East Timor's Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta says his country is ready to ratify the Timor Sea Treaty and the Australian Government…

"Resuming military ties with Indonesia's notorious Kopassus special forces is not the answer to terrorism", said Max Lane, chairperson of Action…

Jakarta/Brussels – Widespread criticism of President Megawati's performance following the 12 October attacks in Bali means she is no longer a…

Nani Farida, Jakarta/Banda Aceh – Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Governor Abdullah Puteh said on Wednesday that the recommencement of a dialog between…

Matthew Moore, Mike Seccombe and Marian Wilkinson – The Indonesian Government has flatly rejected a suggestion by Australia's Defence Minister,…

Damon Kingsbury – Defence Minister Senator Robert Hill has said that in a bid to counter terrorism, Australia will restore its links with the…

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Dozens of street vendors who had been evicted from Pulogadung bus terminal in East Jakarta visited the City Council on…

John Pilger – What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" wrote the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been…

I. Overview

Nearly two weeks after the Bali bombings, Indonesia is still in a state of shock, and it is difficult to assess the…

James Balowski – The brutal murder of nearly 200 people in Indonesia's tourist resort of Kuta on the island of Bali on October 12 occurred as the…

[Made Pastika, the Indonesian police investigator mentioned by Robert Gelbard in our recent interview, is considered one of the best in the…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – A tripartite wage committee consisting of the city administration, employers and worker unions agreed on Monday to…

Max Lane, Jakarta – As of October 18, the Indonesian police investigating the terrorist bombing of the Sari night club on October 12 – which…

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – Cracks in the wall the Golkar Party has built up around its embattled leader Akbar Tanjung are becoming increasingly…

President Xanana Gusmao defended Wednesday a dynamic of national reconciliation rather than the setting up of an international court to try human…

Five more people including two soldiers and a separatist rebel have been killed in the Indonesian province of Aceh, the military and residents…

Ambon – The Ambon District Court here on Monday sentenced 14 men for between two and five years for raising four flags of the outlawed South…

Yeoh En-lai – Bali's famous beaches and spas are not the only places experiencing a dry spell. The island's other hallmark, its lush-green,…

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Hundreds of East Timorese refugees sheltering in Kupang and Belu regencies have refused to be repatriated, pending the…

Jakarta – About 1,000 street vendors were forcibly evicted from in and around the Pulo Gadung bus terminal in an operation involving around 2,200…

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – A visiting director of the Geneva-based Henry Dunant Center (HDC), a mediator of peace talks between the Indonesian…

Jill Jolliffe, Balibo – The Victorian Government will establish a medical clinic in the East Timor house used by five Australian-based journalists…

Results of Investigation into the attack on Freeport employees in Timika, Papua, finds corporation allows impunity of criminal acts by Indonesian…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta and Brendan Nicholson – Indonesia was last night bracing for demonstrations after police detained the radical Muslim cleric…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Jakarta is now armed with tougher anti-terror decrees, but the question remains whether it can aim and pull the trigger at…

Lindsay Murdoch – For three months Omar al-Faruq refused to talk. But CIA interrogators at a US-held military base in the Afghan desert used sleep…

On October 12, the world was shocked by the explosion at the Sari Club on Legian road in Kuta, Bali. It is appropriate that we feel great sorrow…

Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has signed two emergency decrees to combat terrorism following the devastating Bali bombing, Justice…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is planning to build a nuclear power plant by the year 2015 at the latest to meet the country's mounting power…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Welcoming the agreement newly signed by law enforcers to combat mounting graft in the country, anticorruption…

Ibnu Mat Noor, Banda Aceh – Volunteers with the Indonesian Red Cross in Aceh have evacuated six casualties bearing gunshot wounds, including one…

[The following are excerpts pertaining to Indonesia by Deputy Secretary Of Defense Paul Wolfowitz to the Defense Forum Foundation meeting about…

Hamish McDonald – Although the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has dismissed the line of suspicion as "silly", some officials in his entourage…

Australia's defence minister Robert Hill has confirmed Australia is considering resuming military links with Indonesia's notorious…

John Aglionby, Kuta – Indonesia's most violent radical Islamist group, blamed for the deaths of thousands of Christians in eastern islands during…

[One of Indonesia's largest and most militant militias, the Laskar Jihad, has been publicly disbanded in a surprise development which took…

The bombing in Legian, Bali, which killed 183 people and wounded hundreds of others has already impacted on a number of groups.

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[Despite claims that the Laskar Jihad, Indonesia's largest and most militant Islamic militia has disbanded, Christian leaders say the group is…

Jakarta – Indonesia's economic growth is expected to be shaved to as low as 3.1 per cent this year after the deadly terrorist bombing in Bali,…

Mark Riley and Tom Allard – The Central Intelligence Agency issued an intelligence report listing Bali among possible targets of a pending…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's most violent Muslim extremist group, Laskar Jihad, has been disbanded. The move comes in the face of the deadly…

Kathy Marks, Bali – Sesca Rompas climbed on to a plastic stool and peered through a dirty window at her brother, Aldo Kansil, lying motionless on…

Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta – Two Acehnese who participated in a hunger strike for three days at the provincial legislature here were rushed to the…

Max Lane – On October 5, Indonesian police arrested Ricky Tamba, secretary-general of the Popular Youth Movement (GPK), an urban poor youth…

Sarah Stephen – The 168 East Timorese asylum seekers whose claims were rejected by the immigration department on September 25 are the first of…

Medan – Dozens of Acehnese refugees living in temporary shelters in Medan, Deli Serdang, and Langkat, launched a hunger strike in…

Nani Farida and Kurniawan Hari, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Acehnese figures welcomed on Monday a proposal to allow the separatist Free Aceh Movement (…

ASAP condemns outright the barbaric bombing that took place in Bali on October 13 and that took the lives of at least 200 people from Bali,…

Max Lane – On October 14, in the Australian parliament Prime Minister John Howard seized on the terrorist incident in Bali last weekend to justify…