Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's crackdown on militant Islamic groups has been widely praised in recent years, particularly by the United States. Proof of its success rested in the fact that, after annual terrorist attacks earlier this decade, none had taken place in nearly four years.

Nivell Rayda – At least 20 prominent lawyers declared their support for the Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday, saying members of the group were ready to legally challenge any effort to damage the legitimacy of the independent body.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out a judicial review request over a Criminal Code article about provocation in public filed by former coordinating minister for economic affairs Rizal Ramli.

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Golkar would rather join with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's coalition than be left out of power, party officials admitted Tuesday.

Fourteen local Papuans have been arrested over the series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine last weekend.

At least several of them are believed to be members of the Amungme tribe whose lands were expropriated by the Indonesian government to make way for the Freeport operations.

Tom Allard in Jakarta, Brendan Nicholson in Canberra – Australia and Indonesia say they will take their close police and security relationship "to a new level of intensity" after the Jakarta bombings.

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – Indonesian police Tuesday questioned teachers at an Islamic boarding school amid reports a former student was one of two suicide bombers involved in last week's Jakarta bombings.

Candra Malik – Hard-line preacher Abu Bakar Bashir was reportedly barred by police on Tuesday from delivering a sermon in Malang, East Java, after complaints from local residents marked the second major public rejection of Bashir's hard-line push for an Islamic state.

Jakarta – Intelligence experts say the recent presidential election distracted the police from the activities of terrorist organizations, leading to the recent bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is implementing bureaucratic reforms halfheartedly, Gadjah Mada University's Indonesian Judiciary Supervisory Community (MAPPI) said Monday. The Attorney General has had reform plans since 2005, during the tenure of Abdurrahman Saleh," MAPPI chairman Hasril Hertanto said Monday.

Joe Cochrane, Bogor – Irwansyah is in a bit of a bind. The 33-year-old chief of the Bogor city police crime unit is investigating a criminal defamation complaint against an 18-year-old girl who called one of her friends a "dog" on the social networking site Facebook.

Jayapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police have questioned 12 people in connection with deadly shootings near the giant Grasberg mine in Papua operated by a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A draft bylaw on the planning and improvement of traditional markets, shopping centers and modern stores, currently being drawn up by the Makassar municipal council, has raised protests from traditional market vendors who claim it will disadvantage them.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The results of the General Elections Commission's (KPU) official vote counting have confirmed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's triumph over his rivals in several provinces as the deadline for the KPU to announce the winner of the recent presidential election nears.

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – The suicide bomber at the Ritz-Carlton gave a non-existent room number as he entered its restaurant. He deflected queries from staff and calmly ordered a cup of coffee before detonating two explosive devices.

Noordin Mohammed Top is always a step ahead of authorities, writes Tom Allard in Jakarta.

The fugitive terrorist suspect Noordin Mohammed Top has married at least two different women since he's been on the run, using these new family ties to build a network of supporters who will protect him at any cost.

TAPOL warmly welcomes the decision of the Papuan Amungme Tribal Council to file a lawsuit against the Indonesian Government, the Coordinating Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie and Freeport, the operator of the gold and copper mine, which has been exploiting Papua's natural resources for more than thirty years.

Paul Toohey – A "highly protected" Australian Federal Police ballistics report shows that one of Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta's personal guards, who claims he shot dead the rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, could not have done so.

Jakarta – Leaders of various religious groups as well as anti-violence activists held two separate mass prayers on Monday at the site of the Jakarta hotel bombings, which killed nine people and injured more than 50 on Friday.

Camelia Pasandaran – The nation's capital has handed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his running mate Boediono a landslide result in the presidential elections, with the incumbent securing more than 70 percent of the city's vote, the General Elections Commission confirmed on Monday.

Damien Kingsbury – Just two weeks ago, observers were congratulating Indonesia for a presidential election that was seen to consolidate that country's process of democratisation.

Camelia Pasandaran – Still crying foul over the July 8 presidential election, runner-up Megawati Sukarnoputri will likely refuse to sign the final official results slated to be announced this week, a senior member of her campaign team said on Monday.

Febriamy Hutapea – After taking a long, hard look at its back-to-back defeats in the recent polls, Golkar Party leaders have indicated that the party would accept its failures and would probably no longer challenge the result of the July 8 presidential election.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda reportedly led a failed effort to strengthen the future powers of Southeast Asia's first regional human rights body during talks Sunday in Thailand.

Plans for the Asean Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights are set to be approved at the Asean conference now underway in the Thai resort town of Phuket.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Indonesia, Jakarta – The El Nino climate phenomenon could hit Indonesia this year, producing a dry spell that could threaten its rice fields.

