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• Traditional communities and farmers still the victims - Radar Tanjab. January 5, 2007
• Papernas proposes five alternative presidential candidates - Kompas. January 17, 2007
• Anti-Communist Front threatens to break up Papernas Congress - Detik.com. January 18, 2007
• Police yet to issue permit for Papernas Congress - Detik.com. January 18, 2007
• Papernas Congress 'attacked en masse' by Anti-Communist Front - Detik.com. January 19, 2007
• Papernas to sue police for obstructing congress - Detik.com. January 19, 2007
• Papernas questions why police are obstructing congress - Detik.com. January 19, 2007
• Papernas chairperson and general secretary finally elected - Kompas. January 21, 2007
• Aceh to go ahead with formation of Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Tempo Interactive. January 24, 2007

• Komnas HAM: President Yudhoyono knows a lot - Kompas. February 7, 2007
• Flood victims protest over statement that floods are being exaggerated - Liputan 6. February 7, 2007
• Kontras urges police to focus on Pollycarpus' phone contacts with BIN - Detik.com. February 7, 2007
• Thukul’s widow: The house must summon the president - Tempo Interactive. February 8, 2007
• Flood victims demand Jakarta governor’s resignation - Detik.com. February 8, 2007
• Photos of Jakarta governor, deputy governor smeared with mud - Liputan 6. February 9, 2007
• Families of rights victims say Attorney General should be removed - Tempo Interactive. February 12, 2007
• Political influence of right violators creating impunity - Kompas. February 12, 2007
• Flood victims call on Sutiyoso to resign - Detik.com. February 21, 2007
• Acehnese Peoples Party to hold first congress - Aceh Kita. February 22, 2007
• PRA: Draft regulation on local parties must be ratified immediately - Aceh Kita. February 27, 2007

• Scores of Aceh Peoples Party congress participants poisoned - Aceh Kita. March 1, 2007
• Acehnese People’s Party elects new leadership - Aceh Kita. March 2, 2007
• East Java Papernas conference attacked by Islamic group - Papernas News. March 4, 2007
• Islamic group attacks regional Papernas conference - Liputan 6. March 5, 2007
• Papernas demands police arrest leader of anti-communist group - Detik.com. March 5, 2007
• Acehnese People's Party begins establishing new leadership team - Aceh Kita. March 5, 2007
• GAM declares commitment to fight for past rights violations - Aceh Kita. March 8, 2007
• Women activists and transsexuals commemorate IWD in Aceh - Detik.com. March 8, 2007
• Acehnese women demand justice on IWD - Aceh Kita. March 8, 2007
• Activists oppose draft law on capital investment, neoliberalism - Detik.com. March 13, 2007
• Indonesian History Community condemns prohibition on text books - Tempo Interactive. March 19, 2007
• Students demand release of farmers, condemn US aggression in Iraq - Detik.com. March 20, 2007
• Yogya students protest four years since US invasion of Iraq - Detik.com. March 20, 2007
• President holds cabinet meeting, septic tank overflows... Yuck! - Detik.com. March 20, 2007
• Acehnese volunteer submits judicial review of hate sowing articles - Tempo Interactive. March 21, 2007
• Summary of government regulation on Acehnese local political parties - Aceh Kita. March 21, 2007
• Draft Law on Political Parties – Looking for a backbone for the republic - Kompas. March 22, 2007
• Protesters say draft law on capital investment a ‘new form of colonialism’ - Detik.com. March 23, 2007
• LSI: PDI-P benefiting from decline in Yudhoyono and Kalla's popularity - Detik.com. March 27, 2007
• Papernas mass rally in Jakarta attacked by right-wing thugs - Detik.com. March 29, 2007
• Right wing, military-linked groups mobilise to prevent Papernas declaration - Media Indonesia. March 29, 2007
• Scores injured in clashes between Papernas and right-wing thugs - Media Indonesia. March 29, 2007
• Papernas calls on police to fully investigate FPI attack - Detik.com. March 29, 2007
• Despite FPI attack, Papernas to go ahead with launch in June - Media Indonesia. March 29, 2007
• Gus Dur urges police to take action against right-wing thugs - Detik.com. March 30, 2007

