Jakarta – Top Indonesian Military (TNI) brass have again warned that they would reject any top level reshuffle in the military command if it was geared toward particular political purpo

Robert Go, Batam – Foreign investors yesterday signalled to the Indonesian government that they wanted a more concrete reform process in place before they could become confident about i

Mark Davis – In September 1999, the Australian Army stepped into the carnage of East Timor as the lead contributor in the international force INTERFET.

The Concelho Nacional da Recistencia Timorense/Congresso Nasional (CNRT/CN) will be dissolved in early June 2001. Ex-members of CNRT will then form the Resistance Veterans Foundation.

Seth Mydans, Jakarta – A strange red banner hangs over the gate of one of the middle-class villas on a quiet street in central Jakarta: "Am I really a criminal for defending the red and

Washington – The United States is carefully watching President Abdurrahman Wahid's battle against impeachment in "troubled" Indonesia, Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday.

Jonathan Thatcher, Balibo – Maria Maia, her mouth stained scarlet from the juice of the betel nuts she chews, bursts out laughing as she fingers her just-printed photograph on the regis

Catharine Munro, Jakarta – Human rights, not military ties, would be the key to a new relationship with Indonesia under a Labor government, opposition foreign affairs spokesman Laurie B

Max Lane – While efforts by the state to mount a lawsuit against Indonesia's former dictator collapsed ignominiously last year, the PRD has succeeded in taking Suharto and 12 other gene

London – A respected think-tank says Indonesian Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri will replace President Abdurrahman Wahid by legal means this year but will be little more successful

Nuriddin Lazuardi/HD, Jakarta – A political observer Kusnanto Anggoro from Central Strategy for International Studies (CSIS) believes that several political parties which attended the m

Jakarta – At least 147 military personnel from Wirabuana Military Command in Sulawesi have been arrested by the local military police when they were trying to flee from their post in Ke

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Last week's assassination of Aceh's former vice-governor illustrates just how dangerous taking a neutral stance is in Aceh these days.

Jakarta – Indonesian police have ransacked a Jakarta office of an Acehnese group linked to a fatal explosion here as the military picked up an Acehnese man suspected of manufacturing we

Jakarta – A rally by students demanding the dissolution of the former ruling Golkar Party turned violent on Monday when demonstrators clashed with police in front of the Ministry of Def

Vaudine England – With two weeks left before Parliament decides on possible impeachment moves against President Abdurrahman Wahid, the decibel level of the politicking in Jakarta is inc

Jakarta – About 100 demonstrators from the Freedom of Speech and Thought Alliance (AKBB) held a rally at Police Headquarters today.

Agence France Presse in Jayapura – The subversion trials of five high-profile independence leaders from the remote Indonesian province of Irian Jaya opened yesterday amid tight security

The leader of the Catholic Church in Dili, Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo urged academics at the National University of Timor Lorosae to use the campus grounds solely for the pursuit of hig

Robert Go, Jakarta – Iced coconut juice seller Budiman, 43, set down his 30-kg gear wearily and fanned himself with a folded tabloid newspaper that occasionally also serves as his sun-s

Vaudine England – Theys Eluay is a loud man, in both his wardrobe and choice of political rhetoric.

Jakarta – The management of Shangri-La Hotel has accepted the decision of the government-sanctioned Central Committee for the Settlement of Labor Disputes which granted its request to l

Chris McCall, Dili – Fed up with Indonesia's feeble attempts at administering justice to accused war criminals, the families of East Timor's dead are getting together to do it their way

Banda Aceh – Mobile Brigade Police (Brimob) personnel have been combing villages in Pidie regency, Aceh, over the past two days, in what is suspected to be a mission to track down the F

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Three years after the shooting of four student protesters from the elite Trisakti University which sparked days of rioting and led to the downfall of ex-Pres

Jakarta – Hundreds of Indonesian students rallied in the streets of the capital on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of the slaying of four students that triggered rioting which he

Mark Dodd, Dili – The plight of a 15-year-old East Timorese girl kept as a sex slave for more than 18 months in a militia-controlled refugee camp in Indonesian West Timor has highlighte

Participants at a weekend discussion seminar, organized by the human rights NGO Yayasan Hak, expressed their frustration at UNTAET.

Scott Burchill – Given advance notice that the street bully is about to beat up your neighbour, three courses of action are open to you.

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Aceh declared a state of emergency yesterday, blaming the military offensive for the rising civilian death toll in the province.

Agencies in Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid raised the stakes in Indonesia's political crisis yesterday, saying he would not hand further powers to his popular deputy and ruling o

Jakarta – A number of independent labor unions are planning a series of strikes to force the government to revoke an amendment of a ministerial decree on severance and service payments.

Jakarta – A majority of Indonesians are fed up with the ongoing political bickering and protracted economic crisis, and long for the stability of the Suharto era, a survey showed.

Jakarta – Separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday denied any involvement in a bomb blast in Jakarta that killed two people.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI) condemned on Friday a planned sweep and burning of "leftist" books and rejected any ban against them.

Jakarta – The World Bank has expressed its full support of the government's fiscal adjustment package, which contains various measures to prevent the 2001 state budget deficit from grow

Jakarta – PILAR biweekly magazine photographer Rudi P.

Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta have raided book sellers, impounding hundreds of titles considered leftist or communist-linked, to save them from being burned by a

Jakarta – Separatist guerillas from Indonesia's restive Aceh province on Friday denied involvement in a Jakarta bomb blast as police found a third body at the scene.

Mark Dodd, Dili – United Nations economic planners have launched a campaign to ensure the US dollar is the sole legal tender in East Timor.

Joanna Jolly, Dili – The head of the UN Central Payments Office, which manages the territory's tiny and shattered economy, told reporters that the world body was taking legal steps and

Robert Go, Jakarta – The next time rioters run amok through Jakarta's streets, they will come face to face with elite police units armed with Russian AK assault rifles, possibly loaded

The Australian government knew about Indonesian military plans to massacre East Timor independence supporters in 1999 and thought clever diplomacy could prevent it, a former member of t

Partai Asosiacao Social Democrat Timor (ASDT) will this week try to get itself registered with the Independent Election Commission.

The General Co-ordinator of CPD-RDTL Antonio Aitahan Matak yesterday rejected allegations that the group was behind the threats against CNRT President Xanana Gusmao.

Vanya Tanaja, Dili – News that Indonesia has formally agreed to set up an ad hoc tribunal to try those responsible for mass murder in East Timor around the period of the 1999 independen

A report by members of the Portuguese parliament criticizes the UN Transition Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) as being "costly and not very efficient".

[In an extraordinary investigation, reporter Mark Davis returns to East Timor to disclose disturbing new revelations about Australia's secret intelligence information prior to the co

Chris McCall, Dili – Once branded a gang of dangerous left-wingers, Fretilin is out in the open and may be set to win through the ballot what it lost in 1975 with bullets.

Jill Jollife, Dariwn – An Australian Army intelligence officer who served in East Timor has accused the Federal Government of concealing vital evidence on Indonesian army and militia wa