Sander Thoenes Award
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The Sander Thoenes Prize is an annual award given in memory of the former Jakarta correspondent of the Financial Times, who was killed in East Timor on 21 September 1999.
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Obituary
Determination behind a charming smile
Sander Thoenes , who was brutally killed in Dili, the capital of East Timor, on an assignment for the Financial Times, was a foreign correspondent of outstanding potential, driven by a joyful natural curiosity and a determination to get to the bottom of the story.
The intern’s view
A fantastic insight
Helen Warrell was the 2008 Sander Thoenes prize winner. Read her account of three months with the FT.
1997 - a very bad year
Regime tarnished by man-made calamities
This year’s string of disasters could scarcely have come at a worse time. Few doubt that Indonesia can and will return to the path of rapid growth. But it will be a painful process.
Indonesia’s fires
Smoke at the end of the world
Indonesia’s fires do not rage through the forests. They sneak through the peat swamps of Kalimantan and Sumatra, invisible at times to both human eye and satellites alike.
