Jakarta – The State Official Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) functionaries and members were sworn in by President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid at…
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January 12, 2001
Yogyakarta – Activists from various groups representing laborers, peasants, fishermen and youths have launched a new organization called the All-…
January 11, 2001
Jakarta – An Australian-based laboratory has jump-started the 1993 rape-murder case of female labor activist Marsinah as it had found out that the…
Wamena – The wreckage of the ill-fated Navy Cassa plane was located in a remote mountainous area of Jayawijaya regency on Wednesday with all…
Jakarta – At least three people were killed in religious clashes on Thursday in Indonesia's Maluku province, as police arrested the…
Vaudine England, Jakarta – A busload of militant Muslims walked into the offices of the English-language Jakarta Post to "deliver a strong protest…
January 10, 2001
Kalasan, Sleman – A group of people ransacked a Biblical Church in Taman Martani village, Kalasan, on Tuesday some 14 kilometers east of…
Jakarta – Security authorities called on the country's political elite on Tuesday not to mobilize the masses to the streets, but to sit at the…
January 9, 2001
Bandung – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto asserted here on Monday that the Army is committed to solving security matters but asked…
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – In what could become another political hot potato for President Abdurrahman Wahid's beleaguered government, the country'…
John Aglionby, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has devolved a number of government powers from Jakarta to the provinces and districts. The aim…
Jakarta – The Coordinating Minister for the Economy Rizal Ramli said on Monday that the government would continue to discuss with the…
Jakarta – The Finance Ministry said on Monday that it had issued 41 new decrees, including 38 new tax and excise decrees, in a bid to meet the…
Jakarta – Police said Tuesday they were investigating records kept in a Jakarta mosque on Indonesian Muslims who have fought in Afghanistan, as…
January 8, 2001
Jakarta – Chairman of the Indonesian Prosperous Labor Union (SBSI) Muchtar Pakpahan said on Saturday that Indonesian laborers are still unable to…
January 7, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid on Sunday said that despite mounting criticism of his rule, he and his government faced no…
Jakarta – Question: What is the going rate for elected local office in most of Indonesia today? Answer: At least 1 billion rupiah (S$180,000).…
Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB) says it can't ban thousands of East Java Muslims from coming to Jakarta to stage rallies in support…
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid revealed on Saturday that there were four major groups trying to unseat him from his…
Shefali Rekhi – Indonesia is lurching towards another crisis given the vulnerability of the economy and differences among the political elite, the…
Jakarta – Mining and Mineral Resources Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said yesterday that a presidential decree will soon be issued to delay…
January 6, 2001
Jakarta – A senior police detective revealed on Friday that one of four suspects in the Christmas Eve bombing case has confessed to having…
Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank has refused an order to freeze the bank accounts of a fugitive son of former president Suharto, saying it has…
Tim Dodd – Which Asian political leader is blind, overweight and in delicate health, but likens himself to the celebrated Italian football star,…
January 5, 2001
Jakarta – Millions of Indonesian civil servants are pressing for new regional autonomy laws to be changed, fearing they will lose their salary…
Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian capital have warned the public against a burgeoning blackmail racket in Jakarta run by groups posing as…
Jakarta – Rival villagers fought with guns and machetes in clashes that killed nine people on a resort island packed with tourists, police said…
January 4, 2001
Jakarta – Per-capita income in Indonesia in the year 2000 stood at between 600 and 700 dollars, almost no improvement over 1999, according to a…
January 3, 2001
Peter Symonds – A series of bomb blasts at churches in Jakarta and other cities across Indonesia on Christmas Eve underscores the country's…
January 2, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – When district administrators in the Indonesian province of Kalimantan, on Borneo, were asked to launch pilot projects…
Uli Schmetzer, Jakarta – Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra loved fast cars and fast women, and at the peak of his playboy days he bought his own…
Jakarta – The National Police will remain a nationwide institution despite the implementation of regional autonomy, which started on Monday.
…Calvin Sims – Cianjur – In this verdant farm belt of West Java, where sorcery and superstition have deep roots, few were surprised last September…
Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan – Brandishing sharp weapons, dozens of native Dayak tribesmen in the Tangkiling subdistrict here took…
Jakarta – Two months after former President Suharto's youngest son was ordered arrested, the ease with which he has evaded capture is causing…
Jakarta – Jakarta Police admit that the simple methods used by the Christmas eve bombers have baffled investigators in their quest to uncover more…
January 1, 2001
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Church investigators have detailed a catalogue of horrors perpetrated on Christians by Islamic militias in the Maluku…
Vaudine England – Near Jember, deep in East Java, is the Meru Betiri National Park, home to near-extinct panthers and one of the last great…
Susan Sim, Jakarta – A son-in-law of former President Suharto, retired Lt-General Prabowo Subianto, has made legal history in the United States as…
Mary S. Zurbuchen – Even seasoned observers had trouble predicting how difficult the 'post-Suharto era' would be. Yet, despite economic woes,…
Jack Rieley – Southeast Asia contains seventy percent of the world's total tropical peatland, mostly in Indonesia and Malaysia. But these vast…
Jakarta – Indonesia on Monday began an unprecedented devolution of power to its regions in a momentous move aimed at keeping the vast archipelago…
George J. Aditjondro – Widespread forest fires, covering significant proportions of Sumatra and Kalimantan, with its smoke and haze drifting to…
Susan Sim, Jakarta – As the architect of the regional autonomy laws that take effect throughout Indonesia today, Professor Ryaas Rasyid used to…
Vaudine England – The Government will keep control of foreign, defence, monetary, judicial and religious policy but devolve many other powers to…
December 31, 2000
Jakarta – Defense Minister Mahfud MD yesterday brushed off suggestions he would step down, which came from local legislator and ex Finance…
December 30, 2000
Jake Lloyd-Smith – The Defence Minister has accused supporters of former president Suharto over the wave of church bombings that hit…
Bandung – Wawan Wahidin bin Engkos, whom police have described as a key witness in the wave of Christmas eve bombings, died here on Friday morning…
Chris McCall, Jakarta – A new separatist front in Indonesia's troubled Spice Islands is demanding that Jakarta "restore" the sovereignty of the…
Jakarta – The government plans to restructure the national intelligence system, the Jakarta Post reported, quoting defence Minister…