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Indigenous & Minority Rights

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February 5, 2000

Associated Press - February 5, 2000

Geoff Spencer, Jakarta – They have been terrorized, their houses and businesses wrecked and burned in wave after wave of riots and political upheaval.

January 19, 2000

Jakarta Post - January 19, 2000

Jakarta – The government has officially revoked Presidential Instruction No. 41/1967, which restricted the observance of Chinese religious practices and traditions.

April 10, 1999

Reuters - April 10, 1999 (abridged)

Jakarta – Indonesia's ethnic Chinese on Saturday formally established a mass organisation to promote awareness of their rights and obligations as Indonesians.

March 22, 1999

Agence France Presse - March 22, 1999

Jakarta – Scores of Indonesians from 54 of the archipelago's different ethnic groups, many in native costume, rallied at the national parliament here Monday to demand more control of th

October 15, 1998

Agence France Presse - October 15, 1998

Jakarta – Indonesian President B.J.

October 5, 1998

Agence France Presse - October 5, 1998 (abridged)

Manila – Some 300 leftist activists and ethnic Chinese picketed the Indonesian embassy in the Philippines Monday, to protest alleged abuses against the ethnic Chinese minority in Indone

August 21, 1998

Agence France Presse - August 21, 1998

Jakarta – Gangs of grave robbers have been digging up Chinese graveyards in two cities on the Indonesian island of Java and looting them of coffins of valuables and discarding the remai

August 14, 1998

South China Morning Post - August 14 1998

Greg Torode, Jakarta – Ethnic Chinese are starting to flee Indonesia amid threats of rape and rioting surrounding Monday's Independence Day celebrations.

October 29, 1997

Indonesia Times - October 29, 1997

Jakarta – The government is necessary to stop isolating ethnic Chinese from political life, an expert said.

March 4, 1997

Far Eastern Economic Review - March 4, 1997

A Louisiana district court dismissed a class-action suit filed by Amungme tribal activist Yosefa Alomang against Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold for alleged environmental and human-r