Karlis Salna – Indonesia was "almost effusive" when Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election, but the positive response was largely due to a keen dislike…

Guido Goulart, Dili – A powerful earthquake hit waters off East Timor on Tuesday, but officials said it was too deep to trigger a…

Maire Leadbeater – The Melanesian people of West Papua, neighbours to Papua New Guinea, say they belong to the Pacific region and that it is their…

Matthew Pennington, Washington – President Barack Obama has embraced Indonesia as a crucial US ally in Southeast Asia, but rights groups and…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-150-2011

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The Jayapura regional police in West Papua have charged eight medical…

This year's mudik season has claimed 345 casualties so far, already a 140 percent increase from the same period last year, an official…

Olivia Rondonuwu – Indonesia's government has declared that the moon is not in the right position for the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan to end…

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Across the city, banners and posters signal the new country's increasing integration with the world outside, heralding…

Mark Dodd – East Timor's small army will be supplied with Indonesian weapons after the signing of a ground-breaking agreement between the two…

Harsh criticisms, including from moderate Muslims, of both the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and SCTV's decision to cancel broadcasting the…

Jakarta – State-owned train operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) says many officers from the Indonesian Military (TNI) and police…

Jakarta – Three youngsters, who were hanging out on Jl. Matraman Raya in East Jakarta on Saturday at around 2:00 a.m., were beaten up…

As a pious young Muslim in Indonesia, Didit Sukmana prays five times a day, recites the Koran daily and fasts during the Islamic holy month of…

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Nothing has changed at the Transito shelter in the five and a half years that it has served as home to 138…

Elisabeth Oktofani – A hard-line Islamic group has threatened to demonstrate outside the headquarters of a TV station on Saturday over its plans…

Makassar – The South Sulawesi administration says it forbids members of the Ahmadiyah Muslim community to conduct religious activities…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Anita Rachman & Ronna Nirmala – Two rogue lawmakers – one convicted of breaking the law and the other accused – are…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Greenpeace Indonesia went on the offensive on Friday, saying the recent wave of attacks against the organization began…

Jakarta – University of Indonesia (UI) has come under a storm of protests for awarding an honorary doctorate to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, a…

Tifa Asrianti, Majalaya – Determined to clean up Java's heavily polluted rivers, environment activists have found that involving their local…

Klas Lundstrom – Blackouts remain a significant part of East Timor's capital, Dili, although Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has promised the country…

Dili, East Timor – The East Timor parliament Tuesday approved the first change to the country's Oil Fund Law to allow greater…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – Two people were killed during a large-scale clash involving residents from different villages in Gedungjaya,…

Batam – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has leveled allegations of extreme brutality and torture against police officers in Riau…

Dofa Fasila & Arientha Primanita – Jakarta has been accused of passing a spatial master plan for the city that puts the interests of…

Esther Samboh, Jakarta (JP/ANN) – Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo says Indonesian companies should be wary of foreign borrowing given the…

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – It is a seemingly unending conflict in a part of the world famous for both its awesome remoteness and the incredible…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Jayapura City Police have named Julius Wenda, 32, a resident of Kotaraja, Abepura, a suspect in connection with…

Anita Rachman – Three months after Indonesia Corruption Watch challenged them to comply with the Political Parties Law and release their 2010…

Jakarta – World Bank managing director Sri Mulyani Indrawati commended Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao for his administrative…

Jakarta – As many as 1,860 US diplomatic cables concerning Indonesia were released by WikiLeaks on Wednesday night and are now…

Popular television shows aired during Ramadan have come under fire from the national broadcast watchdog for racy content that violates regulations…

Camelia Pasandaran, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ulma Haryanto – Starting on Sept. 1, the government will impose strict controls on the hiring…

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been heavily criticized in a new batch of US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks on…

Jakarta – More than 50 percent of Indonesian journalists agreed that the religious sect Ahmadiyah and Playboy magazine should be banned, while…

Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday urged Indonesia to free a Papuan activist jailed for staging a peaceful protest and raising an…

Jakarta – An alleged US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks on Friday reveals that the US is seeking to approach Indonesian Foreign…

London – After the mass mobilization of the people of Papua on 2nd August 2011, and the conference of the International Lawyers on West Papua (…

Index: ASA 21/027/2011

Papuan activist Melkianus Bleskadit has been imprisoned in West Papua province for his involvement in a…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Indonesian government says it now has a chance to seize $36 million (US$52 million) from Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra…

Nurdin Hassan – Authorities in Aceh released a married lesbian couple from detention after the lovers agreed not to see each other again.

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Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Rote Ndao regent Leonard Haning has banned three local journalists from the regency following the publication of "biased…

Arientha Primanita – The Constitutional Court announced on Wednesday new measures aimed at greater transparency following recent allegations of…

Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives warned President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono against intervening in the final selection process of…

Dance Yanu has been sentenced to seven months and 16 days by a judge at the Manokwari court after being found guilty of makar (…

Elisabeth Oktofani & AFP – Garuda Indonesia on Wednesday denied allegations by a South Korean job applicant that male doctors were examining…

Palu, Central Sulawesi – Police in Indonesia say they have launched an investigation into the deaths of two demonstrators and wounding of five…

Palu, Central Sulawesi – Police in Central Sulawesi have vowed to investigate the officers involved in firing on rioters during Monday's attack on…

Two provincial Indonesian lawmakers from Islam-based political parties have been forced to deny allegations they were having extramarital sex in…

Padang – The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) detected 203 hot spots across Sumatra on Tuesday, an official said…