• Papernas to sue organisations behind Thursday’s attack - Kompas. April 2, 2007
• Papernas demonstrators in Madiun burn FPI flags - Tempo Interactive. April 3, 2007
• Is the New Left in Indonesia a threat? - Liputan 6. April 4, 2007
• Hamid Usman: Investigators to announce name of new suspect in Munir case - Detik.com. April 5, 2007
• New suspect in Munir murder case a general? - Detik.com. April 5, 2007
• Suciwati: New suspect mustn't be small-fry, but the mastermind - Detik.com. April 6, 2007
• Munir case: Police still unwilling to name new suspect - Tempo Interactive. April 9, 2007
• Papernas reports LPI, FPI and FBR to police for the second time - Detik.com. April 9, 2007
• Papernas reports leaders of FPI and LPI to police - Media Indonesia. April 9, 2007
• Police: New suspect in Munir murder from Garuda, initials YS and R - Detik.com. April 10, 2007
• Government must make breakthrough in Munir case - HRWG - Kompas. April 10, 2007
• Housewives call on police to cleanse Indonesia of robed thugs - Detik.com. April 10, 2007
• Court rejects civil suit against House over pornography bill - Detik.com. April 11, 2007
• Former TPF member calls on Yudhoyono to honor promise in Munir case - Detik.com. April 11, 2007
• Suciwati: Don’t announce new suspects just to entertain us - Detik.com. April 11, 2007
• Announcement of new suspects linked to UN rights commission hearing - Kompas. April 11, 2007
• FPI accuses Papernas of spreading communist ideology, undermining the state - Sinar Indonesia Baru. April 11, 2007
• Prominent NU cleric Abdullah Faqih to lead anti-Papernas group - Antara News. April 14, 2007
• Prosecutor seizes books deemed to endanger national stability - Detik.com. April 16, 2007
• Papernas to lodge complaint over New Order style harassment - Jawa Pos. April 17, 2007
• Papernas declaration postponed due to threats from right-wing thugs - Kompas Cyber Media. April 19, 2007
• Police postpone Papernas conference ‘for the sake of security’ - Koran Sindo. April 19, 2007
• Papernas declaration in Medan cancelled after harassment by right-wing thugs - Koran Sindo. April 19, 2007
• Pedicab drivers and Papernas demonstrate in Madiun - Metro TV News. April 23, 2007
• Nyai Ontosoroh commemorates Kartini Day in Jakarta - Detik.com. April 20, 2007
• Konfrontasi - Kompas. April 24, 2007
• Calls for independent candidates in regional elections growing - Kompas. April 24, 2007
• Papernas conference in Sukoharjo forcibly broken up by Islamic thugs - Tempo Interactive. April 29, 2007
• Papernas flags burnt at FPI protest in Bekasi - Media Indonesia. April 30, 2007
• Papernas postpones regional meeting to avoid clash with FPI - Liputan 6. April 30, 2007
• Papernas declaration in Sukoharjo broken up by right-wing thugs - Radar Solo. April 30, 2007

• Compilation of reports from Detik.com on May Day in Indonesia - Detik.com. May 1, 2007
• First May Day in Aceh demands end to contract labour, rights for women workers - Aceh Kita. May 1, 2007
• FPI accuses Papernas of being a ‘neo-PKI movement’ - Sinar Haprapan. May 2, 2007
• SEGERA refutes 'communist' accusations after successful mass action in Riau - Riau Today. May 1-2, 2007
• PRA appeals to public not to be provoked by bomb attacks - Aceh Kita. May 7, 2007
• Papernas Solo: ‘This intimidation will not influence our line of march’ - Radar Solo. May 8, 2007
• Papernas: 'The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on' - Radar Solo. May 9, 2007
• Papernas offices in Central Sulawesi attacked, three hospitalised - Detik.com. May 13, 2007
• Papernas offices under surveillance prior to Sunday’s attack - Tempo Interactive. May 14, 2007
• Assailants believed to be soldiers, Papernas demands clarification - Detik.com. May 14, 2007
• Soldiers attack Papernas office in Palu, three seriously injured - Kompas. May 14, 2007
• Papernas asks to meet with Yudhoyono to report harassment - Detik.com. May 20, 2007
• There is a political plot to destroy Papernas - Detik.com. May 20, 2007
• 53 new political parties have registered with justice department - Tempo Interactive. May 21, 2007
• Women activists declare new political party in Aceh - Aceh Kita. May 21, 2007
• AGO hopes recall of ‘erroneous’ history books will be completed this year - Detik.com. May 21, 2007
• Compilation of protests commemorating nine years since fall of Suharto - Detik.com. May 21, 2007
• Venezuela: Today's revolutions mean participation - Pikiran Rakyat. May 21, 2007
• Max Lane - Indonesia, an unfinished revolution - Suara Pembaruan Daily. May 23, 2007
• Indonesia will never be a nation until the national revolution is complete - Jurnal Nasional. May 24, 2007
• Sutiyoso should have been arrested – Indonesian NGOs - Detik.com. May 31, 2007
• Sutiyoso incident a 'routine' matter in cases of human rights violations - Detik.com. May 31, 2007
• Sutiyoso incident designed to slander TNI - Suyanto - Detik.com. May 31, 2007

