Jakarta – Foreign peacekeepers won't be part of any international monitoring of Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province after a possible peace deal between the government and rebel

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Some 1,441 containers filled with relief aid for tsunami victims in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam are still being detained by the customs authorities at Belawan port

Australia has warned that East Timor could lose some revenue if it insists on drawing a permanent seabed boundary in the Timor Sea.

Rendi Witular, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) denied on Monday reports saying it had reduced its naval presence in a maritime area of Ambalat that has been at the center of dis

Jakarta – Indonesia's military named as its spokesman a general indicted by UN prosecutors for alleged war crimes during East Timor's break from Indonesia in 1999 – a posting likely to

Jakarta – Prof Dr Muladi, chairman of the Golkar Party's legal, human rights and regional autonomy department, has urged the government to seriously lobby China and Russia in anticipati

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang (West Nusa Tenggara) – The West Nusa Tenggara provincial administration called on the central government to hold talks with the East Timor government to ensure a

Jakarta – A non-governmental organization (NGO) urged the government on Monday not to issue a regulation allowing for a direct appointment of regional election materials providers.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gen.

Police on Sunday attempted to stop reporters from covering protests held in conjunction with the arrival of Asian-African leaders in Bandung.

With high hopes for a compromise, Australia and East Timor are to resume talks over multi-billion dollar oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – As the government tries to draw up an inventory of the myriad business interests of the Indonesian Military (TNI) as part of the preparations to remove them fro

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen.

Australia's top labor union leader demanded Saturday that Australian government negotiators give impoverished East Timor a fair share of multi-billion dollar oil and gas deposits under

Ahmad Alheid, Menado – Dozens of students from a number of organisations in the North Sulawesi city of Menado held a demonstration opposing the Asia Africa Conference on Friday April 22

Bill Guerinl, Jakarta – Indonesia is one of the most resource-rich countries in the world, with coal, gold, bauxite, nickel, copper, silver, tin and iron ores being its main mineral dep

Gunawan Mashar – Makassar: Around 30 Papuan [Irian Jaya] students in Makassar went to the South Sulawesi Provincial DPR [House of Representatives] in Jl Urip Sumohardjo, Makassar on Wed

Anyone planning to exercise their democratic rights by staging rallies along Jakarta's main roads during the Asian-African Summit should think again as the police have orders to send th

Indra Shalihinl, Jakarta – Don't try to hold a demonstration during the Asia Africa Conference because Jakarta must look beautiful.

Jakarta – After eight years in the garment industry, Supena is savvy enough to know that one must keep abreast of the latest trends to stay in business.

Leony Aurora, Jakarta – The legal battle over a ruling by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) on the sale of two tankers by Pertamina looks set to return to square on

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Jill Jolliffe, Dili – About 5000 East Timorese protesters calling for the Prime Minister to resign were camped in Dili yesterday under banners reading "End the Dictatorship".

Dili – President Xanana Gusmao condemned the East Timorese Catholic Church's continuing demonstrations against the government Thursday, saying he would not allow street protests to brin

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Dozens of students from the Indonesian Youth Front for Struggle (Front Perjuangan Pemuda Indonesia, FPPI) held an action supporting the Asia Africa Confere

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Jakarta – Human rights activists who's names have been proposed by a number of non-government organisations (NGOs) to sit on the Commission of Truth and Reconciliation are concerned abo

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – After holding two meetings in Helsinki, Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) have yet to sign an agreement.

I Wayan Juniartha, Denpasar – The All-Bali Theater Festival at the island's arts center in late April promises to provoke thought on the roles that women play in a traditionally patriar

James Crafti, Canberra – "Over the years our relations have experienced many twists and turns, highs and lows ...

Riyadi Suparno, Tanjung Benoa (Bali) – Australian and Indonesian businesspeople are of the view that investment opportunities in Indonesia are abundant – especially in the infrastructur

Veronica Brooks, Canberra – Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Wednesday maritime boundary negotiations with East Timor will resume next week, marking the sixth meeting

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Environmentalists testified on Tuesday before the Constitutional Court about the devastating effects of open-pit mining in protected forests as they attempted to

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – More than three million school-aged children in the country work in numerous sectors to help support their family.

Jakarta – The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) is hindering the investigation into the murder of rights activist Munir, and the President and the National Police need to help, the govern

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Helsinki – The third round of the Helsinki negotiations between the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) to find "a comprehensive and permanent so

Jane Perlez, Jakarta – After a long delay, Indonesia announced a new body to oversee the reconstruction of Aceh, but it will start work without the help of a UN agency that had planned

Max Lane, Sydney – Indonesian left-wing publisher Joesoef Isak attended the Third Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference (APISC) in Sydney over the Easter weekend.

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor was last night facing its worst crisis since independence after influential sections of the Catholic Church called people into the capital, Dili, to

Dili – Hundreds of peaceful Catholic protestors kept up their pressure on East Timor's government for a second day Wednesday, but both the religious activists and the government toned d

Indonesia's ex-dictator Suharto, who has escaped trial on massive graft charges because he was deemed too ill to follow proceedings, has made a rare public appearance and appeared quite

Dian Intannia, Jakarta – Around 30 student activists, rural workers and urban-poor activists from the United People's Alliance (Aliansi Rakyat Bersatu, ARB) are demanding that the gover

Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne – The Timor Sea Justice Campaign is set to broadcast its next series of television advertisements to coincide with Anzac Day on April 25.

Dili – Hundreds of East Timorese Catholics, angered by moves to demote religion classes in public schools, gathered in front of Dili's government building Tuesday to protest what they c

Rosa Garcia, Dili – East Timor's influential Catholic clergy on Tuesday rallied thousands to protest against Dili's "dictatorship regime" in the latest sign of a growing rift between ch

Jakarta – Activists have called on the government to reconsider its plan to construct a nuclear power plant given the possible hazardous effects of such technology and the need for publ

Suadi Sulaiman Laweueng, the Free Aceh Movement's (GAM) spokesperson for the Pidie regency in north Aceh, spoke to Green Left Weekly's Jes Abek about the struggle in Aceh.

Less than four months after the big wave hit, villagers in Nusa have cleared tonnes of debris and will soon start rebuilding homes and cultivating land.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The "positive and constructive" results achieved during the third round of peace talks between the government of Indonesia and leaders of the Free Aceh Movement