Homemade bomb explodes in Poso (30/06/2005) #10562
The Jakarta Post, June 29, 2005
A homemade bomb exploded in Poso city on Tuesday at 9:50 p.m. local time, or 8:50
p.m. Jakarta time, near the office of a campaign team for candidates running in the
upcoming Poso regental elections.
Hopes high for peaceful Poso election (30/06/2005) #10561
The Jakarta Post, June 29, 2005
Fears of pre-election conflict after the Tentena bombings were proved groundless in
Poso on Monday, as candidates for regent wrapped up their campaigns.
Today in History - June 29 (30/06/2005) #10557
ASSOCIATED PRESS, Tue Jun 28, 2005, 8:01 PM ET
Five years ago: An overloaded ship carrying almost 500 people, many fleeing
sectarian violence in Indonesia's Maluku islands, sank, killing all but 10 known
survivors.
Indonesia: three women arrested, charged (30/06/2005) #10556
Compass Direct, 23/06/2005
June 23 (Compass) -- A Muslim council has accused three Indonesian women of
attempting to convert Muslim children. Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna
Bangun were arrested on May 13 and taken to the Indramayu State Prison, where
they await trial.
Three suspects reconstruct attack (19/06/2005) #10555
The Jakarta Post, June 28, 2005
AMBON, Maluku: Three suspects in an attack on a Mobile Brigade police post on
Loki island in Maluku reconstructed the crime on Monday.
Duma - Village of Martyrs. Update, June 2005 (19/06/2005) #10554
Masariku Network, June 2005
Duma was a small yet significant village of around 1500 people on the island of
Halmahera in the Province of North Maluku. It was the first village to receive the
Gospel when a Dutch missionary, Rev. Van Duijken came to the island in 1866. From
this village the Gospel spread throughout Halmahera and North Maluku.
Police defuse bomb in Ambon (28/06/2005) #10552
ANTARA, Jun 27 2005 21:42
Ambon (ANTARA News) - Police in Sirimau, Ambon, Maluku`s provincial capital, on
Monday again defused a bomb planted by irresponsible persons in front of the front
gate of a Bank Mandiri housing complex.
THE SITUATION IN AMBON/MOLUCCAS - Report No. 482 (27/06/2005) #10549
Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina, Ambon, June 26, 2005
MISCELLANEOUS ON REFUGEES HEALTH - Health of refugees in several camps in
Ambon city is deteriorating. Malnutrition of children, too, is becoming more and more
commonplace in the camps.
Boy dies due to malnutrition after months in Ambon shelter (24/06/2005) #10548
The Jakarta Post, June 23, 2005
M. Azis Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon. Two days after he was taken to Al-Fatah
Hospital in Ambon, 15-month-old Harun died of malnutrition on Wednesday. Already
weak from consuming only water and milk for the last two months, even intravenous
feeding could not save him.
Malnutrion cases abound in Ambon's IDP shelters (23/06/2005) #10547
The Jakarta Post, June 22, 2005
M. Azis Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon. The life of refugees in several camps in
Ambon city here is deteriorating. Bad sanitation has affected the health of the
refugees, especially the children. Meanwhile, malnutrition is also commonplace in the
camps as the refugees cannot afford to buy nutritious food for their children.
Hendro 'disappoints' President (22/06/2005) #10543
The Jakarta Post, June 22, 2005
Rendi A. Witular and Tony Hotland, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta. President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono expressed disappointment on Monday over the refusal of A.M.
Hendropriyono, the former chief of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), to be
questioned by a government sanctioned fact-finding team assigned to help the police
in the investigation of the murder of top human rights campaigner Munir.
Bashir appeals to Indonesian court (22/06/2005) #10541
The Sydney Morning Herald, June 21, 2005 - 5:04PM
Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has appealed to Indonesia's Supreme Court to
overturn his conviction and 30-month jail term for involvement in the 2002 Bali
nightclub bombings.
