Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has insisted the foreign journalists known as the Balibo Five were accidentally killed in East Timor in 1975, despite an admission by a former ar

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As they cowered in a flimsy shack in a banana grove, the Balibo Five were killed by ferocious volleys of gunfire from Indonesian soldiers and their Timorese allies

Adam Gartrell, Jakarta – An Australian Federal Police (AFP) probe into the Balibo Five killings is still in its early stages and it's too soon to say if investigators will seek to inter

Stephen Fitzpatrick – The retired Indonesian commando at the centre of the Balibo Five killings says he will refuse to give evidence to an Australian Federal Police investigation into t

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ashlee Betteridge – The Armed Forces on Tuesday shrugged off a former soldier's statement that Indonesian military forces killed the so-called Balibo Five

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – The Balibo Five were deliberately killed during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, according to a retired commando who was in the special forces squ

A former Indonesian army colonel has admitted Indonesian soldiers deliberately killed the so-called Balibo Five journalists to cover up the invasion of East Timor.

Rod McGuirk, Jakarta – A former Indonesian army colonel has told a magazine that soldiers deliberately killed five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975, contradicting his governmen

Talek Harris, Sydney – Relatives of five journalists killed in the East Timor border town of Balibo in 1975 on Tuesday welcomed a former soldier's "milestone" statement that they were s

Matt Crook, Dili – The UN mission in East Timor needs to hand over formal control of the country's national police force as soon as possible to avoid doing irreparable damage, according

Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans has been appointed Chancellor of The Australian National University by the University Council today.

Matt Crook, Dili – East Timor's leaders say bringing to justice perpetrators of atrocities committed during the Indonesian army's occupation would sour relations between the neighbourin

Dili – East Timor should form its anti-corruption commission soon to support the economy and maintain people's trust in the half-island nation, President Jose Ramos-Horta said Saturday.

Daniel Flitton – East Timor has warned it will abandon a multibillion-dollar deal with Australia to exploit natural gas fields in the Timor Sea unless a pipeline is built to deliver the

Philip Dorling – The Defence Department has blocked the release of 34-year-old intelligence papers that would shed new light on the deaths of the Balibo Five journalists and potentially

David Coady – An international charity focussed on safe water and sanitation says children are dying needlessly in East Timor due to poor toilet facilities.

[Special correspondent Kira Kay examines East Timor's ongoing effort to rebuild itself, 10 years after winning independence from Indonesia.

Guido Goulart, Dili – Families in East Timor appealed Thursday to their own government and Indonesian authorities to help recover the bodies of dozens of loved ones still missing 18 yea

Jakarta – Former Indonesian president BJ Habibie expressed his ire at former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan on Monday with regard to the independence of East Timor (now Tim

East Timor says it will seek compensation from Australia if its waters or shores are polluted by a leaking oil rig.

Lindsay Murdoch – Maternus Bere, a Timorese-born Indonesian citizen accused of crimes against humanity, was ushered secretly across the border from East Timor into Indonesia last weeken

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Mark Dodd – An audit of East Timor's public finances by Darwin-based accounting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has uncovered $189 million worth of discrepancies, raising serious concerns

Dili, East Timor – East Timor's struggle against Indonesian occupation may soon become a money maker.

A suspected militia leader accused in a massacre of dozens of women, children and priests in a church in East Timor a decade ago, had been returned to Indonesia, the Ministry of Foreign

Jakarta – Activists in London demanded Monday that Indonesian authorities bring to justice those responsible for killing Dutch Financial Times correspondent Sander Thoenes in then East

IPI warns Indonesia's commitment to democracy undermined

The new Australian Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in East Timor says there are many signs of progress in the country.

New York – The European Union concurred with the United Nations Friday on the need to strengthen East Timor's capability to handle its own security before the UN mission there can be w

On October 20, La'o Hamutuk sent this letter to the member of the UN Security Council in New York, together with the annex which follows below.

Steve Holland – An East Timorese government delegation led by Prime Minster Xanana Gusmao is in China looking for support for its bid for a major gas processing plant to be built in Ea

Dili – East Timor's opposition Fretilin party said there had been a "huge swing" against the government in recent village or 'suco' elections, even though candidates were supposed to b

Belinda Lopez – In Blok AA1 of the Christian cemetery in Kebayoran Lama, an engraved headstone marks the resting place of young journalists shot by the Indonesian military.

Dili – East Timor's first joint military exercise with the United States began Wednesday with the arrival of the USS Bonhomme Richard assault ship.

Dili – East Timor's opposition stayed on the offensive Tuesday after the government survived a no-confidence vote over its decision to free an Indonesian militia leader accused of crim

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia and East Timor are trying to work out disputes over their territory by agreeing on an exact border between the two nations, a government official said on

Guido Goulart, Dili – East Timor's government faced a no-confidence vote Monday over the release at Indonesia's request of an alleged militia leader accused of war crimes in the slayin

Dili – East Timor voted on Friday in village elections seen as a test of the fledgling country's stability a decade after its historic independence referendum which led to its bloody sp

Dili – An East Timorese court on Friday jailed a militia leader for 32 months for his role in widespread violence that left 37 people dead and more than 100,000 displaced in 2006.

Dili – Pay hikes for lawmakers and high-level officials passed Thursday in East Timor are "out of proportion with the economy", the opposition National Union Party said.

Dili – Tiny East Timor reached a new low in the UN's annual measurement of human development, falling even further down the list of 182 countries measured for overall quality of life.

Matt Crook, Dili – East Timor's deputy prime minister abused his power by securing a plum United Nations job for his wife in which she was overpaid thousands of dollars, a leaked ombud

Dili – Australian Defence Minister John Faulkner visited East Timor Saturday and reiterated his country's commitment to maintaining security in the newly formed country, officials said

Paige Taylor – Maria Reinado struggles daily with her memories of a husband and father who was unfaithful and never met their fourth child because he "loved his country too much".

Jon Lamb – During August and September, Australian and international media outlets ran numerous articles, opinion pieces and commentaries marking the 10 years since the people of East

Usman Hamid and Yati Andriyani, Liquisa, East Timor – Mentioning Timor Leste not only brings to mind a state that was once Indonesia's 27th province, but also a place where gross human

United Nations – East Timor's government is defending its policy of not pursuing war crimes trials for Indonesian officials responsible for thousands of deaths during their 24-year occu

Brendan Nicholson, Foreign Affairs Correspondent – Indonesia's ambassador has asked the Australian Federal Police to explain why they are investigating the killings of five Australian-b

James Thomas – In seeking the truth behind the deaths of six Australian Journalists in East Timor in 1975, actor Anthony LaPaglia and Kevin Rudd have something in common.

Elisabeth Oktofani – Previously known as an area of conflict, East Timor is becoming a land of opportunity.