Sangwon Suh and Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – After two weeks of tense standoff, it was over. Late on Sunday, February 13, Indonesian President…
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February 25, 2000
US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor - February 25, 2000
February 24, 2000
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2000
Jakarta – Thirteen people were injured when students and police clashed outside the Attorney General's Office in South Jakarta on Wednesday in the…
South China Morning Post - February 24, 2000
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Officials and residents of Jakarta on one of its more peaceful days were surprised yesterday to hear President…
February 23, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 23, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – They call them Black Operations – kidnapping, killing, torturing, raping, burning and looting designed to intimidate…
Time Magazine - February 23, 2000
General Wiranto has been a pivotal player in modern Indonesia. Appointed head of the armed forces by Suharto in 1998, he helped ease the dictator…
Time Magazine - February 23, 2000
Interview with Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesia's first civilian defense minister. Juwono Sudarsono, Indonesia's first civilian defense minister, is a…
Jakarta Post - February 23, 2000
Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) and the Information System and Legal Education Institute (Sisbikum) have urged workers to reject…
Green Left Weekly - February 23, 2000
Indonesian police are threatening to imprison or deport Australian trade unionist Roger Smith. Smith, who works in Indonesia for the…
February 22, 2000
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2000
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid said on Monday the government would push ahead with plans to increase electricity tariffs and fuel prices…
South China Morning Post - February 22, 2000
Agence France Presse, Canberra – United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Australian Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday that the…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2000
Jakarta – Official minimum wage levels throughout the country will increase between 15 percent and 55 percent from April 1, the Ministry of…
Kompas - February 22, 2000
Jakarta – In relation to the government's plans to cut fuel and electricity subsidies, on February 21, the People's Democratic Party (PRD), led by…
South China Morning Post - February 22, 2000
Dow Jones, Jakarta – As Asia's only member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Indonesia's coffers are filling with cash,…
February 21, 2000
Jakarta Post - February 21, 2000
Jakarta – Political activist Andi Arief has attracted public attention by announcing that he no longer believes 14 fellow activists who…
February 20, 2000
Jakarta Post - February 20, 2000
Tangerang – Traffic heading to and from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport here was blocked for at least three hours on Saturday afternoon…
February 19, 2000
Washington Post - February 19, 2000
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Jakarta – The Defense Department has quietly resumed training Indonesian military officers in the United States, restoring…
February 18, 2000
Asia Pulse - February 18, 2000
Jakarta – A total of 72 national banks suffered combined losses of Rp38.7 trillion (US$5.5 billion) last year, while 92 others managed to register…
Jakarta Post - February 18, 2000 (abridged)
Bandung – The newly created Office of the State Minister of Human Rights Affairs has received some 3,000 reports of missing persons, most of them…
February 17, 2000
Asia Pulse - February 17, 2000
Jakarta – It will much longer to reduce the Indonesian military's influence on the economy than on politics or government, an observer said.
