The British-based Free West Papua Campaign plans to deliver a Petition to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown to mark May 1st, the 45th…

The West Papua National Coalition of Liberation says Indonesia can point to little in the way of progress in the Papua region since…

Rofiqi Hasan, Denpasar – Hundreds of workers, students and journalists in Bali commemorated International Labour Day at the Bajra…

Erick Priberkah Hardi, Bandung – Thousands of people from worker, farmer and student organisations inundated the Gedung Sate building complex in…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – As East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta convalesces in Dili, some of his compatriots perhaps are wishing he had…

Factory workers from the East Java Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration to greet International Labour Day on May 1 in…

May 21 will mark the tenth anniversary of the fall of the dictator Suharto. The end of the dictatorship was brought about by a sustained campaign…

[The following is a translation of a series of 12 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental…

Extract: Official complicity

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Agus Maryono, Banjarnegara – "It's been more than two months since we had side dishes other than boiled vegetables to go with our rice, and only…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups is warning President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono against banning Ahmadiyah, saying the…

Nana Rukmana, ID Nugraha and Panca Nugraha, Kuningan/Surabaya/Mataram – Thousands of followers of the Ahmadiyah sect in Kuningan, West Java, are…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta has expressed regret for publicly accusing Indonesian elements of being involved…

Loro Horta, Dili – With its political and security institutions in shambles, East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, is now emerging as a soft…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Timor Leste and Indonesia agreed Tuesday to greater cooperation on many issues, with the leaders of the two nations…

Jakarta – Most Indonesian domestic workers are denied their rights and many fall victim to abuse, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said…

Rendi Akhmad Witular, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono accepted on Tuesday a proposal from a powerful business lobby to help…

Thousands of workers from various companies held protest actions at different locations in Jakarta on Wednesday April 30 in the lead up to the…

Paul Toohey – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta yesterday came face to face with and shook the hand of the rebel he believes shot him on…

Khairina – The narrow lane in Rawa Terate, Pulo Gadung, East Jakarta, was dirty and suffocating that afternoon. Less than half-a-meter wide, the…

Through massive protest actions last year, workers throughout Indonesia united and successfully defeated efforts to enact the proposed draft…

B. Josie Susilo Hardianto – The lunch boxes had only just been handed out when they began to discuss the story of Mardi – a worker in Tangerang,…

Basic changes in the struggle by the working class before and after reformasi represent a shift from a struggle for wages and conditions to a…

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Justice for the victims of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor appeared more remote than ever on Tuesday after the two…

Port Moresby – The leaders representing 29 West Papuan political and civil society organisations have formalized the establishment of the West…

Jakarta – Women from four Asian countries have gathered to discuss women's issues and gender empowerment from an Islamic perspective.

The…

Theresia Sufa and Panca Nugraha, Sukabumi/Mataram – A group calling itself the Jamaah Al Mubalighin Communication Forum burned down a mosque…

Desy Nurhayati and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Malang – The government has maintained its silence on Ahmadiyah two weeks after a coordinating…

Sutarto, Jakarta – Lawyers and human rights activists went to the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) offices on Tuesday April 29 to…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A national team established by the President began on Monday efforts to transfer Indonesian Military (TNI) business assets…

Tito Belo, Dili – The leader of a group of East Timor rebels accused of trying to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta surrendered on Tuesday,…

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – The government may again reduce its industrial output growth target for this year as soaring oil prices push up…

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – People of the Dayak indigenous tribe under the auspices of the Dayak Solidarity Organization on Monday staged…

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – Scores of people from the East Java Alliance to Combat New Style Communism (SPKGB) protested at the offices of the…

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Human rights activists and political experts have criticized retired military and police generals for protesting…

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – Indonesia has gone through a transitional period over the last 10 years, which has seen improvements in democratization and…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters chanting "Kill, kill" set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they…

Jakarta – Already under threat of a fiscal calamity amid soaring oil prices and unrealistic government fuel subsidy spending, Indonesia is…

Dicky Christanto, Denpasar – Indonesia's regimes since 1998 have made all sorts of promises but few have been implemented and – even worse – the…

Reporter: Jeff Waters

Mark Colvin: There are growing fears for a group of ethnic Melanesian students in Indonesia who've been jailed for…

Frenky Simanjuntak, Jakarta – A recent statement by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono makes us wonder whether he, or his administration, is…

Jakarta – The Press Council has issued a journalists' protection standard in a bid to protect media workers from violence, intimidation and…

Jakarta – Siti Supiati, a farmer in Cisait Muncang village, Banten, did not believe the government has raised the price of unhusked rice to Rp 2,…

Non-governmental organisations and churches in Indonesia have released a report detailing what they say are thousands of cases of…

"Nenek moyangku orang pelaut/Gemar mengarung luas samudera/Menerjang ombak tiada takut/Menempuh badai sudah biasa...."

(Our ancestors…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives came under attack Friday for rebuffing the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) move to search the…

Jakarta/Medan/Semarang/Pekanbaru/Kupang – The three-day national final high school examination ended Thursday with reports of the same old…

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Women still have little chance of becoming legislators in the 2009 polls despite the new election law requiring that 30…

John McBeth – When Mr Xanana Gusmao pays his first visit to Indonesia as Timor Leste's Prime Minister next week, the former guerilla leader and…