The Amrozi Circus has left town. The three terrorists most responsible for the carnage in Bali in October 2002 have finally been executed after months of uncertainty that turned the waiting into a public spectacle that only upset and infuriated relatives of the victims and prolonged their pain.

Ken Ward – The long-delayed execution of the three Bali bombers ends one of the strangest sagas in Indonesia's legal history. It is not unusual that Mukhlas, Amrozi and Imam Samudra were put to death five years after their sentencing; many Indonesians on death row have waited far longer.

Mark Forbes, Jakarta – Blood has again stained Indonesian soil from an act of coldly calculated violence, after bullets ripped into Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Mukhlas, strapped to posts on an isolated clearing near their Nusa Kambangan prison.

Jakarta – Bali Police chief Insp. Gen. Teuku Ashikin Husein on Monday said his institution had no option but to enforce the new pornography law in the province.

The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) calls on the Australian Government to raise the human rights situation in West Papua with the Indonesian Foreign Minister.

The Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda is leading a delegation to the 9th meeting of the Australia-Indonesia Ministerial Forum to be held in Canberra on November the 11th and 12th.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – An expert said that up to now the police war on thugs has set unclear objectives and therefore resulted in even greater confusion in the field.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Indonesia's verbal traditions are endangered because of the country's negligence in preserving the heritage amid streams of contemporary culture, the Association of Verbal Traditions (ATL) said Saturday.

Ridwan Max Sijabat – More than 300 mudflow victims Saturday stopped work to heighten the huge dike in their village, protesting the suspension of damaged assets payments.

Children held posters and banners demanding Lapindo pay the compensation, while many women planted banana trees on the dike.

Jakarta – Indonesia's handling of the executions of three militants for the 2002 Bali bombings caused unnecessary suffering for victims of the blasts and helped fan domestic passions, Indonesian media said on Monday.

Lisbon – The Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (Fretilin) threatened to abandon the Timorese Parliament by the end of the year, accusing the deputies of the parliamentary majority of complicity with the local government and a boycott of the initiatives of the opposition.

Jason Tedjasukmana, Jakarta – Three men involved in the 2002 bombing of two nightclubs in Bali were executed on Nov. 9 on the Indonesian prison island of Nusakambangan off the coast of Java.

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – The Kalimantan regional office of the state minister for the environment has blamed the presence of a number of recalcitrant companies for natural disasters occurring on the island.

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – The state, through President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), should issue an immediate apology and rehabilitate the names of the pro-democracy activists and the families of the victims of the forced abduction in 1997-1998. This is necessary in order to solve the impasse in the legal proceedings into the case.

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Trouble appears to be brewing in East Timor again as security forces step up roadblocks and increase security around government buildings.

Fretilin, the largest political party, is organising an anti-Government protest march across the country, prompting threats by the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, to jail participants.

Heri Retnowati, Tenggulun, Indonesia – Three Indonesian militants executed on Sunday for the 2002 Bali bombings were buried by their families at ceremonies attended by thousands of sobbing supporters shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is great).

Jakarta – Believing that the government has failed to side with them, workers have started campaigning for people not to vote in the 2009 legislative and presidential elections. The reason, they feel that it is pointless giving political support to the government.

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – With the elections drawing near, political tension is already heating up with Golkar Party leader Jusuf Kalla and People's Conscience Party (Hanura) head Wiranto being embroiled in a dispute that could see them in court over libel.

Jakarta – A government task force has undervalued the net worth of the Indonesian Military's (TNI) business units with just a year to go before a deadline for the state to claim all TNI business assets, a rights group has said.

Arlina Arshad, Tenggulun – T-shirts praising the Islamists behind the Bali attacks went on sale in the village of bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas on Saturday, as the wait for their executions took a macabre twist.

Jakarta – Global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has maintained its outlook on Indonesia' debt rating as stable, thanks partly to a declining level of debt and improvements in monetary policy management.

The agency affirmed Monday the country's foreign currency debt rating BB-, which is still third level below investment grade.

Denpasar – Despite Golkar's support for the recent passage of the controversial pornography law at the House of Representatives in Jakarta, Bali's chapter of the party has reiterated its strong opposition to it.

Dissatisfaction with the laws passage was disclosed by Cok Budi Suryawan, head of Golkar Bali, after a plenary session of the Bali Legislative Council on Thursday.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Indonesian filmmakers had for decades been dealing with censorship in the name of politics and morality. And they have never been happy about it.

Ever since the dictator Soeharto was toppled in 1998, a number of filmmakers have persistently argued artists need to have greater freedom.

The once famous anecdote Petrus (mysterious shootings) probably re-emerges in the minds of many people in reaction to the newly appointed National Police (Polri) chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri's decision to stage an all out war against thugs. Will police repeat the petrus practices in eradicating banditism?

Ruslan Sangadji and Indra Harsaputra, Palu, Surabaya – Three organizations held a peace rally at the Hasanuddin traffic circle in East Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday evening to call for the abolition of death sentence in Indonesia, saying it is not an effective deterrent.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Three days after the National Police declared its war against thugs, questions still remain as to whether the operation will give residents more peace or not.

So far, nearly a thousand alleged street thugs have been taken off the streets of main cities throughout the country and brought in to police headquarters.

