Jakarta – The head of rebels fighting for independence in Indonesia's Aceh province accused the military on Monday of not wanting peace as that would undermined its interests in the res

Jakarta – The Attorney General supports public floggings as punishment for cases of gambling in Aceh.

Jakarta – Separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province warned on Monday that Indonesia's powerful military may try to destroy an emerging peace deal to end the bloody, 30-year rebellion.

Jakarta – Deputy police chief General Commissioner Adang Daradjatun has acknowledged that it may take 15-25 years for the Indonesian police to be able overcome its culture of violence a

Jakarta – The Indonesian government and the budget committee of the nation's Parliament Monday agreed on a set of new assumptions that will be used to base the current state budget.

Dwi Wiyana, Bandung – Army Chief General Djoko Santoso said the TNI (armed forces) duties' are to safeguard the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Aceh.

Suherdjoko and A'an Suryana, Pekalongan/Jakarta – After successful direct elections in Kutai Kartanegara regency last week, direct regional elections were held on Sunday in Pekalongan a

Harry Bhaskara, Jakarta – The fourth round of peace talks in Helsinki ended last Tuesday without a deal being struck to end the 30-year conflict in Aceh.

Jakarta – One of Southeast Asia's most wanted Islamic militants may be hiding on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, police said on Monday as they stepped up security at luxury hot

Agus Supriyanto, Jakarta – Tristanti Mitayani, a parliamentary member of Commission I, says she disagrees with the deputy speaker of parliament, Soetardjo Suryogoeritno, who said that t

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Reform Movement's "opposition" to the party's central leadership board led by Megawati Sukarnoputri continues unabated.

Singapore – Indonesian military chief General Endriartono Sutarto said Saturday he was hopeful ongoing peace talks could lead to a permanent solution to a separatist rebellion in Aceh p

Lisbon – East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri repeated Sunday his denial that his impoverished country had reached a deal with Australia over sharing oil and gas reserves worth bil

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – An out-of-court settlement that the government plans to seek with gold miner PT Newmont Minahasa Raya proves to be another example of a failure to serve the peop

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has said it will not cooperate with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) in its investigation of the abductions of

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Law Number 7/2004 on Water Resources continues to encounter opposition.

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Jakarta – The government-sanctioned fact finding team, set up to assist the police in the investigation into the death of rights campaigner Munir will make a formal report to the Presid

Ruslan Sangadji and Slamet Susanto, Poso/Yogyakarta – A terrorist suspect detained in Yogyakarta has admitted to having assembled the bomb that killed 21 people in the Central Sulawesi

Indonesia's armed forces chief said the normalisation of military ties between Jakarta and Washington would help strengthen democracy in his country and ensure regional stability.

John McBeth, Jakarta – If anyone should be upset about serving military officers taking part in this year's direct local elections, it should be civilian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarso

Max Lane, Murdoch WA, Australia – Since soon after the arrest of Schapelle Corby in Bali sections of the Australian media have waged a non-stop campaign agitating for her to be found in

Alan Boyd, Sydney – "Twelve brutal Indonesian troopers armed with high-caliber rifles.

Simone Lee Egger – Accommodation was once so scarce in East Timor that a bed in a converted shipping container cost nearly £60 a night.

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Indonesia, the fourth-most populous country in the world, has been a net oil importer since 2004.

Anton Aliabbas, Jakarta – On Friday June 3, the People's Representative Assembly (DPR) sent a letter of protest to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Jakarta – The government is being urged to end negotiations with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) because they are not producing any benefits and are even damaging Indonesia's interests bec

Jakarta – The Human Rights Working Group (HRWG), a coalition of non-government organisations who are active in the field of human rights monitoring, are calling on the TNI (armed forces

Carol Goar – Her house is uninhabitable. Her town has been reduced to rubble. She has lost relatives and friends.

Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) rebel group narrowed their differences when they concluded on Tuesday their fourth round of informal talks aimed at seeking enduring peace in

Luhur Hertanto, Jakarta – The People's Representative Assembly (DPR) is free express its strident opposition to the Helsinki meetings but the government will not end the meetings which

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – After years of diminishing hope and frustration, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said on Thursday it was set to question several military an

Jakarta – Irked by rampant cases of rape, sexual assault and abuse, the government will launch a campaign next month to combat pornography and indecency, with children and youth being t

Indonesia – About 60 Acehnese students who failed the national final examination protested outside the Aceh Education Office on Saturday, the first student protest in the province since

An Indonesian prison chief and one of his inmates, believed to be a government official sentenced for graft, have been charged over a bombing on Sulawesi island that killed 21 people, p

Jakarta – Hundreds of people were caught in an identity card crackdown on Thursday morning in the subdistricts of Senen, Bungur, Kramat and Paseban in Central Jakarta.

Hera Diani, Jakarta – The government made the commissioning of an environmental impact analysis mandatory for all major projects 20 years ago.

Kornelius Purba – Why is Indonesia so similar to a personal computer?

Scott Burchill – From an Australian perspective there have always been two separate relationships with Indonesia.

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Darwin – The last of Australia's troops are preparing to leave East Timor as the peacekeeping operation winds down.

Lisbon – Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Thursday that the resolution last month of the dispute between his government and East Timor's powerful Catholic Church opens the door for deb

Jakarta – Talks to end a separatist rebellion in Aceh Province are stirring hopes for peace after three decades of violence, but experts say the optimism looks misplaced.

A biological attack on Indonesia's embassy in Canberra has damaged Australia's standing among Indonesians, Prime Minister John Howard said, but he downplayed the threat it posed to the

Jakarta – With the advent of the low season, the number of foreign tourists arriving through Indonesia's 13 main entry points fell by almost 4 percent in April, after rising by more tha

Becky Lipscombe, Lampuuk – Lampuuk was virtually destroyed in the 26 December tsunami Five months after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated large parts of the Indonesian province

Jakarta – Human rights activists have urged the police to detain former intelligence chief A.M.

Tiarma Siboro and Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Peace talks with Aceh rebel leaders are unlikely to bring any significant changes to the long-standing conflict in the tsunami-ravaged province

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Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Opposition bloc in the House of Representatives was dealt a major blow as the legislative body voted on Tuesday against creating two special committees to inquir