Kupang – Former pro-integration leaders established on Monday the Presidium of East Timorese Refugees to accommodate support for refugees of the former province of East Timor.

Michael J. Jordan, United Nations – Indonesia's commitment to justice is being questioned after Jakarta's decision to shelve an investigation into a Dutch journalist's murder.

Indonesia's military has ruled that the killing of seperatist leader Theys Eluay in the restive Indonesian province of Papua was not politically motivated.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Acehnese human rights activists questioned on Monday the effectiveness of Presidential Instruction No.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives (DPR) unanimously threw their support behind the Indonesian military on Monday in allowing it to flex its muscles agains

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – As the army manoeuvred behind the scenes to return to a position of power in Indonesia, the navy slowly distanced itself from such attempts as its new commande

Indonesia's Vice-president, Hamzah Haz, has won the backing of a powerful group from his Islamic party for a possible presidential challenge in 2004.

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Administration announced on Monday its plan to propose a bylaw which will ban demonstrations around the newly renovated Hotel Indonesia traffic circ

Novan Iman Santosa and Yogita Tahilramani, Jakarta – This nation seems to have a huge stock of shocking legal violations. One ongoing case involves no less a figure than Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – If the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) is going to allow the people to directly elect the president and vice president in 2004, then it should allow them to make that sel

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The health card system aims to provide a free health service for the poor.

Jakarta – The death toll from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases in East Java has now officially reached 30.

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The reestablishment of the Iskandar Muda military command in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province has failed to bring about peace in the restive region.

Jakarta – Ten armed men shot dead five employees of a state-owned plantation in Aceh and kidnapped eight others on Saturday, the military said on Sunday.

Jakarta – Thousands of people gathered on the streets here yesterday to celebrate the 475th anniversary of Indonesia's capital – one of Asia's most crowded and polluted cities.

Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri has performed better than all other national political leaders currently in office, even as her government isdeemed to be failing in deliverin

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Although compensation has been given by sugar cane factory PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) to local fishermen in Lampung, the fishermen remain relucta

Jakarta – Indonesia will no longer buy weapons at inflated prices, its military chief vowed yesterday, amid concerns that people were illegally making unwarranted profits from mark-ups.

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Unlike its aggressive attempts to crush separatist rebels in Aceh, the Indonesian government has been half-hearted in ending the equally alarming sectarian c

Jakarta – Despite the lifting of the worst restrictions on labor union rights in 2000, many others still remain and labor relations have become increasingly tense, with many incidents o

Dili – More than 1,000 East Timorese children who were displaced in violence following the 1999 UN-backed referendum on independence have been reunited with their families, an official

Fitri Wulandari, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund has stepped into the public debate over the Commercial Court's bankruptcy ruling on PT Asuransi Jiwa Manulife Indonesia (AJMI)

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) urged the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to set up a team to investigate serious human r

Portugal's ambassador to East Timor, Rui Quartim Santos, Wednesday inaugurated the official residence of Dili's Catholic Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, a euros 300,000 building entirely fi

Indonesia – Seven students grouped in the West Papuan Students' National Front (FNMP) gave up their hunger strike on Saturday due to health concerns, but vowed to boycott the 2004 gener

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – Australia and East Timor moved a step forward in their plans to exploit Timor Sea hydrocarbon resources yesterday with the opening of a joint office in Dili.

President Xanana Gusmao has distanced himself from comments made by Dili's prime minister, Mari Alkatiri, on the non-payment of compensation to Indonesians whose property was destroyed

Kupang – Former commander of a East Timorese pro-Jakarta militia group (PPI) Joao da Silva Tavares and his almost 35,000 followers are expected to return home to East Timor soon.

Melbourne – Following are key facts about the Timor Gap treaty, oil and gas developments in the Timor Sea and Australia's need for a new gas supply.

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Ibnu Matnoor and Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Six members of the Indonesian Air Force's special forces (Paskhas) were killed in an ambush by members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (G

I Wayan Juniartha, Tuban, Bali – A senior official of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said here on Wednesday that returning East Timorese children – currently

Robert Go, Jakarta – Architect Andi Perdana dug out his wallet without hesitation and snapped up new cell phones for himself and his wife in a shopping mall in Surabaya, East Java.

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The latest revision for the fourth amendment of the 1945 Constitution contains new articles which grant the military free seats within the People's Cons

Dili – About 19,000 East Timorese refugees have returned home in the first five months of this year, the UN said Friday.

Some 40 protesters have picketed Indonesia's parliament, calling on the government to launch an independent investigation into the murder of Papuan pro-independence leader, Theys Eluay.

Kel Dummett – As the independence celebrations begin to subside in East Timor, it certainly is timely for Australia to take a sober look at its foreign policy, especially regarding its

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Newly installed Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Gen.

Jakarta – A bullet that killed a Supreme Court judge came from one of six guns found at homes owned by former president Suharto's youngest son Tommy, a police colonel said yesterday.

Jakarta – As many as 191 legislators received loans worth Rp 40 million each from the off-budget Presidential Aid Fund (Banpres) during the leadership of former president Soeharto but h

A soldier, four suspected separatist rebels and a village chief have been killed in the latest violence in Indonesia's Aceh province, the military and police said.

Jakarta – Customs and Excise Director General Permana Agung said that a recommendation by the International Monetary Fund to reappoint a surveyor to handle export and import examination

Jakarta – Indonesia's military will cooperate with any country, including the United States, in the global war on terror provided such ties do not damage the national interest, the new

Indramayu, West Java – Temporary workers at the Balongan, West Java, oil refinery of state oil and gas company Pertamina staged their second day of protest over demands for higher wages

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Kupang – The Indonesian military has detained an East Timorese soldier for illegally entering the Indonesian territory of West Timor to seek his family, a local military commander said

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Investigation into several corruption scandals is proving extremely embarrassing not just for a handful of politicians alleged to have diverted or accepted s

Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, charging opposition legislators were hobbling action by East Timor's government, warned Thursday he might use his broad Fretilin party majority to rush thr

East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao said Thursday that he was opposed to any Timorese receiving compensation or war reparations for violence commited during the Indonesian occupation a

Bhimanto Suwastoyo, Jakarta – Survivors of a bloody 1999 attack on East Timorese independence supporters told Indonesia's human rights court Thursday how they fled or feigned death to e