…Jakarta Post - February 17, 2000
Jakarta – A team of seven prosecutors from the Attorney General's Office are investigating the alleged misuse of reforestation funds by five major…
Agence France Presse - February 17, 2000
Jakarta – Former Indonesian armed forces chief General Wiranto appeared on television here Wednesday to defend himself against allegations that he…
February 16, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 16, 2000
Jakarta – Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid decided to suspend General Wiranto over his involvement in human rights abuses in East Timor…
Associated Press - February 16, 2000
Jakarta – Indonesia's economy grew 0.2 percent last year following its collapse during the 1998 Asian financial meltdown, according to…
Green Left Weekly - February 16, 2000
February 11, 500 workers from clothing manufacturer PT Matahari Sentosa I in Bandung, West Java, staged a sit-in at the parliament building here.…
Agence France Presse - February 16, 2000
Jakarta – UN Secretary General Kofi Annan wound up a protest-peppered, two-day visit to Indonesia Wednesday urging the government not to use force…
Associated Press - February 16, 2000
Jakarta – A day after he was removed as senior government minister, Gen. Wiranto dropped into a popular Jakarta radio station and became their…
Jakarta Post - February 16, 2000
Jakarta – National Police chief Lt. Gen. Rusdihardjo vowed on Tuesday that the police would take up to three months, to complete an investigation…
February 15, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 15, 2000
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia's military yesterday pledged its loyalty to President Wahid after he suspended General Wiranto in an…
South China Morning Post - February 15, 2000
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday achieved exactly what he wanted – General Wiranto's absence from…
South China Morning Post - February 15, 2000
Vaudine England – Interpreting the statements and intent of President Abdurrahman Wahid is a full-time, fascinating, but often frustrating task…
February 14, 2000
Jakarta Post - February 14, 2000
Sri Wahyuni and Asip Agus Hasani, Yogyakarta – The expectations spoke for themselves when Amien Rais remained virtually unchallenged in his bid to…
February 13, 2000
Reuters - February 13, 2000
Kate Linebaugh – Indonesia's bank rescue agency (Ibra) inched nearer to recouping the cost of propping up the nation's lenders this week when it…
New York Times - February 13, 2000
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – In the nearly two years since Indonesia's strongman, Suharto, stepped down in May 1998, it is the press that has been the…
February 11, 2000
New York Times - February 11, 2000
Seth Mydans, Jakarta – Perhaps the most telling insult to Indonesia's armed forces, people here say, is that mothers no longer encourage their…
Asiaweek - February 11, 2000
In his test of wills with the Indonesian military, President Abdurrahman Wahid has received much foreign support, particularly from Washington. On…
Agence France Presse - February 11, 2000
Jakarta – Indonesian police have detained an Australian labor consultant for questioning over his alleged participation in street protests here,…
Jakarta Post - February 11, 2000
Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) unveiled on Thursday a plan to enhance its arsenal and manpower reserves in a bid to address the…
February 10, 2000
Far Eastern Economic Review - February 10, 2000
Dan Murphy, Jakarta – Car maker Astra International has long been among Indonesia's best-regarded companies, one that the son of its founder calls…
February 9, 2000
Straits Times - February 9, 2000
General Wiranto wanted to explain to the people of Singapore what the real situation was in Indonesia, he told The Straits Times' Indonesia…
Green Left Weekly - February 9, 2000
While world attention is focused on the crimes committed by Indonesia's military in East Timor last year, former Indonesian president Suharto is…
Green Left Weekly - February 9, 2000
May Sari, Jakarta – Thousands protested against the meeting of the Consultative Group on Indonesia (CGI) – which includes 30 donor countries and…
Australian Financial Review - February 9, 2000
Tim Dodd – The management of one of Indonesia's largest and most promising companies was ousted yesterday at an extraordinary general meeting of…
New York Times - February 9, 2000
Seth Mydans, Ambon – The most frightening sound is the wild banging of stones on metal light poles, a ringing crescendo of panic that begins…
February 8, 2000
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2000
Jakarta – The continuing conflict in Maluku falls into line with the Army's struggle to protect its political and economic interests following the…
Jakarta Post - February 8, 2000
Jakarta – Former Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. (ret.) Feisal Tanjung on Monday vehemently denied being part of an alleged plan to "…
Australian Associated Press - February 8, 2000
John Martinkus, Kupang – Exiled pro-Indonesian East Timorese militiamen are making ends meet by selling their military-supplied weapons to…
Reuters - February 8, 2000
Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – The Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) on Tuesday won its battle to oust the head of auto conglomerate…
Agence France Presse - February 8, 2000
Jakarta – The number of known hard drug addicts in Jakarta has soared by at least 400 percent in the past three years, and the real…
February 7, 2000
Sydney Morning Herald - February 7, 2000
Andrew McNaughtan – The truth is out – officially. A year ago, when the Indonesian military's covert campaign to hold East Timor through coercion…