Ibnu Matnoor, Banda Aceh – He is only nine years old and he does not want to be a beggar. Yet there is no other way to put food on his family's table.

Lisbon – East Timorese youth rejected the foreign military base.

Jakarta – The Association of Labor Exporting Companies (Apjati) and 18 labor unions signed on Friday an unprecedented memorandum of understanding (MOU) to provide protection and improve

Vaudine England, Jayapura – A protest in the Irian Jayan port city of Sorong yesterday left six people dead, highlighting the spread of problems from the tortured Maluku Islands as tho

Jakarta – Almost 20.1-million ha, or about half the 40-million ha of forests in Indonesia, have been damaged by fires and farming, Forestry and Plantations Minister Nur Mahmudi Ismail h

Jakarta – Two men attempting to hoist a separatist flag in Irian Jaya were shot dead by Indonesian police yesterday, hospital staff said.

Banda Aceh – Authorities in the strongly Muslim Indonesian province of Aceh have officially agreed to move towards the imposition of the Islamic Syariah law there, a local MP said Satur

Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Amien Rais has given President Abdurrahman Wahid up to three months after the August session to beef up the performance of his adm

Mark Dodd in Suai and David Lague in Bangkok – A price has been put on the heads of Australian and New Zealand peacekeepers in East Timor, with the ears of the young Kiwi soldier killed

Jakarta – One overriding theme, namely the bringing of former president Soeharto to justice, marked the fourth anniversary of the July 27 violent takeover of the Indonesian Democratic P

Susan Sim and Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid is taking a leaf from former President Suharto's manual for regime maintenance and cementing his iron grip on the Nati

Vaudine England in Jayapura – About 200 Indonesian transmigrants took shelter under the Papuan independence flag in Jayapura this week, following the failure of the central Government t

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Jakarta yesterday to demand a speedy trial for former president Suharto as the Government finished a corruption pro

Jakarta – The government's announcement that it is ready to file corruption charges against former president Soeharto was greeted on Thursday with skepticism, with most observers saying

Yogyakarta – First Lady Sinta Nuriyah Abdurrahman Wahid bemoaned on Thursday the continuing violence against women, saying that no religion condones oppression or duress against women.

Muchus Budi Rahayu/BI, Surakarta – Four hundreds supporters of Muslim Youth Front (FPI-S), from Surakarta, Central Java, staged a protest, Friday, to demand the abolishment of National

Jakarta – Office buildings of the former ruling party Golkar in the capital city and in a number of Java's major cities were guarded yesterday, as hundreds of protesters of anti-New Ord

Aulia Andri/FM & AH, Medan – The Indonesian Forum For the Environment (WALHI) is scornful of a plan from PT Inti Indorayon Utama (IIU) pulp and paper factory to give 1% of its produ

Marianne Kearney, Pekanbaru – Indonesian police, forestry employees and plantation companies are failing to fight the fires which have been burning on dozens of plantations over the las

R Maslan/SWA & AH, Jakarta – Today, exactly four years after the attack on the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) office, hundreds of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) d

Rizal Maslan/BS & AH, Jakarta – A march to commemorate the brutal occupation of Megawati's political offices (the Indonesian Democratic Party, PDI) on 27 July 1996, has been organiz

Jakarta – Just hours after the UN Security Council called on Jakarta to crack down on anti-independence gangs conducting raids in East Timor, an Indonesian court Wednesday threw out cri

Jakarta – Coal mining company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) might lose some of its customers following the closure of its coal mine in the Sanggata regency, East Kalimantan, a company exec

Jakarta – The United States could seize Indonesian assets if Jakarta fails to settle a US$290-million claim by the US government's Overseas Private Investment Corp (OPIC), US Ambassador

Jakarta – More than 30 companies are under investigation for their alleged roles in the recent forest fires in Riau, a provincial administration official said on Wednesday.

