign of a new US drive to engage Indonesia – but…
August 29, 2001
Straits Times - August 29, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The economic crunch in Indonesia is spurring a new deadly handicraft in its eastern islands: bomb-making. Police believe…
Jakarta Post - August 29, 2001
Jakarta – Britain is ready to resume sales of weapons to Indonesia, saying that it has accepted the assurances from the Indonesian Military (TNI)…
August 28, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 28, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of activists of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Monday staged a rally at the People's Consultative Assembly (…
Agence France Presse - August 28, 2001
Jakarta – Authorities in a haze-shrouded Indonesian city will make artificial rain to wash away choking smoke from forest and ground fires, the…
August 27, 2001
Dow Jones Newswires - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – Following are the key points of Indonesia's agreement with the International Monetary Fund Monday. The agreement, known as a letter of…
Jakarta Post - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – Drastic restructuring measures introduced by the new leadership of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) to improve the agency…
Jakarta Post - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – Activists have urged the government to reform the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas-HAM), which they said was ineffective as…
Jakarta Post - August 27, 2001
Jakarta – A coalition of watchdogs on legal affairs has lashed out at two court's decisions to dismiss cases against three Supreme Court justices…
August 26, 2001
Straits Times - August 26, 2001
Jakarta – Clothes make the man, or the governor, in this case. Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso has proposed increasing his wardrobe allowance this year…
August 25, 2001
Straits Times - August 25, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's intelligence chief has confirmed US government warnings that American interests in the country face possible terrorist…
Straits Times - August 25, 2001
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesian police have said they will question an entertainer for allegedly inciting hatred against the state by…
Agence France Presse - August 25, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian newspapers yesterday rapped Jakarta city councillors for going on 'foreign junkets' at a time of economic crisis…
August 24, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Rights group Amnesty International urged Indonesia's new President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Friday to bring policemen and soldiers to…
Jakarta Post - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Nearly 300,000 people were displaced by communal and sectarian conflict in various parts of Indonesia between January and August,…
Jakarta Post - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – As it is difficult to curb international terrorism in the country, the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) will focus on fighting its…
Jakarta Post - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Head of the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG) Goenawan Ibrahim warned on Thursday that the haze problem in Kalimantan might worsen…
Reuters - August 24, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's crude oil output is expected to fall by an average 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) next year due to security disruptions in…
August 23, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 23, 2001
Jakarta – Observers welcomed the Indonesian Military (TNI) headquarters' plan to drop its territorial function and to focus on defense duties,…
Dow Jones Newswires - August 23, 2001
Tom Wright, Jakarta – Indonesia's independent debt restructuring review body issued a report late Thursday criticizing key deals which it said…
Asia Times - August 23, 2001
Andi Asrun, Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Suharto has been out of power for three years now, but authorities agree with the suspicions of…
August 22, 2001
South China Morning Post - August 22, 2001
Nick Squires, Sydney – The Government planned to help build a counter-terrorist training base in Indonesia for the country's elite special forces…
Agence France Presse - August 22, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's state-owned forestry company could lose its profitable "ecolabel" certificates if it does not act to stamp out illegal…
Jane's Defence Weekly - August 22, 2001
Robert Karniol, Bangkok – Indonesia's new government appears intent on completing intelligence-related reforms, including an expanded role for the…
Reuters - August 22, 2001
Lewa Pardomuan, Kuala Lumpur – A rally in palm oil prices is fuelling widespread looting in plantation areas in Indonesia, with armed gangs…
Reuters - August 22, 2001
Jakarta – An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced an army corporal and a former soldier to life in jail for a devastating blast at the stock…
Asia Times - August 22, 2001
Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday drew a "clear commitment" from the Indonesian government to accelerate its economic…
Straits Times - August 22, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia will fight corruption by focusing on bureaucratic reforms, not on the prosecution of serving and former government…
August 21, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – More than 1,000 disadvantaged people, mostly becak (pedicab) drivers and street vendors, staged a rally at the Office…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – Dita Indah Sari, a noted woman activist who is the one of the recipients of the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Award, said here on Monday that…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – Legislators of the National Awakening Party (PKB) resumed their participation in proceedings at the House of Representatives (DPR) on…
Tempo - August 21, 2001
Muhammad Abdul Rachman had some trouble uttering his oath of office as he was sworn in as attorney general last week. His voice tripped up a bit…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court sentenced two defendants to 20-years imprisonment each on Monday for their role in last year's bombing…
Jakarta Post - August 21, 2001
Jakarta – A live bomb was found outside the family residence of human rights activist Munir in Batu, Malang, East Java, in the early…
August 20, 2001
New York Times - August 20, 2001
Seth Mydans – Just at the start of his ill-starred presidency, Abdurrahman Wahid slipped out of his official palace and made a secret pilgrimage…
Republika - August 20, 2001
The Asia Director of Human Rights Watch has serious doubts about therecently appointed attorney-general, MA Rachman, considering his…
Straits Times - August 20, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Banned from Jakarta's streets in the late 80s because they were considered inhumane and backward, becaks – or pedicabs…