Joe Cochrane, Bogor – Irwansyah is in a bit of a bind. The 33-year-old chief of the Bogor city police crime unit is investigating a criminal…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is implementing bureaucratic reforms halfheartedly, Gadjah Mada University's…

Jakarta – Intelligence experts say the recent presidential election distracted the police from the activities of terrorist organizations, leading…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The results of the General Elections Commission's (KPU) official vote counting have confirmed President Susilo Bambang…

Jayapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police have questioned 12 people in connection with deadly shootings near the giant Grasberg mine in Papua…

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – Indonesian police Tuesday questioned teachers at an Islamic boarding school amid reports a former student was one of two…

Candra Malik – Hard-line preacher Abu Bakar Bashir was reportedly barred by police on Tuesday from delivering a sermon in Malang, East Java, after…

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – The suicide bomber at the Ritz-Carlton gave a non-existent room number as he entered its restaurant. He deflected…

Noordin Mohammed Top is always a step ahead of authorities, writes Tom Allard in Jakarta.

The fugitive terrorist suspect Noordin Mohammed…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A draft bylaw on the planning and improvement of traditional markets, shopping centers and modern stores, currently…

Jakarta – Leaders of various religious groups as well as anti-violence activists held two separate mass prayers on Monday at the site…

Damien Kingsbury – Just two weeks ago, observers were congratulating Indonesia for a presidential election that was seen to consolidate that…

Marcus J Sihaloho – Former Vice Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto brushed off questions about his political rivalry with…

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda reportedly led a failed effort to strengthen the future powers of Southeast Asia's first…

Febriamy Hutapea – After taking a long, hard look at its back-to-back defeats in the recent polls, Golkar Party leaders have indicated that the…

Camelia Pasandaran – Still crying foul over the July 8 presidential election, runner-up Megawati Sukarnoputri will likely refuse to…

Camelia Pasandaran – The nation's capital has handed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his running mate Boediono a landslide result in the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Terrorism has no place in any religion, the leader of one of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations said…

Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor – The Jakarta bombers aimed to destabilise Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's technocratic, mainstream, economically…

A regular breakfast meeting was the perfect terrorist target, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta.

The terrorist knew exactly where to go.…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – An extraordinary address by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in which he all but linked one of his political…

Surabaya – Suicide bombings at two Jakarta hotels on Friday had nothing to do with Jemaah Islamiyah, a member of the Muslim Lawyers Team said on…

The Australian foreign minister says he's leaving it up to Indonesian authorities to decide whether to take up his country's offer for…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Indonesia, Jakarta – The El Nino climate phenomenon could hit Indonesia this year, producing a dry spell that could…

Paul Toohey – A "highly protected" Australian Federal Police ballistics report shows that one of Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta's personal…

TAPOL warmly welcomes the decision of the Papuan Amungme Tribal Council to file a lawsuit against the Indonesian Government, the Coordinating…

Dessy Sagita – An Islamic boarding school in Central Java founded by radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the reputed leader of the Jemaah…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As first light emerged and a soft mist hung over the rainforest, Drew Grant had every reason to be upbeat as he relaxed in…

Presi Mandari – Indonesian police confirmed regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah as the culprits behind twin suicide blasts at Jakarta hotels,…

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities said Sunday that there is an increasing evidence that the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Islamist group…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – A group of activists urged the government Saturday to stop linking Friday's hotel bombings to the recent…

Jakarta Globe – A heavy smoke haze from forest fires curbed visibility in Riau early on Friday, forcing delays in flights landing and…

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The State Intelligent Agency (BIN) has admitted its failure to detect the infiltration of…

Jakarta – Indonesia's healthy economic growth and market resilience will sustain the damaging impact of blasts that ripped through the JW Marriott…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – Experts have written the obituary of extremist violence in Indonesia, but the violent extremists keep refusing to…

Christian Motte – For the sake of their own safety, thousands of Freeport employees are temporarily forbidden to leave the company's…

Adam Gartrell, Dili – Angelita Pires talks a lot about conspiracies. There's the conspiracy she's accused of but denies authoring: The one to…

Tanalee Smith, Adelaide – An Australian think tank predicted that Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah might launch new attacks just a…

Telly Nathalia and Olivia Rondonuwu, Jakarta – Bomb blasts ripped through luxury hotels in the heart of Indonesia's capital on Friday, killing…

Greg Poulgrain – At dawn last Saturday in the Indonesian province of Papua, on the mountain-road near the world's largest gold mine, 29-year-old…

In November 2004, the newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised to bring the killer of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib to…

Jakarta – While trailing presidential candidates have claimed the July 8 presidential election process was "flawed and unfair", the latest survey…

A Papua human rights activist has dismissed claims by Indonesia's Defence Minister that foreign governments or NGOs could be behind a…

Jakarta – "Foreign countries" could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near a US-owned goldmine in Indonesia's remote Papua province that have…

A former journalist's return to the site of the massacre of five of his colleagues in Balibo sparked bitter memories and a determination to record…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – After feeling exploited and ignored for more than three decades, the Papuan Amungme tribe have filed a lawsuit against…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia is deploying police special forces to US-based Freeport's gold mine – the world's largest – after a wave of…

Ayu Fitriana, Jakarta – Around 3 hundred people coordinated by the Solidarity Committee for Munir (Kasum) held an action in front of…

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Around 150 farmers living in Bangun Rejo village, Kutai Kartanegara regency, blocked the…

Nivell Rayda – More than 100 Muslim students from the University of Indonesia staged a rally and "sealed" the Chinese embassy in Jakarta on…