INDONESIA: Spy agency implicated in activist's murder (21/06/2005) #10539
Green Left Weekly, June 22, 2005
James Balowski, Jakarta. Although no-one has been charged with last year's murder
of Indonesia's foremost human rights activist, Munir Said Thalib, evidence is mounting
that the prime suspect in the case, Garuda Airlines pilot Pollycarpus Budihari
Priyanto, was a member of or working with the National Intelligence Agency (BIN).
A Spectator to Insanity (21/06/2005) #10537
TIME Asia Magazine, issue dated June 13, 2005 Vol. 165, No. 23
The 1997 Asian financial crisis impoverished millions, fueling street protests against
Suharto's kleptocratic government. Christians and Muslims warred in Ambon; the
nation of 17,000 islands "seemed to be breaking up and slowly sinking."
Bombing theories abound (19/06/2005) #10532
AsiaViews, Edition: 24/II/June/2005
TENSIONS ran high in Poso, Central Sulawesi, last Friday. No less than 1,500 men
and women protestors marched towards the Poso Police Headquarters. The blazing
heat and a company of the Mobile Brigade (Brimob) armed with long-barreled rifles did
not deter them.
THE SITUATION IN AMBON/MOLUCCAS - Report No. 481 (19/06/2005) #10531
Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina, Ambon, June 18, 2005
TERRORIST ARRESTED - Police in South Celebes has succeeded in arresting a
man named Ardi Tuasikal (Tausihal?), who is suspected as the grenade thrower in
Lateri, last March 5 (see Report 470).
Questions raised over refugee funds (19/06/2005) #10529
The Jakarta Post, June 16, 2005
AMBON, Maluku: Several provincial councillors here raised allegations of the
misappropriation of refugee funds on Wednesday following an official visit to the Dobo
and Aru Islands regency.
Bomb found at busy Jakarta railway station (17/06/2005) #10528
The Jakarta Post, June 16, 2005
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta. One week after a bomb exploded in
Pamulang, Tangerang, the Jakarta Police's bomb squad have defused a bomb placed
inside a shopping bag in the parking lot of Tanjung Barat Railway Station in South
Jakarta, just before midnight on Tuesday.
Ambon students say no to legal gambling (17/06/2005) #10527
The Jakarta Post, June 16, 2005
Azis Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon. Pattimura University students protested on
Wednesday a proposal by the Student Representative Council to the Ambon
administration and city council to establish a legal lottery in the city.
Some 1,500 refugees are back on the Maluku Islands, (17/06/2005) #10526
but housing for them is not yet ready
AsiaNews, 16 June, 2005
The refugees were displaced by sectarian strife between Christians and Muslims. The
returnees complain the government has not handed out the promised compensation;
what new housing has been built lacks basic facilities.
Hilton Murderer Gets Only 7 Years (17/06/2005) #10521
LAKSAMANA.Net, June 16, 2005 11:25 PM
Laksamana.Net - In a disgraceful sign that Indonesia's notoriously corrupt judiciary
remains afraid of punishing the rich and powerful elite to the full extent of the law,
tycoon Adiguna Sutowo has been sentenced to a mere seven years in jail for
murdering a waiter at Jakarta's Hilton International Hotel.
THE SITUATION IN AMBON/MOLUCCAS - Report No. 480 (16/06/2005) #10520
Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina, Ambon, June 16, 2005
REFUGEES RETURN - Having stayed as refugees for longer than four years in the Kei
Islands now at last all of the about 1500 christian Kasui refugees have returned to
their island, to the South East of Ceram island - to be immediately followed by some
500 others that had been sheltering in the city of Ambon. On the Kasui case we had a
large number of reports, notably Reports 96 through 134. Reportedly the
home-comers were received well amidst their muslim brothers.
Assailants in Indon province linked to Al Qaeda: police (16/06/2005) #10513
Khaleej Times Online, 14 June 2005
JAKARTA (DPA) - Authorities have accused assailants involved in a recent armed
attack on a police post in Indonesia's eastern province of Maluku of having links with
Al Qaeda, an official said on Tuesday.
