Special Reports

September 16, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Susan Tillou, Research Associate and Coordinator of Asia Studies Programming at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Tillou served this summer as a District Electoral Office with the United Nations Mission in […]

September 15, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Dr. Harold Crouch, senior fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University and author of “The Army and Politics in Indonesia,” (Cornell University Press, 1988). This article […]

September 15, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Admiral Michael McDevitt, a Senior Fellow at CAN Corporation in Washington. A guide to all NAPSNet East Timor Special Reports is available online at: http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/sr/East_Timor/index.html ———————————– EAST TIMOR AND TEACHING LESSONS Michael […]

September 14, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Richard Tanter of Kyoto Seika University in Japan. A guide to all NAPSNet East Timor Special Reports is available online at: http://www.nautilus.org/napsnet/sr/East_Timor/index.html ———————————– The Indonesian Intelligence State Revisited Richard Tanter 1. The […]

Thursday, September 9, 1999, from Berkeley, California, USA The United States Information Agency (USIA) distributed the following digest of international media reports on the violence in East Timor. The digest is comprised of an overall summary followed by summaries of selected items. **** The rapidly unfolding situation in East Timor–where anti-independence militias continue to rampage […]

September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Dr Damien Kingsbury, Executive Officer of the Monash Asia Institute in Australia. Previously, Dr. Kingsbury was East Timor Coordinator of the Australia East Timor International Volunteer Project, the Australian NGO observer group […]

September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This is the draft of a forthcoming article in Indonesia Alert! by Agus Sari, Executive Director of Pelangi, an Indonesian non-governmental organization that focuses on environment and development. ———————————– What To Do On, and In, East […]

September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article is by Walden Bello, Executive Director of Focus on the Global South. ———————————– Perspective Sept. 8, 1999 East Timor: An ASEAN-UN Solution By Walden Bello The world failed East Timor once, in 1975, when […]

September 9, 1999 This is the latest in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. This article was contributed by John B. Haseman, former US defense attache to Indonesia. It will be published in a forthcoming issue of Jane’s Defense Weekly. ———————————– Security Implications for an Independent East Timor John B. […]

September 7, 1999 This is the seventh in an ongoing series of articles on the crisis in East Timor. The following is a statement by US Representative Benjamin Gilman, Republican New York, chairman of the House International Relations Committee. ———————————————— Press Release by US Representative Benjamin Gilman, Republican-New York Statement on East Timor by Rep. […]