Jakarta – In a mainly Muslim nation dominated by Javanese culture, few Indonesians know much about the remote and mainly Christian province of…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's businessmen and labour unions have formed a rare alliance to protest the government's New Year price hikes –…

Xanana Gusmao's first new year's address as president of an independent East Timor encapsulated the fragility of his young nation. At the heart of…

Tom Hyland, Jakarta – The relentless techno beat is so loud your insides vibrate. Strobe and laser lights flash out across the crowd of maybe 5000…

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – Employers remain committed to implementing a 7 percent increase in the minimum labor wage despite a simultaneous utility…

Bill Guerin – Indonesia's largest supermarket chain PT Hero Supermarket plans to open three hypermarkets on the outskirts of Jakarta this year to…

Debbie A. Lubis, Jakarta – The government's decision to hike fuel, electricity and telephone charges has drawn a strong public rejection, with…

Makassar – Hundreds of students of the State University of Makassar on Friday staged a demonstration at the provincial legislature here, demanding…

Jakarta – The killing of civilians has dropped sharply in Indonesia's Aceh province since the signing of a landmark peace accord between the…

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Jailed American nurse Joy Lee Sadler was rushed to hospital on Friday but was rejected by all hospitals in Banda Aceh…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Women, beware. Every five hours, a woman is raped in Indonesia. Every day, at least one rape case in Jakarta is reported…

Jakarta – A number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) launched a campaign on Thursday against the much-criticized government policy of…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Those East Timorese living in camps in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) whose refugee status ended on December 31 have…

Jakarta – A former militia leader who is facing a jail term in Indonesia over atrocities in East Timor said Friday he plans to send a delegation…

Damien Kingsbury – The sentencing of Australian-based academic researcher and sometime Asia Times Online contributor Dr Lesley McCulloch to five…

Heri Retnowati, Surabaya – Seven Indonesian special forces soldiers went on trial on Friday for the killing of an independence leader in Papua in…

Jakarta – Indonesia's year-on-year inflation was 10.03 percent in December against 10.48 percent in November, the statistics bureau…

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Indonesia is drawing a line in the sand in its dealings with Aceh and Papua, warning that attempts to secede will be met…

Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Amien Rais said Tuesday the government should stop working with the…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – A number of professional associations and corruption watchdogs threatened on Monday to file a class action suit against…

Indonesian police were fired upon by unknown gunmen as they tried to investigate the earlier wounding of two women including the wife of a local…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government told the provinces of Papua and Aceh on Monday that the special autonomy status accorded to them in…

Tom Hyland, Jakarta – As a Scot, Lesley McCulloch could hardly let New Year's Eve pass without a party, however her chances of celebrating last…

Shravanti Reddy – What began as a peaceful student protest on December 4 in the East Timor capital city of Dili ended in the largest violent…

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Jakarta – Indonesia's president said on Tuesday that stabilising the world's most populous Muslim nation, rocked by devastating bomb attacks on…

Leo Wahyudi S – With the New Year approaching, people are full of hope that better things will come. However, despite their hope, many Jakartans…

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – The socially disadvantaged of this city will bear the brunt of corruption occurring in this year's budget as most of the…

[A British born academic and an American nurse who visited a separatist rebel base in Indonesia's Aceh province have been jailed for violating…

Tom Hyland and agencies, Jakarta – Indonesian soldiers in the strife-torn province of Aceh usually get their own way, so when they detained two…

The leaders of Indonesia's two largest Islamic groups have called for an end to efforts to get Islamic Sharia law enforced in the country, the…

Jakarta – A court on Monday acquitted a military commander of crimes committed during East Timor's break from Indonesia, the ninth official to be…

Berni K. Moestafa, Jakarta – The international community needs to bring pressure to bear on the ad hoc human rights trials being held in Indonesia…

A British academic and an American nurse who visited a separatist rebel base in Indonesia's Aceh province were jailed for violating their tourist…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – East Timor's President, Xanana Gusmao, has appealed to his people to reject violence in 2003 – but has also renewed…

Dean Yates, Jakarta – After clinging to the shadows for much of her 18-month presidency, Megawati Sukarnoputri flies to bomb-hit Bali on Monday to…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) will continue with its plan to question President Megawati Soekarnoputri about the controversial…

Tom Hyland, Jakarta – A human rights group in the Indonesian province of Papua has linked the Indonesian Army to an ambush in which the wife and…

Banda Aceh – A new phase began in the troubled region's peace process as the first monitoring teams started work in this Indonesian province…

Nani Farida, Tamiang – Fatigued after a long journey, four journalists, one from The Jakarta Post, received a fright when a gunman suddenly…

Jakarta – An Indonesian Islamic magazine has named detained terror suspect Abu Bakar Bashir as "Man of the Year" for, what it calls,…

Jakarta – The wife of a Papuan activist whose human rights group has accused Indonesian soldiers of killing two American teachers in the restive…

Jakarta – Military might have staged anambush in which two American teachers were killed near the in August, AFP reported.

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Jakarta – Unidentified men shot the wife of a human right activist before an immigration post nearby Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border…

Jakarta – Dozens of employees from telecommunications company Indosat clashed with police while they attempted to prevent Indosat…

Jakarta – A court Friday sentenced a senior military commander to five years imprisonment for human rights violations during East Timor's break…

Dili – President Xanana Gusmao on Friday urged East Timorese to remain calm as the country attempts to solve a slew of problems heading into its…

Jakarta – Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday that he was ready to run for the top seat in the next election…

Jayapura – President Megawati Sukarnoputri gave the restive province of Papua what she called a Christmas present yesterday, belting out the…

Tom Hyland, Jakarta – Indonesian police have reportedly made fresh allegations of possible army involvement in the killing of two Americans in…