Police Deny Engineering Bombing (14/06/2005) #10500
LAKSAMANA.Net, June 11, 2005 01:00 AM
Laksamana.Net - National Police chief General Dai Bachtiar has rejected allegations
that his force engineered a recent bomb blast in Pamulang, west of Jakarta, in an
effort to discredit a radical Muslim cleric.
TNI Passes Buck on Missing Activists Case (14/06/2005) #10499
LAKSAMANA.Net, June 10, 2005 11:49 PM
Laksamana.Net - Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) commander General Endriartono
Sutarto says it's up to the House of Representatives to decide whether former Jakarta
Military chief Lieutenant General Sjafrie Sjamsuddin should fulfill a summons for
questioning over the fate of 14 missing pro-democracy activists missing for over seven
years.
Wife of Most Wanted Terror Suspect Jailed (14/06/2005) #10498
LAKSAMANA.Net, June 9, 2005 06:54 PM
Laksamana.Net - The second wife of one of Indonesia's most wanted terrorism
suspects has been sentenced to three years in jail for hiding her husband, Malaysian
national Noordin Mohammad Top.
Ambon official fired over website (09/06/2005) #10491
The Jakarta Post, June 08, 2005
M. Aziz Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon. Maluku communications and information
office head Agus Soukotta has been removed from his post over a local government
website, which was considered defamatory toward Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
Blast at housing complex near Jakarta,no casualties (09/06/2005) #10487
The Jakarta Post, 6/8/2005 9:34:08 AM
JAKARTA (Reuters): An explosion occurred in a housing complex not far from the
Indonesian capital Jakarta before dawn on Wednesday but caused no casualties,
police said, amid heightened warnings of terror attacks in the country.
Bomb blast outside JI cleric's house (09/06/2005) #10486
The Sydney Morning Herald, June 8, 2005 - 1:49PM
A small bomb exploded outside the house of an Indonesian cleric accused by the
United States of being a senior member of the Jemaah Islamiah terrorist network,
police said.
Suspected key member of JI escapes injury in house bomb (09/06/2005) #10485
ABC AUSTRALIA, 08/06/2005, 22:35:03
An explosion has rocked the house of a suspected key leader of the radical Jema'ah
Islamiah organisation near the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
New suspect named in Tentena blasts (08/06/2005) #10481
The Jakarta Post, June 07, 2005
Ruslan Sangadji and Tony Hotland, The Jakarta Post, Poso/Jakarta. The police have
named another suspect in connection with the deadly bombings in the Christian town
of Tentena, Central Sulawesi, as an intelligence analysis has revealed that the
perpetrators are graduates of a military-style training camp in Mindanao in the
Philippines.
Appeal for Abu Bakar Bashir (08/06/2005) #10480
ABC AUSTRALIA, 07/06/2005, 23:26:36
Lawyers for Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir have filed a new lawsuit
demanding his release from the 30-month jail sentence he is serving for his role in the
Bali bombings.
Second police post targeted in Indonesia's Maluku (07/06/2005) #10472
M&C NEWS [UK], Jun 6, 2005, 4:10 GMT
Jakarta: There has almost been another attack on a Brimob [mobile police brigade]
post, following the attack which killed five personnel at a post in Loki village, Piru,
West Seram.
Suspected militant near Jakarta: police (07/06/2005) #10470
The Sydney Morning Herald, June 6, 2005 - 5:10PM
One of south-east Asia's most wanted Islamic militants may be hiding on the
outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Indonesian police said.
Police expand Tentena bombing probe (07/06/2005) #10468
The Jakarta Post, June 06, 2005
Blontank Poer, The Jakarta Post, Surakarta. Police have expanded their manhunt into
more areas of Central Sulawesi province to track down two people believed to be
responsible for the market bombing in the predominantly Christian town of Tentena
last week that killed 21 people, a senior police officer said on Saturday.
