Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Thousands of demonstrators representing entertainment centers in the city staged a rally in front of the City Council…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – For Indonesia the pretense is well and truly over. President Megawati Sukarnoputri, reading out a prepared seven-point…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Military personnel in conflict areas have worked to escalate violence there in order to maintain their control over…

It's hardly surprising that rabid Muslim clerics and shortsighted nationalist professors are blaming the US for the horrendous Bali nightclub…

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – It is no longer a secret that many police and military officers are involved in illicit businesses in many cities and…

Greg Barton – The long hand of the military may have left its prints on the Kuta bomb. The shocking news from Bali probably couldn't get much…

Louise Williams – Radical Islam has long played a bit part on the fringes of Indonesia's murky domestic political scene. The crucial question…

Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – Before the full glare of television cameras this month, Indonesian army chief Gen Ryamizard Ryacudu walked toward a line of…

David Jenkins – In 1980, five Indonesian members of a so-called Komando Jihad (Holy War Command) hijacked a Garuda jet and forced it to fly to…

[Business leaders have called for immediate action from the President to prove her leadership saying they fear social revolution if the…

Port Moresby - The Papua Council Presidium (PCP), on behalf of the people of West Papua, wishes to convey its sincere condolences and…

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Akbar Tandjung has been anticipating the worst in his appeal of the Central Jakarta District Court's verdict…

Kanis Dursin, Tamiang, East Aceh – It was only 7 a.m., but hundreds of students had already gathered on the Tamiang Islamic University campus, a…

Banda Aceh – The deputy chairman of the ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) Aceh chapter was killed after…

Dean Yates, Bali – Bombs ripped through a packed nightspot on Indonesia's traditionally tranquil tourist island of Bali overnight, killing at…

Irwan Firdaus – A car bomb destroyed a crowded nightclub on the tourist island of Bali Saturday, sparking a devastating inferno that killed at…

Robert Go, Jakarta – A top rival of President Megawati Sukarnoputri has gone on the offensive, criticising the leadership and calling for a new…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – The antiterrorism bill needs to provide a clear definition of a terrorist act, valid information to arrest…

Banda Aceh – Two policemen and a soldier have been killed by separatist rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province, police have confirmed…

Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh Legal Aid Institute has expressed regret over a statement made by Indonesian Military (TNI) Commander Gen Endriartono…

Tony Sitathan – Irwin Goenawan graduated at the top in his class studying for magister manajeman, the Indonesian equivalent of a master of…

Alan Sipress, Jakarta – The Bush administration has warned Indonesian officials that it will withdraw some diplomats from the country unless…

Prostitutes in Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya, have vowed not to make themselves available to officials to protest at a…

Jakarta – Eighty four students who attacked a man they suspected of being an intelligence officer appeared at the Central Jakarta…

Banda Aceh – A territorial commander of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM), identified as Abu Arafah, alias Ibrahim, 33, was shot dead at an…

Banda Aceh – Indonesian police said on Friday they shot and killed a separatist commander in restive Aceh province but denied rebel allegations he…

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan issued a report on East Timor Thursday, stressing what he termed "the vital necessity" of…

Robert Go, Jakarta – The newly-proposed National Security Council (DKN) provides President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government with a layer of…

Nightclub workers have rallied against a hardline Muslim group that attacked entertainment spots in Indonesia's capital last weekend.

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Lisbon – East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao says he would like to quit but will stay in the job to help his recently independent country grow. "…

The authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province have ruled out pursuing espionage charges against a Scottish woman detained for the past month, the…

Haze from forest and ground burning drifted back over Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province, ending the reprieve brought by several days of rain…

Bill Guerin – Al-Habib Muhammad Rizieq bin Hussein Syihab, leader of the pro-Suharto radical Muslim group FPI (Defenders of Islam), and his storm…

Jim Lobe – A group of Indonesian human rights organizations is urging the United States Congress to maintain tough conditions on renewing US…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Police attempts to impress the public on the seriousness of legal action against their own officers alleged to have…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – On the eve of his return home, Australia's ambassador to Indonesia, Ric Smith, has sought to rebut a series of "myths"…

Jakarta – Indonesia is increasingly serious about confronting apparent efforts by Al-Qaeda to establish a terrorist beachhead in the world's most…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Megawati Sukarnoputri has turned up the heat on Attorney-General M.A. Rachman by asking him to resign in the…

Muhammad Nafik and Ainur R. Sophiaan, Jakarta/Surabaya – Legal Aid Institutes (LBH) across the country are on the brink of collapse as the once…

Banda Aceh – Two soldiers and one teacher were killed in the latest round of violence in Aceh, provincial military spokesman Maj. Zaenal Mutaqin…

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – Aceh police detectives are questioning 20 colleagues from the elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob) for their alleged role in an…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Indonesia and East Timor agreed on Tuesday to convert Indonesian assets in East Timor, mostly corporate assets,…

Jakarta – A bomb exploded in Indonesia's volatile Ambon city as police tried to defuse it on Wednesday, wounding six people including…

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The inauguration of Sutiyoso and Fauzi Bowo as, respectively, Jakarta governor and deputy governor for the 2002 to…

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A leader of East Timor's parliamentary opposition has described an agreement regulating conditions for US troops in the…

Jakarta – Nearly 400 displaced East Timorese sheltering in West Timor have been forced to eat leaves for the past month as they cannot afford to…

An East Timorese man, wounded in an attack on a refugee-packed compound in Dili in April 1999, told a court here that Indonesian soldiers were…

Karen Polglaze, Canberra – Australian ratification of the Timor Gap Treaty could increase the risk of political instability in East Timor, a…

Indonesian-based Australian journalist John Martinkus explores the fine line between journalism and activism. John Martinkus has at times being…

Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – Long stretches of parched paddy fields and vegetable farms lining the road are a testament to the drought that has hit Java…