David Jenkins &150; President Soeharto's decision to call in the IMF and the World Bank, his second attempt in as many weeks to staunch a…
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October 9, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - October 9, 1997
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 9, 1997
Jay Solomon &150; The playful smile on President Suharto's face as he gave the new "national motorcycle" a spin around his palace late last…
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 9, 1997
John McBeth, Jakarta &150; Almost nightly on Indonesian television, thousands of firefighters armed with little more than water-filled…
October 8, 1997
Business Week - October 8, 1997
Michael Shari &150; For years, environmentalists have pleaded with governments in Southeast Asia to save the region's vast rain forests.…
Kompas - October 8, 1997 (summary only by Tapol)
Buyung Rachmad Buchori Nasution, private secretary of the writer and politician Soebadio Sastrosatomo, who is on trial in the South Jakarta…
October 7, 1997
SiaR - October 7, 1997 (Summary by Tapol)
Jakarta &150; Father Sandyawan Sumardi SJ, 38, said, after a hearing of the trial in which he and his brother Benny are the accused, that…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 7, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta &150; The Soeharto Government was facing an unprecedented crisis last night as a wave of public criticism over its…
October 5, 1997
Jakarta Post - 9 October, 1997
Jakarta – One hundred construction workers have died in work-related accidents in the city [of Jakarta] already this year. Last year 101 workers…
October 4, 1997
DIGEST No. 42 (Indonesian news with comment) - October 4, 1997
Amidst the fires furore, spare a thought for Forestry Minister Jamaludin Suryohadikusumo. As official custodian of Indonesia's vast but shrinking…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 4, 1997
Louise Williams, Jakarta – Air-particle pollution levels in Jakarta were nine times above the safe limit yesterday and meteorologists issued a…
October 3, 1997
Associated Press - October 3, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia's currency crashed to a new low today when it hit 3,725 rupiahs against the U.S. dollar before recovering slightly.
The…
Financial Times - October 3, 1997 (Extracts only)
Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, has been told by the prime minister to moderate his policy of blocking arms sale to countries accused of…
October 2, 1997
Asiaweek - October 2, 1997
Catherine Shepherd – Blue skies? Sunshine? Millions of people in Malaysia and Indonesia have a hard time remembering what that looks like. After…
Far Eastern Economic Review - October 2, 1997
Margot Cohen in Jakarta and Murray Hiebert in Kuala Lumpur – President Suharto's unprecedented apology for the forest fires that are spewing smoke…
Tapol - October 2, 1997
On 29 September, the Indonesian Ministry of the Interior announced that the PRD, the People's Democratic Party, and all its associated…
Kompas - October 2, 1997 (Summary by Tapol)
Adjidar Ascha, the father of imprisoned trade union activist, Diti Indah Sari, has lodged a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission…
October 1, 1997
Reuters - October 1, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia's new national parliament, its members including 10 relatives of President Suharto and a number of his business associates,…
Sydney Morning Herald - October 1, 1997
George J. Aditjondro &150; The haze enveloping our northern neighbours should not be allowed to obscure a lesson for their ruling elites, who…
Friends of the Earth International Press Release - October 1, 1997
Friends of the Earth International today called for immediate and effective action by the Indonesian government to combat the continuing forest…
Tapol - October 1, 1997
[Based on reports in Kompas and Republika, 30 September 1997]
The government has at last (!) banned the People's Democratic Party (PRD) and…
SiaR - October 1, 1997 (posted by Tapol)
Jakarta – The government's decision to ban the Peoples' Democratic Party and all its affiliates will not affect the activities of the…
September 30, 1997
SiaR - September 30, 1997
Bekasi – The trial of Romo Sandyawan Sumardi SJ and his older brother, Benny Sumardi, started yesterday (29/9) at the Bekasi State Court. Romo…
Republika - September 30, 1997
Jakarta – The government has officially banned the Peoples' Democratic Party (PRD) along with its affiliated organisations according to Department…
September 29, 1997
Reuters - September 29, 1997
Eugene Moosa, Tokyo – Aviation experts discount the theory that zero visibility in dense smog could have caused the crash of an Indonesian Garuda…
Straits Times - September 29, 1997