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy head Muchdi Purwopranjono employed a pilot to murder human rights activist Munir Said Thalib in 2004, a court heard Thursday.

Earlier this year, former Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the murder.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) proposed to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday that the retirement age of Supreme Court Justices remain at 65 years, as stipulated under current law.

The Supreme Court put forth a bill, under deliberation at the House of Representatives, which allows the retirement age be extended to 70 years.

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Home Minister Mardiyanto is scheduled to install Alex Noerdin and Eddy Yusuf as South Sumatra's new governor and vice governor on Friday.

Dini M., Surabaya – Around 500 laborers representing East Java's Indonesian Laborers Union Alliance Congress (KASBI) has urged the government to annul the four-ministerial decree limiting laborers' wage from exceeding the rate of economic growth.

E. Mei Amelia R, Jakarta – Five protest actins will be held today in various parts of Central and South Jakarta. Those passing through these areas should be on guard for traffic jams.

Jason Tedjasukmana, Jakarta – It's a moment that has been many years in the making. The far-reaching anti-pornography bill, according to the Islamic parties that drafted it, is an attempt to define and regulate pornography in order to protect women and children who, they say, are vulnerable an increasing immorality creeping into Indonesia.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Three former House of Representatives legislators admitted Wednesday they received Bank Indonesia money in exchange for aiding the settlement of BI liquidity support (BLBI) graft cases and the passage of an amendment to the BI law in 2003.

Ati Nurbaiti, Sanur, Bali – Women's groups, NGOs and lawyers said Wednesday they might file for a judicial review of the newly passed anti-pornography law, while activists called for public education campaigns, research and rallies to be held to have the law repealed.

Henni Marlina, Jakarta – Hundreds of demonstrators from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration against a joint decree (SKB) signed by four ministers on wages. They were demanding that a minimum national wage of 3.5 million rupiah per month be put into effect.

Jakarta – Islamic extremists rallied in the Indonesian capital Thursday against the imminent execution of three Bali bombers, as defence lawyers demanded the families be allowed a final visit.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Having expanded by a fairly healthy 6.4 percent in the third quarter, the economy is facing a slowdown in the last quarter as it begins to feel the impacts of the global crisis, according to the central bank.

Dwi Riyanto A., Jakarta – Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR) urged the government to immediately respond to a demand of West Papua's delegation over the approval of the pornography bill by the government.

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Churches in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) have rejected the passage of the anti-pornography bill, saying it neglects people's aspirations and could trigger disintegration.

Rev. Eben Nuban Timo of the Timor Messiah Evangelical Church (GMIT) synod, said Tuesday the bill could provoke national disintegration.

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Members of Bali's tourism industry declared their support Tuesday for efforts to legally challenge the recently passed pornography bill, calling the bill a violation of individual rights and an egregious monopoly on cultural values.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A national task force has recommended the Indonesian Military (TNI) hand over control of cooperatives and companies it runs, worth Rp 3.1 trillion (US$281 million), to the state.

Eko Ari and Cunding Levi, Jakarta – West Papua Religious Community Forum chairman, Bram Maudoma, will urge voters in his region not to vote in the 2009 Elections. This is a follow-up to their rejection of the Pornography Law and the joint ministerial decree which made Sunday a working day.

Martin Lundqvist, Hong Kong, China – "Witch hunting" has historically been, and still is, a common phenomenon in Papua among the indigenous people. Although different local communities have different interpretations of the practice, the basic tenets are the same: people are blamed for the things that go wrong in life.

Rita Sastrawan, Paris – The establishment of oil-palm plantations in Kalimantan and Sumatra poses the greatest threat to orangutans today. In fact, the clearing of forest and the establishment of oil-palm plantations has a negative impact not only on orangutan populations but also on climate, the water cycle, carbon emissions and livelihoods in local communities.

Kompas – The families of missing activists hope that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will not take conventional measures in completing the investigation of the forced disappearance of activists that occurred in 1997-98. Particularly given that 13 of those who disappeared have to this day still not returned.

Mustaqim Adamrah and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The manufacturing sector grew slower in the third quarter of the year, due to a decline in output in some of the country's top industries such as garments and machinery, Central Statistics Agency (BPS) data says.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – New political parties are stepping up pressure for a revision of the newly passed presidential election bill, with potential candidate Wiranto vowing to lead the way.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – It is unlikely the recently passed anti-pornography bill will be enacted in several provinces as top officials there have announced they will not enforce it, legal experts say.

Many provinces have declared they will not enact the bill, raising questions of whether a House law can be valid if it is not applied nationwide.

Andra Wisnu, Denpasar – Following calls made by their Balinese leaders, many members of the island's public declared their intention to have the pornography bill reviewed or revoked just days after it was passed by the House of Representatives.

Pandaya, Jakarta – Last week's passage of the controversial antipornography law, a symbolic victory for conservative Muslims, can further undermine Indonesia's increasingly fragile religious harmony.

Tom Allard, East Java – Family and supporters of the Bali bombers are using the time before their executions to peddle anti-Australian conspiracy theories and praise the condemned men as holy warriors as they complained bitterly yesterday about being locked out of the prison where Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are being held.