Benny Mawel in Jayapura and Ryan Dagur in Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian police are seeking to question a Catholic priest over possible treason charges for leading a prayer service attended by mem

Protesters rallied Tuesday outside the Australian embassy in the East Timor capital Dili, demanding Canberra come to the table "in good faith" to end a long-running dispute over major oil and gasfi

Daniel Flitton – Protesters have gathered outside Australia's embassy in Dili to demand an end to the bitter dispute with East Timor over undersea oil and gas fields.

Banyumas – A coalition of youth organizations in Banyumas, Central Java, has rejected the presence of firebrand Muslim cleric Rizieq Shihab in the regency.

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry has called on university campuses to remain vigilant regarding religious student organizations to thwart any

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – House of Representatives Commission III overseeing legal affairs has agreed to increase the budget for the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) to bolster the a

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is planning to reform its non-tax state revenue (PNBP) system in the forestry sector following a finding that corruption in the sector is causing trilli

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The prosecutors' office dropped a controversial assault case involving Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan on Monday, citing a lack of eviden

Timor Leste's prime minister has filed a defamation suit against a journalist, who learned of the legal action against him last month.

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The closure of the Kalijodo red light district in North and West Jakarta is just one stage in the government's ambition to close down all 168 such areas across

Oliver Holmes, Bangkok – The leading psychiatric body in Indonesia is claiming that transgender people suffer from a mental health disorder and gay and bisexual people are at risk of mental health

Jakarta – Defense Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu believes that the emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Indonesia is part of a "proxy war" to take over a country without

Jokowi may look good in batik, but he's not cut-out for office, writes Duncan Graham.

Shinta Maharani, Jakarta – Hundreds of pro-democracy activists were threatened and intimidated by intolerant groups when they held a peaceful protest action at a square alongside the McDonalds fast

Lindsay Murdoch, Bangkok – MPs from East Timor's major political parties are moving to impeach the country's President as tensions rise again in the former Indonesian-controlled island nation.

Venidora Oliveira – The National Parliament (NP) approved $28,931 million in the 2016 state budget to improve the welfare of members of the national police force PNTL.

Lesley Sanga – Indonesia president Joko Widodo has turned down Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's request for a meeting to discuss the West Papua issue.

Venidora Oliveira – Member of Parliament MP Arao Noe said many village offices established across the 13 municipalities of Timor-Leste that are damaged are still waiting for the government to fix t

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – Human rights activists have warned that recent statements made by public officials and religious leaders who want to limit the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transge

Paulina Quintso – The Director of the National Optical Centre (NOC) Belmeiro Jeronimo said the institution would not provide medical consultations and eye surgery in all municipalities because it d

Paulina Quintso – The Education Director for the Municipality of Viqueque, Emilio Amaral said in the new school year of 2016-2017 the school feeding program has not yet been implemented because gov

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Stepping in to address the wave of negative comment sweeping the country, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has urged the government to make good on its rec

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – "If there's one thing that we need to watch out when we join the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP], that's the yarn-forward clause," said Benny Soetrisno.

Emilia Terzon – From Cyclone Tracy to the Bali bombings, the small tropical city of Darwin has on a few rare, yet memorable occasions become an epicentre of a major international event.

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioners met President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday to try to persuade him to reject a revision of the KPK Law, on the back

Daniel Flitton – Not one senior Australian politician has visited East Timor since the Coalition won power in 2013, a dramatic illustration of just how tense the stand-off between the two countries

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The city administration and the Jakarta Police are apparently taking it in turns to throw their weight around over red-light district Kalijodo, which stretches between the We

In the wake of more intransigence from Indonesia, the Melanesian Spearhead Group has called for Jakarta to hold talks with the United Liberation Movement of West Papua.

Nedi Putra AW, Batu, East Java – Munir Said Thalib's struggle to uncover rights violation cases, from the murder of labor activist Marsinah in 1994 to the disappearance of 24 students in Jakarta in

Tom Allard – Australian diplomats in the Jakarta embassy mocked reports of the rape, torture and execution of East Timorese after the invasion of Indonesia, remarking that it "sounds like fun" and

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of Islamic Jihad Front (FJI) members visited on Friday the Al Fatah Islamic boarding school for transgender students in Sayangan hamlet, Kotagede district, Yog

Fadli, Batam – Batam workers' associations rejected on Friday the government's plan to limit workers' demonstrations, saying that it would violate freedom of expression laws.

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Ni Komang Erviani, Andi Hajramurni and Arya Dipa, Denpasar/Makassar/Bandung – The government's new policy requiring modern retailers to charge customers for plastic bags will begin slowly as local

Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has told the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), which campaigns for Papuan independence, to le

A New Zealand journalist and film producer hopes her new short film about the plight of West Papuans will serve as the impetus for discussion about the situation in Indonesia's Papua region.

Tama Salim, Jakarta – As reports of vote-buying and money politics tied to the Golkar Party begin to make the rounds ahead of the party's upcoming congress to elect a new chairman, party leaders ha

Jayapura, Jubi – Activists and students from Jayawijaya urged the local government to pay attention to people's need for health and education by bringing in teachers and doctors, instead of buildin

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Radical Islamic ideology has spread freely on secular university campuses across Indonesia, with students from science and engineering majors more susceptible to i

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which nominated President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for the 2014 presidential election, is blasting his administration for bein

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Dorce Gamalama is known as the "Indonesian Oprah".

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry has reactivated a decree that recognized the United Development Party's (PPP) leadership as that decided at a national congress (muktamar

Havana – The former President of Timor-Leste, Jose Manuel Ramos-Horta, said today in Havana that no other organization or group of people in the world deserves the Nobel Peace Prize as much as the

Benny Mawel, Jayapura, Indonesia – Protesting tribal youths in Papua urged the Indonesian government to seize operations of the U.S.-based PT Freeport McMoRan copper mining company and install a Pa

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) is caught in a new tangle after the government handed party leadership to a former chairman convicted in a graft case to end leadership dualism.

Jayapura – The Jayapura District Court sentenced on Thursday Jundi Wanimbo and Ariyanto Kogoya each to two months and 26 days in jail for inciting a riot that led to damage being caused to dozens o

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua says the opening of its new office in Wamena reflects its strong support among the indigenous people of Indonesia's Papua region.

Timor-Leste (East Timor) offers tax advantages and other incentives to those who want to invest in the country and is working to overcome the shortcomings that still exist in terms of legislation,

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – Tradition has been blamed for the increase in the number of domestic violence cases against women and children in North Central Timor (TTU) regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT),

Angela Macdonald-Smith – US oil giant ConocoPhillips has settled the biggest part of its long-running tax disputes with the Timor-Leste government, clearing the air for potential further investment