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2007

Indonesia: Youth key to new political party
In the lead-up to Indonesia’s 2009 elections, a new left party has been formed. The National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) was founded on the basis of three main demands: the cancellation of Indonesia’s foreign debt, the nationalisation of the minerals sector, including oil and gas, and national industrialisation. Green Left Weekly spoke to Gusti Galuh ... ( read on )

2006

Fire smoke blankets city on Sumatra
Smoke from raging ground and forest fires has blanketed Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province on Indonesia's Sumatra island, local meteorology and airport officials said on Friday. Marzuki, an offcial of the meteorology agency, said that the visibility had decreased to the range of 6 to 7 kilometers. The normal is from five to ten ... ( read on )

2005

Indonesia braces for Kawasaki virus
Hot on the heels of the polio and avian influenza outbreaks, Indonesia is back on alert for a new virus that has reportedly struck a child victim, a health official said on Thursday. Director general of disease control and environmental health at the Ministry of Health I Nyoman Kandun said the ministry was working to ... ( read on )

2005

Indonesia drops mass culling plan to fight bird flu
Indonesia will not carry out a planned mass culling of farm animals to combat bird flu virus due to a lack of funds, a minister said on Thursday. Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, would stick to vaccinating healthy animals and only cull those infected by the H5N1 virus. The ... ( read on )

2005

Indonesia opposes U.N.-backed tribunal on E.Timor
Indonesia has brushed off a call in a United Nations report for an international tribunal to try Indonesian and militia leaders blamed for a bloody 1999 rampage in East Timor. "We continue to oppose an international tribunal, which we find totally unnecessary," Foreign Ministry spokesman Marty Natalegawa said on Thursday, a day after a ... ( read on )

2004

Govt won't charge Bashir over Bali bombs
Indonesia won't charge the cleric Abu Bakar Bashir in connection with the Oct. 12, 2002, bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, the Associated Press reported today, citing Detective Chief Suyitno Landung. The decision comes after the nation's constitutional court restricted the use of a new anti-terrorism law, AP said. Prosecutors still plan to charge Bashir ... ( read on )

2004

Pirates open fire on gas tanker in Indonesia
Pirates armed with automatic weapons opened fire on a gas tanker moored at an Indonesian port before boarding the craft and stealing equipment, a maritime crime watchdog reported Wednesday. No one was injured in the attack Monday on the tanker moored at Anyer port on the western tip of Java island, the International Maritime Bureau ... ( read on )

2003

Indonesia asks Malaysia to arrest Aceh rebel leader
Indonesian police have asked Malaysia to arrest a senior Aceh rebel leader who reportedly escaped to the neighboring nation after a massive military offensive in the province, a top officer said on Tuesday. The whereabouts of Sofyan Daud, a key rebel leader and spokesman for the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), are still unclear. However, Indonesian ... ( read on )

2003

Vendors ready for enactment of Copyright Law
With Law No. 19/2002 on the protection of copyrights going into effect on July 29, Jakartans will likely have a more difficult time purchasing counterfeit goods over the next month as vendors close up shop to avoid raids. Most of the vendors in the Mangga Dua shopping complex, center for pirated goods in the capital, ... ( read on )

2002

Kupang imports 1,500 Australian cows
The administrations of East Sumba and West Sumba regencies have imported 1,500 Brahman cows from Australia to develop a special breed that is of a high quality. Samuel Rebo, the chief of the husbandry section of the local agriculture office, said over the weekend that the importation of cows was aimed at preventing the extinction ... ( read on )

2000

Chinese loan to buy buses falls through
The Jakarta administration has failed to clinch a soft loan from the Chinese government for the purchase of new buses from the country but will still buy Chinese buses under a new scheme, Governor Sutiyoso said on Friday."We attempted to secure the Chinese soft loan but to no avail and now there is a consortium."I ... ( read on )

Other events on this day

2001

The Indonesian Military and UN Peacekeeping Force agree to launch a joint probe into the fatal shooting of Indonesian First Sgt. Lirman Hadimu, 21, near the East Timor border three days ago.

