How years in Europe changed the President
INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
PRESIDENT B.J. Habibie has said that spending 20 years in Europe made him value democracy and rendered him immune to
Indonesia
Return of ethnic Chinese ‘critical’
No large-scale foreign investments for Indonesia as long as they stay away, President Habibie now concedes.
PRESIDENT B.J. Habibie has conceded that large-scale
Thugs try to rob minister
EVEN ministers are not exempt from being victims of street crime as State Enterprises Minister Tanri Abeng found out recently when he
East Timor : Indonesia and its March Of Folly
Indonesia appeared to have offered East Timor independence on a platter, with President Habibie's 'autonomy or separation' offer. DERWIN PEREIRA examines the
Jakarta closes down 38 banks
In the long-waited reform move, it also takes over seven state banks and announces plans to re-capitalise nine INDONESIA yesterday axed 38
Horta : We can learn from S’pore
MR JOSE RAMOS HORTA, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timor's Bishop Carlos Belo in 1996, is the chief international
E. Timor saga a step closer to the end
INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
BACKGROUNDER
Letting the territory go to the ballot, to express its views on autonomy, but not independence, is a compromise between
Muscle politics in Indonesia
POLITICS AND THE UNDERWORLD
Instigators with sinister motives have been blamed for the rash of riots breaking out across Indonesia. One target of
Call for jihad in Ambon
2,000 students demonstrating in the streets want a holy war to stop Muslim killings in the riot-torn area.
RADICAL Islamic leaders in Indonesia
Ambon’s police chief sacked …
INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
Wiranto fires Karyono after a fatal shooting incident involving troops outside a mosque and over his poor performance in quelling
Fresh religious clashes in Ambon
NINE 'GUNNED DOWN BY POLICE'
FRESH Christian-Muslim clashes erupted in strife-torn Ambon yesterday as the military prepared to send another 1,000 troops to
‘Impose emergency rule in Ambon’
INDONESIA IN TRANSITION
A SENIOR military legislator yesterday called for a state of emergency in strife-torn Ambon as the armed forces (Abri) sought