Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The pair of Megawati Soekarnoputri and Hasyim Muzadi collected and spent the highest amount of money on the…

An Indonesian court has jailed an Islamic militant for three years for having attended a meeting which plotted the deadly Marriott…

Indonesian prosecutors have requested a 10-year sentence for the commander of Kopassus, the country's top special force, for his…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The central government's reluctance to implement Law No. 21/2001 on special autonomy status for Papua might…

The various languages of East Timor speak of the history of the place, but in the present they are the topic of fierce debate.

The country's…

Bandung/Indramayu/Jakarta – The West Java General Elections Commission (KPUD) established on Thursday a fact-finding team to investigate alleged…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – While local observers declined to call the July 5 polls free and fair, the Carter Center and other foreign monitoring…

Jakarta – Acehnese rebels Thursday accused Indonesian police of torturing to death one of their district leaders, the latest allegation of rights…

Andrew Burrell, Jakarta – Indonesia's former military chief, Wiranto, tried yesterday to pin the blame for his probable election defeat on Western…

Damien Kingsbury – It was little surprise that the former lieutenant-general, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was returned as the most favoured…

Jakarta, Kompas – Former East Timor governor Abilio Jose Osorio Soares has questioned the verdict handed down against him by the courts. He will…

John McBeth, Dili – Peter Galbraith is not popular with Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Sharp-minded, egotistical and as…

Sonny Inbaraj, Darwin – Documentary filmmaker and cameraman Max Stahl – whose images of the 1991 Dili massacre in East Timor moved the world into…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Repeating an old trick of their New Order counterparts, two subdistrict poll officials in Timika, Papua province,…

Frances Evans – West Papua: where the second largest rainforest in the world is cleared for Freeport/Rio Tinto's gold and copper mines; where one…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – A court here ruled in favor of the government on Saturday over a lawsuit filed by a leading environmental watchdog…

Michael Roston – Perhaps nowhere else in the world is there a more challenging need to carefully balance the global "war on terrorism" with…

Four years after Australia helped East Timor gain independence the good will is being threatened by a disputed line on the seabed that will decide…

Indonesia pressed for the resumption of full military ties with the United States and access to top terror suspect Hambali, an official said.

Rendy Witular and M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – True colors were displayed on the second day of the two-day official presidential dialog on…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – All the presidential candidates except for retired general Wiranto agree to civilian supremacy in…

Jakarta – The two top candidates in the Indonesian election - both retired generals – said Thursday that rights abusers should be treated just…

Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri appeared tense, distracted and unprepared in Indonesia's first presidential debate – a showing critics…

Jakarta – Indonesia faces a tough battle to stem rampant corruption, three of the country's presidential candidates said.

In a nationally…

Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Ex-general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the frontrunner, and another former military man contesting Indonesia's…

Ahead of Indonesia's first direct presidential election on 5 July, BBC News Online has been hearing from a range of voters about their hopes and…

John Rumbiak is West Papua's most prominent human rights investigator. He led a 2-year investigation of the Freeport killings, in close…

Max Lane – Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appears to be the front-runner in Indonesia's presidential election, to be held on July 5. Some…

Election fatigue has set in in Indonesia. After the Parliamentary polls in April, and now a presidential campaign, most Indonesians are keen to…

Jon Lamb – As the pre-election hype takes off, the issue of the disputed maritime boundary between East Timor and Australia has slipped from the…

At the height of the East Timor crisis, Australia gave General Wiranto a stark ultimatum: back off or else. Now the former army chief has a strong…

Mark Baker, Jakarta – East Timor has invoked the wrath of God upon Australia in the bitter feud over the division of oil and gas reserves in the…

Robyn Waite, Dili – The Asia Pacific Coalition for East Timor (APCET) is a coalition of Asian human rights groups and East Timor solidarity…

With just a week to presidential elections in Indonesia, one man has emerged with an unbeatable lead. Outpolling all his rivals, including his old…

An Australian journalist has been deported from East Timor even though a court dismissed charges of illegal weapons possession and immigration…

Dili – The state budget proposed by East Timor's ruling Fretilin party was approved Tuesday by the Dili parliament, although most…

Indonesia says it hopes to resume military cooperation with the United States after a separatist rebel leader was charged over the deaths of two…

Banda Aceh – Indonesia Tuesday expelled two Malaysians and a US citizen after they illegally entered the restive province of Aceh which remains…

Kupang – The United Nations Security Council lowered its security status in West Timor regency to Alert IV from Alert V after an…

Andre Vltchek – What can you do if your country is tiny and poor and your wealthy neighbor shamelessly exploits commonly shared area rich in…

Sian Powell – A rusting billboard greets visitors to Jantho, in the forested hills southeast of the provincial capital of Banda Aceh. "Let's make…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government has been criticized for establishing a new national human rights committee directly under the Ministry of…

A room in the fifth floor apartment in Alby, Stockholm, Sweden, was already without its police guard. The occupant, President of the Free Aceh…

Jakarta – The governor of Indonesia's war-torn Aceh province claimed Sunday that security was improving in the region, state news agency Antara…

The recent declassification of documents by the US National Security Archive pertaining to the 1969 referendum on Papua has put this vast and…

Former security minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the leading contender for next month's presidential election, has promised to increase…

John McBeth, Jakarta – The launch of East Timor First Lady Kirsty Sword Gusmao's autobiography was in full swing in a Jakarta store when a woman…

Jakarta – Prominent cleric Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid has told members of the country's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), to…

Jakarta – The leading contender in next month's presidential election warned Wednesday that supporters of rival politicians may "burn down cities…

Jakarta – Several flights were delayed or diverted Tuesday after smoke haze from forest and ground fires blanketed Pekanbaru city on…