Woodside Petroleum Ltd, along with ConocoPhillips and other resource companies, is facing demands by the East Timor government to pay…

Wendy Frew – Historians often say the past is a foreign country but in East Timor it's a thread that runs through the fabric of daily life.…

Peter Cronau and Andrew Fowler – Potentially billions of dollars of tax is being withheld from the government of East Timor by some of the world's…

(Footage of US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, arriving for a visit in Timor Leste)

Kerry O'Brien, presenter: For a country struggling…

Jakarta, Indonesia – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is currently preparing a scheme to implement Law No. 16/2011 that will provide government-…

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – The Social and Religious Study Institute (eLSA) in Semarang, Central Java, has blamed the government and particular…

Banjarmasin – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) raided a South Kalimantan nightclub early Sunday morning, shouting "get out of this…

Rizky Amelia – The Supreme Court refused to intervene in a row between the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on…

Jakarta – Anti-graft watchdogs have called on the House of Representatives to drop its plan to amend the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)…

Fadli, Batam – A visiting Cabinet minister on Monday gave a green light to the controversial appointment of a former corruption convict to head…

Jakarta – The Golkar Party has lashed out at Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam for releasing a list of the country's most corrupt political parties and…

Farouk Arnaz & Jonathan Vit – Papua Police arrested seven members of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee (KNPB) on Saturday in…

Jakarta, Indonesia – TAPOL, a UK-based human rights watchdog, has urged Indonesia to address the 1965 Communist purge, as failure to do so would…

Scott Waide – After decades of maintaining a relatively neutral stance, the Papua New Guinea Government will finally be making a strong…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto has rejected the findings by the…

Further information on UA: 109/12. Index: ASA 21/040/2012

On 17 September, prisoner of conscience Filep Karma received medical…

Ronna Nirmala & Bayu Marhaenjati – Indonesia emerged from the chaos of the 1965 communist purge, and survived the turbulence of the 1998…

Jakarta – In spite of new evidence that the prosecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was…

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said on Monday that he would raise the idea of adding hours for religious lessons in schools with the…

A major raid occurred on Saturday by troops from the Indonesian army (TNI) and Australian-trained Detachment 88 counter-terror unit on activists…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A victim of the 1965 anticommunist purges in Medan, North Sumatra, Astaman Hasibuan, raised his voice in protest against…

Thousands of Indonesians on Sunday chanted anti-American slogans outside the US embassy in Jakarta, in the latest protest against a film that…

Pitan Daslani – Indonesia's big political parties are struggling to prevent the emergence of alternative presidential candidates for the 2014…

A group of lawyers representing the incarcerated Shia leader Tajul Muluk submitted documents to the Constitutional Court on Friday and…

Bambang Muryanto – For the first time, a state-sponsored investigation has concluded that the 1965-1966 killings following the 1965 alleged…

Hamish McDonald – There comes a point in the curve of political authority for a limited-term leader where it turns inexorably downwards and he or…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Amelia Yani, the daughter of one of the generals slain between Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 1965, said her mother always asked: "…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Indonesian government must eradicate corrupt practices and improve transparency in order to attract more…

Ati Nurbaiti – Despite unresolved debates on the details of the power struggle of the 1960s, the arbitrary killings and the detention of hundreds…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the National Police were at loggerheads again on Friday as graft…

Pitan Daslani, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – A proposal by some lawmakers to strip the Corruption Eradication Commission of some of…

Hyginus Hardoyo – The declaration by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) that the 1965 purge of communists and their supporters…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Comedian-turned-lawmaker Dedi Gumelar on Friday aired his support behind the government's move to erase science and…

Bagus BT Saragih, New York – Some of the luster of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to New York faded earlier this week after he…

Dozens of people from Timor Leste, who had taken refuge in the province for 13 years with minimum facilities from the Indonesian…

Jakarta – Former senior deputy governor of Bank Indonesia Miranda S. Goeltom was found guilty on Thursday, but the mystery of who bankrolled the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Families and survivors of human rights abuses have urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to set up an ad hoc…

Alex Rayfield – Two West Papuan activists currently in police detention in Yapen Island in West Papua are being threatened with twenty years jail…

Dessy Sagita – Around 10,000 workers descended on Jalan Rasuna Said and Jalan Gatot Subroto in South Jakarta on Thursday to stage protests against…

Jakarta – The leadership of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has rebutted suggestions that it has fallen out of favor with the…

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – The billionaires club in Indonesia is set to welcome new members. In its latest "Wealth Report: Asia", Julius Baer, a…

Jakarta – The Retired Army Association (PPAD) is warning the government and society at large over the influx of foreign ideologies…

Ronna Nirmala – Solo Mayor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was officially declared the winner of the Jakarta gubernatorial election on Friday,…

Firdha Novialita, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Pitan Daslani – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono needs to protect minority groups from violence…

Jakarta – Judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court have sentenced Miranda Goeltom to three years' imprisonment for bribing lawmakers to…

Deputy chairman of the House of Representatives' Commission II on regional autonomy, Ganjar Pranowo, said that lawmakers would support…

SP/Imron Rosyid & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Solo/West Kutai – Forest fires have razed thousands of hectares of land in Central Java and East…

Jakarta – Following two recent school brawls that have resulted in the deaths of two students, Religious Affairs minister Suryadharma Ali put the…

Madiun, East Java – Four Indonesian soldiers on Thursday were sentenced to between five and six years in prison for helping to smuggle illegal…

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The Bogor administration's plan to relocate the GKI Yasmin Church to Jalan Semeru in Kotaparis, Bogor, has been met with…