Jakarta – Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Indonesian Accountants' Foundation (YAI) urged the government on Tuesday to revise political…
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August 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Max Lane – An intense struggle is underway within the Indonesian elite over how to divide up the spoils after the ousting of President Abdurrahman…
Reuters - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia said on Wednesday tax collection in the first seven months of 2001 was above target, raising hopes the government…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
The ouster of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri has opened up a new, and likely volatile, era in Indonesia…
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Surabaya – Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of East Java's Tapal Kuda area on Tuesday to welcome home former president and…
South China Morning Post - August 8, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Police turned up the heat in their search for former dictator Suharto's youngest son yesterday by announcing they had…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Pip Hinman – With Megawati Sukarnoputri freshly installed as president, and the country's armed forces, the TNI, in the ascendancy, the US…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Urgent solidarity action is needed from supporters of democracy worldwide to secure the release of activists held by police for organising against…
Reuters - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank's private sector arm said on Wednesday it had temporarily frozen all funding to Indonesia mainly because of a…
August 7, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 7, 2001
[A number of problems feature in the controversy surrounding the resumption of US-Indonesian military ties, writes Dr. Kusnanto Anggoro, senior…
Chronicle Foreign Service - August 7, 2001
Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – Petrus Hariyanto sees the fate of his tiny political party as a symbol of what's to come under Indonesia's new president…
August 6, 2001
Time Magazine - August 6, 2001
Tim McGirk, Jakarta – When the scorpion tanks clattered to a halt outside the Istana Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesian President Abdurrahman…
Time Asia - August 6, 2001
Pramoedya Ananta Toer – I don't blame President Sukarno for my arrest in the early 1960s. I blame the army. But being a political prisoner in the…
South China Morning Post - August 6, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – In a quirk of history, two very different Indonesian women won honours recently.
Megawati Sukarnoputri became…
Jakarta Post - August 6, 2001
Jakarta – Human rights activists applauded on Sunday the renewed presidential decree on the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal to try suspects of…
August 4, 2001
Associated Press - August 4, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Ousted president Abdurrahman Wahid returned to Indonesia yesterday after medical tests in the United States, insisting those…
Straits Times - August 4, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Two fatal bombings, the assassination of a top judge and a jail breakout – all took place within the first 10 days of Ms…
Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001
Jakarta – Political parties have submitted their candidates for the new Cabinet but the lineup will not be announced until next Thursday, largely…
Agence France Presse - August 4, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Deposed Indonesian president Aburrahman Wahid turned 61 Saturday, 12 days after a humiliating impeachment by the national assembly cut…
Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001
Jakarta – A play highlighting human rights issues will be staged at Taman Ismail Marzuki arts center in Central Jakarta to mark the…
Jakarta Post - August 4, 2001
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – People who like to eat out at KFC would never have imagined that it had something to do with Cipinang Penitentiary in…
August 3, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 3, 2001
Jakarta – The much-awaited Cabinet line-up will not be unveiled until next week, accentuating apparent horse trading among major political parties…
August 2, 2001
Reuters - August 2, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – A bomb blast ripped through the ground floor of a busy shopping centre in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Wednesday…
Far Eastern Economic Review - August 2, 2001
John McBeth and Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Sadly for Indonesia, the dramatic events of July 23 that saw Abdurrahman Wahid sacked as president and…
August 1, 2001
South China Morning Post - August 1, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A lawsuit seeking to dissolve former president Suharto's political party, Golkar, was thrown out by the Supreme Court…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Pip Hinman – At 4am on July 22, a tent occupied by hunger strikers in the Sumatran town of Lampung was doused with petrol and set alight by thugs…
InterPress News Service - August 1, 2001
Kanis Dursin, Bekasi – Indonesia is the biggest rice importer in Asia. This is sadly ironic, because almost 70 percent of the country's 213…
Green Left Weekly - August 1, 2001
Max Lane – In October 1999, when Megawati Sukarnoputri won the consolation prize of being elected Abdurrahman Wahid's vice-president, tens of…
Tapol Bulletin 162 - August 2001
On 23 July, Vice President Megawati was installed as Indonesian president after the People's Assembly sacked the man it had appointed two years…
July 30, 2001
Reuters - July 30, 2001 (abridged)
Manila – A Chinese agricultural scientist and agovernment official are among the seven winners of the 2001 Ramon Magsaysay Awards for…
Straits Times - July 30, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The fate of Indonesia's Nation Awakening Party (PKB) looks increasingly uncertain as internal politicking threatens to…
Straits Times - July 30, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – American officials are trying to recall a published history of how the United States supported anti-communist moves…
July 28, 2001
Straits Times - July 28, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian journalists are mounting a campaign to dissuade new president Megawati Sukarnoputri from re-opening the…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 28, 2001
Craig Skehan – The Australian Prime Minister, Mr Howard, said yesterday he was impressed by the "warmth and spontaneity" of an invitation for him…
South China Morning Post - July 28, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian capital were yesterday questioning 18 witnesses and working with intelligence agencies to…
South China Morning Post - July 28, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – New President Megawati Sukarnoputri left Jakarta yesterday for the provinces, putting the critical task of forming a…
Straits Times - July 28, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Politicians will dominate the new Indonesian Cabinet. Their empowering will be a form of payback for the support they…
Straits Times - July 28, 2001
Hamzah Haz, leader of Indonesia's largest Muslim political party, was elected Vice-President on Thursday. In its editorial yesterday, The Jakarta…
Straits Times - July 28, 2001
Enrique Soriano and Devi Asmarani – Deposed and dejected, Mr Abdurrahman is helped down the stairs of the presidential palace on Thursday before…
Asia Times - July 28, 2001
Kanis Dursin, Jakarta – The unreserved support of new President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) for the…
July 27, 2001
Stratfor Update - July 27, 2001
International reactions to Megawati Sukarnoputri becoming Indonesia's new president on July 23 were swift but measured.
Foreign ministers…
Asia Times - July 27, 2001
Just 48 hours after banding together to oust Abdurrahman Wahid from the country's presidency on charges of "incompetence" (a most extraordinary…
Gerry van Klinken - July 27, 2001
America is still looking mainly for military allies in Southeast Asia – as if the cold war never ended. This is the central message of a new…
Agence France Presse - July 27, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's new president Megawati Sukarnoputri stayed away Friday from the commemoration of a 1996 brutal military-backed raid on her…
July 26, 2001
Reuters - July 26, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian rupiah spiked to around 9,800 to the dollar on Thursday and the stock market gained 1.40 percent, welcoming Muslim…
Agence France Presse - July 26, 2001
Jakarta – Hamzah Haz, who became Indonesia's ninth vice president on Thursday, is a seasoned lawmaker and politician and the first in more than…
Agence France Presse - July 26, 2001
G.K. Goh, Jakarta – Abdurrahman Wahid's farewell to his followers Thursday was much like his 21 months as Indonesian president – chaotic,…
Reuters - July 26, 2001
Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesian legislators on Thursday elected an unlikely deputy for their first female president – a Muslim politician…
Agence France Presse - July 26, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank yesterday welcomed the appointment of Ms Megawati Sukarnoputri as Indonesia's new president, and urged her to…
Reuters - July 26, 2001
Hanoi – The United States is watching the Indonesian military closely after the rise to power of President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Its officials…