Reports

Indonesian President Visits East Timor In the first trip to East Timor by an Indonesian leader since the territory voted for independence, President Abdurrahmann Wahid expressed his sympathies for all the suffering the East Timorese have endured and reiterated the…

ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta, 10 March The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has put into operation its Fire Suppression Mobilisation measures in the districts of Riau Province, Indonesia to contain the spread of forest fires and smoke haze. These…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia's neighbors on Friday sent in firefighters to train Indonesian crews battling bushfires on Sumatra island as the haze-making blazes spread. The firefighters were sent under a plan drawn up after health-threatening smoke from Indonesian fires…

Returns: The total number of organised and spontaneous returns into East Timor from West Timor, other parts of Indonesia, Macau and Australia now stands at over 150, 416 persons. On 9 March 386 persons returned to Dili from Kupang…

Dili, 10 March 2000 Weapons in ship search East Timor Border Control officers yesterday confiscated two hand grenades, three airguns and several packets of airgun pellets, one ounce of hashish and a number of bayonets from the passengers on a ship…

There is a continuing need to return displaced people in West Timor to their communities of origin in East Timor, in order for rehabilitation, reconstruction and development to begin. The safe and orderly return transportation of displaced people is…

SRSG returns to Dili Dili, 9 March 2000 UNTAET OFFICIALS MEET INDONESIAN FM OVER INCURSIONS The director of the UNTAET Political Affairs Division, Peter Galbraith, expressed today the great concern of the United Nations about the recent border incidents during a meeting…

Senior officials from the United Nations mission in East Timor met today with representatives of the Indonesian Government in Jakarta to discuss the recent wave of militia-led violence along the border with West Timor. Peter Galbraith, the head of the…

NAIROBI/BANGKOK, 9 March 2000 - The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today expressed support for the Indonesian Government's rapid response to the forest fire emergency in Sumatra. UNEP's Asia-Pacific Regional Director Nirmal Andrews said he was concerned at the prospect…

Appeal Target: US$ 73,250 Geneva, 9 March 2000 Dear Colleagues, As a result of the continuing ethnic violence in Maluku, tens of thousands of people have been displaced, large numbers of innocent people have been killed and several thousands…