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August 15, 2001
Green Left Weekly - August 15, 2001
Pip Hinman – It doesn't come as much surprise that PM John Howard has been so quick to visit Jakarta. Barely a day after the new Indonesian…
Wall Street Journal - August 15, 2001
Michael Schuman – A deteriorating Indonesian economy could constrain new President Megawati Sukarnoputri's efforts to pursue much-needed reforms…
Straits Times - August 15, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia will sell assets cheaply, if necessary, to meet state-budget targets and to conform to the prescriptions of the…
August 14, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 14, 2001
Jakarta – Some 74 becak (pedicab) drivers, formed a union here on Monday to fight for the right to peddle the streets of Jakarta. The decision was…
Agence France Presse - August 14, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of angry pedicab drivers set fire Tuesday to two Jakarta city council vehicles during an attempt to get them off…
Associated Press - August 14, 2001
Jakarta – Human rights groups accused the the Indonesian army of hampering the hunt for the fugitive son of former dictator Suharto, as police…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 14, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Australia has buried the hatchet with Indonesia's new government over East Timor, opening the way for renewed contact…
August 13, 2001
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's efforts to re-establish stability in the regions will involve a temporary pulling back of…
BBC Worldwide Monitoring - August 13, 2001
[Source: Media Indonesia, Jakarta, August 13]
Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) will become an umbrella…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian police have come under fire for their half-hearted attempts at arresting the fugitive son of former…
Jakarta Post - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Former president Abdurrahman Wahid, familiarly known as Gus Dur, warned the new government against the arbitrary arrest of prodemocracy…
Reuters - August 13, 2001
Jakarta – Australia's prime minister on Sunday became the first foreign leader to visit new Indonesian President Megawati, vowing to be a good…
Straits Times - August 13, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's big-bang decentralisation programme took effect eight months ago and gave wide-ranging powers over…
August 12, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 12, 2001
Jakarta – An investigation into the July 26, 2001 murder of Justice Syafiuddin Kartasasmita has revealed that fugitive Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala…
San Francisco Chronicle - August 12, 2001
Lynn Fredriksson – Recent reporting in Indonesia has predictably focused on expectations about newly appointed President Megawati Sukarnoputri.…
August 11, 2001
Straits Times - August 11, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – While Indonesia's new Cabinet has won praise for its high percentage of seasoned professionals, it will have to move…
Jakarta Post - August 11, 2001
Jakarta – Newly appointed Minister of Forestry M. Prakosa is facing calls to impose a log export moratorium to help save the country's forest…
South China Morning Post - August 11, 2001
Associated Press in Jakarta – An angry mob beat and burnt a man to death after he allegedly tried to steal a chicken from a coop…
Straits Times - August 11, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – Market players do not expect miracles, but they see the quick signing of Jakarta's next agreement with the International…
August 10, 2001
Agence France Presse - August 10, 2001
Jakarta – Tommy Suharto, the fugitive son of Indonesia's former dictator, has offered to surrender to face questioning over the murder of a senior…
Straits Times - August 10, 2001
Susan Sim, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri's failure yesterday to name a new attorney-general might be indicative of the difficulties…
Straits Times - August 10, 2001
Robert Go, Jakarta – By drafting respected technocrats and businessmen into her economic dream team, President Megawati Sukarnoputri made clear…
South China Morning Post - August 10, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri finally announced her cabinet yesterday and immediately won praise for achieving a…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 10, 2001
Comment by Hamish McDonald – The new Megawati Cabinet will reassure foreign lenders and investors that the Government will continue with the…
Asiaweek - August 10, 2001
Warren Caragata, Jakarta – On a day when most business executives in Jakarta were chasing rumors about the possible shape of President Megawati…
August 9, 2001
Reuters - August 9, 2001
Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – Indonesia's new president announced her long-awaited cabinet on Thursday, winning immediate praise for her choice of a…
Sydney Morning Herald - August 9, 2001
Almost three weeks after taking office, President Megawati Sukarnoputri announced her new cabinet today.
She said the 31-member body will…
Agence France Presse - August 9, 2001
Jakarta – Hundreds of residents of Kendari, the provincial capital of Indonesia's Sulawesi province, smashed windows of Chinese-owned shops in…
Jakarta Post - August 9, 2001
Jakarta – The chief of the justices team preparing the establishment of an ad hoc human rights tribunal, Benjamin Mangkoedilaga, expects that they…
Straits Times - August 9, 2001
Yeoh En-lai – Indonesia's military will continue to play a strong role as the present crop of politicians is far from securing the future of the…
Jakarta Post - August 9, 2001
Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri has ordered the police to immediately arrest the fugitive son of former president Soeharto, Hutomo "…
South China Morning Post - April 9, 2001
Reuters in Jakarta – Indonesia's Megawati Sukarnoputri has set three conditions for running to replace embattled President Abdurrahman Wahid,…
August 8, 2001
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
The ouster of President Abdurrahman Wahid and his replacement by Megawati Sukarnoputri has opened up a new, and likely volatile, era in Indonesia…
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Surabaya – Tens of thousands of people lined the streets of East Java's Tapal Kuda area on Tuesday to welcome home former president and…
South China Morning Post - August 8, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Police turned up the heat in their search for former dictator Suharto's youngest son yesterday by announcing they had…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Pip Hinman – With Megawati Sukarnoputri freshly installed as president, and the country's armed forces, the TNI, in the ascendancy, the US…
Jakarta Post - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) and the Indonesian Accountants' Foundation (YAI) urged the government on Tuesday to revise political…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Urgent solidarity action is needed from supporters of democracy worldwide to secure the release of activists held by police for organising against…
Reuters - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – The World Bank's private sector arm said on Wednesday it had temporarily frozen all funding to Indonesia mainly because of a…
Reuters - August 8, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia said on Wednesday tax collection in the first seven months of 2001 was above target, raising hopes the government…
Green Left Weekly - August 8, 2001
Max Lane – An intense struggle is underway within the Indonesian elite over how to divide up the spoils after the ousting of President Abdurrahman…
August 7, 2001
Jakarta Post - August 7, 2001
[A number of problems feature in the controversy surrounding the resumption of US-Indonesian military ties, writes Dr. Kusnanto Anggoro, senior…
Chronicle Foreign Service - August 7, 2001
Ian Timberlake, Jakarta – Petrus Hariyanto sees the fate of his tiny political party as a symbol of what's to come under Indonesia's new president…
August 6, 2001
Time Magazine - August 6, 2001
Tim McGirk, Jakarta – When the scorpion tanks clattered to a halt outside the Istana Merdeka palace in Jakarta, Indonesian President Abdurrahman…
Time Asia - August 6, 2001
Pramoedya Ananta Toer – I don't blame President Sukarno for my arrest in the early 1960s. I blame the army. But being a political prisoner in the…
South China Morning Post - August 6, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – In a quirk of history, two very different Indonesian women won honours recently.
Megawati Sukarnoputri became…
Jakarta Post - August 6, 2001
Jakarta – Human rights activists applauded on Sunday the renewed presidential decree on the establishment of an ad hoc tribunal to try suspects of…
August 4, 2001
Associated Press - August 4, 2001 (abridged)
Jakarta – Ousted president Abdurrahman Wahid returned to Indonesia yesterday after medical tests in the United States, insisting those…