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February 27, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 26/27, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – The rupiah dropped on Monday by 2 percent to its lowest level since October 1998 amid worsening ethnic violence in Central Kalimantan…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – Head of the Food and Drug Control Agency Sampurno revealed on Monday that the government would increase the prices of generic drugs by…
Jakarta Post - February 27, 2001
Jakarta – A regulation has been issued specifically aimed at preventing forest fires by holding more parties, including forest concession holders…
February 26, 2001
Sydney Morning Herald - February 26, 2001
Louise Williams – At the turn of the century a convention of tribal head hunters gathered beneath the towering canopy of the rainforests of Borneo…
Newsweek - February 26, 2001 (slightly abridged)
As always, Singapore's senior minister Lee Kuan Yew is keeping a wary eye on the big powers in his region-especially Indonesia and China. In Davos…
Jakarta Post - February 26, 2001
Makassar – A skirmish erupted between student demonstrators and members of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Banser civilian guards at the Makassar Islamic…
Reuters - February 26, 2001
Sonya Hepinstallm, Washington – The human rights picture in Indonesia has steadily deteriorated as Jakarta loses control over ethnic, social and…
Agence France Presse - February 26, 2001 (slightly abridged)
Surabaya – Masudi Muali said he ran as fast as he could after seeing many of his friends beheaded by indigeneous Dayak tribesmen outside his…
South China Morning Post - February 26, 2001
Vaudine England – Megawati Sukarnoputri's father founded independent Indonesia and was its first president until deposed in 1966. Her constituency…
February 25, 2001
Reuters - February 25, 2001 (abridged)
Madiun – Some 4,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid hit the streets in East Java on Sunday, resuming protests…
South China Morning Post - February 25, 2001
Reuters in Sampit – Terrified refugees crammed onto an Indonesian navy ship on Saturday to escape marauding mobs in Borneo as officials said the…
Jakarta Post - February 25, 2001
Jakarta – A man was killed and another was injured Friday night in a communal clash that broke out in Woja district, Dompu regency,…
February 24, 2001
International Herald Tribune - February 24, 2001
Philip Bowring, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia faces many crises, several of his own creation. But it would be wrong to assume…
Jakarta Post - February 24, 2001
Jakarta – Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) chief Lt. Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu confirmed on Friday he had assured Abdurrahman Wahid of his…
South China Morning Post - February 24, 2001
Agencies in Sampit and Palangkaraya – The death toll from six days of brutal ethnic clashes on Borneo island rose to at least 143 yesterday as the…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 24, 2001
Hamish McDonald – The World Bank warned yesterday that if a political or economic crisis broke out in Indonesia it would cease all new lending…
Straits Times - February 24, 2001
Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Most Indonesians will not be able to watch the coverage of inter-ethnic clashes like those in Central Kalimantan on their…
February 23, 2001
Agence France Presse - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – The official death toll from six days of brutal ethnic slayings on Borneo island rose to more than 200 Friday, a medical worker said.…
South China Morning Post - February 23, 2001
Associated Press in Portland – Workers at nine of Nike's contract factories in Indonesia have witnessed verbal and physical abuse by supervisors…
Australian Financial Review - February 23, 2001
Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid left Jakarta yesterday on an overseas trip which takes him out of the country for two…
Straits Times - February 23, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The recent ethnic bloody violence in central Kalimantan was orchestrated by two civil servants who were furious at…
Jakarta Post - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – The government will proceed with its plan to raise fuel prices in April despite concerns that it could trigger a new wave of social…
Reuters - February 23, 2001
Indonesia's stock market watchdog has issued a ruling allowing mainly listed firms to make substantial transactions without shareholder approval…
Jakarta Post - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency disclosed on Thursday that it found 1,760 instances of financial irregularities involving a total sum of more…
Straits Times - February 23, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Audit Board said yesterday that government departments, including the presidential office, had misused 8…
Dow Jones Newswires - February 23, 2001
Washington – The International Monetary Fund sought Friday to reassure financial markets that it wasn't turning away from engagement with…
February 22, 2001
Inter Press Service - February 22, 2001
Danielle Knight, Washington DC – Indonesian pulp and paper facilities, supported in the 1990s by financial institutions in Europe, Japan and North…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 22, 2001
Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Jakarta plans a crackdown on separatist movements in Aceh and Irian Jaya that observers say will almost certainly end…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – The police have found indications of the commission of a crime in an alleged land scam linked to House of Representatives Speaker and…
Straits Times - February 22, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of students who have been protesting across Indonesia in the past few weeks might argue that replacing…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has found irregularities involving over Rp 260 billion (about US$27.36 million) in insurance firm PT Tugu…
Agence France Presse - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesian military observers have warned the country's newly-empowered MPs pose a serious threat to the armed forces' attempts to…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Makassar – Makassar District Court commenced on Wednesday the trial of deputy South Sulawesi governor Masnawi on corruption charges.…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid fired another shot in the battle against corruption on Wednesday, approving the establishment of a special…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
No sooner after President Abdurrahman Wahid had pledged "zero tolerance" for past corruptors this month, the Attorney General's Office went into…
Asiaweek - February 22, 2001
Warren Caragata – Wimar Witoelar, the spokesman for Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, has said that decision-making within the Indonesian…
Straits Times - February 22, 2001
Three days after mobs torched some 100 houses in the town of Selat Panjang in Riau, the village is now a ghost town as most of the 6,000-odd…
Jakarta Post - February 22, 2001
Surabaya – The situation in Sampang regency, Madura Island, has become increasingly tense as opposing forces of elected regent Fadhilah Budiono on…
February 21, 2001
South China Morning Post - February 21, 2001
Vaudine England, Jakarta – Prosecutors yesterday began questioning the eldest daughter of former dictator Suharto over corruption allegations…
Green Left Weekly - February 21, 2001
Max Lane – The Indonesian political elite is becoming increasingly fearful of a radicalisation of the country's masses, which is being provoked by…
Straits Times - February 21, 2001
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Dozens of Indonesian maids working in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have fled their jobs due to sexual harassment or…
Reuters - February 21, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia said yesterday that a number of mining companies have suspended exploration due to uncertainty over new regional…
Sydney Morning Herald - February 21, 2001
Indonesia's top economics minister left yesterday for crucial talks with the International Monetary Fund, after an advisory panel warned that the…
February 20, 2001
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2001
Jakarta – The civil servant who set off a national corruption scandal when he released 3.9 million dollars of state funds a year ago was convinced…
Agence France Presse - February 20, 2001
Jakarta – Indonesia's economy grew 4.77 percent last year but is likely to slow to around four percent this year, the government said Tuesday.…
February 19, 2001
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – After days of rallies – some of them violent, the capital enjoyed an arts performance on Sunday aimed at easing the political tension.…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Police have increased the number of personnel guarding offices of the Golkar Party following an attack by hundreds of students on the…
Detik - February 19, 2001
Djoko Tjiptono/Hendra & GB, Jakarta – Students grouped in the Golkar Disbursement Alliance (ABG) wanted to take over the Jakarta offices of…
Jakarta Post - February 19, 2001
Jakarta – Chairman of the executive board of the Corps of Indonesian Muslim Students Alumni (KAHMI), Fuad Bawazier, warns of resurgent communism…