D.S Buana/SWA & LM, Jakarta – The appearance of a "confidential" document outlining a plot to topple President Abdurrahman Wahid has met denials all round from those allegedly invol

Bangkok – Asean foreign ministers yesterday backed Indonesia against its rebellious provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya, saying that the country's unity was crucial to regional peace.

Pip Hinman – As two of its warships docked in the east Javanese port of Surabaya on July 20, the administration of US President Bill Clinton made official its re-establishment of milita

A Andri/FW & LM, Jakarta – For the umpteenth time, hundreds of representatives of the Batak Toba tribe went to the North Sumatra Provincial Legislative Council demanding the closure

Max Lane – On July 20, huge banners, which dwarfed the activists who daringly scaled the walls of Indonesia's parliament building in Jakarta to hang them, announced the demands of the P

At least one protester was killed, more than 100 were injured and 57 were arrested when Indonesian security forces attacked an 800-strong protest in South Sumatra on July 20.

Vanja Tanaja, Dili – On July 19, an Indonesian investigation team arrived here to interview witnesses to the worst atrocities that took place from April to September last year.

Jon Land – As East Timor moves towards full independence under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), the obligations and conduct of

The killing and mutilation of a New Zealand peacekeeper in East Timor threatens further damage to Australia's fragile ties with Indonesia after the Howard Government yesterday demanded

Mark Riley, New York – The United Nations had begun closed-door discussions with key diplomats to bring forward the withdrawal of peacekeepers from East Timor before the death of a New

I Triono/ SWA & LM, Jakarta – Fabianus Tibo (55), leader of the "Red" group as well as the alleged mastermind of massacres which claimed hundreds of lives in Poso, Central Sulawesi,

James Balowski – Four years ago on July 27, television images of the Indonesian military bashing and kicking helpless protesters exposed the world to the brutality of the Suharto dictat

Pip Hinman – A group of unions has demanded President Abdurrahman Wahid disallow a new labour rights bill, which was unanimously passed by the House of Representatives on July 10 but ne

Slobodan Lekic, Asem Bagus – Dozens of elderly villagers wearing checkered sarongs wait patiently on cots while a US Navy corpsman prepares them for eye surgery.

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung/BI & LM, Pekanbaru – A public transport strike in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, northwest Sumatra, has clogged main roads and left passengers strand

Jakarta – A trial witness has implicated Indonesia's defence ministry in a forgery ring which churned out 2.1 million dollars worth of fake local currency notes, a report said Wednesday

Jakarta – Environmentalists on Wednesday slammed the Indonesian government for its failure to stop illegal logging at a national park in central Borneo, which has shrunk the local endan

BK & LH/BI & LM, Jakarta – Hundreds of students gathered together in the Indonesian Youth Struggle Front (FPPI) have staged protests today in Yogyakarta and Jakarta against the

Jakarta – An Indonesian mob rounded up three men and beat them to death after accusing one of them of murdering his wife with black magic.

Tangerang – Thousands of members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) burned and destroyed 82 kiosks on the Tahang riverbank in Salembaran Jati village of Kosambi district here on Monday,

Banda Aceh – The government has allocated Rp 1.4 trillion (US$155 million) to finance the implementation of the Joint Understanding on Humanitarian Pause in Aceh, Acting Governor Ramli

Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has approved income tax cuts that halve the burden on low income earners, as well as a radical new amendment that will provide regional administrations

Dharmastuti/SWA & LM, Jakarta – The thick palls of smoke choking North Sumatra and Riau Provinces has compelled the Ministry of Forestry and Plantations to announce that it plans to

Mark Riley, New York – A United Nations Security Council member has rejected claims by the Indonesian President, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid, that the council is pressing for a peacekeeping mi

Bagus Kurniawan/BI & LM, Yogyakarta – A spokesman for PT Pagilaran, embroiled in a land dispute with the University of Gadjah Mada and local peasants, has denied illegally seizing t