The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) will be armed with stronger and broader powers with which to perform its duties and to enforce its recommendations under a public finances accountability

Luh Putu Trisna Wahyuni, Mataram – The incidence of domestic and other forms of violence against women has increased significantly in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) province during the past y

Surabaya – Over 1,900 prostitutes operating in the two red-light districts of Dolly and Jarak have contracted sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), a health official said.

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Farish A. Noor – Aceh has played a crucial role in the development of Indonesian national identity and the Indonesian nation-state.

Two martial arts gangs clashed in East Timor, leaving four dead including a 70-year-old man who tried to break up the brawl, police said Saturday.

Mafoot Simon – In an apartment in the Stockholm suburb of Alby a year ago, a leader of the movement that has fought a violent struggle with Jakarta authorities for a separate state in A

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri has issued a decree establishing a national committee that will coordinate human rights activity across the country.

Sian Powell, Banda Aceh – Courted by the Western press, feted by prominent Indonesian intellectuals and religious leaders, and idolised by crowds of villagers and farmers, it seems Susi

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – Entering the home stretch of Indonesia's first direct presidential election on July 5, there are only a couple of sure bets.

Salim Osman – Tucked in a side street in south Jakarta is a bamboo hut that has been attracting scores of working-class Indonesians daily.

Indonesia has lost 22 trillion rupiah (2.3 billion dollars) in two years because of corruption, an official said.

Jakarta Post, Jakarta – The reverberations created by last month's conviction of almost all of North Sumatra's councillors in a collective graft trial are now being felt in other local

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) announced on Thursday it had began the prosecution of an corruption case worth over Rp 10 billion, the fir

Anton Aliabbas, Jakarta – Presidential candidate from the Democratic Party Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) says that if he is elected he will work to create a harmonious relationship bet

Devi Asmarani, Bengkulu – Standing before some 1,500 party supporters last week, Golkar chairman Akbar Tandjung was all praise for the man who only two months ago trashed him at a party

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government issued on Wednesday guidelines for the implementation of integrated operations in Aceh under a state of civil emergency, which restrict the gover

Surabaya – Students of the Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) have rejected a planned debate between Golkar Party candidate Wiranto and National Mandate Party (PAN) candidate Amien

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Just as the liquefied-natural-gas industry in the Asia-Pacific region is poised for takeoff, Indonesia, the world's biggest LNG producer, needs to import up to 30

Brendan Nicholson – Australia has resumed co-operation with the Indonesian special forces group Kopassus to help fight regional terrorism, Defence Minister Robert Hill revealed yesterda

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Corruption watchdogs say Gen.

Banda Aceh – Indonesia's presidential favourite vowed on Friday to achieve peace in rebellious Aceh and restore dignity to people in the strife-torn province if he was voted to office.

Shawn Donnan and Taufan Hidayat – The trap worked like a charm.

[While President Xanana Gusmao makes overtures of friendship towards Indonesia, there are many East Timorese who may never be able to forgive their country's former oppressors.

Robert Go, Jakarta – Pollsters, who gained credibility after they predicted a win for the Golkar party ahead of April's parliamentary elections, are now forecasting a landslide victory

Amy Chew, Jakarta – Indonesian presidential candidate and former armed forces chief General Wiranto publicly apologised for the first time for the violence in Timor Leste, then called E

Australia's Defence Minister says Asia must confront the unpalatable fact that it's a breeding ground for Islamic extremism.

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A resumption of counter-terrorism training between Australia and Indonesia's controversial Kopassus forces appears closer, with Indonesia's top counter-terrorism officer attending a con

Nethy Dharma Somba, Timika – Two conflicting tribes, the Damal and Nduga, in Papua province have agreed to end the bloody clashes that have killed two tribesmen on each side.

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The detention of two Aceh rebel leaders in Sweden may have been based on a UN resolution requiring member states to take action agains

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Papuan people's campaign against the province's division has received a major boost after the State Administrative Court ruled on Tuesday against a law

Jakarta – Some 669 people have died in a widespread dengue fever outbreak in Indonesia in the first five months of this year and the disease still remains a dangerous threat, Health Min

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Larry Thompson – A 28-year conflict between the Indonesian government and the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has killed thousands of civilians, displaced hundreds of thousands of p

Andi Hajramuni, Makassar – Hundreds of East Timorese refugees who hail from South Sulawesi sealed off the province' high court on Wednesday to vent their frustration over the court's ve

Pekanbaru – Hundreds of students from the Sultan Syarif Kasim State Islamic University prevented a discussion involving vice presidential candidate Jusuf Kalla, the running mate of pres

Jakarta – Yusuf Hasyim, the head of the Tebu Ireng Islamic boarding school in Jombang, East Java, filed a complaint with the General Elections Commission on Tuesday over the use of imag

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Where are the crowds? Campaigning for Indonesia's first presidential polls began two weeks ago with a lot of bluster.

Police in Sweden have arrested three leaders of Indonesia's separatist Free Aceh Movement after raiding their homes in a Stockholm suburb.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Indonesia's election authority has banned President Megawati Soekarnoputri from holding outdoor rallies in Denpasar in her heartland of Bali in a further blow t

With a long tradition of supporting independence movements in the Pacific, Vanuatu has taken the lead to support dialogue on the future of the Indonesian province of Papua.

Abdul Khalik and Suherdjoko, Jakarta/Semarang – The Jakarta Prosecutor's Office received on Tuesday the last two dossiers of the July 27 case from National Police headquarters, includin

Jakarta – After two weeks of the presidential campaign, Golkar leaders have urged party executives to show support for their candidate, retired general Wiranto and running mate Solahudd

Angelus Tito, Jakarta – The Indonesia Human Rights Monitor (Imparsial) is urging President Megawati Sukarnoputri to cancel her order to law enforcers to postpone the legal investigatio

Biak – Some 300 people in Biak Numfor district in Indonesia's Papua province staged a peaceful rally at the legislative council building on Tuesday to press for the discharge of police

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A panel of judges dismissed on Monday defense pleas by two senior police officers charged with human rights abuses in Papua, ruling that their ad hoc rights

Stephen Brown, Stockholm – Swedish police on Tuesday arrested three leaders of an Aceh separatist group which has been fighting Indonesia for independence since 1976, saying they were s

An Australian man facing charges in East Timor claims he has been framed by local authorities.