Jakarta – Lawyers for the Indonesian timber tycoon Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, a close associate of former president Soeharto, say they will…
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March 16, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - March 16, 2001
Straits Times - March 16, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Madura – There seems to be no safe haven for the thousands of Madurese refugees who are fleeing the brutal ethnic violence in…
March 15, 2001
Straits Times - March 15, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The presidential office yesterday denied that the US$300,000 sent to President Abdurrahman Wahid while he was on an…
Agence France Presse - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian vice president Megawati Sukarnoputri no longer supported President Abdurrahman Wahid and was ready to replace him, despite…
Agence France Presse - March 15, 2001
Jakarta – Police stormed a top-security prison here early yesterday, killing one inmate and injuring three others as they quelled a riot over…
March 14, 2001
South China Morning Post - March 14, 2001
Chris McCall and agencies in Jakarta – Indonesians are bracing for more economic misery as their currency crumbles, sparking fears of a repeat of…
Agence France Presse - March 14, 2001
Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian students Wednesday abandoned a sit-in at parliament demanding the resignation of President Abdurrahman Wahid,…
March 13, 2001
South China Morning Post - March 13, 2001
Chris McCall, Ambon – They are the shock troops of a crusade to defend the Christian faith and they are mostly still at school.
They call…
Indonesian Observer - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – A large number of President Abdurrahman Wahids loyalists left East Java for Jakarta yesterday as their rivals mounted protests to demand…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – The Jakarta Student Executive Boards' (BEMs) call for a national strike received a mixed response from both the people and university…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – No bullets or tear gas were fired when more than 10,000 protesters, mostly students, besieged Merdeka Palace on Monday, intensifying the…
Sydney Morning Herald - March 13, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Investors took fright yesterday as thousands of protesters blockaded the tightly guarded palace of President…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – Monday's mass student rally was marked by the hijacking of several buses with their drivers being forced to transport protesters to the…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Karawang, West Java – Army chief of staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto warned on Monday that the Indonesian Military (TNI) would take control of…
Reuters - March 13, 2001
Carol Giacomo, Washington – The United States has assured Indonesia that it would not back a military coup against Jakarta's politically embattled…
Jakarta Post - March 13, 2001
Jakarta – The government decided on Monday to raise fuel prices for industries by 50 percent up to 100 percent on April 1 but keep kerosene and…
March 12, 2001
Straits Times - March 12, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Madura – After escaping rampaging Dayak mobs, hiding in the forest for days with her 15-month-old daughter, Ms Biah thought she…
Newsweek - March 12, 2001
Melinda Liu – Terrified, the victims hid in the jungle. At long last the police came, announcing over loudspeakers that it was safe to come out.…
Newsweek - March 12, 2001
Joe Cochrane – The scenes from Borneo last week were both horrific and horrifyingly familiar. Gangs of local Dayaks in the Indonesian province of…
Detik - March 12, 2001
Haidir Anwar Tanjung/FW & GB, Pekanbaru – Twenty villagers representing 439 families came to Riau Provincial Legislative Council to file a…
Jakarta Post - March 12, 2001
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – With unrest, bomb attacks and separatist violence affecting various parts of the country in recent times, many people…
Time Magazine - March 12, 2001
Blood. countless gallons of blood soaked deep into the clay of a soccer field. There have been two heavy thunderstorms in the four days since 118…
Jakarta Post - March 12, 2001
Jakarta – Despite mounting political support for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) chairperson, Vice President Megawati…
March 11, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 11, 2001
Jakarta – Student groups traded accusations on Saturday of being used by the political elite ahead of the massive antigovernment rally planned on…
Straits Times - March 11, 2001
Jakarta – Women in this city are often harassed sexually when they take the extremely crowded public trains.
"Almost every day a man will…
Straits Times - March 11, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – They wanted perfect noses, fuller lips and voluptuous breasts. What they ended up with instead were grotesque snouts,…
March 10, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2001
Jakarta – The House of Representatives Commission II for home and legal affairs selected 11 members on Friday for the new General Election…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2001
Jakarta – All economic reform targets stated in the latest Letter of Intent (LoI), which has been agreed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2001
Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office will not stop the investigation into the riotous 1984 incident in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, regardless…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2001
Jakarta – The United States has reiterated its continuing support for Indonesia to resolve its internal conflicts by peaceful and…
Reuters - March 10, 2001
The country's long and brutal economic crisis is sending increasing numbers of people living in the capital insane, a local newspaper…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2001
Jakarta – Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais said on Friday that should Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri replace…
Jakarta Post - March 10, 2001
Jakarta – Some 1,000 activists grouped in the University of Indonesia Student Executive Body (BEM-UI) began a campaign on Friday for a general…
March 9, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - March 9, 2001
Complex and enduring rivalries over natural resources are the real cause of the horrific violence in Kalimantan, writes John Walker.
The…
Agence France Presse - March 9, 2001
Jakarta – Police fired warning shots on Friday to disperse hundreds of Dayaks who burned at least seven police traffic posts in the Borneo city of…
March 8, 2001
Jakarta Post - March 8, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid arrived home after midnight on Thursday, an hour after some 4,000 youths from different camps…
Jakarta Post - March 8, 2001
Jakarta – Former minister of mines and energy Ida Bagus Sudjana revealed on Wednesday that ex-president Soeharto told him to "protect" a company…
Jakarta Post - March 8, 2001
Jakarta – The legal battle between the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) and the mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia opened on Wednesday…
Straits Times - March 8, 2001
Shefali Rekhi – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid might well hold on to power, despite the criticism against him in the wake of…
Far Eastern Economic Review - March 8, 2001
John McBeth – In jumper, skirt and sandals, Dita Sari looks more like a rural schoolteacher than a trade unionist. But working out of a converted…
March 7, 2001
Straits Times - March 7, 2001
Jakarta – Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri should treat mounting support from Islamic political parties with suspicion as the parties might be…
Green Left Weekly - March 7, 2001
Pip Hinman – The recent well-publicised report by Global Alliance for Workers and Communities on sexual harassment of women workers in Nike…
Jakarta Post - March 7, 2001
Purwokerto – Some 200 supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid from Banyumas took to the streets here on Tuesday, burning the Golkar…
Green Left Weekly - March 7, 2001
Max Lane – Despite the humiliating forced resignation of Indonesian President Suharto in May 1998, the political machine that he built during his…
Associated Press - March 7, 2001
Jakarta – The Indonesian distributor of Time magazine censored photos of headless corpses in Borneo in the weekly's latest Asian edition, fearing…
Jakarta Post - March 7, 2001
Cipatat, Bandung – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Endriartono Sutarto warned on Tuesday that no active Army officers are allowed to attend meetings…
March 6, 2001
Associated Press - March 6, 2001
Daniel Cooney, Kualakuayan – Deep in the heartland of Borneo Island, a civil servant named Manarung explains why his tribe is perfectly justified…
March 5, 2001
Asian Wall Street Journal - March 5, 2001
[This is an opinion piece from Tuesday's Asian Wall Street Journal. Mr. Carey is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford University, where he…
Detik - March 5, 2001
Djoko Tjiptono/Hendra & GB, Jakarta – Students grouped in the Golkar Disbursement Alliance (ABG) wanted to take over the Jakarta offices of…
Jakarta Post - March 5, 2001
Jakarta – Speaker of the House of Representatives Akbar Tandjung has joined calls for the involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in…