Suadi Sulaiman Laweueng, the Free Aceh Movement's (GAM) spokesperson for the Pidie regency in north Aceh, spoke to Green Left Weekly's Jes Abek…

Less than four months after the big wave hit, villagers in Nusa have cleared tonnes of debris and will soon start rebuilding homes and cultivating…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The "positive and constructive" results achieved during the third round of peace talks between the government of…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Some 800 students from the United West Papua Democratic Students Front demanded on Monday that two police officers…

Rosa Garcia, Dili – East Timor's influential Catholic clergy on Tuesday rallied thousands to protest against Dili's "dictatorship regime" in the…

Dili – Hundreds of East Timorese Catholics, angered by moves to demote religion classes in public schools, gathered in front of Dili's government…

Samarinda (East Kalimantan) – The East Kalimantan Manpower Office estimated that some 5,000 timber workers in the province would lose…

Indonesian authorities have given the go ahead to build the country's first nuclear power plant on the densely-populated island of Java with the…

Dili – The struggle between East Timor's government and influential Roman Catholic Church intensified Monday with the church hierarchy accusing…

Astrid Felicia Lim, Jakarta – The People's Representative Assembly (DPR) is disappointed over the military's domination of Echelon I level…

Comments made by Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, regarding advertisements featuring World War Two veterans criticising the…

Paris – The immediate nutritional needs of areas in Aceh hit by the December tsunami have been met, but more than a third of children under the…

Dili – Police in East Timor prevented about 200 people entering Dili late Monday to attend a demonstration in the capital called by supporters of…

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – Is the government so strapped for cash that it failed to pay Pertamina Rp 23 trillion (US$2.42 billion) in fuel…

Nick Lenaghan – A group of Australian World War II veterans have weathered criticism from the RSL and Canberra over an advertising campaign…

M. Azis Tunny and Yemris Fointuna, Wawasa/Kupang – Hunger and malaria have claimed 22 lives in Wawasa hamlet in Amarsekaru village, Gorom island…

Tens of thousands of Muslim Indonesians held a peaceful anti-Israel protest and rallied outside the US embassy in what police said appeared to be…

Muhammad Nafik and Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid looks set to retain power as chief patron of the…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – After seven hours of questioning, four foreigners participating in a trauma counseling workshop in Medan will soon be…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed on Friday to raise the wages of civil servants and military and police…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Minister of Defense Juwono Sudarsono wanted civilians, not military officers, to produce defense policies that would help…

Tony Hotland and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The decision to pay bribe money to an audit office official was a collective decision made by top…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Muslim clerics continue to be one of the major stumbling blocks in gender equality in Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim…

[The first court hearing of a class action by representatives of millions of victims of 1965 took place in a Jakarta district court on 13 April.…

Helsinki – Aceh rebels and Indonesian government delegates have made a "breakthrough" at peace talks on the tsunami-ravaged province, and will…

Jakarta – The City Police said that protest demonstrations by students or community groups may be as harmful as terror bombings to the…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Ministry of Defense announced on Thursday a major reshuffle that has seen Indonesian Military (TNI) spokesman Maj.…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The Indonesian military (TNI) will not seek financial compensation in return for the relinquishment of its businesses…

The illegal logging trade in Indonesia is estimated to be costing the government about four billion Australian dollars a year in lost tax revenues…

Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – Three Indonesian soldiers were injured in a clash with Aceh rebels, as peace talks aimed at ending three decades of…

Optimism prevailed as Jakarta and Aceh separatists sat down for a third day of peace talks in Helsinki, but on the ground war-weary Acehnese…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government will not accept the option of a cease-fire offered by GAM [Free Aceh Movement]. The coordinating minister for…

Soraya Permatasari, Jakarta – Malnutrition was found in almost 12 percent of children in Indonesia's Aceh region who were displaced by the Dec. 26…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono insisted Friday Jakarta would never allow Aceh province to separate from the rest of Indonesia, but…

Aceh rebels fighting for the independence of Indonesia's northernmost province have told the Indonesian government in peace talks that they see…

Jakarta - Indonesian non-government human rights organizations have asked the government to cooperate with the United Nations' Commission of…

[Excerpt from report by Indonesian newspaper Media Indonesia web site on 14 April.]

Jakarta – KSAD (Chief of Army Staff) Lt-Gen Djoko…

Jakarta – The Army has started its investigation into officers allegedly involved in illegal logging in Papua province.

Army…

Jakarta – Patience, they say, is a virtue. And that's probably more true for former members (and their families) of the outlawed Indonesian…

Indonesia is to reinforce its military presence in the tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh, even as peace talks with separatist rebels in the…

Puji Santoso, Rokan Hilir – Protesters vandalized and set on fire three government cars on Tuesday evening during a violent protest to demand that…

The indigenous Christian Papuans in Eastern Indonesia are facing genocide and in desperate need of support and prayers.

The indigenous…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The government is now in the process of quantifying all enterprises belonging the…

Timorese journalists, lawyers and MPs met in Dili on March 22 to debate media freedom and Timor-Leste's draft penal code at a seminar entitled "…

Aceh separatists and Indonesian officials said they had reached a "point of understanding" following a second day of peace talks aimed at ending a…

Aguswandi, London – Do the Acehnese hate foreigners? Do they want the many foreign aid workers laboring to help them to leave their villages? Are…

Indonesia's powerful military has volunteered to close up shop on its huge business empire – three years earlier than the law requires. The armed…

Max Lane – Around 200 East Timorese protesters were attacked on April 9 by police, including special branch paramilitary forces. The protesters…

Dili – Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has accused leaders of East Timor's Roman Catholic Church of attempting to play the role of…

After cataclysmic tsunami, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which have left more than 224,000 Indonesians dead or missing across Sumatra and…