2000

Ibrahim Achmad, a journalist from Serambi newspaper, is allegedly tortured by a member of the police's Mobile Brigade while monitoring the return of about 5,000 refugees to villages around Lhoksukon, Aceh.

2000

Indonesian foreign minister Alwi Shihab and United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright meet in Bangkok, Thailand, to discuss unrest in Maluku, the situation in East Timor and economic restructuring.

2000

Some 50,000 supporters of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) from Jakarta and neighboring towns attend a mass prayer at Senayan Stadium, Jakarta, for a peaceful session of the People's Consultative Assembly.

2000

President Abdurrahman Wahid calls on the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) to promote tolerance and pluralism as taught by Islam.

2000

More than 1,000 farmers gather at the campus of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta to support Yogyakarta Sultan Hamengkubuwono X in the revision of the Agrarian Law which could give them royal land in order to improve their welfare.

1997

Air Force Chief of Staff Marshall Sutria Tubagus recommends the government choose Russian built Sukhoi-30 over other fighter planes after conducting a study of Sukhoi-27, Sukhoi-30 and MIG-29 (built by Russia) and Mirage 2000 (built by France).

1995

A new organization of intellectuals, calling itself the Association of Intellectuals for Pancasila Development (PCPP), is launched in Purwokerto, Central Java, and led by Rubijanto Misman.

1994

Noted comedian S. Bagyo dies of leukemia at the age of 60 in Jakarta.

1993

Prince GPH Sudjiwo Kusumo, 42, of the royal house of Mangkunegara in Surakarta, Central Java, is removed by the Council of Elders for his inability to carry out his duties as head of the small principality. He is replaced by his aunt, Ngarasati KS, 72.

1993

A clash between Islamic mystical group Haur Koneng (Yellow Bamboo) and police officers, sparked by a land dispute between the group's leader Abdul Manan and the village chief, occurs in Seureuh Mountain, Majalengka, West Java, killing 7 and injuring 8.

1993

The police raid the congress of the Indonesian Prosperity Trade Union in Cisarua, Bogor, West Java, and declare the congress illegal because it was being held without an official permit.

1991

President Soeharto expresses concern over four Indonesian sailors under house arrest in Seoul since December last year on charges of dumping waste in South Korean waters.

1991

Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Finance Radius Prawiro after meeting with Dutch Minister of Economic Development Cooperation JP Pronk in Jakarta states that members of the IGGI and other donor countries cannot dictate to the Indonesian govt.

1985

Syaiful Bahri, a youngster who intends to break the record for walking backward, arrives in Senayan, Jakarta, after traveling about 700 kilometers from Surabaya, East Java. He started off from Surabaya on July 2.

1947

A Dakota VT-CLA plane, bringing aid from the Malayan Red Cross in the form of medicine from Singapore, is shot down by a Dutch plane in Yogyakarta, killing Com. Adi Sucipto, Com. Abdurrahman Saleh and Com. Adisumarno Wirjokusumo.

1947

Dutch military action in Pematang Siantar and Sibolga, N. Sumatra, forces VP M. Hatta and his entourage to cancel their trip to N. Sumatra and Aceh and return to Bukittinggi in W. Sumatra, while Junior Governor of Sumatra SM Amin is arrested by the Dutch.

1947

Indian industrialist B. Patnaik visits the Indonesian capital of Yogyakarta to meet President Sukarno and to establish a textile company.

1947

Three Indonesian Air Force planes launch the first air strikes against Dutch targets in Semarang, Salatiga and Ambarawa, Central Java, in response to the Dutch bombing of Indonesian Air Force bases in Java.

1947

A death squad is created in Aceh under the leadership of Tgk. Amir husin al Mudjahid, as a part of Java's death squad led by Surabaya's popular fighter Bung Tomo.

1946

The Allied Forces leader in Indonesia, Maj. Gen. EC Mansergh, meets with Indonesian foreign minister Sutan Sjahrir to discuss the stoppage of the transportation of prisoners of war and internees by Indonesia.

1914

The Dutch East Indies government recognizes Darmo Woro, a Javanese organization established by the Boedi Oetomo organization in October 25, 1913..