Megawati Wijaya, Jakarta – After weeks of raucous rallies and colorful campaigns, an estimated 170 million Indonesians are eligible to cast their…

The Australian Press Council has expressed concerns about proposals to license journalists in East Timor.

The Council Chairman Professor Ken…

The government should carry out serious investigations into the pre-election violence, no matter where the evidence leads. No one should be…

Banda Aceh – In Indonesia's Aceh province, stories about young unmarried couples arrested by religious patrol officers make frequent headlines in…

Jakarta – The economy may have grown by 4.6 percent in the first quarter of the year from a year earlier, as the elections helped pushed up…

Singapore – Indonesia and Thailand are perceived as Asia's most corrupt economies, with last year's cellar-dweller the Philippines making a marked…

Leony Aurora and Arijit Ghosh – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's 70 percent personal approval rating is his Democrat Party's…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Underrepresented for decades, women candidates received a major boost in their struggle for legislative seats in…

Jakarta – Poverty, poor education, and a lack of health care continue to plague Papua eight years after centralized control gave way to regional…

Fabio Scarpello – After the fall of president Suharto in 1998, Indonesia's powerful military found itself sidelined by enthusiasm for the nation's…

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Hundreds of tobacco farmers rallied against the planned kerosene subsidy cut Monday, at the West Nusa Tenggara governor's…

AI Index: ASA 21/012/2009

Amnesty International urges the National Head of Police, Bambang Hendarso Danuri to initiate an immediate…

As the situation deteriorates further in West Papua with more arrests and the shooting of protesters, the Australia West Papua Association calls…

Jayapura – Papua Police have detained three activists of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), for their allegedly subversive…

Election tensions in the Indonesian province of Papua have boiled-over, with reports that police shot and injured 11 people at a pro-independence…

The police's credibility and professionalism are being questioned as they failed to progress in their month-long investigation into the…

Arijit Ghosh and Aloysius Unditu – Indonesia's central bank may ease some bad-loan rules to enable lenders to boost credit as growth in Southeast…

Semarang – Fifty-three of 182 regional legislative council members across Central Java implicated in corruption cases are seeking…

Anita Rachman – Nine years after Indonesia took up the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, the country still had a long way to…

Stephen Fitzpatrick – If it seems Indonesia's air safety record has improved since the Garuda crash two years ago that claimed 21 lives and has…

Erwida Maulia and Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – At least 36 people, mostly legislative candidates from various political parties, were sentenced to…

The gubernatorial election in East Java is long over, but has bequeathed the police with the task of investigating the alleged voter list fraud in…

Jakarta – With a half full bag of plastic bottles, Maya, 40, mingled with thousands of supporters of the People Conscience's Party (Hanura in…

Aloysius Unditu – Effendy Choirie has lost count of the T-shirts, baseball caps and food packages he has given away since he began campaigning for…

Jakarta – Indonesia's political parties are turning to high-yielding rice seeds to woo an agriculture-based electorate in this year's…

Achmad Faisal, Surabaya – A surplus in rice production is no guarantee that farmers' well being – measured by their buying power – will improve,…

Alfian, Banda Aceh – Aceh's leading local parties have promised sharia law during their recent campaigns, bidding to win the upcoming legislative…

Surabaya – On Sunday April 5, protesters from the East Java People's Union Against the Elections (PRTP) held a demonstration at the…

Rallies and arrests in West Papua coincide with establishment of International Lawyers for West Papua

Reports from West Papua today…

Camelia Pasandaran – The candidate sons of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a senior Golkar Party lawmaker are under investigation for…

Yogyakarta – On Sunday April 6, around 40 students from the United People's Committee (KRB) demonstrated at the Gadjah Mada University roundabout…

Dili – It's been 10 years since Rudolfo dos Santos, then 14, watched as his neighbours and friends were shot, beaten and hacked to death by East…

When Mirini was appointed No. 1 on the National Awakening Party's list of national legislative candidates in Aceh Province, she put it down to her…

Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – Only nine of 38 parties contesting the April 9 elections will get seats at the House of Representatives in Jakarta,…

Nabire, Indonesia – Indonesian police shot and injured 11 people on Monday at a pro-independence rally in Papua province, where…

Tom Allard, Magelang, Central Java – Indonesia's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, yesterday backed away from longstanding and highly…

Jayapura, Indonesia – At least four people were wounded when police opened fire on a protest in Indonesia's remote Papua region on Monday,…

Amerindians in Guyana are supporting West Papua's calls for independence from Indonesia. West Papua is half of the island of New…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua People's Council (MRP) proposed two ordinances in this week's plenary session to strengthen indigenous…

Medan – The North Sumatra Union for the Politics of the Poor Front (FPPRM) believes that the administration of President Susilo…

Palu, Central Sulawesi – On April 5, scores of activists from the Central Sulawesi Union for the Politics of the Poor (PPRM Sulteng) declared…

Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – Nationalist-oriented parties tend to turn a blind eye to polygamy as a women's group found in a recent study showing they…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) denounced a report alleging its members and the Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI)…

Medan – On April 5 scores of people from the North Sumatra Union for the Politics of the Poor Front (FPPRM-SU) held a protest action…

Jakarta – With Indonesia lurching uncertainly towards national legislative elections next week, the shabby beer bars and brothels of Rawa Malang…

Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – Motorcycle gunmen fatally shot a rebel-turned-politician in Indonesia's Aceh province, officials said Sunday, raising…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Certain circles in Aceh have remained pessimistic that female politicians contending in the legislative election…

Up to fifteen people were arrested near Jayapura after police raided the office of the Papuan Customary Council and in Wamena three people…

Balongsari, Indonesia - Ponari was just like any other kid in Indonesia until he was struck by lightning. When he awoke, the story goes, he found…

On 4 April 2009, more than 200 people gathered in the town of Liquisa, Timor-Leste. Under a banner "Reflections about Ten Years since the Massacre…