Police in Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya have reacted angrily to an Australian warning that anti-Western groups may be planning a "…

Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri plans to sue Rakyat Merdeka daily for comparing her to Soemanto, a man who confessed to…

Jakarta – An Indonesian singer whose erotic dance style has stirred controversy says she will quit and attend religious classes provided she is…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesia's educators and religious leaders have called on Parliament to drop a new education Bill amid fears its…

Jakarta – Many police officers in the Indonesian capital are involved in organised crime and provide security to top gangsters, said a former…

Jakarta – Hundreds of Muslims activists forced the closure of an American fast-food franchise in Surabaya, East Java, as nationwide rallies to…

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto warned anti-war protesters in the country on Thursday to avoid…

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Acehnese people have lambasted the Joint Security Committee (JSC) enforcing the cessation of hostilities…

Banda Aceh – The Free Aceh Movement has accused the Indonesian military (TNI) of trying to undermine a peace agreement by getting…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) would not ask US gold and copper mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia to provide financial…

Dean Yates and Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Demonstrators took to the streets on Friday in 10 cities in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim…

Both moderate and radical Indonesian Islamic leaders reacted angrily to the start of the US-led war on Iraq as police stepped up security in the…

Jerry Norton and Dean Yates, Jakarta – The cabinet of the world's most populous Muslim nation was discussing the US attack on Iraq on Thursday,…

Tony Sitathan, Jakarta – This Thursday is a day of reckoning for Iraq, when its 48-hour ultimatum issued by the president of the United States,…

Yulianti, Jakarta – Around 200 people from the Anti-Militarism People's Front (Front Rakyat Anti-Militerisme, FRAM) demonstrated in front the…

Geneva – The minister of the Foreign Affairs of Timor said Wednesday that a "better solution" for the problem of Iraq "would be that the United…

The Indonesian Government has signed a new Letter of Intent (LoI) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), together with a memorandum on…

Dili – East Timorese leaders expressed their "extreme preoccupation" and "shock" Thursday over the launching of war by Washington and London…

John B. Haseman – Indonesia's difficult transition from autocracy to democracy is almost five years old. The huge and disparate country struggles…

Jakarta – Ex-president B.J. Habibie told a human rights court Thursday that the bloodshed which swept across East Timor after its independence…

Australia's Islamic neighbour Indonesia has fiercely opposed the US-led attack on Iraq calling on the UN to hold an emergency session. President…

Robert Go, Jakarta – The growing menace of premans or thugs is taking centre stage as the Indonesian public now vent their frustrations openly…

About 3,000 Indonesian teachers have flooded the grounds of parliament in protest against a bill on religious teaching in schools.…

Iggy Kim – Dita Sari, head of the Indonesian National Front for Workers' Struggle, was in Baghdad on March 14-18 as part of high-…

James Balowski, Jakarta – In response to continuing protests and press criticism, the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri is resorting…

Rob Wesley-Smith – Much joy from NT government and business has accompanied the rushing of the Timor Sea Treaty (TST) through both houses of the…

Suherdjoko and Apriadi Gunawan, Medan/Semarang – Hundreds of journalists staged a demonstration in Semarang, the capital of Central Java, and…

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Da'i Bachtiar said on Tuesday that the police had accepted a gift of a car from businessman Tomy…

The acknowledgement by Freeport McMoran (partly owned by Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining transnational) that it pays money to the armed…

Alan Boyd, Sydney – A diplomatic offensive by Indonesia appears to have succeeded in bumping West Papua off the global human-rights agenda, and…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Anticorruption activists urged the prosecutors' office here on Tuesday to investigate provincial councillors and…

Karl Schoenberger, Jakarta – As the United States braces for a terrorist backlash from war, the Indonesian military is exploiting US concern about…

Palu – A rally by hundreds of students opposing possible US-led military action in Iraq here on Tuesday ended with them illegally barricading an…

An Islamic youth group threatened to force US and allied diplomats to leave Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated nation, amid rising…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Pressure has continued to rise on the Indonesian Military (TNI) and National Police to stop allowing their personnel to…

Jakarta (Agencies) – Military authorities in West Timor have arrested six pro-Jakarta militiamen for their alleged involvement in last…

Jakarta – As many as 31 non-government organisations (NGO) and one political party have agreed to conduct open resistance against the plans for…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The government has moved to consult the House of Representatives (DPR) to decide on…

Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – A 12-day-long protest by 600 Acehnese transmigrant refugees over the slow disbursement of resettlement funds has…

Jakarta – Describing their clients as national heroes, attorneys for seven Indonesian soldiers on trial for the killing of a leading politician in…

Dean Yates, Jakarta – Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, blasted the United States on Tuesday for its ultimatum to Iraq as…

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Denpasar – The National Freedom Bulls Party (PNBK) has accused supporters of President Megawati Soekarnoputri's Indonesian…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesian lawmakers, whose official salaries are around $3,000 a month, ride Jaguars and BMWs, and lunch regularly at five-…

Kasparman, Padang – Some 1,400 fishermen on Monday threatened to cut off the water supply to the Singkarak hydropower plant in West Sumatra,…

Arya Abhiseka, Jakarta – Oka claims that he sells every kind of music available, and has all his wares stacked neatly on a blanket spread on the…

Ibnu Matnoor, Banda Aceh – The killing of four Acehnese in the latest spree of violence on Saturday has increased the distrust between the…

A military commander overseeing Indonesian West Timor has ordered his men to shoot on sight any armed militiamen found trying to cross the border…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) must stop collecting protection money from firms operating in the country as the…

Jakarta – Prosecutors plan to soon appeal a string of verdicts acquitting Indonesian police and military officers accused over the violence that…

An Australian Army inquiry, yet to be released, has cleared members of the elite SAS of torture claims in East Timor. But it's believed the…