Derwin Pereira, Indonesia – has rejected blame for the haze blanketing large areas of South-east Asia, saying that one of the culprits is the El…
Straits Times - September 29, 1997
David Miller, Sumatra – Malaysian firefighters eager to get on with the job of fighting the forest and peat fires here have been forced to play a…
September 28, 1997
Info-Pembebasan (Liberation) - September 28, 1997
[The following is a translation of an interview sent to ASIET by the underground Peoples Democratic Party (PRD)]
Reports have been heard…
American Reporter - September 27-28, 1997
Azhar Basri, Jakarta – An Indonesian ministerial report has blamed 176 logging and plantation firms over the huge forest fires which had already…
September 27, 1997
The Guardian - September 27, 1997
John Vidal – The scale of one of the world's greatest manmade environmental catastrophes was becoming clear last night as poisonous fog blanketed…
September 26, 1997
Reuters - September 26, 1997
Ian MacKenzie, Jakarta – Burning forest peat, too hot and thick to be put out by fire-fighting equipment alone, is now the major cause of choking…
Tapol press release - September 26, 1997
The announcement in New York yesterday by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook that the Foreign Office has blocked the sale of military equipment to…
INFO KNPD - September 26, 1997
Yesterday morning, September 25, 30 activists from the National Committee for Democratic Struggle (Komite Nasional Perjuangan Demokrasi, KNPD) and…
Reuters - September 26, 1997
Lewa Pardomuan, Jakarta – Forest fires in Indonesia have spread to rubber and palm oil plantations and are likely to hit output, officials and…
September 24, 1997
Jakarta Post - September 24, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian Footwear Manufacturers' Association (Aprisindo) contested yesterday U.S. shoe giant Nike Inc's reason behind the termination…
Jakarta Post - September 24, 1997
Jakarta – More than 1,300 workers at two shoe factories in North Jakarta went on strike yesterday and demonstrated at the House of Representatives…
OMCT - September 24, 1997 (posted by Tapol)
The International Secretariat of OMCT has received new information on the detention and trial of Mr Mochtar Pakpahan in Indonesia.
…
September 23, 1997
Kyodo - September 23, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesian police have officially closed their investigation into the 1993 slaying of female labor activist Marsinah, which had sparked…
INFO KNPD - September 23, 1997
[The following is an abridged translation of a leaflet sent to ASIET by the National Committee for Democratic Struggle (KNPD) which was…
ASIET - 23 September, 1997
8.45 am - 1.800 workers from several factories (each from different organisations), from the JABOTEK industrial area [outside Jakarta…
Associated Press - September 23, 1997
Geoff Spencer, Jakarta – A drought that has destroyed crops across the Indonesian archipelago and other Pacific islands could force villagers to…
SiaR - September 23, 1997 (Abridged)
Jakarta – The Environment Minister has released a list of 176 timber companies which are considered to be "at fault" in [causing] the fires in…
Indonesia Times - September 23, 1997
Jakarta – The wife of Dwi Sumaji, alias Iwik, the defendant on the murder of Bernas daily's reporter Udin, said that her husband was at home in…
September 22, 1997
Reuters - September 22, 1997
Martin Wolk, Portland – Nike Inc. said Monday it severed ties with four Indonesian-based factories because they failed to adhere to the company's…
September 21, 1997
Reuters - September 21, 1997
Jakarta – Indonesia has arrested nearly 600 people for alleged involvement in ethnic riots in South Sulawesi province, the official…
Straits Times - September 21, 1997
Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Pressure is mounting on the Indonesian government from various groups in the country to strike hard against firms…
Reuters - September 21, 1997
Kuala Lumpur – Malaysian non-governmental organisations staged a rare demonstration on Sunday demanding immediate and serious action from…
September 20, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - September 20, 1997
The health of millions of Indonesians - and of people in neighbouring countries - is threatened by the smoke from blazing forests. As Louise…
September 19, 1997
Reuters - September 19, 1997
Jakarta – Police Friday detained two Australian trade unionists and at least nine Indonesian activists after ordering the closure of the annual…
September 18, 1997
Sydney Morning Herald - September 18, 1997
Louise Williams, Pringluan, Central Java – More than three months ago the wells dried up and the villagers began to gather to pray for rain, the…
South China Morning Post - September 18, 1997
Naomi Lee, Jakarta – Anti-Chinese riots in Ujung Pandang, which continued for a third day yesterday, have claimed three lives, police said, as…