Norsborg, Sweden – The exiled leader of the pro-independence Free Aceh Movement (GAM), Hasan Muhammad di Tiro, said Wednesday he is willing to…

Suwarjono/SWA & LM, Jakarta – Unraveling the intricacies of the mining business during the New Order era of former President Soeharto is as…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a new bill on the rights of workers to unionize. Minister of Manpower Bomer…

Christine T. Tjandraningsih, Jakarta – The Indonesian parliament Tuesday urged the management of PT Sony Electronics Indonesia, a subsidiary of…

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung/Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that outlawing gambling does not stop the practice…

Greg Ansley, Dili – New Zealand troops have broken a militia-linked extortion racket in a crackdown on organised crime in the western border…

Dili – Militants of East Timor's newest political party have seized a building destined to serve as a police station in the eastern…

Kupang – Peace has been restored to the West Timor town of Oesau following the July 1 mass riot in which remnants of the feared pro-Jakarta…

President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia has ordered the military to safeguard mining operations in the country, following a series of…

Tom Fawthrop – Political expediency persuaded the UN mission in East Timor to revoke its original requirement to disarm FALINTIL, the army of the…

Jakarta – Pressure has shifted to House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung in the intensifying conflict among the political elite in the…

Rizal Maslan/Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – Around 100 members of the Megamendung community of Bogor, West Java, held a noisy demonstration at the…

Makassar – At least 124 people were arrested over the weekend for their alleged involvement in communal clashes in the Central Sulawesi town of…

Jakarta – A mob of some 200 people set fire to a major market in Jayapura, the main city of the country's easternmost province of…

Jakarta – More than 500,000 houses have been destroyed in Indonesia due to riots and natural disasters over the past three months,…

Jakarta – Tension between East Timorese refugees and locals in Indonesia's West Timor has forced the International Organization for Migration (IOM…

Jakarta – A mob attacked a police post in Indonesia's eastern island of Flores, ransacking it and killing two civilians they accused of trying to…

Ambon – In Maluku terms Mrs. Em, a Muslim housewife in this violence-torn city, is lucky. She is alive and so is her husband, although their house…

Ambon – Thousands of terrified residents fled the already ravaged village of Waai on Friday, following a murderous overnight raid by a group of…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The United States has attacked Indonesia for its double standards over access to the riot-torn Malukus, questioning…

Jakarta – A senior Indonesian regional military officer has slammed the leaders of the country's political parties, saying their self-…

Makassar – Wirabuana Military Commander Maj. Gen. Slamet Kirbiantoro Sulawesi announced here on Thursday that a total of 211 people had been…

Jakarta – A Christian crisis group in the beleaguered eastern Indonesian city of Ambon said Friday that troops were withdrawn from a Christian…

Irna Gustia/FW & LM, Jakarta – The Indonesian Legal Aid Institute (YLBHI), claims the recent government-sanctioned sacking of around 1,000…

Jakarta – Electronics giant Sony plans to lay off 928 staff who stopped work more than two months ago in a dispute over new working…

Jose Manuel Tesoro, Jakarta – The Indonesian presidency may be the toughest job on the planet. But for a few months after his October 20, 1999,…

Washington – The United States has said its arms embargo on Indonesia would remain in place, despite complaints that the measure is…

London – Slowly but surely, and away from the prying of television cameras, Indonesia is starting to fall apart. Doomsayers have been predicting…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono has warned of a recurring wave of violence in the country fomented by people…

Jakarta – Indonesia's defense minister has accused supporters of former dictator Suharto of bombing the attorney general's office and…

Penny Crisp and Jose Manuel Tesoro, Jakarta – It was tough enough to bring down Suharto and sustained enough to help fell his successor. Now the…

John O'Callaghan, London – An international group of human rights campaigners called on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday to set up a…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – There is one small neighbourhood in Jakarta where thieves dare not go. Doors are often left unlocked and everybody…

Jakarta – The Democratic People's Party (PRD) filed a Rp 5.5 billion (US$617,000) lawsuit with the Central Jakarta District Court on Wednesday…

Jakarta – The Indonesian navy has arrested a leader of a militant Muslim group and some 250 of his men who were fighting sectarian…

John McBeth in Jakarta and Oren Murphy in Central Sulawesi – Two months ago, Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid ordered authorities to stop…

Jakarta – Fighting between local Malays and settlers from Madura broke out on Thursday in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan on Borneo…

Abdul Haerah HR/FW & LM, Jakarta – Twenty-nine members of the 711 Military District Command are being questioned intensively about inciting…

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Two bombs were discovered at the Indonesian attorney general's office in Jakarta on Wednesday, inflaming fears of…

Dili – Hundreds of Indonesians armed with bows and arrows have blocked roads in West Timor to keep UN aid officials from continuing…

D Tjiptono/SWA & LM, Jakarta – Around 50 students form the Student Executive Board (BEM) of the University of Indonesia (UI) demonstrated in…

Shoeb Kagda – High-level government audit has implicated senior members of the former Suharto administration of siphoning off billions of dollars…

B Sugiharto/SWA & LM, Jakarta – A violent clash in Surabaya between police and supporters of a charitable foundation forced to hand over their…

Jakarta – Leaders of the pro-independence movement in Indonesia's easternmost province of Irian Jaya said Wednesday that President Abdurrahman…

Jakarta – Controversy over recent comments by President Abdurrahman Wahid that certain political figures stirring trouble to destabilise his…

Jakarta – The publication in Gatra magazine this week of a list of prominent figures from NGOs, business and past and current governments who have…

Jakarta – Recent comments by the President that he will soon detain certain politicians who are fanning the flames of national disintegration in…

Dili – United Nations police have opened investigations into three more recent discoveries of human remains in East Timor, likely…

Associated Press in Manado – An intensive search yesterday failed to find any more survivors of a ferry disaster, as the few who were rescued…

Terry McCarthy, Jakarta – When President Abdurrahman Wahid moved into the presidential palace last October, his spirits and those of the country…