Informes

Jakarta/Brussels, 5 September 2000: The International Crisis Group (ICG) releases today an Indonesia report analysing the military situation in the post-Soeharto era. Indonesia: Keeping the Military Under Control concludes that while, since May 1998, there has been a drastic decline in…

Indonesia named 19 for questioning Friday, omitting some high-profile military officers. By Dini Djalal, Special to The Christian Science Monitor It is a list more notable for those who didn't make it than those who did. Last Friday, Indonesia named 19…

The Cabinet of the East Timor Transitional Administration has approved an arrangement reached by the United Nations peacekeeping mission and the Government of Indonesia on the establishment of a committee to deal with border issues between East and West…

JAKARTA (Sept. 4) XINHUA - The Indonesian government will evaluate the implementation of the civilian emergency in Maluku Province in the eastern part of the country, The Indonesian Observer reported Monday. The paper quoted Amir Hamzah, chairman of the Christian working…

The IOM office in Kupang, West Timor, provided emergency transportation to some 1,500 people who had fled violence in Ambon, the provincial capital of the troubled Moluccan Islands. They arrived in the night of 18 July on board the…

Catholic Relief Services is currently assessing activities in West Timor, Indonesia after international aid workers were killed on September 6th. "Our commitment to the people of East and West Timor remains firm," Kenneth F. Hackett, Executive Director of Catholic Relief…

"Our programming remains focused in Baucau and the eastern sections of the country," says Tom Garofalo, CRS staff member who just returned from East Timor. "But the immediate priority is to complete an emergency distribution of agricultural tools and seeds…

Betty M. Palao is a nurse from the Philippines. Since the end of October 1999, she has worked with IOM in Timor, where she has brought medical attention to refugees and other people in need. The following account of…

Rising tensions and an increasing number of attacks on foreign aid workers in West Timor reduced the IOM/UNHCR repatriations of East Timorese refugees to a trickle in July and August . In early July, IOM was forced to suspend…

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TOTALS TO EAST TIMOR FOR 1999 - 2000 Australian humanitarian and development assistance for 1999 - 2000 totalled $81 million, comprising: $37 million in humanitarian assistance for the return and rehabilitation of displaced East Timorese and to support emergency food,…