Ambon – The commander of the XVI/Pattimura Territorial Military Command (Kodam), Major General Syarifudin Summah, has threatened to shoot on sight…

Jakarta - Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS) Decree Number XXV/1966 cannot in any way be the basis for Article 60 sub-section (g)…

Jakarta – The head of Indonesia's Supreme Court has defended its recent decision to clear parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung of corruption. The…

Banda Aceh – During a military operation in the troubled province of Aceh on Friday, government troops discovered various types of…

The Indonesian military says it has stopped publishing figures for separatist rebels killed by its troops in Aceh province.

The…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Clarity of functions between the central and local governments, and the yawning disparity between poor and rich…

Jakarta - The Democratic Party has been accused of flirting with the Aceh Emergency Military Command by three Acehnese women's non-government…

Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim militant from Malaysia to 12 years in jail on Thursday for planting…

Haidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru – A special team of Kampar regency councillors on Wednesday recommended the dismissal of Regent Jefri Noer and his…

Jayapura – Dozens of civil servants at the Justice and Human Rights office here have protested for three consecutive days, demanding…

Jakarta – City Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Prasetyo said eight policemen had been named suspects for beating student protesters in…

Atambua, E Nusatenggara – At least 319 resettlement units in Belu distrit set up in Indonesia's East Nusatenggara province between…

Suherdjoko and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Semarang/Jakarta – Despite mounting public opposition, the House of Representatives is set to endorse the…

Dili – Indonesian presidential candidate General Wiranto has won a political reprieve in East Timor after a UN judge denied a…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – A study has found that, despite entrenched corruption in Indonesia's legal system, the country's poor are having some…

Dili – United Nations Secretary- General Kofi Annan has recommended that the UN's peacekeeping mission in East Timor continues after its planned…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A seminar featuring respected intellectuals, analysts and religious leaders has urged the government to lift…

Kupang – The United Nations Peacekeeping Force (UNPKF) in East Timor aired its pessimism over the security conditions there following the…

William Hardiker – In considering what constitutes an act of terrorism, one must first determine if terrorists were in fact those responsible.…

Max Lane – On February 12, the Indonesian Supreme Court voted, with one dissenting voice, to overturn a guilty verdict for corruption from two…

Jakarta – The death toll from a dengue fever outbreak hitting Indonesia's sprawling archipelago has climbed to 161, said health ministry data on…

United Nations – Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the withdrawal of almost all UN peacekeepers in East Timor and a shift in the UN's focus…

Anton Aliabbas, Jakarta – Hundreds of students from a number of different organisations demonstrated today in front of the People's…

Aras Napal – The European Union's Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom ended a visit to a huge EU-funded conservation project, expressing…

Dili – A former militia commander was sentenced to seven years in jail Tuesday for killing a pro-independence leader during East Timor…

The impact of the financial crisis which devastated the economy is still being felt by taxpayers. Seven years after the crash of 1997 –…

The Army today admitted it made mistakes in investigating the case of a senior Special Air Service (SAS) soldier accused of kicking the corpses of…

Mataram – The Indonesian military will deploy soldiers to Batek Island in neighboring East Nusa Tenggara province, which borders East…

Juli Hantoro, Edy Can, Multazam – A Jakarta court has ordered the Jakarta local government to postpone its plan to hike drinking water rates. A…

Atambua – Illegal border crossing into Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province from East Timor is something hard to control, a local…

Dadan Wijaksana, Jakarta – The controversial acquittal of House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung from corruption charges did not have any…

Palembang – Student activists, non-government organisations and academics held a silent protest in front of the Monument to the Mandate of the…

Jakarta – As the Golkar Party fraction celebrated following the release of Golkar Party general chairperson Akbar Tanjung [from corruption charges…

Banda Aceh – The Emergency Military Commander in Aceh, Major General Endang Suwarya, has said that they are waiting to see what the government's…

Jakarta – Students nationwide again took to the streets on Friday, rejecting the Supreme Court's decision that acquitted Akbar Tandjung of graft…

Evi Mariani and Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – The Jakarta police chief has revealed that his officers charged into and severely beat dozens of…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Flowers and congratulatory notes yesterday flooded the Jakarta house of Indonesian parliament Speaker Akbar Tandjung, whose…

Tiarma Siboro and M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The acquittal of Golkar Party leader Akbar Tandjung will make it difficult to put corrupt officials…

Wimar Witoelar, Jakarta – The main message conveyed by the Supreme Court's decision on Akbar Tandjung is that crime pays in today's Indonesia ...…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Something unusual happened in Jakarta's Supreme Court on Thursday, and it wasn't the decision to overturn parliamentary…

Malang - The visit by President Megawati Sukarnoputri to the city of Malang in East Java on Saturday February 14, was greeted with a demonstration…

Nani Farida, Lhokseumawe – Sawang district, Aceh province, is determined to see political parties campaigning for the upcoming general election,…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – A week ago every one of the 50 waterfront rooms in Lombok's swish Oberoi Hotel was empty. And with a host of new visa…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – The Supreme Court decision overturning the conviction of House Speaker Akbar Tanjung landed with the thud of a police…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – A group of 35 Indonesian economists launched a campaign against privatization of state-owned companies on Tuesday in…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employers and workers joined forces on Thursday to oppose the bill on national social security (SJSN) which they…

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – In the end, it was not to be.

Rivals of Golkar leader Akbar Tandjung had long hoped that a guilty verdict against…

The Supreme Court's ruling yesterday to acquit Akbar Tandjung of all charges of corruption, thereby overturning two earlier lower court verdicts…

Jakarta – The Supreme Court's decision to acquit Golkar chairman Akbar Tandjung of corruption charges paves the way for his candidacy for the…

Sari P. Setiogi and Multa Fidrus, Jakarta/Tangerang – After millions of chickens have been killed due to bird flu and other diseases over the past…