Indon prison chief charged over Sulawesi bombing (07/06/2005) #10465
ABC AUSTRALIA, 04/06/2005, 08:14:20
An Indonesian prison chief and one of his inmates have been charged over a bombing
on Sulawesi island last weekend that killed 21-people.
US Reiterates Warning of Terror Attacks (07/06/2005) #10464
LAKSAMANA.Net, June 3, 2005 03:41 PM
Laksamana.Net - The US Embassy in Jakarta has again warned of a plot to bomb
hotels frequented by Westerners in the city, less than a week after blasts killed 21
people in Central Sulawesi province.
THE SITUATION IN AMBON/MOLUCCAS - Report No. 479 (06/06/2005) #10463
Crisis Centre Diocese of Amboina, Ambon, June 5, 2005
POLICEMAN FIRED - A policeman named Ismael Fahmi Yemsehu has been ousted
from the police force after it had been confirmed that he was involved in several
terrorist activities.
Maluku govt website condemned for alleged defamation (04/06/2005) #10456
The Jakarta Post, June 03, 2005
M. Azis Tunny, The Jakarta Post, Ambon. An estimated 2,000 protesters from several
Islamic organizations held a protest at the Maluku Governor's office on Thursday over
a local government website, which they said was defamatory toward Islam's Prophet
Muhammad and included insinuations that Muslims in the province were terrorists.
U.S. warns of threat to attack hotels in Jakarta (04/06/2005) #10455
REUTERS, Fri Jun 3, 2005 02:26 AM ET
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta warned Americans on Friday of a
threat to bomb lobbies of hotels in the city, less than a week after blasts killed 22
people in an Indonesian area marked by Muslim-Christian violence.
U.S. Embassy Warns of Attacks in Indonesia (04/06/2005) #10454
washingtonpost.com, Friday, June 3, 2005; 4:26 AM
The Associated Press. JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The United States on Friday warned
its citizens in Indonesia of a terrorist plot to bomb hotels in the capital, and the
country's police chief also cautioned that fresh attacks were likely.
14 Detained Over Tentena Bombings (03/06/2005) #10447
LAKSAMANA.Net, June 3, 2005 06:03 AM
Laksamana.Net - Police have detained at least four suspects and 10 other people for
questioning over the May 28 twin bomb blasts that killed 21 people at a Christian
market in Tentena, Central Sulawesi province.
More suspects held over Tentena bombings (03/06/2005) #10445
The Jakarta Post, June 02, 2005
Ruslan Sangadji, The Jakarta Post, Palu. Police have arrested six more people they
believe are involved in the Saturday bombings in Tentena, Central Sulawesi, with
suspicions now surfacing that some of the alleged perpetrators were linked to a riot in
a neighboring province last year.
Police detain seven in wake of Indonesian bombings (02/06/2005) #10440
ABC AUSTRALIA, June 1, 2005. 9:14pm (AEST)
Indonesian police have detained six men and a woman under anti-terrorism laws in the
wake of twin bomb blasts that killed 22 people in an eastern Christian town last
Saturday.
Police detain seven for alleged involvement... (02/06/2005) #10439
The Jakarta Post, 6/1/2005 5:06:47 PM
JAKARTA (Antara): The police have detained seven people -- six men and one woman
-- in connection with the deadly bombing wwhich killed 21 people in the Central
Sulawesi town of Tentena, an officer said on Wednesday.
Corruption scandal linked to Tentena attack (02/06/2005) #10438
The Jakarta Post, June 01, 2005
The Jakarta Post, Palu, Jakarta. Central Sulawesi Police announced on Tuesday that
the bombings in the Christian town of Tentena that killed 21 people on Saturday were
not carried out by suicide bombers.
Suicide bombing suspected in Tentena attack (01/06/2005) #10432
The Jakarta Post, May 31, 2005
Ruslan Sangadji and Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Palu/Jakarta. The recent
bomb attacks in Tentena in Central Sulawesi may have been the work of a suicide
bomber as one victim identified as Iskandar was not known to locals, according to
police, Christian and Muslim leaders.
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