Jakarta – The worker's union of one of the 11 Nike subcontractors in Indonesia on Friday denied the allegations aired by antiexploitation…
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September 9, 2000
Jakarta – Gold mining firm Newmont Minahasa Raya in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, resumed operations early on Friday after a blockade of the company's…
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Wednesday's killing of the three United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) workers in West Timor…
September 8, 2000
Jose Manuel Tesoro and Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri's sunny smiles at the August 26 induction of Indonesia's new…
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia yesterday signed its latest set of reform pledges with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to obtain US$400…
September 7, 2000
John McBeth, Jakarta – The day before Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid announced his new "All-the-President's-Men" cabinet, Golkar party…
Jakarta – State-owned PT Timah Tbk, the world's largest integrated tin maker, said protests at its main Bangka island plant had halted…
Budi Sugiharto/GB, Sampang – An angry mob has destroyed around 85% of the local legislature in Sampang on the island of Madura, East Java.…
Kuala Lumpur – A Malaysian businessman working in the North Sumatra capital of Medan has been kidnapped for ransom, reports said…
Marianne Kearney, Indonesia – In A bid to halt rampant illegal logging, Indonesia's Forestry Minister has announced a proposal to put a ban on all…
Jakarta – General Abdul Haris Nasution, an Indonesian independence hero who narrowly escaped assassination in 1965, died yesterday at…
September 6, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – The Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden has established links with Muslim radicals in Indonesia who are behind attacks on…
Simon Montlake, Jakarta – The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency plans to restructure 70% of its major debt cases by the end of this…
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Unions threatened nationwide protests yesterday after the Government vowed to press ahead with controversial fuel price…
September 5, 2000
Aulia Andri/Swastika & Ari P, Medan – The abduction of four activists from the Consortium for Agrarian Reform (KPA) while protesting outside…
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – As the Indonesian government considers extending a civil emergency for the strife-torn region of the Malukus, local…
Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – An Indonesian commission said there were signs that some listed firms, including noodle giant Indofood and some…
Jakarta – The joint team set up by the Attorney General's Office to investigate rights violations in East Timor has ignored the real offenders, a…
Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday appointed 16 judges to the Supreme Court in support of reform of the country's judicial…
September 4, 2000
Jakarta – Dozens of older men and women belonging to the Victims of New Order Human Rights Abuse Association (Pakorba HAM) met French human rights…
Jakarta – Seven people, including four women, were accosted when some 100 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) attacked cafes and bars in…
September 3, 2000
Susan Sim, Jakarta – If history is written by victors and it is left to fiction to lionise the defeated, then General Wiranto and his nemesis,…
Chaidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru – Protected forests at Bukit Suligi in Kampar regency, Riau province on Sumatra's west coast, are being plundered…
September 2, 2000
Jakarta – An international rights group on Saturday welcomed Indonesia's naming of 19 suspects in the violence that ravaged East Timor after its…
Jakarta – Dozens of students in Lampung province took to the streets yesterday to protest against a government plan to increase fuel…
Chris McCall and Staff Reporters – They were among the men to fear in Dili in the bloody weeks before and after last year's independence vote.…
Chris McCall, Jakarta – Jakarta yesterday finally named a string of top military and police officers among 19 suspects involved in last year's…
Jakarta – Three Indonesian student activists who picketted the national assembly last month, have related how they and a fellow protestor were…
September 1, 2000
Jakarta – With former president Soeharto's appearance as a defendant in his corruption trial in doubt, judicial experts disagreed on Thursday over…
Jakarta – Indonesia on Friday named three generals as suspects in its probe into the violence that followed last year's East Timor independence…
Jakarta – Indonesian investigators were condemned by rights activists Friday for omitting top Indonesian generals and notorious militia leaders…
Nenden NF/Hendra & LM, Yogyakarta – A 70% rise in economy class railway fares, implemented Friday, are likely to prove extremely burdensome…
Jakarta – The Cabinet's new economic team is not seeking major changes in the International Monetary Fund-sponsored economic reform program, Bank…
August 31, 2000
Maryadi/BI & AH Detik, Pontianak – A student protest at the Malaysian Consulate in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, today, Thursday 31 August 2000…
Jakarta – Student reformists who helped topple former Indonesian president Suharto two years ago reacted with anger and disgust Thursday at his…
Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Suharto's failure to attend the opening of his own trial Thursday had been widely expected but public…
Mark Landler, Jakarta – The corruption trial of Indonesia's fallen leader, Suharto, got under way here this morning in the converted auditorium of…
August 30, 2000
Budi Sugiarto/BI & LM, Bojonegoro – For the past nine days journalists from several media organisations in Bojonegoro, East Java, have…
Djoko Tjiptono/Swastika & LM, Jakarta – Around 200 victims of the 27 July incident gathered at Central Jakarta's famous HI Roundabout…
Jakarta – Indonesia will set up a new agency to oversee state companies in a bid to speed their privatization, chief economics…
Djoko Tjiptono/Swastika & LM, Jakarta – Around 40 representatives of the Indonesian Scavenger's Association (IPI) staged a noisy…
Jakarta – Indonesia's first democratically-elected government will put its reform image on the line Thursday by bringing former president Suharto…
August 29, 2000
Pip Hinman, Sydney – Romawaty Sinaga, the international officer of the militant Indonesian National Front for Workers Struggle (FNPBI), in…
Denpasar – One person was killed and six others injured yesterday when police opened fire to disperse protesters on the resort island of Bali.…
Jakarta – Indonesia's huge public debt is likely to derail its economic recovery, the IMF's Jakarta representative John Dodsworth said Tuesday,…
Jakarta – Following are summaries of a government report, obtained by Kyodo News, on the flow of funds at seven charity foundations created and…
Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) students marked the first day of going back to campus after a long holiday by boycotting…
August 28, 2000
Malangke – At least 1,400 residents from eight villages in West Malangke and Baebunta district in North Luwu regency left their homes on Sunday to…
Medan – Two bombs exploded separately in an area near Jl. Bahagia in Medan Tenggara district in the early hours of Sunday morning. There were no…
Susan Sim, Jakarta – As pep talks go, it was not particularly stirring, but symbolic nonetheless. Work as a solid and compact team; do not be like…