New York – The visiting speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly has asked the US government not to support the separatist Free Papua…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Workers at the Freeport-McMoran gold and copper mine have been ordered to stay at home after another series of shootings on…

Additional police and military forces are being sent to beef up security along a road in Papua that has seen a string of deadly…

Jakarta – The Papua Council Presidium (PDP) has called on the central government to form an independent team to investigate a series of shooting…

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Residents of a neighborhood in the Porong subdistrict of Sidoarjo, East Java, are reportedly refusing to leave their homes…

Stephanie March, Steve Holland for Radio Australia – East Timor's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, has defended his role in authorising a multi-…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle gave its chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri full power during its national…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government and lawmakers have been urged to reevaluate the regional autonomy policy, which in 10 years has led to the…

Although the TNI commander Djoko Santoso claims the Free Papua Movement (OPM) was likely behind shooting attacks in West Papua on the weekend, it…

Adam Gartrell and Rosa Garcia – The gunman stood 30 metres away and wore a mask that covered most of his face. But Isaac da Silva says he still…

Paul Toohey, Dili – Members of Jose Ramos Horta's hand-picked nine-man military guard fled at the sight of the rebels who turned up on the morning…

Ambon – A rally staged by the Muslim Students Association (HMI) turned ugly on Tuesday when it progressed into a physical fight with…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia has agreed to provide Timor Leste with a number of privileges in line with recommendations made by the final…

Heru Andriyanto – The South Jakarta District Court on Wednesday acquitted Tempo daily of libel over its reporting on the military wing leader of a…

Jakarta – Political experts had mixed opinions on the possibility of a return of the Soeharto clan to Indonesian politics through the Golkar Party…

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Deadly ambushes at the world's largest gold mine likely stem from rivalries between Indonesian police and military…

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The National Police and the Army have deployed officers to investigate a recent series of attacks…

Jakarta – Following the Golkar Party's poor showing in the April 9 legislative election and outright defeat in the July 8 presidential election,…

Prodita Sabarini – Bogor's Chinatown has for years been famous for its modest restaurants serving tasty pork dishes. A new city administration…

Ismira Lutfia – The Tangerang Prosecutor's Office, which has been roundly condemned for its handling of the Prita Mulysari case, has again been…

Denpasar – The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the Bali governor to help solve a lingering problem…

Nivell Rayda & Heru Andriyanto – Antigraft watchdogs have denounced a plan by police to arrest several officials of the Corruption Eradication…

Smoke haze resulted from forest fire in Indonesia's Riau province is getting out of control, the private news portal detikcom reported…

Geoff Thompson, Jakarta – Papua's police chief has denied bullets were removed from the body of murdered Australian Drew Grant before an autopsy…

Farouk Arnaz, Christian Motte & April Aswadi – Autopsy results show that the victims of the weekend killings near Timika in Papua were shot…

Farouk Arnaz & April Aswadi – While publicly agreeing to cooperate in a joint operation to find the perpetrators of the deadly weekend…

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – A series of killings in the remote highlands of Indonesia's Papua region have thrown a spotlight on the murky history of…

Jacqueline Hicks, Jakarta – As Indonesia's politicians and powerbrokers tentatively begin to cobble together a new ruling coalition, there is a…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Prosecutors are still deciding whether or not to file for a review of a Supreme Court ruling that saw a former…

Jakarta – The Mimika District Legislative Council (DPRD) in Papua Province has condemned the shooting incidents which occurred in an area…

Municipal officials in Pekanbaru, Riau, are requiring school children to wear traditional Muslim dress every Friday as part of an effort to…

Jakarta – Political experts have called on the likely presidential election winner, incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, to streamline…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – A number of environmental non-government organizations have criticized the speed at which the government has issued…

Heru Andriyanto – New questions were being asked over the performance of prosecutors as the possibility that the mastermind behind the high-…

Jakarta – Domestic violence cases of the rich and famous have made the front page recently, with cases like that of Manohara, the model-turned-…

Peter Cave: The death toll from a weekend of violence in Papua has now risen to three.

Police have confirmed that another Freeport mine…

Tony Eastley: It's been a weekend of deadly violence in the troubled Indonesian province of Papua.

On Saturday, a Melbourne man, Drew Grant…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Party stalwarts and political analysts agree now is the right time for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (…

Febriamy Hutapea – Calls are growing within the divided National Mandate Party for a change of leadership, as the party tries to cozy up to the…

Jakarta – Like the classic Bible story about "The prodigal son", incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is very likely to embrace the Golkar…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Advocating Team for the People's Right to Vote (TAHPR) urged the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Sunday to…

Nurfika Osman – The Armed Forces on Sunday again denied that it was still receiving payments from US mining company Freeport McMoran to provide…

Some Papuan police sources are blaming the shootings on the Free Papua Movement, but one rebel representatives has denied involvement.

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Australian woman Angelita Pires told East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado to go to Dili to "kill two dogs" the day before the 2008…

Nograhany Widhi K., Jakarta – On the first day of the new school term, Jakarta will be besieged by six demonstrations. One of them will be held in…

Timika, a city in West Papua, has become a site where an open war over money, involving the Indonesian military (TNI) and the police (…

Dili – An East Timor court began the trial under tight security Monday of 28 people accused of trying to kill the president and prime minister in…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A Melbourne man has been shot dead near the giant Freeport mine in Indonesia's Papua province in an apparent sniper attack…

Jayapura – A security guard employed at the huge Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province was shot dead and several police officers…

Timika – Gunmen using military-issue weapons pre-planned an ambush that killed an Australian mine worker in Indonesia's restive Papua…