Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Eighteen-month-old Citra stares vacantly up at the ceiling of her parents' small house in Dadap village in Serpong,…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – While smokers are being held accountable for air pollution, it is not clear what the consequences are for car…

Mike Carlton – Some background for you on the story of those 42 refugees from Papua who were given asylum in Australia last month, provoking that…

Hamish McDonald – Thirty years ago I met a Papuan man called Imser in a place called Valley X, high in the mountainous spine of the Indonesian…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – People from religious groups readying to protest the first edition of Indonesia's Playboy, which hits newsstands…

Responding to comments made today by Australian Prime Minister John Howard, the Free West Papua Campaign strongly criticised any plans to…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The attorney general has questioned police for failing to investigate Maj. Gen. Muchdi Purwoprandjono, a former deputy…

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu/Jakarta – Representatives of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and the country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul…

Ridwan Max Sijabat – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno gathered with top aides in a daylong meeting Thursday, amid increasing…

M. Azis Tunny, Ambon – Three thousand workers of Djayanti Group's Seram Plywood employed at PT Artika Optima Inti in Seram regency, Maluku, staged…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – Dozens of illegal sawmills around Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in West Lampung, which had stopped…

Hera Diani, Jakarta/Serang/Chiang Mai – For nearly three decades, Slamet Rahayu, 58, has worked in the fight against tuberculosis by finding and…

Michelle Grattan, Canberra and Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – John Howard says most Australians do not want West Papuans seeking refuge here.

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Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy is expected to continue slowing down this year, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Thursday, with…

Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Playboy magazine may no longer rate on the sexual cutting edge in some places, but the first edition in Indonesia, the…

Tb.Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – The government is defending its much-criticized decision to revive issuing forestry concessions to timber companies…

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono says that he has the names of six to seven non-government organisations (…

Andra Jackson – Exiled West Papuan independence leader Jacob Rumbiak is well placed to challenge the credibility of Indonesian assurances that 43…

Mark Baker – It is now evident the chorus of cheers that greeted the Immigration Department's prompt and uncharacteristic decision to grant…

The search continues for a boatload of Papuan asylum seekers thought to have mistakenly landed on an island in Papua New Guinea in…

Mark Forbes, Jakarta – Papua's first directly elected governor has warned Indonesia must deliver "justice, equality and prosperity" or face the…

Canberra – Indonesia's respect for human rights in its Papua province has improved and Australia shouldn't encourage the region's independence,…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) called participation of the commander of Indonesia's Kopassus Special Forces in a US military…

Armia AM, Lhokseumawe – As a result of delays in the ratification of the Acehnese version of the Draft Law on Aceh Government (RUU-PA), thousands…

John Birmingham – What was Bill Leak thinking last weekend? There he was, a senior diplomat, respected authority on Australian foreign relations,…

Jakarta – Considering the massive level of deforestation in tsunami-hit Nangroe Aceh Darussalam province over the last five years, the government…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The recent memo-writing scandal involving Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi shows that a culture of corruption is…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Of the more than 100,000 state officials nationwide required by the Anticorruption Law to report their personal…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla adopted a soothing approach Wednesday to a seething labor protest outside his office in Central…

Jakarta – Thousands of workers in the country's main cities took to the streets Wednesday to voice their objection to the proposed revisions to…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Labor unions pooled their resources Wednesday in stepped-up protests nationwide against planned revisions to the…

Parliamentarians, union leaders and academics have been included on an Indonesian government list of prominent Australians supporting Papuan…

Indonesian importers have called for a boycott of Australian goods as anger grows over Canberra's decision to grant temporary visas to 42 Papuan…

Abdul Khalik and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Indonesia may end up breaking its own laws if it keeps trying to secure the return of 42 Papuan asylum…

Telly Nathalia, Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesians rallied across the world's fourth-most-populous country on Wednesday to protest against a…

Conflict is mounting in Indonesia over proposed changes to the country's labour laws. A bill to amend the current manpower act is due to be tabled…

Attorney General Abdul Rahman Saleh said Tuesday he simply followed orders in the decision to drop criminal charges against several…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A leading corruption watchdog lambasted the government Tuesday for its failure to recover the bulk of taxpayer money…

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Bogor – The massive illegal logging of Papuan merbau timber is being fueled by five giant international flooring companies,…

Jakarta, Palu, Kupang – The government should delay the execution of three men on death row for inciting sectarian conflict in Poso, Central…

Peter King – The fracas between Indonesia and Australia over West Papuan refugees may blow over, but the underlying issues won't go away anytime…

Cartoonists might make light of it, but the view from Jakarta of separatist unrest in Papua is anything but funny. Papua is many times larger than…

Jakarta – The National Police signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with Britain to increase police cooperation between the two…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Stop by Floor M of the Manpower and Transmigration Ministry on Jl. Gatot Subroto in South Jakarta to witness a…

Bandung – Hundreds of pedicab drivers in Bandung protested outside the office of civilian guards on Monday after the alleged beating…

Damien Kingsbury, Melbourne – In asking the question, is Papua in danger of becoming another East Timor, Ahmad Qisa'i does little more than…

Jakarta – Robust demand for Indonesia's crude palm oil (CPO) and rubber helped push up the country's total exports for the first two months of the…

Jakarta – Residents of a village in Rawakalong, Depok, have filed a lawsuit against a textile factory, saying their wells are filling up with…

The late Adam Malik, long Indonesia's foreign minister and later vice-president, was called the "kancil" after the mousedeer which, in his country…

Some people following the case of the three Christians awaiting execution for their alleged involvement in the Poso violence in 2000 have no doubt…