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July 9, 2003
Reuters - July 9, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2003
Jakarta – An angry mob set fire to a police station in South Sumatra province in protest against the police's failure to curb a series of crimes,…
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2003
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Villagers from Selapanjang in Tangerang have threatened to stage a protest at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.…
Jakarta Post - July 9, 2003
Surabaya – Around 5,000 workers of shoe company PT Fortune Mate Indonesia (FMI) staged a demonstration here on Tuesday to demand…
July 8, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 8, 2003
Children as young as 13 are engaged in the drugs trade in the Indonesian capital and about four percent of all users are aged under 17, the…
Detik.com - July 8, 2003
Jakarta – Minister of Defence Matori Abdul Djalil has criticised a number of NGOs which only talk about human rights when considering…
July 7, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 7, 2003
Jakarta – An estimated two million Indonesians have abortions each year, mainly through unsafe procedures, a researcher told an abortion seminar…
Straits Times - July 7, 2003
Ambon – Even as the military campaign to quell the separatist movement in Aceh shows no sign of coming to a speedy end, fresh trouble is brewing…
Jakarta Post - July 7, 2003
Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – News of the affirmation by Nurcholish Madjid, better known as Cak Nur, that he would enter the Golkar Party…
Antara - July 7, 2003
Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR), in its plenary meeting presided over by Deputy House Speaker Soetardjo Soerjogoeritno here on Monday…
July 5, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The management of 68H radio news lodged a strong protest on Friday with the martial law administration in…
Straits Times - July 5, 2003
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has declared it will proceed with buying Russian fighter jets despite controversy raging in…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – High school graduates, suspects, or convicted persons can be nominated as presidential candidates in 2004 when the…
Jakarta Post - July 5, 2003
Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The presidential race kicked off within the country's second biggest party, Golkar, on Friday, with five would-be…
Sydney Morning Herald - July 5, 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – After 13 years studying it, and eight years living in it, Thomas Walton feels confident to nominate his No. 1 issue: "…
Melbourne Age - July 5 , 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – In Indonesia's better hotels you will sometimes see signs that read: "No Durians Past This Point." Because the prickly…
Kompas - July 5, 2003
Jakarta – It is not enough to hold a judicial review of the anti-terrorist laws numbers 15/2003 and 16/2003 which were promulgated three months…
July 4, 2003
Asia Pulse - July 4, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's Director General of Foreign Trade Sudar yesterday said the purchase of Russian-made jet fighters and helicopters was free…
July 3, 2003
Agence France Presse - July 3, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesian police yesterday warned of fresh terrorist attacks in the country after disclosing that key suspects are still in the country…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
Moch. N Kurniawan, Jakarta – Public outrage is increasing over the government's move to allow mining in conservation forests in Sulawesi and…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Experts criticized President Soekarnoputri on Wednesday for supporting the establishment of citizens' defense groups,…
Reuters - July 3, 2003
Jakarta – A five-year jail term given to a prominent activist in Indonesia's rebellious Aceh was harsh and heightens the "apparent intimidation"…
Radio Australia - July 3, 2003
Indonesian's top security minister, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is reportedly preferred over incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri as the…
Jakarta Post - July 3, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Nothing was as usual on Wednesday at the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta), located at Jl. Mendut No. 1…
The Economist - July 3, 2003
Jakarta – The most senior Indonesian military officer indicted by Jakarta's special tribunal for the violence in East Timor in 1999, Major-General…
The Guardian - July 3 , 2003
Richard Norton-Taylor, London – The value of British arms cleared for export to Indonesia rose from 2 million Pounds in 2000 ($A4.9 million) to…
Laksamana.Net - July 3, 2003
Ethnic violence has broken out again in West Kalimantan province, while hundreds of people in South Sulawesi province have run amok during a…
July 2, 2003
Green Left Weekly - July 2, 2003
In Jakarta, around 1000 people, the majority women from the Women's Claim Alliance (APM), commemorated March 8, International Women's Day (IWD),…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government-initiated re-registration of civil servants failed to gain momentum on its initial day on Tuesday with…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Jakarta – The number of students taking the 2003 state university admission exam (SPMB) declined by 12.11 percent to 350,306 students from 398,589…
Australian Financial Review - July 2, 2003
Andrew Burrell – They may not like being lumped together, but Indonesia's radical Islamic terrorists and the nation's military commanders have…
Jakarta Post - July 2, 2003
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh District Court handed an unwanted birthday present to Muhammad Nazar, the chairman of the Aceh Referendum…
Straits Times - July 2, 2003
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri yesterday called for civilian militias to be set up in Indonesia as the military and…
July 1, 2003
Jakarta Post - July 1, 2003
Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Provincial Legislative Council decided on Friday that it would refuse to implement the newly endorsed…
June 30, 2003
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Jakarta – About 500 people from eight villages in three subdistricts, including Jonggol, Bogor, staged a rally over the weekend to oppose the…
Media Indonesia - June 30, 2003
Lhok Sukon, Banda Aceh – The management of PT ExxonMobil Indonesia began dismissing around 1000 workers on Monday, this is the third time the…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Bogor – Protected forests in Bogor, such as those on the slopes of Mt. Salak, Mt. Pangrango and Mt. Pongkor, are being destroyed by…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Human rights activists denounced the excavation of mass graves in Aceh by the Indonesian Military (TNI), saying…
Jakarta Post - June 30, 2003
Jakarta – Alleged irregularities in the purchase of Russian-made Sukhoi jet fighters are expected to come into the open slowly as lawmakers begin…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 30, 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The newspaper editor Supratman is standing by his punchy page one headlines, even though they could send him to jail for…
June 29, 2003
Antara - June 29, 2003
Lumajang – Some 15 activists of the Moslem University Students Action Group (KAMMI) from some districts in East Java were released on…
June 28, 2003
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2003
[The Politics of Power Freeport in Soeharto's Indonesia By Denise Leith University of Hawaii Press, 372 pp, $55.]
John Martinkus –…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003
Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Politicians have blocked public demands for transparency in the campaign funds channeled to and spent by presidential…
Straits Times - June 28, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A group of senior Indonesian MPs is in the spotlight after media reports here said that they and their families had lived…
Jakarta Post - June 28, 2003
Jakarta – The media criticized on Friday new guidelines for media coverage in Aceh, saying that rules were effectively hampering the press from…
Sydney Morning Herald - June 28, 2003
Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Just five weeks into its renewed war against separatist rebels in Aceh, Indonesia has been accused of, in effect, banning…
Jakarta Post Editorial - June 28, 2003
The party is over but at least we have been left with some great lessons. The recent celebration of Jakarta's 476th anniversary at the National…
June 27, 2003
Agence France Presse - June 27, 2003
Jakarta – A Japanese photojournalist has been arrested in the war-torn Aceh , apparently for working without a permit, police and the…
Straits Times - June 27, 2003
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Sobbing witnesses, lawyers walking out in protest against the judges' decision, and a defendant who never looked up from…
Jakarta Post - June 27, 2003
Jakarta/Medan – Indonesia marked International Anti-drug Day 2003 on Thursday with grave concerns about the rapid growth in the drug trade.
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