Yuliawati, Jakarta – The Malaysian government has made complaints regarding demonstrations by Indonesians in front of the Malaysian…

Joseph Nevins – When I saw Paul Wolfowitz's smug grin in the January 17 issue of The New York Times, trouble was clearly on the horizon. The photo…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – In the midst of increasing tension over the territorial dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia, it seems that the…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The recent dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia over territory and resources has rung alarm bells for the Indonesian…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Conservative religious understanding and cultural elements have hampered the development of the political role of women here…

Yuliawati, Jakarta – The People's Representative Assembly's Natural Disaster Relief Monitoring Team in Aceh and North Sumatra is asking the…

Leony Aurora, Lhokseumawe – The situation just outside Lhokseumawe in the northern part of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is not as gloomy as you might…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The head of the Papua forestry office, Marthen Kayoi, has been declared a suspect of illegal logging following a…

Niken Widya Yunita, Jakarta – Believing it will be commercialised, the People's Forum for Health Concerns (Forum Rakyat Peduli Kesehatan) held a…

Yuliawati, Jakarta – A.M. Fatwa, a founder and the chairperson of the National Mandate Party (PAN), believes that the formation of the…

Atiek Nur Hidayati, Jakarta – A coalition of non-government organisations (NGOs) has agreed to take cases of human rights violations in Aceh and…

Bandarlampung – Three Bandarlampung councillors have been sentenced to 18 months jail for corruption.

Gani Parlaungan, the…

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – So what! That may be the skeptical reaction of most people to the ruling by the Business Competition Supervisory…

Today in Bali, the Presidents of Indonesia and Timor-Leste (also known as East Timor) are expected to formally agree to form a joint Commission of…

Jakarta/Makassar/Cirebon – While women in other parts of the world launched rallies to demand equal rights in commemorating International Women's…

A lot is riding on the outcome of the negotiations between the Australian and East Timorese Governments over the resource rich Timor Sea which…

Medan – Severe chemical pollution threatens most lakes in the country and has the potential to create further environmental disasters, a state…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Prominent Muslim scholars threw their weight behind a demand for the revival of the alternative draft Islamic law code,…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Demonstrators held a noisy protest outside the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta on Monday, chanting slogans and asserting…

Indonesia urged Malaysia to cease "aggressive" claims and negotiate a territory dispute that has seen warships and fighter jets deployed to oil-…

Zakki P. Hakim, Jakarta – Lack of investment in manpower skills, infrastructure and research and development in Indonesia's manufacturing industry…

There is a common joke among government officials that attempts to explain the supposedly assertive nature of the Acehnese people: "When 10…

Indonesia and East Timor have agreed to set up a commission to deal with atrocities surrounding East Timor's 1999 vote for independence, despite…

Human rights activists have accused East Timor of putting diplomacy before justice after the fledgling nation agreed to drop charges against…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – The Indonesian Government has decided staff of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will be allowed to…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of people from 14 villages in Aceh Besar regency and Banda Aceh municipality gathered in Lam Isiek village here…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – What a parrot says can tell you something about its master. A parrot kept at former president Soeharto's home reportedly…

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – On Tuesday March 8, dozens of students from a number of groups in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta held actions…

Ahmad Yunus, Bandung – Around 100 women and farmers from the People's Struggle Front (Front Perjuangan Rakyat) held an action commemorating…

Muchus Budi R., Solo – International Women's Day (IWD) which fell on March 8 was commemorated by demonstrations in the Central Java city of Solo.…

Wahyuana and Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta/Bekasi – Many residents of Bekasi had to take a day off work on Monday to clean thick mud from their…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Evacuation of landslide victims at the Leuwigajah dump site in south Cimahi and Bandung regency ended on Monday, with…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Women activists are seeking to revive an alternative draft for an Islamic code of law (KHI), which they say would help…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A group of people, claiming to be representatives of the Aceh people, stepped up pressure on the government on Monday to…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The provincial offices of the General Elections Commission (KPUD) in Papua said they were unprepared to organize…

Indonesia is ranked as the most corrupt country in Asia by foreign businessmen in the region, raising fears about how billions of dollars in post-…

Reporter: Ian Melrose

Mark Colvin: Negotiations between Australia and East Timor on a seabed boundary resumed in Canberra this afternoon,…

Darlis M., Palu – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's warning not to act violently against demonstrations opposing fuel price increases appears…

Jakarta – Despite the government ban, out-of-court adoptions of children living in refugee camps across tsunami-stricken Aceh remain a cause for…

Canberra – Canberra and Dili entered a new round of negotiations – the third so far in a year – as Australian and East Timorese officials on…

Roy Eccleston – Senior members of the US Congress have stepped up pressure on the Howard Government to settle the dispute with East…

Dian Intannia, Jakarta – The executive director of Garuda airlines, Indra Setiawan, will be questioned by police next week as a…

World War II veterans will appear in ads on Anzac Day aimed at embarrassing the federal government over the carve up of oil and gas reserves with…

Palembang – Over 23 hectares of wetland in Palembang have been illegally reclaimed, the head of Palembang's public works office, Kira…

The government has cut fuel subsidies, but raised subsidies for other things including health and education for the country's poorest families.…

Indonesia's government will offer incentives for public transport operators to keep their fares down in an effort to quell widespread…

Indonesia says its deployment of fighter jets and warships to an area of ocean close to Malaysia is not meant to worry its neighbour. The action…

About 30 members of the House of Representatives have asked the legislature to exercise its right of inquiry into the government decision to raise…

Astrid Felicia Lim, Jakarta – Those traveling around the city of Jakarta need be ready to be held up by traffic jams because of…

Agus Supriyanto, Jakarta – At a press conference in Jakarta on Sunday March 6, seven mass organisations declared that they are launching a class…