Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – In an apparent attempt to bury the hatchet with the Indonesian Military (TNI), the National Commission on…
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August 12, 2003
Almost 300 civilians were killed in the first two months of the Indonesian military's campaign to crush separatist rebels in Aceh, a rights group…
A female activist faces 20 years in jail if found guilty in a treason trial which began in Indonesia's Aceh province, where troops are battling…
August 9, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesian police said yesterday that rebels from the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) were behind last month's bomb…
August 8, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – The martial law administration in Aceh probably had not anticipated that people in the province would…
August 7, 2003
Indonesian troops have shot dead another eight suspected separatist rebels in Aceh province, the military said.
Troops shot dead…
August 4, 2003
Nurul Hidayati, Jakarta – The presidential decree authorising a military emergency in Aceh is being challenged by the People's Lawyers Union (…
August 2, 2003
A US journalist arrested in June while reporting on a separatist war in Indonesia's Aceh province expects to be freed Sunday after being sentenced…
Robert Go, Jakarta – A team dispatched by Indonesia's Parliament to review the progress of martial law operations in Aceh has returned to Jakarta…
Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri said on Friday that the martial law in Aceh province would not last long and claimed the ongoing…
August 1, 2003
Nani Farida and Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Two former negotiators for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) went on trial in the…
July 31, 2003
Jakarta – The People's Democratic Party (PRD) has rejected holding general elections in Aceh for as long as the military emergency in Tanah…
Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Facing two months imprisonment for immigration offenses, an American freelance journalist asserted that he had not…
July 30, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – Saturday night is no longer lively in the North Aceh capital Lhokseumawe where youngsters used to gather in…
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Lhokseumawe/Denpasar – Armed clashes continued in many parts of Aceh province on Tuesday despite…
July 29, 2003
Nani Farida and Teriani ZB Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – A House of Representatives delegation visited Aceh on Monday and was quick to…
Lesley McCulloch, Melbourne – The message came via satellite phone. The caller was out of breath and desperate: 15 civilians shot dead by the…
July 28, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak and Nani Farida, Lhokseumawe/Banda Aceh – The Martial Law Administration in Aceh is intensifying efforts to prevent Free…
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – Tengku Hanafi, 65, was back at the Baktiya district office in North Aceh for the seventh time this week…
July 27, 2003
War in Indonesia's Aceh province will last until separatist rebels are rooted out, the military said. "What is clear, the operation to…
July 26, 2003
Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto apologized to the Acehnese people on Friday for what he…
July 24, 2003
Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – William Nessen, an American freelance journalist who spent weeks traveling with independence-seeking guerrillas in the…
July 23, 2003
Al Gedicks, who teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is the author of "Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and…
Jakarta – Three months after placing Aceh province under martial law, Indonesia is losing its campaign to win the "hearts and minds" of the…
Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Topo Susanto, a legal observer from the University of Indonesia's School of Law, said on Tuesday that despite…
July 22, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – After two months of martial law in war-ridden Aceh, the situation in the province turned more uncertain as…
Jakarta – Rebels trying to extort money from a family in Aceh have killed a woman and wounded her journalist husband and their…
July 21, 2003
Jakarta – Residents of Kuala district, Nagan Raya, took the law into their own hands over the weekend, taking hostage 36 family members of…
A Lin Neumann, Jakarta – Using tactics inspired by the US military during the war in Iraq, the Indonesian military is keeping the domestic press…
Kirsten E Schulze – As Indonesia's military operation against the Free Aceh Movement (Gerakin Aceh Merdeka, or GAM) is entering its third month,…
July 20, 2003
Shawn Donnan, Lhokseumawe – Major General Bambang Darmono believes his mobile telephone proves the popularity of Indonesia's military operation…
July 19, 2003
Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Lhokseumawe – The number of refugees in war-torn Aceh keeps changing, but their misery remains due to poor sanitation at…
Jakarta – An American reporter detained after hiding out with rebels in Aceh has been charged with immigration violations and is…
Jakarta – The military operation in Aceh to incapacitate Free Aceh Movement (GAM) forces will result in prolonged trauma in children. After they…
July 18, 2003
Jakarta – Security personnel shot dead at least 25 rebels in two of the bloodiest days of the military offensive against the Free Aceh Movement (…
July 17, 2003
Indonesian troops waging war on separatist rebels in Aceh province have shot dead at least 15 guerrillas in one of the bloodiest days of their two…
Jakarta/Lhokseumawe – Responding to widespread allegations of rights abuses in Aceh, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is…
Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Lawyers have raised concern over the government's failure to provide defense lawyers for members of the Free Aceh…
July 12, 2003
A'an Suryana and Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Entering the eighth week of the integrated operation to restore security and order in Aceh…
July 11, 2003
The European Union will question the Indonesian government about a "disturbing" lack of access to war-torn Aceh province after one of its aid…
July 10, 2003
Max Lane – On July 11 at the Taman Ismail Marzuki Jakarta Arts Center, more than 30 community, cultural, human rights and other organizations are…
July 9, 2003
A'an Suryana and Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Lhokseumawe – Despite the military's recent claim of territorial control over Aceh, the war between the…
Jakarta – At least 71 members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) will face charges of subversion, police in the Indonesian…
James Balowski, Jakarta – The Indonesian military's (TNI) vicious little war against the people in its northern-most province of Aceh is reaching…
July 8, 2003
Jakarta – Indonesia's military has warned rebels in Aceh province to free five hostages, including a local TV crew, by a Tuesday evening deadline…
Jane Perlez, Jakarta – The Indonesian military has now declared that its tough offensive against rebels in the northern province of Aceh,…
July 7, 2003
Jakarta/Lhokseumawe – The number of Acehnese who have fled their homes has soared to 48,000 as the Indonesian military (TNI) intensifies its…
July 5, 2003
Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's top general says Aceh operations are "ahead of schedule", but admit the authorities may extend martial law for…
Jakarta – At least 150 civilians have died, 80 have been wounded, and another 71 have gone missing since the government launched the integrated…
A'an Suryana, Lhokseumawe – At first she refused to be interviewed but then relented on the condition that she be quoted under a false name,…




