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September 11, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 11, 1998

Jakarta – A four-day operation by Indonesian police to crack down on teak-wood looting in central Java has left one dead, several injured and…

September 9, 1998

Antara - September 9, 1998

Surabaya – Hundreds of people slashed teak trees at the Parengan forest and wrecked three police cars in Tuban district, west of here…

Vancouver Sun - September 9, 1998

Rick Ouston and Ian Mulgrew – Internal government and RCMP correspondence covering the visit to Vancouver last year of then-Indonesian president…

Wall Street Journal - September 9, 1998

Jay Solomon and Jeremy Wagstaff, Jakarta – An inquisition against some of the Suharto era's most renowned cronies is gathering steam. The question…

Dow Jones Newswires - September 9, 1998

Jakarta – Faced with deadlock in getting embattled Indonesian debtors and banks to agree on debt restructuring, the government Wednesday made a…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 9, 1998

David Jenkins, Jakarta – Indonesia seems poised on the brink of another major crisis – one that is already triggering fears of renewed…

Reuters - September 9, 1998 (abridged)

Nick Edwards, Jakarta – Mounting social unrest in Indonesia has scared more skittish capital out of the crippled economy, felling the rupiah and…

Agence France Presse - September 9, 1998

Jakarta – Hundreds of people raided a state-owned fish pond in West Javan city of Karawang on Tuesday and got away with 200 kilograms…

Dow Jones Newswires - September 9, 1998

Surabaya – Riot police scuffled with protesters and fired warning shots Wednesday when about 4,000 students staged one of the biggest protests so…

Agence France Presse - September 9, 1998 (abridged)

Jakarta – Some 100 students demonstrated outside the attorney general's office here Wednesday demanding that ousted Indonesian president Suharto…

Agence France Presse - September 9, 1998 (abridged)

Jakarta – Mobs looted warehouses and stores of rice, sugar and instant noodles for the third straight day Wednesday in the Indonesian provincial…

September 8, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 8, 1998 (abridged)

Jakarta – At least five people were injured early Tuesday as Indonesian riot police beat student protestors who were demanding that President B.J…

Agence France Presse - September 8, 1998

Jakarta – Anyone caught disrupting Indonesian government moves to beat food shortages could face execution, Justice Minister Muladi warned Tuesday…

Agence France Presse - September 8, 1998

Jakarta – Police detained at least 74 people after a second day of rioting in Central Java in which scores of ethnic Chinese-owned stores and cars…

Agence France Presse - September 8, 1998

Jakarta – An international rights body Tuesday called on the Indonesian government to stop trying to discredit reports of gang rapes of ethnic…

September 7, 1998

Washington Post - September 7, 1998 (slightly abridged)

Kevin Sullivan, Jakarta – Eleven-year-old Ipan, a cheerful little beggar in a buzz cut and a dirty T-shirt, knocks on car windows and sings and…

Associated Press - September 7, 1998 (abridged)

Jakarta – Thousands of protesters rampaged through a central Java town Monday, burning and looting Chinese-owned shops and cars, while…

September 6, 1998

Surya - September 6, 1998 (extract only from Tapol)

Jakarta – It has now been revealed that in his final days as president, Suharto ordered armed forces commander General Wiranto to finish off the…

Agence France Presse - September 6, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesia's fallen president Suharto went on television late Sunday to deny allegations that he had accumulated a fortune worth billions…

September 5, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 5, 1998

Surabaya – Three people were injured and 32 others arrested when a clash erupted between troops and hundreds of villagers pillaging a…

Agence France Presse - September 5, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesian police were on standby to stem industrial unrest at three factories in a West Java city Saturday, a day after a pay dispute…

September 4, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 4, 1998

Jakarta – A group of activists Friday burned caricatures of former president Suharto, his family and close associates in front of parliament, to…

Asiaweek - September 4, 1998

Jose Manuel Tesoro, Batam – Before he ruled all of Indonesia's 13,000 islands, he was in charge of just one. B.J. Habibie came about Batam the…

IPS - September 4, 1998

By Farhan Haq, New York – The US Senate's passage this week of restrictions on arms sales to Indonesia and demands for further political reforms…

Asiaweek - September 4, 1998

Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – For a man whose visage was once seen everywhere, former president Suharto has dropped dramatically out of sight since his…

Agence France Presse - September 4, 1998

Jakarta – A second general has denied an allegation by a former security guard of Indonesia's founding president Sukarno that he and three other…

South China Morning Post - September 4, 1998

High school students arrested for their part in a violent riot this week in troubled Aceh province said they were asked to riot by strangers.

Straits Times - September 4, 1998

How do you keep a fleet of buses and cars on the road when the cost of spare parts has skyrocketed by over 300 per cent? The answer: Find parts…

The Australian - September 4, 1998

Don Greenlees – The slow wheels of Indonesian justice, rusted to a standstill after 32 years of Suharto rule, have finally begun to turn, bringing…

September 3, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 3, 1998

Jakarta – A group of white collar workers marched in central Jakarta Thursday demanding that the government suspend income taxes if it…

Stratfor Global Intelligence update - September 3, 1998

Already pummeled by the general Asian economic collapse and the downturn in crude oil prices, Indonesia is facing yet another crisis – impending…

Agence France Presse - September 3, 1998

Jakarta – As Indonesia sinks deeper into its worst economic crisis for decades, rice has increasingly become the favorite target of looters and…

September 2, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 2, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesia's armed forces are an "inseparable part" of the country's reform drive and will not tolerate threats to the process, an…

Agence France Presse - September 2, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have finally given approval for the citizens of Yogyakarta to install the popular head of the region's royal…

Jakarta Post - September 2, 1998

Bandung – Undaunted by the government's continued recognition of a rival camp, Megawati Soekarnoputri of the splintered Indonesian Democratic…

Jakarta Post - September 2, 1998

Jakarta – The government was strongly urged Tuesday to reinvestigate the Lampung incident in February l989, which resulted in scores of deaths.…

Agence France Presse - September 2, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesian armed forces will return to the troubled province of Aceh to restore security after two days of mob riots following a troop…

Sydney Morning Herald - September 2, 1998

Louise Williams, Jakarta – Indonesian security forces opened fire on rioters in the northern Aceh city of Lhokseumawe yesterday, killing two, and…

Agence France Presse - September 2, 1998

Jakarta – About 100 housewives, many with young children, on Wednesday gathered at Jakarta City Hall to demand serious government…

Green Left Weekly - September 2, 1998

Max Lane – On August 26, 200,000 people rallied in Yogyakarta to protest against the refusal of the Indonesian government to ratify…

Green Left Weekly - September 2, 1998

By Max Lane and Pramono (in Jakarta) – The frequency of protest actions in Indonesia has increased markedly over the last week. Worsening economic…

South China Morning Post - September 2, 1998

Jenny Grant, Jakarta – Villagers on the islands of Flores are eating leaves and jungle fruit because they can no longer afford rice.

East…

Surabaya Post - September 2, 1998

Surabaya – Over 1,000 university students demonstrated peacefully here yesterday against soaring prices of basic commodities. "The…

September 1, 1998

Agence France Presse - September 1, 1998

Jakarta – A government investigation shows that funds in charitable foundations linked to ousted Indonesian president Suharto were misused and…

Agence France Presse - September 1, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesian anti-corruption NGOs and the World Bank will set up a joint team to probe leakages of project funds made available by the…

Agence France Presse - September 1, 1998

Jakarta – The crippling economic crisis that has engulfed Indonesia since July has forced 90 percent of the country's book publishers…

August 31, 1998

Associated Press - August 31, 1998

Christopher Torchia, Jakarta – Mobs burned buildings, stoned police cars and attacked ethnic Chinese in northern Indonesia on Monday in the…

Agence France Presse - August 31, 1998

Jakarta – Shots were heards as hundreds of onlookers Monday pelted and yelled insults at troops pulled out of the troubled Indonesian province of…

Straits Times - August 31, 1998

Jakarta – If life had gone the way he planned nine months ago, Dr B.J. Habibie would be planting tulips, writing a book or two about aeroplanes…

Digest 68 - August 31, 1998

Gerry van Klinken – As Nazi Germany blamed the Jews for its economic ills, as Hansonite Australia blames Asians, so now Habibie's Indonesia is…