Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Thousands of contract employees in the Cirebon municipal administration and at state enterprises in the city are demanding…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – For those people who wonder why the sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi remains smoldering, local Muslim…

Zakki Hakim, Wonosobo – One of Southeast Asia's most-wanted militants escaped a raid on his suspected hideout Saturday, but two of his accomplices…

Dili – The government ordered the army to help restore order in East Timor's capital Friday, after two people were killed and 34 wounded,…

One East Timorese police officer was killed by mobs during a protest in support of nearly 600 dismissed soldiers in the capital Dili, police said…

West Papua solidarity groups today welcomed law firm Mallesons Stephen Jacques's legal action against the Howard Government and claim the…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives should stop drafting the state secrecy bill because it will limit public access to important information…

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Hard work still lies ahead for the government despite its expectations of higher growth this year on more investments,…

Dili – Four years ago as East Timor became the world's youngest nation, hundreds of cars driven by UN personnel criss-crossed the streets of Dili…

Dili – A protest rally by hundreds of former East Timorese soldiers sacked after deserting last month turned ugly Wednesday when at least five…

Jakarta – State power utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) has reported a 2005 loss that is more than double that of the previous year after…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The government insisted Tuesday that Muslims and non-Muslims alike in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam should be tried by the…

Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Agency (KPPU), the nation's official antimonopoly watchdog, has urged the government to stop…

Jon Afrizal, Ujungjabung – Coastal erosion is continuing at a steady rate along the east coast of Sumatra, especially in East Tanjungjabung…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Environment Forum (Walhi) plans to build a green political front as an alternative political force. The environmental…

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Mentawai Islands – The indigenous people of Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra have demanded that the central and local…

M. Azis Tunny, Ambon – Despite tight security in Ambon city, supporters of the self-proclaimed South Maluku Republic (RMS) managed to hoist four…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Since he was laid off several months ago, Maryadi, 48, has started to behave strangely, at least as far as his wife…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Academics and unionists have criticized the President's instruction to five universities to study the government's new…

Kerryn Williams – The Indonesian government withdrew its draft labour law revisions on April 8, pressured by a wave of workers' protests. The…

Denpasar – After losing a grueling and sometimes violent Star Reform Party (PBR) leadership battle here over the weekend, a morose faction leader…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – More Christian places of worship have been vandalized or forcibly closed by local Muslims because they have failed to meet…

East Tanjungjabung, Jambi – The high price of diesel fuel is making life hard for fishermen in Ujungjabung, Jambi.

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has named Maj. Gen. Erwin Sujono the new commander of the Army's Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad),…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The on-again, off-again legal saga of former president Soeharto may be back on track, although Attorney General Abdul…

The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), which recently attacked Playboy Indonesia's office to press the magazine to stop publishing, may fit the…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A march by dissident soldiers through the East Timorese capital yesterday turned ugly when demonstrators attacked market…

Nancy-Amelia Collins, Jakarta – Some East Timorese soldiers who were fired last month vow to continue their protests in the world's newest nation…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Up in arms over a government proposal to amend the national labor law, Indonesia's powerful unions have threatened to stage…

Bogor – Dozens of youths, grouped under the nationalist youth group Pemuda Panca Marga, distributed hundreds of pamphlets Saturday to…

Mark Dodd and Stephen Fitzpatrick – The warning signs were obvious to anyone paying attention. Cashed up Indonesian government officials were…

Aguswandi, Banda Aceh – Aceh is currently still in a transition to peace. The province does not yet have a sustainable peace, and the new…

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – As the debate on the law on the Aceh administration enters a critical stage, the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) is…

Rendi Akhmad Witular, Jakarta – The government has asked the international Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) to extend its presence in Nanggroe Aceh…

Jakarta – Painting an ominous picture of religious intolerance and national disintegration, a group of activists and intellectuals warned Saturday…

Former dictator Suharto has made yet another public appearance in good health, prompting renewed calls that he be put on trial for corruption. But…

Jakarta – The head of the Jakarta metropolitan police General Firman Gani and the Jakarta military commander Major General Agustadi…

Banda Aceh – National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) member MM Billah believes that there is strong resistance from a certain circles…

Nearly 600 soldiers dismissed last month from East Timor's armed forces for striking over labour conditions have threatened to wage a…

Dita Indah Sari – The uproar over the planned revisions to the labour law has yet to subside. The character and process of the next round of…

Dili – About 2,000 demonstrators, backing hundreds of soldiers dismissed from the East Timorese army, marched through Dili Monday, launching five-…

After living abroad for decades, the self-exiled leaders of Aceh's rebel movement have returned to Indonesia to support the province's peace…

Jakarta – Indonesia's vice president set an August target date for elections in Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province. The elections are a key…

Lisabona Rahman, Jakarta – A group of elementary schoolchildren carefully take notes as a guide takes them around Lubang Buaya (Crocodile's lair…

Jakarta – Dress smart if you want to convince the bank manager you deserve a loan. But for businesswomen, they should also bring their husbands…

Jakarta – Hundreds of activists, artists and cultural communities – decked out in colorful garb – bedazzled passersby and spectators along the…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – The landmark year 1998, with the bloody May riots, the mass rape of Chinese-Indonesian women and the fall of the Soeharto…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The controversy over the payment of "incentives" to legislators during the deliberation of the Aceh governance bill…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – "You should send the Australian military into Papua. Why not? The sooner the better. It would be a humanitarian…

Jakarta – Thousands of people from various cultural groups rallied Saturday against the implementation of Indonesia's much- debated obscenity law…