Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Controversial Democratic Party (PD) lawmaker Ruhut Sitompul warned he would expose the "dark records" of those…

Peter Lloyd: New light is being shed on Australia's preparedness to challenge Indonesia over its actions in East Timor after the invasion back in…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Despite strong evidence against Ari Sigit – the grandson of former President Suharto who is accused of making Rp 2.…

Rizki Amelia & SP/Erwin Cristianson – Indonesian legal experts and activists are calling the Wednesday arrest of Constitutional Court chief…

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) charged Constitutional Court chief justice Akil Mochtar with allegedly accepting a bribe to fix the…

The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

October 3…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today urged President Obama to emphasize human rights and the rule of law in US-Indonesia…

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc reached a tentative agreement with Indonesian union workers on Wednesday over wages and pensions…

James Bennett – Malcolm Fraser has acknowledged newly obtained diplomatic cables from the period after Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975…

Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste has expressed its wish to be associated with the Malaysian Parliamentary Friend to facilitate better…

SP/Carlos Paath – Weak internal control systems and legal non-compliance cost the government Rp 57 trillion ($4.95 billion) in lost revenue during…

Key Australian government officials sounded early warnings about the rapidly deteriorating situation in East Timor in the late 1970s that led to…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The seven recently elected commissioners of the Witness and Victims Protection Agency (LPSK) were confirmed by…

Director Joshua Oppenheimer has made his acclaimed documentary "The Act of Killing," based on Indonesia's 1965 anti-communist purge, available as…

Ethan Harfenist, Arientha Primanita & AFP – The United States Labor Department praised 10 countries, including Indonesia, for their "…

Raras Cahyafitri and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesia surprisingly recorded a 0.35 percent deflation in September, the first since May,…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP), the oldest Islamic party in the country, has…

Joseph Saunders – A long-awaited agreement signed on Monday by Indonesia and the European Union to trade only in legal timber is a critical first…

Hans Nicholas Jong, National – Antigraft activists have lambasted the House of Representatives its alleged attempts to weaken the Corruption…

A group of aggressive thugs interrupted a rally organized by the Movement of People with Concern (GMP) in front of the Medan mayor's…

In Tony Abbot's Joint media conference with the Indonesian President he said,

"I admire and respect what you and your government…

Ian Rintoul – Yesterday at his press briefing, Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison, claimed that Australia had removed seven West Papuan asylum…

Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi on Tuesday completed a humiliating climbdown from comments made last week in which he said that an urban ward…

Jacqui Baker – On 3 March of this year, in a Tangerang courtroom, a young warung (food stall) owner named Yeni raised her skinny fist in victory.…

Desy Nurhayati, Denpasar – Activists on Monday criticized the ongoing APEC Summit as a way for developed countries to imperialize and exploit…

Max Lane – The systematic political murder of around 1 million people in Indonesia began on 1 October 1965 and lasted around three years. The…

Sandra Siagian – Despite Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's push to strengthen ties with Indonesia during a meeting with business and…

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott skirted the question of asylum seekers in talks on Monday in Indonesia, an issue…

With some canny scaling back of his asylum seeker rhetoric and a hardening on West Papua, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has done much to retrieve his…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Farmers and activists in West Java have slammed the government for implementing agrarian policies that favor large-scale…

Indonesia must immediately conduct an investigation into the alleged excessive use of force by police against protesters during a demonstration in…

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – As Indonesia's 1965 communist purge is under the spotlight with the screening of "The Act of Killing" across the United…

Elizabeth Pisani – I'm sitting at a warung in Central Sulawesi, waiting to pay for my coffee. Two coffees, in fact, and two cakes. The warung…

The group of seven West Papuan asylum seekers deported by Australia to Papua New Guinea say they feel powerless and afraid about what…

An Australian activist group says the Australian government is doing its best to wash their hands of the plight of a group of West Papuan asylum…

Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste has expressed the desire to emulate Malaysia in developing its infrastructure.

Dewan Negara Speaker…

The Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, has restated that Canberra has total respect for Indonesia's sovereignty and territorial…

The Refugee Action Coalition says the Australian government has acted unlawfully in transferring seven West Papuans, who had fled…

Elisabeth Kramer – American whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, revealed that Australian intelligence agencies had been tapping the phones of…

Lea Jellinek – This is a brilliant book, a must read for anybody wanting to understand the Asian city. In Indonesia, kampung dwellers make up over…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Criticism by state officials and political figures towards Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo will only serve to further…

Jess Melvin, Melbourne – Forty-eight years ago on Oct. 1, 1965, the Indonesian military under the leadership of Soeharto launched its long…

Jakarta – Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party chief patron Lt. Gen. Prabowo Subianto has said the media should focus on him…

While the Australian PM is taking 20 prominent business leaders with him to Jakarta, the diplomatic tension over asylum-seekers will be hard to…

Rebecca Lake & Sandra Siagian – Indonesian leaders and rights groups have criticized Australia's policy on asylum-seekers, citing its…

The exhumation of 17 people executed by the Indonesian military in 1984 in Fatudere, Adarai village of Uatolari (Viqueque).

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Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Survivors of the 1965 anti-communist purge could finally receive justice with the settling of differences, after…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – US and Indonesian military ties are growing as evidenced by US participation in the recent US-Indonesian joint-funded…

Farouk Arnaz, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & SP/Novianti Setuningsih – Being considered the most harmless among a rotten bunch is hardly a ringing…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Despite exchange rate depreciation, high inflation and slower growth, the country is not likely to slip into another…