Dili – Police in East Timor detained a man after an exchange of gunfire between security forces and an armed group near the border…

Batam, Riau Islands – Some 5,000 workers on Batam staged another protest on Tuesday, demanding Riau Islands acting governor Ismeth…

Jane Perlez and Evelyn Rusli, Kling Meria – Like many of the hundreds of thousands of survivors left homeless by the recent tsunami, Mohamed Adan…

John Mcbeth – Nationalism, often tinged with conspiracy theories and a measure of xenophobia, is never far from the surface in Indonesia. Just…

Marianne Kearney – A military-backed militia group responsible for widespread killing and looting when Indonesia pulled out of East Timor has…

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Dozens of members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) moved swiftly out of the pickup trucks as they arrived…

Jakarta – The official ban on US weapons and military equipment sales to Indonesia is unfair and "punishes" the country by hampering its military'…

Jakarta – Former East Timor governor Abilio Soares vowed on Wednesday to continue his challenge against the retroactive application of…

Josh White, Jakarta – Indonesia's defense minister on Sunday called on the United States to ease its restrictions on military relations between…

Andi Hajramurni, Banda Aceh – At least six people in Banda Aceh, including two children, have died of tetanus over the past several days, while 30…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – A chief executive officer of a state cement firm in East Java once said that the most devastating factor that could…

Sumitomo Corporation Chairman Kenji Miyahara, who is also vice chairman of the powerful Nippon Keidanren (Japanese Economic Federation) talked to…

Matthew Moore, Banda Aceh – Muharram believes the foreign presence in Aceh will help GAM's cause.

Together with his band of 50 warriors, the…

The scale of the tsunami disaster and continuing health risks in Indonesia's Aceh province are almost beyond comprehension. Getting desperately…

The secretary of state for defence's visit to East Timor, due to start tomorrow (Tuesday 18 January), has been postponed until the end…

John Aglionby – Rahmatun is almost inaudible over the drone of the low-flying aid helicopter. Pointing upwards, the softly spoken 14-year-old…

Patsy Spier, Washington – one of the survivors of a 2002 military-style ambush on a group of contract teachers in the Indonesian province of Papua…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The governments of Indonesia and the United States see the possibility of improved military ties following the…

The United States has given its clearest signal yet that it may consider lifting the arms embargo imposed on Indonesia in 1999. A partial lifting…

Jakarta – Flooding over the past week around the country drove people from their homes and damaged infrastructure and crops.

Hundreds of…

Geneva – The Indonesian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Makarim Wibisono, Monday was elected chairman of the UN Human Rights…

Eva C. Komandjaja, Jakarta – The need for the government to set up a special body to control and monitor the performance of the State Intelligence…

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The public debate continues on how Indonesia should respond to the debt moratorium offer from the Paris Club creditor…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Several weeks before the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) convenes a national congress in March,…

Dili – Australia and East Timor will resume in March talks to resolve their dispute over shared maritime boundaries and the carving up…

Adam Gartrell – Buses donated to East Timor by the NSW Government in 2002 have never been used and sit in an empty parking lot, makeshift homes to…

Mawar Kusuma, Jakarta – The People's Representative Assembly (DPR) is to continue urging the US government to lift the arms embargo on Indonesia.…

Vaudine England – His long flowing hair and tight jeans mark him out as a young intellectual even before he starts talking.

"What are you…

When delegates at a tsunami aid world summit in Jakarta tucked into beef, lamb, chicken and swordfish even as Indonesians scavenged for food on…

Sue Pleming, Jakarta – The United States and Indonesia are seeking closer military ties after years of limited contact because of concern over…

Paul Dyer – The $7 billion Greater Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea has been shelved by project operator Woodside Petroleum.

Woodside…

Michael Vatikiotism Meulaboh – Indonesia Almost a month after the tsunami, the town of Meulaboh still reeks of death and misery. As I drove down…

Matthew Moore reports – It is more than 13 years since Max Stahl shot his famous footage of Indonesian troops massacring East Timorese at the…

In the first weeks of the aftermath of the tsunami of December 26, we were stunned by the severity of the destruction, and thankful for the many…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – High profile corruption suspects will surely have difficult times ahead as a new anti-graft ruling currently being…

Jakarta – The city administration plan to triple the price of on-street parking is aimed at encouraging motorists to keep their vehicles at home…

Jakarta – The fact-finding team formed to assist the police investigation into the death of rights activist Munir had its first…

Ian Fisher, Calang – This town was not just destroyed. It vanished. After almost three weeks, only 323 bodies have been found. Before December 26…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – As the United States rides its sudden wave of popularity in the world's most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, the…

Banda Aceh – Indonesia wants the United States to lift a long-standing ban on weapon sales to its military, arguing that it could respond more…

Jakarta – Hundreds of squatters evicted from a three-hectare land owned by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (PT KAI) in Tanah Abang district, Central…

As if the people of Aceh, where at least 108,000 died in the tsunami, didn't have enough problems already. Now the Indonesian government – and…

Amy Goodman: We're joined by journalist and activist, Allan Nairn.

Allan survived the massacre in east Timor of 1991 where Indonesian…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Montasik – Acehnese rebels fighting for an independent homeland have descended from the isolation of northern Sumatra's…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – The labor union of state-controlled cement producer PT Semen Gresik (SG) will launch a massive strike if the…

Matthew Moore in Banda Aceh and Cynthia Banham – The acting governor of Aceh has asked foreign troops and aid workers to stay and provide "long-…

Andrew Burrell, Banda Aceh – The acting governor of Aceh said yesterday he was "frightened" of being abandoned by the thousands of foreign troops…

Norbert Vollertsen, Banda Aceh – I feel almost as if I am back in North Korea again. The military road blocks, heavily armed police tanks at every…

Raymond Bonner, New York Times, Jakarta – The US ambassador here said on Thursday that the United States was not troubled by the demands by the…

Dili – It was announced on 21 December 2004 that the governments of East Timor and Indonesia had agreed on the formation of a Truth and Friendship…