Ardimas Sasdi, Jakarta – The peace pact signed by the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government in Helsinki on Aug. 15 has so far…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Former Garuda Indonesia president director Indra Setiawan had given a special assignment to pilot Pollycarpus…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – A senior judge in the world's most populous Islamic country, declaring that "killing is a big thing in the eyes of God,…

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has again put a disclaimer note on the government's financial report of the state budget,…

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Driven by their frustration over the sluggish investigation into corruption cases, dozens of anticorruption activists…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Hundreds of people in West Java vandalized on Monday night houses, mosques and cars belonging to members of the…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The United Nations food agency expressed deep concern over the slow recovery in tsunami-devastated…

Six years ago today, Australian armed forces lead a multinational peacekeeping force (INTERFET) to East Timor to restore order and provide…

Dean Yates, Jakarta – Joining a group of young Indonesian intellectuals who hold liberal Islamic views was once just a ticket to controversy. Now…

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The fact that one in five Indonesians still lives on less than US$1 a day is made even gloomier by the fact that every…

Miedy Pakasi, Manado – Newmont Mining Corp. and one of its top executives must stand trial on charges of dumping mercury and arsenic-laced…

Sydney – East Timorese president Xanana Gusmao says pursuing Indonesian generals through the courts for atrocities committed years ago won't…

Luh Putu Trisna Wahyuni and Eva C. Komandjaja, Mataram/Jakarta – Police said on Monday they have questioned at least 11 people as witnesses in…

Jakarta – Suspected bird flu patients can be forced into hospital under "extraordinary" measures welcomed by the World Health Organization to…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – The much-vaunted reform movement has helped Indonesia build a democratic infrastructure but the country has yet to…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government promised on Monday to install the members of the much-awaited Papua People's Assembly (MRP) early next…

A Swiss journalist who witnessed the Abepura incident in 2000 in Indonesia's Papua province says a police commissioner acquitted of charges in…

Simon Montlake, Lhue and Banda Aceh – For Mahfud and Jaafar, two former Acehnese fighters, life after the rebellion has left time for quiet…

Jakarta – Indonesia will pull 2,600 soldiers out of Aceh province on Tuesday as it steps up the withdrawal of troops under a peace agreement that…

Jill Jolliffe – A witness to the killing of five journalists in Balibo, East Timor, in 1975 has died in Dili months before a new…

Nani Afrida, Lhokseumawe – Around 800 Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers left Aceh on Sunday as the mass withdrawal of reinforcement troops from…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Anticipating protests about increased fuel prices in October, the Jakarta Police are tightening security around government…

Jakarta – Dozens of people, including two policemen, were injured as farmers and police clashed on Sunday over a dispute in connection with land…

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – Police have declared nine people suspects in Saturday's rioting that followed a protest over the inauguration of…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – Yuswandi, 40, a shrimp farm worker, seems bewildered. He and his colleagues have been traveling back and forth…

Ruslan Sangadji, Poso – The peace was again shattered in the Central Sulawesi city of Poso on Saturday night when a homemade bomb exploded…

Firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir and more than a dozen Bali bombers may get further automatic jail remissions within weeks despite…

Jakarta – Pressure continued on Friday for the House of Representatives to open their meetings on the state budget to ensure transparency, in the…

Kornelius Purba, New York – Less than two weeks before completing his first year in office, foreign businesspeople reminded President Susilo…

Mark Forbes – On Boxing Day Irwandi Yusuf clambered onto a roof inside Banda Aceh's prison and watched a torrent of water wash the walls and most…

Jerry Norton, Teupin Raya – Aceh rebels have more than met their initial commitment to hand in their weapons under an agreement aimed at ending…

Australia West Papua Association (Melbourne) welcomes the National Party's Resolution No. 11 calling on the Liberal Party, its coalition partner…

Washington – Thirty-five members of the US Congress have called on Indonesia to lift travel restrictions to West Papua and halt the military…

Devi Asmarani, Banda Aceh – They used to emerge under the cover of night, sneaking into villages from base camps in the mountains for rare visits…

This week's decision by Indonesia's Supreme Court not to reverse the acquittal of a police officer charged with gross human rights abuses in East…

Activists and legislators questioned on Thursday the government's commitment to boosting transparency in the public sector after a…

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Around 700 members of the Islamic mass organisation Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) in Yogyakarta, Central Java, held…

Jerry Norton, Banda Aceh – Indonesia will begin withdrawing thousands of troops from strife-torn Aceh province as soon as rebels there complete…

Fedhly Averouss Bey, Jakarta – The government should not only focus on the disarmament of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) but must also act firmly…

Phelim Kyne, Jakarta – Foreign companies contracted to help rebuild Indonesia's tsunami-ravaged Aceh province must actively protect themselves…

Ellen Nakashima, Liquica – On the day he disappeared, Jacinto da Costa Canisio Pereira, a local resistance leader, stood in a priest's bedroom and…

Jakarta – The cafe looks no different from any other eatery, except that it serves as a meeting place for emerging artists and intellectuals.

Muhammad Nur Hayid, Jakarta – The destruction of weapons belonging to the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has received a warm welcome. The House of…

A recent study of 75 large export-oriented companies at four of Indonesia's largest seaports concluded that logistics services accounted for an…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Millions of teenagers are sexually active in the country but official ignorance or a head-in-the-sand attitude is leading…

The peace process in Indonesia's Aceh province is right on schedule, according to a joint European Union-ASEAN monitoring mission. The Aceh…

Robin Mcdowell, Peudada – Acehnese rebels emerged from their jungle camps Friday to surrender a second batch of weapons, as the guerrillas and the…

Jerry Norton, Banda Aceh – Former rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province began handing in guns to foreign monitors on Thursday under a landmark peace…

Lhokseumawe, Jakarta – Around 1,300 Mobile Brigade Police left Aceh on Wednesday as part of a peace agreement with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)…

Jakarta – Efforts by former political prisoners to seek justice for their past suffering were dealt a setback on Wednesday by the Central Jakarta…