• Legislators commend intelligence campaign to counter ‘erroneous’ information about Papua - Detik.com. June 4, 2007
• Protesters in Bandung condemn shooting of farmers in Pasuruan - Tempo Interactive. June 4, 2007
• TNI ‘removes’ students and farmers protesting Pasuruan shootings - Detik.com. June 4, 2007
• GAM initiates formation of local political party - Aceh Kita. June 5, 2007
• Poor People's Union calls for independent candidates in Jakarta election - Detik.com. June 6, 2007
• Munir was with someone else at Changi Airport - Ongen - Detik.com. June 6, 2007
• Thousands protest against plan to build Muria nuclear plant - Detik.com. June 12, 2007
• Local regent supports demonstration against Muria nuclear plant - Detik.com. June 12, 2007
• Papernas and LMND activists harassed in Balikpapan - Papernas News. June 16, 2007
• Skeletal remains found buried in building owned by Exxon Mobil - Aceh Kita. June 21, 2007
• Environmental NGOs demonstrate against Muria nuclear power plant - Detik.com. June 25, 2007
• Draft political law conflict with freedom of association and assembly - Papernas - Okezone.com. June 27, 2007

• Book dissertation: ‘An Unfinished Nation - Indonesia, before and after Suharto’ - Pembebasan Discussion List. July 2, 2007
• 'Mud people' dog forestry minister over environment - Detik.com. July 3, 2007
• Angry forestry minister gets into fight with demonstrators over microphone - Detik.com. July 3, 2007
• Election promises ‘just another brand of soy sauce’ - Detik.com. July 3, 2007
• Urban Poor Union demands welfare cards for poor households - Detik.com. July 4, 2007
• Papuan students in Yogyakarta blockade road, call for referendum - Detik.com. July 4, 2007
• Papuan students in Yogyakarta reject special autonomy, call for dialogue - Detik.com. July 4, 2007
• Housewives, farmers call for capital investment law to be revoked - Detik.com. July 5, 2007
• Papua students demonstrate at US embassy, call for referendum - Detik.com. July 5, 2007
• Aceh People's Party opposes privatization of fertilizer company - Aceh Kita. July 5, 2007
• Flag-raising incidents an attempt to paint government as weak on separatism - Detik.com. July 5, 2007
• Foreign intelligence agencies accused of being behind separatist incidents - Detik.com. July 7, 2007
• NKRI Defenders Front to conduct sweeps for separatist supporters in Yogyakarta - Detik.com. July 7, 2007
• Government should refuse entry to foreign rights monitors if necessary - Detik.com. July 10, 2007
• Hope that UN rights monitor visit will internationalise Munir case - Detik.com. July 10, 2007
• Compilation of reports on new GAM Party - Detik.com. July 8-10, 2007
• President's speech in Bali just rhetoric - Papernas - Okezone.com. July 12, 2007
• UN commissioner raises gender equality issues, past rights abuses in Aceh - Aceh Kita. July 12, 2007
• UN commissioner asked to pressure Jakarta to resolve past rights abuses in Aceh - Aceh Kita. July 12, 2007
• Call for investigation into violence against journalists during Aceh conflict - Aceh Kita. July 12, 2007
• Poor demand government subsidise milk, basic food items - Okezone.com. July 13, 2007
• Urban poor 'fry rocks' to protest price increase in basic commodities - Okezone.com. July 13, 2007
• Dissatisfied with reform process, 1998 activists threaten to make 'comeback' - Detik.com. July 15, 2007
• The Jakarta weekly commuters guide to protests...? - Detik.com. July 16, 2007
• Protesters want Japanese company nationalised to overcome electricity crisis - Tempo Interactive. July 17, 2007
• Victims of Aceh conflict to hold second congress in July - Aceh Kita. July 19, 2007
• Healthcare advocacy for the poor – An interview with Zely Ariane - New Perspectives. July 19, 2007
• Victims of Aceh conflict call on government resolve past right abuses - Aceh Kita. July 23, 2007
• Muria residents seek DPD support against planned nuclear reactor - Detik.com. July 24, 2007

