Haidir Anwar Tanjung/FW & GB, Pekanbaru – Twenty villagers representing 439 families came to Riau Provincial Legislative Council to file a…
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March 12, 2001
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – With unrest, bomb attacks and separatist violence affecting various parts of the country in recent times, many people…
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 – Despite mounting political support for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) chairperson, Vice President Megawati…
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…
Jakarta – Women in this city are often harassed sexually when they take the extremely crowded public trains.
"Almost every day a man will…
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 – The House of Representatives Commission II for home and legal affairs selected 11 members on Friday for the new General Election…
Jakarta – All economic reform targets stated in the latest Letter of Intent (LoI), which has been agreed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF…
Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office will not stop the investigation into the riotous 1984 incident in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, regardless…
Jakarta – The United States has reiterated its continuing support for Indonesia to resolve its internal conflicts by peaceful and…
The country's long and brutal economic crisis is sending increasing numbers of people living in the capital insane, a local newspaper…
Jakarta – Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais said on Friday that should Vice President Megawati Soekarnoputri replace…
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
Complex and enduring rivalries over natural resources are the real cause of the horrific violence in Kalimantan, writes John Walker.
The…
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 – President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid arrived home after midnight on Thursday, an hour after some 4,000 youths from different camps…
Jakarta – Former minister of mines and energy Ida Bagus Sudjana revealed on Wednesday that ex-president Soeharto told him to "protect" a company…
Jakarta – The legal battle between the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) and the mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia opened on Wednesday…
Shefali Rekhi – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid might well hold on to power, despite the criticism against him in the wake of…
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
Jakarta – Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri should treat mounting support from Islamic political parties with suspicion as the parties might be…
Pip Hinman – The recent well-publicised report by Global Alliance for Workers and Communities on sexual harassment of women workers in Nike…
Purwokerto – Some 200 supporters of President Abdurrahman Wahid from Banyumas took to the streets here on Tuesday, burning the Golkar…
Max Lane – Despite the humiliating forced resignation of Indonesian President Suharto in May 1998, the political machine that he built during his…
Jakarta – The Indonesian distributor of Time magazine censored photos of headless corpses in Borneo in the weekly's latest Asian edition, fearing…
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
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
[This is an opinion piece from Tuesday's Asian Wall Street Journal. Mr. Carey is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford University, where he…
Djoko Tjiptono/Hendra & GB, Jakarta – Students grouped in the Golkar Disbursement Alliance (ABG) wanted to take over the Jakarta offices of…
Jakarta – Speaker of the House of Representatives Akbar Tandjung has joined calls for the involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in…
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Security forces were slow to react to the crisis in Central Kalimantan because ground commanders "misread" the intensity…
March 4, 2001
Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Surojo Bimantoro said on Saturday that police had arrested 158 people in connection with the killings of…
March 3, 2001
Jakarta – Leading Indonesian politicians met at a Jakarta mosque for what media reports said Saturday were talks on dumping President Ambdurrahman…
Jakarta – The closed-door meeting between some of the nations top politicians at Al-Azhar Mosque in South Jakarta yesterday was an attempt to use…
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Anger is growing over the continued absence of President Abdurrahman Wahid at a time of ethnic slaughter on the island…
Palangkaraya – "I felt so strong; so powerful." These are the words of a 21-year-old Dayak as he narrated his experience in chopping off the heads…
Bandung – Around 100 West Java politicians and public figures at a ceremony at the Panghegar Hotel here on Friday signed up to the…
March 2, 2001
Down to Earth and TAPOL express deep concern about the horrific violence and ethnic cleansing in Central Kalimantan
Violence has again…
Khairul Ikhwan D/HD & HY, Medan – Around 300 workers of PT Cipta Prima staged a demonstration at north Sumatra Provincial Legislative Council…
March 1, 2001
Jake Lloyd-Smith, Batam/Vaudine England, Jakarta – Shirley Lau says she fled her home in fear of her life, clutching just a handful of possessions…
Less than three years after the fall of Suharto amid calls for "reformasi", there are serious signs that the democratically-elected government of…
Rohit Jaggi and Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid's hold on power grew increasingly tenuous on Thursday after his…
An explosion of violence in Kalimantan in late February shook the entire province of Central Kalimantan. Thousands of Dayaks, armed with machetes…
February 28, 2001
Jonathan Head – The clashes in the Indonesian province of central Kalimantan are part of a pattern of violence between the indigenous inhabitants…
Agencies in Sampit, Palangkaraya and Jakarta – Security forces called in to quell ethnic violence on Borneo instead turned their guns on each…
Calvin Sims - Jakarta – The ethnic violence that erupted 10 days ago in the Indonesian section of Borneo, where hundreds of people have been…
Jakarta – Five major factions at the House of Representatives will recommend that faction members, who were on a special committee investigating…
February 27, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia is rushing hundreds of special force troops to its Borneo province in an attempt to end the slaughter of…
Jakarta – The Indonesian Footwear Association (Apresindo) was cautious on Monday in responding to reported labor abuses in Nike's Indonesian…




