Syaipul Bakhori, Jakarta – Hundreds of workers occupied a timber company in Jambi demanding their unpaid salaries and severance pay.…

The village of Tai Tete is a 40-minute climb from the town of Maliana, in the west of East Timor.

The rangy figure of Joana Fatima leads us…

Farida Iqbal – "The right of self-determination is important because it's part of the pure principle of democracy", Jacob Rumbiak, foreign affairs…

Jakarta Post, Jakarta – About 100 people from the Anti-Corruption Papuan Society Alliance Community (KAMPAK) rallied at the National…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – On any other day, members of the House of Representatives would be on the prowl for TV and print journalists, in an…

National leader John Key advocates that the Super Fund invests in up to 40% New Zealand companies. A good place to start would be by cleaning out…

Jayapura – Police early Wednesday motning pulled down and confiscated four Bintang Kejora (Morning Star) flags of the separatist Free Papua…

Indra Harsaputra and Abdul Khalik, Surabaya, Jakarta – The country's soldiers will have to wait at least until after the 2009 elections to…

Timika – Five men have been arrested after an outlawed separatist flag was raised in Indonesia's remote Papua province, police said…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Ni Komang Erviani, Bandung, Denpasar – The controversial anti-pornography bill is drawing yet more opposition from various…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) is still heavily politicized, with many of its key members joining the elections race more…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Feeling the heat from the global financial woes, the government has revised down budget assumptions for next year –…

A chasm of perceptions, of mind-sets, is unfortunate but inevitable between a people claiming to have been oppressed and those deeply offended by…

Evan A. Laksmana, Singapore – The Indonesian Military (TNI) celebrated its 63rd anniversary on Oct. 5. Its formal commemoration, however, will be…

Dili – The East Timorese ministry of justice is preparing a penal code which would decriminalise many abortions, but with little visible public…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – With the global financial crisis currently battering local markets and expected to hit middle and low-income families…

Dicky Christanto and Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – More than 5,000 people from various occupations, religions and organizations stormed Denpasar's…

The General Elections Commission (KPU) has, after some delays, finally published the preliminary list of 11,868 legislative candidates for the…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – The ideal proportion of votes a party must win to be able to put forward a presidential candidate would be around 20…

Ati Nurbaiti, Banda Aceh – Hasan Tiro, the supreme leader of the former separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), cited Sunday a string of heroes from…

Soibada, East Timor – East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta said Monday he wants the United Nations to drop its investigation into…

Luh de Suriyani, Denpasar – Survivors and relatives of the victims of the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings said prayers and lit candles on Sunday…

An opposition plan for a massive march on East Timor's capital and rumours of tension in the police force are raising concerns of a return to…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Indonesians should base their lives on the values of pluralism and respect for differences which they have inherited from…

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – In the weeks before and after the Idul Fitri holidays many middle-class households are busy with domestic matters. Now…

Stephen Coates, Banda Aceh – Pink from floor to ceiling and with hot pink windows and doors, the office of the Aceh Transitional Committee (KPA)…

Hotli Simanjuntak and Ati Nurbaiti, Banda Aceh – Deafening shouts of 'Allahu akbar!' and 'Long live Wali Nanggroe!' greeted the long-awaited…

Adianto P. Simamora and Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Dozens of corruption suspects have made it onto a provisional list of legislative candidates…

The impact of the global financial crisis will be felt the deepest next year, economists said at a discussion on Friday.

Amid a slowing…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has said the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is welcome to follow up an…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has called on Indonesian Muslims to alter their perception of mudik (journeying to one…

Pandaya, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has been accused of turning a deaf ear to public demands that former Bank Indonesia…

Denpasar – Thousands of protesters rallied on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali on Saturday to demonstrate against an anti-pornography bill…

Banda Aceh – Hasan di Tiro, founder of the former rebel group GAM in Indonesia's Aceh, returned on Saturday after more than 30 years exile,…

Ati Nurbaiti, Banda Aceh – After three decades of absence, Aceh's former resistance leader Hassan Di Tiro arrived in Banda Aceh in Saturday to a…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Trouble appears to be brewing in East Timor again as security forces step up roadblocks and increase security around…

Cirebon, West Java – His face blackened by smoke and dust, and sweat streaming into his eyes, Sugeng took a break by the roadside after clocking…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Another key witness in the murder conspiracy trial of former State Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief Muchdi…

Dili – Tens of thousands of people are preparing for their third bout of flooding since 2006 in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) as…

The police chief of East Timor's second biggest city has been arrested amid rising tensions within the force. Stephanie March reports…

Who does not think Yogyakarta is special? Only a few who have had the privilege to taste the lifestyle in this ancient city fail to leave enamored…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is facing the threat of internal disintegration, with influential members and affiliated groups seemingly…

Jakarta – Palm oil companies are clearing massive swathes of untouched forest in Indonesia's remote easternmost Papua region, environmental group…

Desy Nurhayati and Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Anti-corruption observers have criticized the Attorney General's Office for dropping investigations…

Dili – East Timor celebrated Cuba's Independence day within the World Drive Against the Blockade with a new telephone line (roaming)…

East Timor's President and chief prosecutor are at odds over the prosecution of senior military figures for their role in illegally arming…

Many ordinary people were celebrated as heroes for the role they played during East Timor's struggle for independence from Indonesia.

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Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – When the US Congress approved a bailout plan last week, it was expected to ease the global financial crisis.

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Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The government has decided to extend the tenure of Yogyakarta Governor Sultan Hamengkubowono X by three years, in a bid…

Jakarta – Indonesia is to sign up to a charter committing Southeast Asian nations to the principles of democracy and human rights, its foreign…