• Urban Poor, transvestites accuse candidates of being cowards - Detik.com. August 4, 2007
• Suspect says BIN issued recommendation for Polycarpus to join Munir’s flight - Detik.com. August 10, 2007
• Rights activists in Aceh charged under public incitement articles - Detik.com. August 10, 2007
• Suspect claims gave official letter from BIN directly to Pollycarpus - Detik.com. August 11, 2007
• Pollycarpus' lawyer seeks clarification over BIN involvement in Munir murder - Detik.com. August 13, 2007
• Asmara Nababan: Recommendation letter proves Pollycarpus was BIN agent - Detik.com. August 13, 2007
• Demonstrators say Indonesia still not independent - Detik.com. August 17, 2007
• FNPBI: We are not independent yet! - Detik.com. August 17, 2007
• Workers Challenge Alliance demands reasonable national wage - Kompas. August 21, 2007

• Clash between Papernas and right-wing thugs narrowly averted - Okezone.com. September 3, 2007
• Special park for protesters to be built in redesigned parliament - Detik.com. September 5, 2007
• Protests commemorating Munir’s murder to target intelligence agency - Detik.com. September 7, 2007
• Munir's window demands that BIN 'cleanse' itself of activist's murderer - Detik.com. September 7, 2007
• Intelligence agency officials refuse to accept ‘flowers for Munir’ - Detik.com. September 7, 2007
• Protesters call on Yudhoyono to exercise authority in Munir case - Detik.com. September 7, 2007
• Peaceful action in Surabaya remembers murder of rights activist Munir - Tempo Interactive. September 7, 2007
• Three years after Munir murder, Yogya activist call for BIN to be disbanded - Detik.com. September 7, 2007
• Strongest resistance to new bylaw will come from the poor - Detik.com. September 12, 2007
• Buskers, street children say bylaw disregards the rights of the poor - Detik.com. September 14, 2007
• Students rally across Jakarta against new public order bylaw - Detik.com. September 19, 2007
• 1965 victims to summon Yudhoyono over request for rehabilitation - Tempo Interactive. September 21, 2007
• Urban poor protest new bylaw on public order - Detik.com. September 21, 2007
• Poor People’s Alliance demands public order bylaw be revoked - Kompas. September 22, 2007
• Majority of poor workers can’t afford to fast during Ramadan - Detik.com. September 23, 2007
• West Papua Komnas HAM chair terrorised following UN rights representative visit - Kompas. September 24, 2007
• Protesters say new public order bylaw 'makes no sense' - Detik.com. September 24, 2007
• Police dismiss harassment of Papuan Komnas HAM representative as ‘subjective’ - Kompas. September 25, 2007
• Transsexuals say new bylaw on public order will increase discrimination - Kompas. September 25, 2007
• Intimidation of Papuan rights representative could tarnish Indonesia’s image - Kompas. September 26, 2007
• Journalists in Bali condemn violence by Burmese junta - Detik.com. September 30, 2007

