Suharto to hold meeting with students
The President is willing to engage in a dialogue "sometime in the future" with university undergraduates who are demanding reforms.
PRESIDENT Suharto will
September 2022
Illegal migrants ‘wanted to seek attention’
THE action by Acehnese immigrants to force their way into a UN refugee agency in Kuala Lumpur yesterday was aimed at seeking
THE RIOTS : Causes
ECONOMIC woes were at the heart of the Pamanukan riots, the Indonesian military said.
The town's police commander, Colonel Rahmat, told The Straits
The day a town was torched
A rash of anti-Chinese riots erupted in the wake of Indonesia's economic crisis. DERWIN PEREIRA, who visited the West Java town of
‘Students, do not fast, you are not Gandhi’
EDUCATION and Culture Minister Wiranto Arismunandar has asked Indonesian university students not to emulate the late Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi, who
Jakarta lacks transparency, says auditor
CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA
A FORMER senior government auditor has warned that corruption in the Indonesian bureaucracy would persist given a lack of transparency
Abri to start student dialogues
The military hopes to ease tensions by giving students a chance to air their views on the economic crisis.
THE Indonesian military is
The perilous life of a smuggler’s runner
AFFENDI Ah Hong is a taciturn 32-year-old Indonesian Chinese, who for the last two years has been smuggling Indonesians to Singapore and
Human smugglers go into hiding
EXPELLED ILLEGALS HOWLING FOR BLOOD
ANGRY Indonesians expelled from Singapore and Malaysia are after the blood of smuggling syndicate chiefs who left them
Jakarta acts to curb exodus of illegals
Sea patrols have been stepped up and syndicates and their activities at the departure points in Batam and Bintan are being monitored.
THE
Suharto counts on the military to keep social harmony at home
IT WAS a massive display of military pomp and muscle. Some 25,000 Indonesian armed forces (Abri) personnel in full combat gear stood
Indonesian cabinet watch – A new team in place
THE ASIAN ECONOMIC CRISIS
COORDINATING MINISTERS
Coordinating Minister for Economic and Finance Supervision; Minister for Development Planning: Professor Ginandjar Kartasasmita, 57.
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