Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesian immigration officials yesterday freed 29 foreigners, including 18 Australians, who were detained at an…
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June 12, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - June 12, 2001
AFX Asia - June 12, 2001
Aloysius Bhui, Jakarta – The revised budget currently being debated in parliament designed to contain the fiscal deficit to 3.8 per cent of GDP…
Straits Times - June 12, 2001
Jakarta – The 13 rivers in the Indonesian capital are turning into a major health hazard as factories and families dump untreated toxic waste into…
Associated Press - June 12, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid changed his economics team Tuesday in a bid to rebuild his support ahead of impeachment proceedings and to…
Koridor - June 12, 2001
Hundreds of protesters from the Student Action Front for Reform and Democracy (FAMRED), All-Indonesia Front (FIS), Peoples Action…
June 11, 2001
Straits Times - June 11, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – The economic crisis, as much as fashion, is responsible for the current fad among Indonesians for wearing body-hugging, belly…
Reuters - June 11, 2001
Jakarta – Around 2,500 workers rallied in front of Indonesia's presidential palace on Monday demanding the government drop plans for a 30.1…
Straits Times - June 11, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Originally imported from India in the 70s as a faster alternative to the motorised rickshaw, the bajaj –…
Reuters - June 11, 2001
G. K. Goh, Jakarta – Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has stepped up his defiance saying he will not resign and challenged the…
Laksamana Net - June 11, 2001
The decision by Indonesian police to detain local and foreign participants at a human rights and labor rights seminar on the outskirts of Jakarta…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 11, 2001
Craig Skehan, Malcolm Brown and Lindsay Murdoch – Australian diplomats warned protesters last night against inflammatory action as attempts…
Straits Times - June 11, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – In a bid to cut down pollution in one of the world's most polluted cities, the government is planning to phase out the…
June 10, 2001
Straits Times - June 10, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – For cabby Sutardjo, the petrol-price increase scheduled for this coming Friday could erode his daily take-home earnings of…
June 9, 2001
Reuters - June 9, 2001
Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – Indonesian police said on Saturday that more than 30 foreigners, including a four-year-old girl, detained at a human…
Straits Times - June 9, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's new Attorney-General pledged yesterday to restart corruption proceedings against former President Suharto, who…
South China Morning Post - June 9, 2001
Agence France Presse in Jakarta – Disgraced and ailing former dictator Suharto was moved to tears by an orphan when he marked his 80th birthday…
June 8, 2001
Straits Times - June 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's Parliament wants stiffer cuts in petrol subsidies and price hikes more drastic than the 30 per cent jump already slated by…
Straits Times - June 8, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Opposition politicians with no skeletons in their closets need not fear the new Attorney-General.
Endorsing his…
Associated Press - June 8, 2001
Chris Brummitt, Jakarta – With calls growing for her to lead the nation, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri lashed out at critics who say she…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 8, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – In a further sign of the animosity between Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri and President Abdurrahman Wahid, Ms…
Jakarta Post - June 8, 2001
Surabaya – An investigation team formed by the National Awakening Party (PKB) faction at the East Java provincial legislature claims to have found…
June 7, 2001
Reuters - June 7, 2001
Jakarta – Jakarta stocks edged higher on Thursday, but the market was under pressure from rumours, later denied, that politically isolated…
Far Eastern Economic Review - June 7, 2001
Sadanand Dhume and Dini Djalal, Jakarta – In most democracies, a president who has lost the confidence of parliament, the army and the business…
Straits Times - June 7, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The younger sister of Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri lashed out at Parliament yesterday, accusing it…
Jakarta Post - June 7, 2001
Jakarta – Legal activists made a fresh call on Wednesday for the abolishment of military courts and joint civilian-military tribunals which, they…
June 6, 2001
South China Morning Post - June 6, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – Corruption in Indonesia's law courts is so deeply ingrained that it might take more than two decades to purge them…
Green Left Weekly - June 6, 2001
Max Lane, Jakarta – On May 30, an alliance of members of parliament from Golkar (the party of former Indonesian dictator Suharto), the armed…
South China Morning Post - June 6, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – The word being debated among foreign journalists in Jakarta is "mutiny". The police chief sacked last week by President…
Agence France Presse - June 6, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Tensions around Indonesia's leadership crisis seeped into a centenary commemoration Wednesday of the country's founding ruler Sukarno…
Straits Times - June 6, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – He was autocratic, plunged Indonesia into a period of economic disaster and widespread poverty and flirted with…
Detik - June 6, 2001
Bagus Kurniawan/HD, Yogyakarta – On Wednesday, around 100 students calling themselves Anti New Order People Front (Frarob) from various…
June 5, 2001
Agence France Presse - June 5, 2001
Jakarta – The political party of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Tuesday accused the sacked national police chief and his allies of…
Agence France Presse - June 5, 2001
Jakarta – More than 8,000 Indonesian police and troops staged a show of unity and defiance near the presidential palace Tuesday, pledging…
Agence France Presse - June 5, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's charismatic founding president Sukarno is enjoying a surge in popularity 31 years after his death, as his country sinks…
Detik - June 5, 2001
Djoko Tjiptono/HD, Jakarta – Anti-Golkar Party demonstration keeps to move. This Tuesday, around 400 residents from Jakarta came to the Supreme…
June 4, 2001
South China Morning Post - June 4, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Observing the behaviour of President Abdurrahman Wahid, it is easy to paint a picture of a crazy, erratic, inconsistent…
Associated Press - June 4, 2001
Duri – It is a costly cat-and-mouse game played out daily by guards, the workers who install oil-exploration equipment and the thieves who…
June 2, 2001
Tempo - June 26-July 2, 2001
Wens Manggut and Andari Karina Anom – Where are all the laughter and hand clapping of yesteryear? They have all but disappeared from Golkar's…
South China Morning Post - June 2, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – When President Abdurrahman Wahid feels cornered, he will lash out and strike his opponents.
Despite his remarks…
Straits Times - June 2, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid had long distrusted three of the four Cabinet ministers he sacked yesterday, regarding them…
Straits Times - June 2, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid's latest move to avert dishonour yesterday included the appointment of Mr Baharudin Lopa – a…
Indonesian Observer - June 2, 2001
Jakarta – Students of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) were involved in clashes yesterday with Police and Military who were tasked to…
Jakarta Post - June 2, 2001
Bogor – Democratic People's Party (PRD) chairman Budiman Sudjatmiko alleged on Friday that the recent explosions at his parents' home in the…
Tempo - June 26-July 2, 2001
Karaniya Dharmasaputra, Adi Prasetya and Wens Manggut – Suddenly the move to force an early session of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) to…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 2, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia's political crisis was close to spinning out of control last night after an increasingly isolated President…
June 1, 2001
Jakarta Post - June 1, 2001
Surabaya – As many as 150 people were reported missing in the town of Pasuruan on Thursday as life gradually returned to normal following an…
Straits Times - June 1, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Without clear leadership at the top, Indonesia's bureaucracy could break down over the next two lame-duck months, analysts…
Straits Times - June 1, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – Do not say anything, just focus on the G-15 meeting and your new grandson – that is the advice key Cabinet ministers are…
Agence France Presse - June 1, 2001
Washington – The United States said it was watching events in Indonesia closely as it faces a test to its democracy, and called on the…
Associated Press - June 1, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Hongkong – Despite feeling uneasy over the recent political turmoil in Indonesia, the head of the International Monetary Fund…