D. Aveiro – Ximenes Belo, former archbishop in Dili and Nobel peace laureate, said Wednesday that, 17 years after the massacre at the cemetery of…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Thousands of workers blockaded the east gate of the Padalarang toll road in Bandung on Wednesday in protest against a…

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Australia risks losing the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project to East Timor, where the venture could avoid the effects…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Several witnesses have testified in favor of former senior intelligence officer Muchdi Purwopranjono, unraveling the…

Triwik Kurniasari, Jakarta – The city administration and a number of anti-smoking NGOs plan to conduct raids across the city targeting smokers…

Astrid Wijaya, Jakarta – The government is failing to respect and protect those who identify as homosexual, bisexual or transgender, despite their…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Anyone who thinks the discussion on Papuan independence is over should listen to Hans Gebze and other young Papuans.

Rob Taylor, Canberra – The execution of three militants for the 2002 Bali bombings should have been more tightly controlled to avoid becoming a…

The younger brother of Amrozi, one of the Bali bombers executed early Sunday, said he was proud his brother had never burdened his parents. As a…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), whose controversial TV ads on the commemoration of National Heroes Day featured a…

Astrid Wijaya, Jakarta – An Asian human rights group has pressured the government to investigate the disappearance of 13 Indonesian activists a…

Eko Ari Wibowo/TNR, Jakarta – Former leftist activist in the 1998 political turmoil that brought Soeharto's military regime down, Budiman…

Fery Firmansyah/TMC, Jakarta – Jakarta Police informed four demonstrations planned for Monday in the capital, the first at 9 AM…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Leading Muslim organizations Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah have called on Muslims to cease glorifying the three…

Alfian and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – With huge exposure to distressed stocks, affluent politicians from major political parties have fallen…

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Despite both the public and administrative bodies in Bali refusing to enact the recently passed pornography bill,…

Ahmad Fikri, Jakarta – Hundred of workers in Bandung, West Java clashed with police outside Gedung Sate in a protest to reject the Joint…

Jesse Wright, Dili – As the official photographer for the thousands of civilians walking to a cemetery for a burial, Simplisio de Deus watched…

The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) calls on the Australian Government to raise the human rights situation in West Papua with the…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Indonesia's verbal traditions are endangered because of the country's negligence in preserving the heritage amid streams…

Ridwan Max Sijabat – More than 300 mudflow victims Saturday stopped work to heighten the huge dike in their village, protesting the suspension of…

Jakarta – Indonesia's handling of the executions of three militants for the 2002 Bali bombings caused unnecessary suffering for victims of the…

Jason Tedjasukmana, Jakarta – Three men involved in the 2002 bombing of two nightclubs in Bali were executed on Nov. 9 on the Indonesian prison…

Jakarta – Bali Police chief Insp. Gen. Teuku Ashikin Husein on Monday said his institution had no option but to enforce the new…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – An expert said that up to now the police war on thugs has set unclear objectives and therefore resulted in even…

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – The state, through President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), should issue an immediate apology and rehabilitate the…

Jakarta – Indonesia's human rights groups expressed hope Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama would put more pressure on Indonesia to resolve…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Trouble appears to be brewing in East Timor again as security forces step up roadblocks and increase security around…

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – The Kalimantan regional office of the state minister for the environment has blamed the presence of a number of…

Lisbon – The Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (Fretilin) threatened to abandon the Timorese Parliament by the end of the year,…

The Amrozi Circus has left town. The three terrorists most responsible for the carnage in Bali in October 2002 have finally been executed after…

Mark Forbes, Jakarta – Blood has again stained Indonesian soil from an act of coldly calculated violence, after bullets ripped into Amrozi, Imam…

Ken Ward – The long-delayed execution of the three Bali bombers ends one of the strangest sagas in Indonesia's legal history. It is not unusual…

Jakarta – Believing that the government has failed to side with them, workers have started campaigning for people not to vote in the 2009…

Heri Retnowati, Tenggulun, Indonesia – Three Indonesian militants executed on Sunday for the 2002 Bali bombings were buried by their families at…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – With the elections drawing near, political tension is already heating up with Golkar Party leader Jusuf Kalla and…

Jakarta – A government task force has undervalued the net worth of the Indonesian Military's (TNI) business units with just a year to go before a…

Ruslan Sangadji and Indra Harsaputra, Palu, Surabaya – Three organizations held a peace rally at the Hasanuddin traffic circle in East Palu,…

Jakarta – Global rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has maintained its outlook on Indonesia' debt rating as stable, thanks partly to a…

The once famous anecdote Petrus (mysterious shootings) probably re-emerges in the minds of many people in reaction to the newly appointed National…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Indonesian filmmakers had for decades been dealing with censorship in the name of politics and morality. And they have…

Denpasar – Despite Golkar's support for the recent passage of the controversial pornography law at the House of Representatives in…

Arlina Arshad, Tenggulun – T-shirts praising the Islamists behind the Bali attacks went on sale in the village of bombers Amrozi and Mukhlas on…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) proposed to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday that the retirement age of…

Dini M., Surabaya – Around 500 laborers representing East Java's Indonesian Laborers Union Alliance Congress (KASBI) has urged the…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Three days after the National Police declared its war against thugs, questions still remain as to whether the…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy head Muchdi Purwopranjono employed a pilot to murder human rights…

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Home Minister Mardiyanto is scheduled to install Alex Noerdin and Eddy Yusuf as South Sumatra's new governor and vice…

Dwi Riyanto A., Jakarta – Chairman of the House of Representatives (DPR) urged the government to immediately respond to a demand of…

Ati Nurbaiti, Sanur, Bali – Women's groups, NGOs and lawyers said Wednesday they might file for a judicial review of the newly passed anti-…