Agnieszka Sobocinska – This summer, many of us are heading overseas. Australians are the world's largest spenders on international travel on a per…

Indonesia is in talks with Russia on the purchase of a number of Kilo Class submarines, as the country expands its deterrent capabilities in…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Despite government efforts to combat malnutrition, the recently released basic health research (Riskesdas) shows an…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) and the Jakarta administration launched a website…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of activists from different NGOs from a number of cities staged a rally at the Yogyakarta Ground Zero area…

Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa has given a cautious response to comments by prime minister Tony Abbott that Australia will continue…

Julian Drape – East Timor says it won't be deterred from challenging a multi-billion dollar oil and gas treaty with Australia in The Hague despite…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Supporters of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in the Democratic Party (PD) have called on former party…

Camelia Pasandaran – A beleaguered Ahmadiyah congregation in Bekasi was handed a hollow victory on Thursday when a court invalidated a municipal…

Camelia Pasandaran – Two more Indonesian churches have been taken out of commission in Sulawesi and West Java over the last week as Christians and…

Kennial Caroline Laia & Natasia Christy Wahyuni – Indonesia ranks second from the bottom in an international education survey conducted to…

Lenore Taylor – The inspector general of intelligence and security has issued an unusual public statement to deny that any former spy had raised…

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor says the Australian Government knew it would call upon the testimony of four whistleblowers in its dispute…

For many years, Australia has been stealing the oil and gas from the Timor Sea, in an area which belongs to Timor-Leste under international legal…

Nick Miller – East Timor's government will not be deterred in pressing its case to scrap an oil treaty worth billions of dollars over claims of…

Damien Kingsbury – The new government is not off on the right foot in foreign policy terms, with the Indonesian spying scandal dominating…

Shirley Shackleton – This week the home and offices of Australian barrister Bernard Collaery were raided, while he was in the Hague seeking…

Donald K. Anton – Claims of Australian spying on East Timor are only the latest chapter in a saga of clashes over treaties.

In the last…

Despite the usual diplomatic niceties at the celebration of the thirty-eighth anniversary of Timor-Leste's declaration of independence in Canberra…

Gordon Peake and Piers Kelly – With allegations of Australian chicanery during the Timor Sea negotiations, a definitional question emerges for the…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The latest unannounced visit made by Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to a subdistrict office on Wednesday has brought to the…

Keerom – Refugees who have returned to Indonesia's Papua province from exile in neighbouring Papua New Guinea (PNG) are disillusioned with their…

Dessy Sagita & Kennial Caroline Laia – A senior government health official has sought to distance himself from the controversy over a condom…

Camelia Pasandaran & Amir Tedjo – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to Sampang, East Java, has done little to resolve long-simmering…

It is disturbing that more than a decade after East Timor secured its independence, with the assistance of Australian forces, our nations now are…

Farouk Arnaz – The Deputy Chief of the National Police has responded to the controversy surrounding whether or not female police…

Jennifer Robinson – West Papua's claim to self-determination is gaining grounds internationally. But for this to become a reality, more Melanesian…

Bernard Keane – As the United States-style war on whistleblowers and journalists ramps up in Australia, one of the key myths about national…

Australia's role in supporting the transition of East Timor, or Timor Leste, to independence in 2002 – making it the first new sovereign state of…

Vento Saudale – Officials from Bogor have since October torn down 75 holiday villas and buildings as part of efforts to eliminate a total of 239…

Jane Wardell, Sydney – Attorney-General George Brandis said on Wednesday raids by Australia's domestic spy agency on the Canberra offices of a…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Education experts and campaigners have welcomed the Education and Culture Ministry's decision to scrap the national…

Tunggul Wirajuda – For millions of East Timorese, Indonesia's 24-year occupation of their country seemed an interminable nightmare.

"My…

Jakarta – A number of travelers have called on the police to take harsh action against workers who launched a blockade on the toll…

East Timor's prime minister says he is shocked by the Australian Government's decision to authorise raids on a lawyer and whistleblower who were…

Tom Allard – The former senior spy who blew the whistle on alleged Australian bugging of East Timor's government took his case to the intelligence…

Angela Dewan – Samarinda, East Kalimantan. Barges loaded with mountains of coal glide down the polluted Mahakam River on Indonesian Borneo every…

On her trip to Indonesia to try and smooth relations with Jakarta over the spying scandal, our foreign minister should also be raising the…

Andi Hajramurni and Slamet Susanto, Makassar/Yogyakarta – While the government's commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunities for…

Keerom – Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, struggle for employment because most jobs in the gold-rich region go to…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Army has been given six months to complete the construction of 14 roads stretching more than 900 kilometers in…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court heard on Tuesday allegations that members of the First Family's inner circle were…

Jakarta – The fight against rampant corruption in the country has not made much progress in the past year, Berlin-based Transparency International…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Scores of young people vandalized a shariah police office and injured a religious police officer in the early hours of…

Paul Cleary – Oil and espionage have gone hand in hand during the past four decades of contestation over the lucrative petroleum resources of the…

The Australia East Timor Friendship Association of South Australia today released a statement regarding the spying scandal against Timor-Leste by…

Amir Tejo, Dessy Sagita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A backlash against a government campaign to emphasize the importance of condoms as part…

Terrorism in Indonesia has been reduced to "low-tech, low-competence, low-casualty attacks" by weakened groups – but could shift up to a more…

Katharine Murphy and Lenore Taylor – A first-hand witness to alleged Australian spying against Timor-Leste in 2004 has been detained and searched…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police is now reconsidering their policy of allowing female officers to wear the Islamic headscarf, or…