• Most Indonesian support UN initiative to recover Suharto's ill-gotten wealth: Survey - Kompas. October 1, 2007
• A ‘love letter’ for the Burmese junta - Detik.com. October 3, 2007
• Indonesian workers call for economic sanctions against Burmese junta - Detik.com. October 3, 2007
• Reform of Indonesian military still too slow: NGOs - Kompas. October 6, 2007
• Reform of the TNI - lots of homework left to do - Kompas. October 6, 2007
• Drastic decline in support for Islamic based parties: Survey - Kompas. October 6, 2007
• Big potential for youth leaders to come forward - Kompas. October 15, 2007
• Voters want regeneration of political leadership - Survey - Kompas. October 15, 2007
• Solving Munir case a measure of candidates commitment to reform - Kompas. October 17, 2007
• The ballad of a scavenger from Indramayu - Kompas. October 19, 2007
• Indonesian public fed up with Yudhoyono administration - Survey - Kompas. October 22, 2007
• Environmental activists in Bali oppose carbon trading mechanisms - Tempo Interactive. October 23, 2007
• Workers demand payment of outstanding wages, salary increases - Detik.com. October 23, 2007
• Yudhoyono administration’s efforts to uphold human rights just for show - Kompas. October 23, 2007
• Serial - Building Indonesia-Venezuela solidarity - Pikiran Rakyat. October 25, 2007
• Seven locations... seven demonstrations... - Tempo Interactive. October 25, 2007
• Concern that Munir case will become political commodity in 2009 elections - Kompas. October 28, 2007
• Hundreds to demonstrate in different parts of Jakarta today - Tempo Interactive. October 30, 2007
• Police sabotage Papernas mass meeting in Makassar - Kompas. October 30, 2007

• Police need to explain arrest of Papuan human rights lawyer - Komnas HAM - Kompas. November 1, 2007
• Doubts over neutrality of presiding judge in judicial review of Munir case - Detik.com. November 1, 2007
• Activists call on President Yudhoyono to solve outstanding rights cases - Kompas. November 2, 2007
• Activists condemn letter seeking amnesty for former Acehnese governor - Aceh Kita. November 3, 2007
• Urban poor accuse governor of lying, failing to keep election promise - Detik.com. November 12, 2007
• Public has doubts over new political parties - Survey - Kompas. November 12, 2007
• Islamic leaders indifference to social problems leading to new ‘deviant’ sects - Kompas. November 15, 2007
• Aceh Referendum Information Center to form local political party - Aceh Kita. November 16, 2007

• Foreign environmental activists threatened with deportation - Detik.com. December 3, 2007
• Jakarta to be besieged by demos today, traffic expected to be worse than usual - Detik.com. December 3, 2007
• Environment activists say advanced countries applying double standards - Kompas. December 3, 2007
• Public fed up with stalled national leadership regeneration - Survey - Kompas. December 3, 2007
• Protests to add to Jakarta traffic congestion today - Tempo Interactive. December 4, 2007
• Protesters say government reluctant to solve past rights violations - Kompas. December 7, 2007
• Five demonstrations to colour to Jakarta’s streets this weekend - Tempo Interactive. December 8, 2007
• Protesters commemorate Munir's birthday, call for justice - Java Post. December 9, 2007, 2007
• Protest action in Bali condemns US intransigence on climate change - Tempo Interactive. December 10, 2007
• Protesters in Bali call for end to US investment in Papua - Detik.com. December 10, 2007
• Clash between Political Committee of the Poor and Islamic thugs narrowly averted - Antara News. December 10, 2007
• Reform Star Party eyeing coalition with party of former President Suharto - Java Post. December 10, 2007
• Protests call on government to resolve past rights abuses in Aceh - Aceh Kita. December 11, 2007
• Big political parties behind emergence of pro-corruption movement - Kompas. December 12, 2007
• Activists in Bali reject nuclear option to mitigate climate change - Detik.com. December 13, 2007
• More demos today, drivers advised to avoid Monas, Kuningan and Block M - Detik.com. December 13, 2007
• Be on alert for protests, avoid roads near the AGO, PLN and police HQ - Detik.com. December 14, 2007
• At least seven protest actions to enliven Jakarta today - Tempo Interactive. December 17, 2007
• Voting public fed up with 'status quo', prefer new candidates, change - Kompas. December 17, 2007
• Jakarta hit by protest actions in lead up to holiday period - Detik.com. December 18, 2007