The Australian foreign minister says he's leaving it up to Indonesian authorities to decide whether to take up his country's offer for more assistance to investigate the deadly shootings in Papua.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Terrorism has no place in any religion, the leader of one of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations said at a prayer gathering Monday for victims of the recent Jakarta hotel bombings.

Marcus J Sihaloho – Former Vice Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto brushed off questions about his political rivalry with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as he visited the site of twin hotel bombings in Jakarta on Monday.

Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor – The Jakarta bombers aimed to destabilise Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's technocratic, mainstream, economically liberal government days after its landslide re-election, says one of Australia's leading Indonesia experts.

A regular breakfast meeting was the perfect terrorist target, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta.

The terrorist knew exactly where to go. Seventeen of Indonesia's top executives had just been served breakfast in a private lounge off the main lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – An extraordinary address by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in which he all but linked one of his political rivals to Friday's terrorist attacks has raised questions about the leader's judgment in a crisis.

Surabaya – Suicide bombings at two Jakarta hotels on Friday had nothing to do with Jemaah Islamiyah, a member of the Muslim Lawyers Team said on Monday.

"Please, don't link the bombing attacks to the Jemaah Islamiyah organization," Fahmi Bachmid said.

Presi Mandari – Indonesian police confirmed regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah as the culprits behind twin suicide blasts at Jakarta hotels, and said one of the bombers had been identified.

Dessy Sagita – An Islamic boarding school in Central Java founded by radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the reputed leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group, denied on Sunday that three of its graduates had carried out the terrorist suicide bombings in Jakarta on Friday.

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – A group of activists urged the government Saturday to stop linking Friday's hotel bombings to the recent presidential election as they said it would only worsen the situation.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As first light emerged and a soft mist hung over the rainforest, Drew Grant had every reason to be upbeat as he relaxed in the back of a Toyota LandCruiser, his mate and fellow Melburnian Lukas Biggs at the wheel, carefully negotiating the steep road from US mining company Freeport's Grasberg mine to Timika.

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities said Sunday that there is an increasing evidence that the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Islamist group responsible for more than 300 murders in attacks dating back to 2000, was responsible for Friday's deadly attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta.

Jakarta – Indonesia's healthy economic growth and market resilience will sustain the damaging impact of blasts that ripped through the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels on Friday, analysts said.

Christian Motte – For the sake of their own safety, thousands of Freeport employees are temporarily forbidden to leave the company's Tembagapura mining site in Papua following a series of fatal shootings, a spokesman said on Saturday.

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – Experts have written the obituary of extremist violence in Indonesia, but the violent extremists keep refusing to read the script. Friday morning's deadly twin bombings of Western-branded hotels in Jakarta are proof that complacency in the fight against terrorism in Indonesia remains misplaced.

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The State Intelligent Agency (BIN) has admitted its failure to detect the infiltration of terrorists allegedly behind the bomb blasts that ripped through the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels Friday in the Mega Kuningan business district, South Jakarta.

Jakarta Globe – A heavy smoke haze from forest fires curbed visibility in Riau early on Friday, forcing delays in flights landing and taking off from the Pekanbaru airport, an official said.

"Visibility was very low this morning. It was still at just 300 meters at 7:00 am," said Farman, from the meteorology office in the Riau capital of Pekanbaru.

Jakarta – "Foreign countries" could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near a US-owned goldmine in Indonesia's remote Papua province that have killed three people, the defence minister said on Thursday.

Jakarta – While trailing presidential candidates have claimed the July 8 presidential election process was "flawed and unfair", the latest survey results from the Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) reveal that grass-roots voters have an entirely different sentiment.

A Papua human rights activist has dismissed claims by Indonesia's Defence Minister that foreign governments or NGOs could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine in Papua.

Tanalee Smith, Adelaide – An Australian think tank predicted that Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah might launch new attacks just a day before Friday's deadly hotel bombings in Indonesia.

Telly Nathalia and Olivia Rondonuwu, Jakarta – Bomb blasts ripped through luxury hotels in the heart of Indonesia's capital on Friday, killing eight people and wounding dozens in attacks the president said badly hurt confidence in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.

A former journalist's return to the site of the massacre of five of his colleagues in Balibo sparked bitter memories and a determination to record the event, writes Fiona Purdon.

In November 2004, the newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised to bring the killer of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib to justice, a killing he once referred to as a test case on "how much Indonesia has changed".

But to this day, people are still asking, who killed the country's most fearless and prominent human rights activist?

Greg Poulgrain – At dawn last Saturday in the Indonesian province of Papua, on the mountain-road near the world's largest gold mine, 29-year-old Australian Drew Grant was shot and killed. The police said it was "a planned operation by an unidentified group".