Reports

I. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS On January 19, 1999, as Muslims around the world were celebrating the end of the fasting month, a fight broke out on the island of Ambon, in Maluku (Molucca) province, Indonesia, between a Christian public transport…

Human Rights Watch today called for urgent international attention to the escalating communal conflict in and around Ambon in Indonesia's Moluccan islands. The conflict has claimed more than one hundred lives since January 19, when a market brawl escalated into…

(New York, January 7, 1999) - Human Rights Watch today urged the Indonesian government to investigate allegations of bias and partisan participation by government security forces in the bloody communal conflict in the Moluccan islands (Maluku). During the past two…

Indonesia 2/98 Geneva, 10 December 1998 Dear Friends, On 30 November 1998, a tectonic earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian islands of the Maluku and Banggai archipelagos with the islands of Mangole and Taliabu, closest to the quake's…

By Desmond Wright FALABESAHAYA, Indonesia, Dec 2 (Reuters) - One timber factory dominated the economy of this tropical outpost. Parts of it are now a twisted ruin after an earthquake this week which killed at least 41 people. It will take…

Ref: OCHAGVA-98/0357 Indonesia - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 2 2 December 1998 General Situation 1. The Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Jakarta reported that the earthquake which hit the Mollucas on 29 November was recorded by the Indonesian Meteorological…

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked remote islands in eastern Indonesia has jumped to 25 as search teams find more dead and injured. Another 89 people were injured, 23 seriously, and hundreds of buildings destroyed when the…

Kevin McCue of the Australian Earthquake Information centre says the nature of the quake made a tidal wave unlikley: The earthquake was probably a strike-slip earthquake which is an earthquake where one side is moving sideways relative to the other…

OCHA/GVA - 98/0354 Indonesia - Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 1 30 November 1998 SITUATION 1. The U. S. Geological Survey reported that an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 on the Richter scale struck the Molucca Sea (latitude 1.9 degrees south and longitude 124.8…

At least six people have been killed and 30-injured after a huge earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian island of Mangole Police and government officials warn the death toll from the quake, which sent houses sliding…