Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – Up to 3,000 forestry workers went on strike in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, on Tuesday, demanding the government raise…

Stephanie March, Dili – East Timor's inaugural Journalist of the Year awards last week provided much-needed encouragement for professionals facing…

Katie Chalk – Every morning, when Madalena opens her front door, she is faced with what has to be one of the most beautiful views on earth. High…

Fadli, Batam – As many as 2,000 workers of PT Jaya Asiatic Shipyard in Batam, Riau Islands, went on strike Monday, demanding the company fix its…

Jakarta – Police have launched an investigation after a cache of up to 10 petrol bombs was found stashed underneath a train heading to…

Dili – The report of the Commission for Truth and Friendship on who was behind the violence surrounding East Timor's independence vote in 1999…

Jakarta – "The Democrats must find another coalition partner," said politics expert, Indra J. Piliang, yesterday. "This giant party is nominating…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – At the opening of the Association of Islamic Students (HMI) congress in Palembang on Monday, the Golkar chairman and his…

Jakarta – An Indonesian court sentenced a businesswoman to five years in jail on Tuesday for bribing a public prosecutor to drop a high-profile…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – The Bank Indonesia corruption saga has expanded to the President's Cabinet, with new testimony implicating two…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Calls are mounting for the government to immediately finalize drafting a bill on governance administration which is…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The press community has warned against the emergence of a new form of censorship as evident in a recent ruling between…

A diarrhoea outbreak in a remote area of Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua has killed at least 156 people and sickened…

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Vivienne, an old friend of mine from Singapore, came to visit last week. I had just watched a Chinese kung fu DVD and…

We are flabbergasted to learn that the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) is continuing to lobby the government for an…

Jayapura – A group of demonstrating students from the Coalition of Students and the Community Concerned about the Land of Papua (…

Jakarta – At least 172 villagers have died in a cholera outbreak that has triggered unrest in Indonesia's remote eastern Papua province, church…

All police units based along the country's borders have been instructed to fly the red-and-white flag all along the borders, to…

Jakarta – The country's packaging industry, which boasts revenues of Rp 20 trillion (US$2.18 billion) a year, is suffering from low imports and…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – While some 40 million Indonesians struggle to survive on less than US$2 per day, their representatives in the national…

The Indonesian government has assured PNG that there would be no repeat border incursions into PNG by its soldiers.

The…

Jeffrey Elapa – A peaceful protest march was held in Madang on Saturday by Divine Word University students over the alleged border incursions by…

Chris Brummitt, Jakarta – Ten alleged militants arrested this month planned to assassinate an American teacher in Indonesia and avenge the…

"Indonesia on execution spree", reads the headline of a wire service reporting on six such executions in the past month. Six is already six too…

The Papua NGOs Forum is calling on Indonesia's government to stop issuing permits for oil palm plantation in Papua province.

…

Aqida Swamurti, Jakarta – The State Ministry for the Environment has recorded that verdicts of not guilty are handed down by the…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Victims of the July 27, 1996, attack on the headquarters of then opposition leader Megawati Soekarnoputri, commemorated…

Dian Yuliastuti, Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection (NCCP) has stated that violence and pornography from the internet still…

Jayapura – The military commander of XVII/Cenderawasih, Major General Haryadi Soetanto issued a warning on Saturday to remind all adat councils in…

Tom Wright, Jakarta – The global resource boom is threatening one of the world's last tropical-forest frontiers: the Merauke region of Indonesia's…

Dian Yuliastuti, Jakarta – Head of Internet Rental Centers in Indonesia (Awari), Irwin Day, has that the money in circulation being spent on…

Agnes Winarti, Jakarta – More than half of the street children living in shelters in Central Jakarta have been sexually abused and one third take…

Triwik Kurniasari, Jakarta – Hundreds of students from the Arastamar Theological College (Setia) were evacuated from their campus in Kampung Pulo…

Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless

- TS Eliot, The Hollow Men

Tom Hyland – It would be…

Australian Paul Stewart was just 15 when Indonesian soldiers murdered his cameraman brother in East Timor.

More than 30 years later, he…

Ben Doherty – There is food now, for the markets are open, and the men have found work on local farms.

But Dominges Enriques has lived too…

Jakarta, Indonesia July 23 – Twelve years ago, dozens of young people declared the birth of a new political party, which had a radical-progressive…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Peace campaigners warned mobilizations of youth groups in the election campaign currently underway could lead to…

Dawn Gibson – As the mini-bus pulls to a stop, a swarm of excited children press their faces against the windows, all big brown eyes and grins.…

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Around 20 students in the Central Jakarta city of Yogyakarta were arrested by municipal police on…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Anwar Rosadi, the father of a 12 year old, who had worked as a maid for Renata Tan, looked worried. His daughter was…

Ken Yunita, Jakarta – Five separate protest actions by a number of different social organisations will provide a panorama for Jakarta residents on…

While 34 national political parties will contest the general elections in April 2009, the contest in Aceh will be very different. This will be the…

The National Commission on Human Rights will launch an investigation into alleged human rights violations in Papua, despite protests from the…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Gay groups, human rights and women groups protested at media bias putting homosexuality in a negative light through…

Jakarta – Indonesia must raise ownership ceilings for foreign investment and liberalize state-owned monopolies to resolve infrastructure…

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has underlined the need for reform of Indonesia's military after a report blamed the country for gross…

Last week saw the much-anticipated release of the Truth and Friendship Commission (CTF) final report. The Commission was established by the…

Tereni Kens, Port Moresby – The Papua New Guinea government will be making a formal protest to the Indonesian government over the recent border…

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Corruption is widespread and commonly committed by high-ranking officials in 33 out of 35 regencies and municipalities…