Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has called the offer
of Indonesian President Habibie of special status for East Timor a significant
policy change. This sentiment was echoed by Senator Robert Hill in the
Senate
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Indonesia: free all political prisoners!JAKARTA — The February to May student uprising and the wave of riots in Jakarta on May 14-15 which forced the resignation of President Suharto began a process that stands on the verge of
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Over the last two weeks, the Indonesian New Order regime has been forced into emergency measures to try to stop the momentum of the massive street demonstrations initiated by the student movement. First came the panic statement by a
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The rubber stamp People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) appointment in March of Suharto as president for another five years was the trigger that escalated a wave of student demonstrations which spread right around Indonesia. These
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Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference: continuing the struggleMore than anything else, the Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference in Sydney on April 10-13 was a conference of struggle. International conferences of community organisations
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Historic conference begins new era in left cooperationSYDNEY — More than 750 people participated in a historic event, the first Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference, held here April 10-13. The conference was characterised by an
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Fears are held for the physical safety for Andi Arief who was kidnapped at gunpoint from a house in Lampung, South Sumatra, at 10.30am on March 28. Arief is the chairperson of Students in Solidarity for Democracy in Indonesia and was
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More student demonstrations calling for the ousting of President Suharto occurred across Indonesia last week. Protest actions were held on university campuses in Jakarta and again on the University of Lampung and other smaller campuses
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Solidarity with arrested activistsOn the night of March 13, Suharto's military agents captured three People's Democratic Party (PRD) leaders in a raid on a tenement flat in Jakarta. They were Mugianto, from the PRD's International
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The political isolation of the military regime of President Suharto increases apace. Over the last 10 days, thousands of students have demonstrated on major university campuses in Surabaya, Solo, Bandung and Jakarta in Java; in Padang
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Special appealSuharto and his cronies have the IMF and the World Bank to bail them out of the present crisis, but the Indonesian opposition, especially the underground movement based among the workers and urban poor, don't have the
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BANGKOK — Between March 4-6, affiliates and supporters of the Asia Pacific Coalition on East Timor met for the third APCET conference here. More than 50 representatives from Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines,