Jakarta – While the ethnic-related tension in Pontianak, West Kalimantan has gradually ceased, fresh conflict flared up in the West…
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July 2, 2001
Jakarta – Six people went missing Thursday after the Kijang van they rode in was attacked on the road linking Poso and Tentena in Central Sulawesi…
Chris McCall, Mamboro, Central Sulawesi – God told him the riots were about to happen. "Allah sent me a vision," Muhammad Herlambang Badja says at…
June 30, 2001
Jakarta – Corruption, collusion and nepotism are rampant in state enterprises, a top government official admits, confirming what many have long…
Jakarta – While the fate of embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid is still far from sealed, the United Development Party (PPP) and the Crescent…
Reuters in Manila – President Abdurrahman Wahid, threatened with impeachment by a hostile Parliament, offered yesterday to reconcile differences…
Jakarta – Madurese settlers in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province have asked the local government to give them two weeks to persuade…
Hamish McDonald – Senior United States and Australian officials yesterday joined in an unusually direct warning to Jakarta against trying to…
Peter Kerr, Jakarta – Soon after giving birth earlier this year in a major central Jakarta hospital, nursing staff gave Indra a pack containing…
June 29, 2001
Jakarta – Court officials said yesterday that they had not lost the documentation of a Supreme Court decision ordering a fugitive son of former…
June 28, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of becak (pedicab) drivers held a march on Wednesday to demand that the poor be given the right to earn a living in…
Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday warned President Abdurrahman Wahid that declaring a state of emergency, as…
Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro had reportedly cut short his minor haj pilgrimage and returned to the capital on Tuesday,…
Poso, Central Sulawesi – Eight armed men were detained on Wednesday as they were allegedly about to attack residents working on a cacao plantation…
June 27, 2001
Brendan Pearson – The Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, and Indonesia's President, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid, have pledged to repair a diplomatic…
Max Lane – On June 15 the Indonesian police kidnapped eight members of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and occupied and ransacked the PRD's…
Peter Boyle – Indonesian non-government organisations believe the June 8 raid by police on the Asia-Pacific Solidarity Conference, during which 32…
Nick Everett & Rebecca Meckelburg, Bandung – Police have arrested six members of the radical People's Democratic Party (PRD) in West Java, in…
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri's expected rise to power is likely to be clouded by the same…
Jakarta – Activists from the Anti-Torture Network visited on Tuesday the headquarters of the city police and the West, North and East Jakarta…
Jakarta – Amid the topsy-turvy of preparations for the upcoming special session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), a total of 13 members…
June 26, 2001
Jakarta – The IMF said on Tuesday it would resume a vital $5 billion loan programme with Indonesia if the government agreed to delay a debate on…
Is it mere symbolism for the Wahid visit that John Howard has had an apparent change of heart on Asia, asks Gerard Henderson?
Alexander…
Hamish McDonald – Within an hour of arriving in Canberra from a gruelling journey from Jakarta, Abdurrahman Wahid was plunged into a succession of…
Australia and Indonesia had agreed to put behind them the strained relationship which arose over East Timor and move on, Prime Minister John…
Yogyakarta – Revolutionary groups which attack gambling houses and nightspots in the name of religious beliefs are mushrooming here, causing…
Craig Skehan – Australia and New Zealand will press Indonesia's visiting President Wahid to prosecute members of his country's military, and…
Bandung – Tens of youths from various youth groups under the umbrella of the former ruling Golkar Party occupied the West Java branch…
Jakarta – After weeks of nationwide, sometimes riotous agitation, Indonesia's labor unions scored a major victory last week when the Wahid…
Jakarta – More than 250 Mayasari Bhakti bus drivers went on strike on Monday, and hundreds of others are rumored to join on Tuesday to demand a…
June 25, 2001
Jakarta – Dozens of armed men attacked a residential area in the town of Poso, Central Sulawesi, in the early hours of Sunday morning, killing two…
Jakarta – The death of a woman migrant worker upon her arrival at the Soekarno Hatta International Airport on Thursday has prompted calls for the…
MMI Ahyani/HD, Jakarta – Around 1,000 thousands people from various organisations which are Golkar Party's underbouw came to West Java…
Gde Anugrah Arka, Jakarta – Indonesia's floundering president has sacked the widely respected head of the bank restructuring agency (IBRA), in yet…
June 23, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch – There will be a banquet in Parliament's Great Hall hosted by the Prime Minister, a Governor-General's dinner, red carpet,…
Agence France Presse in Jakarta – Indonesia's MPs came under fire yesterday after it emerged each is entitled to a 5.8 million rupiah…
Jakarta – The Indonesian government wants to collect 3.2 trillion rupiah in unpaid taxes from the fugitive youngest son of former president…
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Eddie, a former waterside thug, is not too worried about a local council's recently declared intention of clearing the…
MMI Ahyani/HD, Bandung – National Democratic Students Student League (LMND) is scheduled to file a lawsuit to West Java Police over an arrest of…
Louise Williams – As the torturous "death watch" over the presidency of Abdurrahman Wahid draws to a close his raucous political opponents will be…
Vaudine England, Denpasar – Bali is supposed to be a powerhouse of support for Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri, but interviews with activists…
June 22, 2001
Jakarta – The chairman of Indonesia's Upper House of Parliament Amien Rais yesterday ruled out bringing forward a special assembly…
Robert Go, Jakarta – It is getting harder to hide the extent of one's wealth in Indonesia these days. Tax collectors, under pressure…
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia would gain an additional 60 trillion rupiah (S$10.8 billion) a year if citizens paid their proper taxes, according…
Jakarta – The international workshop on crimes against humanity ended on Thursday in controversy over the need to adopt human rights principles in…
Poso, Central Sulawesi – A band of armed men wearing ninja outfits wounded two villagers during their assault on a minivan in the…
jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid warned on Friday he could call early elections and take other measures if the top…
June 21, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – Popular Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri will skip another cabinet meeting on Thursday in her latest snub to…
Dean Yates, Jakarta – Indonesia's military said on Thursday it saw little sign of a political compromise that might save President Abdurrahman…
G. K. Goh, Jakarta – Indonesian police fired teargas to disperse a total of 500 student protesters in two separate locations in…