Alisa P., Jakarta – Hundreds of demonstrators from Aceh Papua Solidarity (Solidaritas Aceh Papua, SAP) held a demonstration at the offices of the National Elections Commission (KPU) on

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Endy M. Bayuni, Cambridge, Massachusetts – First Golkar won the April 5 general election.

Ambon – Twenty-two people have been killed and scores badly injured in a major outbreak of Muslim-Christian violence in the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon, medical staff said on Monda

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Since the establishment of a special desk to handle cases of violence against women at the Jakarta Police headquarters in 1999, the number of reports filed have b

It is tempting to shrug off the decision by Golkar, the Indonesian party that did best in this month's general election, to choose General Wiranto as its candidate for the presidential

Imran Rusli and Apriadi Gunawan, Padang/Medan – Local residents blamed on Sunday illegal logging as the main cause of Friday's landslide in Pasaman regency, West Sumatra, that buried a

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – The government's controversial plan for a mega nuclear power plant (PLTN) on Madura island, East Java, has been thrust back into the spotlight by a group of stude

Indonesian police postponed plans to question jailed Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir as a terrorism suspect after he and his lawyers complained that the summons was legally flawed.

One of Indonesia's most senior Muslim scholars has warned that a failure to release jailed cleric Abu Bakar Bashir could result in an Islamic backlash.

Melbourne – East Timor would work with former military chief General Wiranto if he is elected Indonesian president despite his alleged war crimes, the fledgling state's first lady said

James Irwin, Singapore – Some cracks are appearing in Australia's refusal to renegotiate the Timor Sea Treaty with East Timor – the latest being the emergence of past testimony from a k

By anyone's standards, it's been a long day. The flight to Australia, the burden of intermittent media commitments, the trip to Sydney's Taronga Zoo with two screaming toddlers.

Alan Ramsey – Five years ago a brilliant man hanged himself. Five weeks ago a distinguished army officer put his career on the line in an extraordinary letter to the Prime Minister.

Robert Go, Jakarta – The two generals who will run in July's presidential election both have strong leadership skills, but the question is – are they both good for business in Indonesia

Alan Boyd, Sydney – Benefactor or bully? Australia has been portrayed as both in its protracted standoff with tiny East Timor over US$30 billion worth of deep-sea oil and gas reserves.

Sydney – Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer accused East Timor of trying to stir up sympathy over its claims for a greater share of oil and gas revenues from the Timor Sea oil

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Almost three years after he was impeached by parliament, Indonesia's nearly blind and erratic former president, Abdurrahman Wahid, insists he still has a sho

Sian Powell – Despite enduring 32 years of brutal military rule, Indonesia has not lost its respect for gold braid and epaulettes.

Jakarta – Senjata Kartini (Sekar), a women's non-government organisation, is opposed to presidential candidates from military circles.

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Devastated by her party's defeat in the legislative polls, President Megawati Sukarnoputri is getting ready to work the ground.

Teuku Agam Muzakir, Lhokseumawe – Around 2,000 people here staged a rally on Thursday, demanding that martial law, which was strongly opposed by a number of human rights groups, be furt

Andreas Harsono, Jakarta – In mid-May 1998, as rioters were ransacking business areas and looting properties owned by Chinese Indonesians in Jakarta, Gen Wiranto, then Indonesia's milit

Indonesia has joined the race to build the world's tallest tower. Work has begun on the Jakarta Tower in Kemayoran, the site of the city's airport.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Aceh is not just about the bloody prolonged fighting between separatist rebels and the Indonesian Military, with all of the unrecorded brutalities and countles

Alison Roberts,Lisbon – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao has launched a fierce attack on Australia's attitude in its dealings with the fledgling country.

Alisa Newman Hood – Barely two years after achieving independence, East Timor is learning to navigate the stormy seas of new nationhood in more ways than one.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – A number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Aceh called on the martial law administration on Wednesday to investigate possible irregularities in the c

Sydney – Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer rejected appeals to settle a maritime boundary dispute with East Timor in international courts Thursday and lashed critics who accu

Tony Parkinson/Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Indonesia risked international embarrassment if former military chief Wiranto was elected president this year, East Timorese Foreign Minister Jos

Rowan Callick – Was it to be the plain old criminal or the polished war criminal?

Hobart – The East Timorese were fuming over Australia's plans to steal their oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, Australian Greens Senator Bob Brown said today.

Lisbon – President Xanana Gusmao of East Timor said Thursday that his country's "unequal struggle" with Australia over disputed offshore hydrocarbon resources bore parallels with Dili's

Jakarta – The United States will be able to accept former military chief Wiranto if he is elected Indonesian president in the upcoming election even though he has being indicted in East

Tom Allard – Australia can do business with Wiranto, the former general accused of crimes against humanity who emerged yesterday as a candidate for Indonesian president, says the Minist

Hugh White – Our key agencies got the big questions right and called the issues as they saw them.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The newly formed national anticorruption body is seeking to question Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Governor Abdullah Puteh for his alleged role in graft cases as lo

Tanya Nolan: Indonesia's only two-thirds of the way through counting the ballots cast in this month's parliamentary elections, and as we just heard, the Golkar Party of former President

Cynthia Banham – A report by a US think tank claiming the Bali tragedy could have been avoided if ASIO had not blatantly disregarded threat assessments has been dismissed by the Federal

Patrick Walters, John Kerin and Misha Schubert – ASIO deliberately withheld counter-terrorism intelligence from the Australian Federal Police based on the spy agency's "idiosyncratic ca

Jakarta – The International Federation of Journalists has reiterated its demand for the release of RCTI television cameraman, Fery Santoro, who has spent almost 10 months as a hostage o

Teuku Agam Muzakir, Lhokseumawe – Entering Buket Nibong village in Jrat Manyang subdistrict, Tanah Jambo Aye district, North Aceh regency, is like being in a no-man's-land.

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Viseu, Portugal – Economic difficulties in the world's newest nation, East Timor, are a potential source of violence, President Xanana Gusmao has warned.

Jakarta – With retired General Wiranto's surprise victory at Golkar's presidential convention early Wednesday, Indonesia now has two ex-military men contesting its upcoming direct presi

Vannessa Hearman, Melbourne – On April 14, 50 members of the Timor Sea Justice Campaign met outside the High Court to launch the group.

Aloysius Bhui, Jakarta – Golkar party's decision to choose retired general Wiranto as its nominee for the country's first-ever direct presidential election on July 5 raises hopes that I

Now to East Timor, where for the last three days, teams from there and Australia have been in bitter negotiations over where our sea boundaries lie and who will control the oil and gas

Dean Yates, Jakarta – The entry into Indonesia's presidential race of a former general indicted for abuses in East Timor will jolt the frontrunner but also makes life tougher for incumb

Bhimanto Suwastoyo, Jakarta – Indonesian military chief Wiranto won a decisive victory early Wednesday in the contest for the Golkar party's presidential nomination but faces a much tou