Paul Farrell – The independent senator Nick Xenophon has called for a royal commission into Australia allegedly bugging Timor-Leste's cabinet room during trade negotiations.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) has found irregularities in the campaign fund reports of candidates participating in the simultaneous local elec

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Bekasi - On the second day of the national strike, Tuesday November 25, the United People's Committee (KPR) conducted sweeps of factories, held a convoy and a solidarity action for work

Jakarta – Thousands of laborers demonstrated on Thursday in front of City Hall on Jl.

Steve Cannane, Sashka Koloff and Brigid Andersen – One of Australia's most senior lawyers believes there is a criminal case to answer over an Australian spying operation in East Timor and that seni

Australia's foreign affairs department is expected to make a decision next week on whether to reissue a passport to a key witness in spy allegations concerning oil and gas treaty negotiations with

To date, no one – in politics or the bureaucracy – has been held accountable for bugging the East Timor cabinet room. Well, this is embarrassing.

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The government will put more oil and gas blocks up for bidding next year despite little interest from business players in previous offerings amid low prices

Jakarta – Two NGOs representing Sundanese people, the Sundanese People's Alliance and the West Java Siliwangi Youth Wing, have filed a complaint with the West Java Police against the le

Tama Salim and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has once again delayed its final decision on whether to return to the government the names of candidates for the leade

The Agency for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Migrant Workers (BNP2TKI) plans to set up representative offices abroad to protect Indonesian migrant workers in major destinat

To imagine Indonesia without the Association of Islamic Students (HMI) is next to impossible, given the numerous national figures the country's largest student group has helped groom, m

Tangerang – A bitter smile crept across the face of mussel farmer Muhammad Ali, 41, as he described his struggle to make ends meet amid an ongoing coastal reclamation project in Dadap,

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Medan – Thousands of hectares of mangroves along the eastern coast of North Sumatra have been seriously damaged due to large areas being converted into oil palm plantations.

Indonesia is under pressure to properly enforce sweeping land-management reforms to improve its record on devastating wildfires with less than a week to crucial climate talks in Paris.

Hans Nicholas Jong, National – In commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Nov.

Tony Jones speaks with Peter Galbraith, who was part of the UN transitional administration in East Timor in 2000 and 2001 and a cabinet member in the fledgling nation's first transitional governmen

Steve Cannane, Sashka Koloff and Brigid Andersen – East Timor's most senior leaders have accused Australia of committing a crime and acting immorally after a spying scandal that rocked the relation

Bekasi – Thousands of workers came out on strike in a number of areas of Greater Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding the revocation of Government Regulation (PP) No.

Bekasi City – Responding to the call for a national strike on November 24-27, on Tuesday November 24 thousands of workers in the city of Bekasi, West Java, held a convoy opposing Govern

Malaysia – Indonesian migrant workers (BMI) working in Malaysia have joined in opposing Government Regulation (PP) Number 78/2015 on Wages with posters reading, "We as workers in Malays

Jakarta – Rejecting Government Regulation (PP) Number 78/2015 on Wages, the Fraternity of Indonesian Muslim Workers (PPMI) together with the United People's Committee (KPR) launched a n

Bekasi - Thousands of workers who were gathered at the East Jakarta Industrial Park (EJIP) in Cikarang in the Bekasi regency of West Java were forcibly disbursed by police on Wednesday

PT Modern Internasional Tbk has reported decreased profits in some of its 7-Eleven outlets across Jakarta, after the alcohol ban regulation was implemented, forcing them to find a new w

Pekanbaru – Hundreds of police and Army personnel conducted sweeps on Monday against South and West Sulawesi delegates of the 29th Indonesian Islamic Students Association (HMI) in Pekan

Jakarta – Critic directed toward the government is not considered hate speech, National Police chief Gen.

Jakarta – Thousands of members of the Indonesian Workers Union, or KSPI, will stage nation-wide strikes from Nov.

Jakarta – Hundreds of laborers demonstrated in Jakarta on Tuesday after trade union leaders called of a national labor strike scheduled to take place from Tuesday to Friday.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Hundreds of thousands of industrial workers across Greater Jakarta are set to hold mass strikes on Tuesday as part of a three-day national strike protesting Gov

Jakarta – Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has praised an Indonesian government move to release Papuan political prisoner Filep Karma, who has spent 11 years behind bars for raisin

Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – Papuan Legislator from Tolikara Electoral area, Orwan Tolli Wone, criticized the trial against two GIDI young members JW and AK related to the incident o

Haeril Halim, National – The panel of judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Monday sentenced Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Adriansyah to three years beh

John Mohammad, Jakarta – The 1999 law on freedom of opinion must be revised.

In desperate moments we discover our true friends in those who stand up for us, and House Speaker Setya Novanto may feel assured he does have a few of them around.

Jakarta – The local administration of Luwu regency in South Sulawesi has banned the sale of condoms over concerns about teenagers having casual sex.

Timor Leste's government will have to think long and hard about diversifying its economy, Prime Minister John Key says.

Jakarta – The land-distribution system in Jakarta, as well as in other Indonesian cities, which is based on price rather than social benefits is unfair to the poor and therefore violate

Jakarta – Human rights groups have called on local administrations to apply a rights-friendly city concept as an attempt to prevent more human rights abuses in the future.

Pekanbaru – Scores of students from the Makassar chapter of the Association of Islamic Students (HMI) burned used tires and blocked off Jl.

Haeril Halim, Bogor, West Java – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has said it will not move against special crimes division director Maruli Hutagalung from the Attorney Gener

Jakarta – Islamic hard-liners in Indonesia's least tolerant city have declared a national anti-Shiite movement, in a clear-cut case of hate speech that the police have blatantly chosen

Jakarta – Activists in the Jakarta satellite city of Bogor have filed suit against Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto for banning public celebrations of the Shiite holy day of Ashura last month.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Airforce has purchased a $55 million helicopter set to arrive in the country next year to support President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's busy schedule.

Timor Leste is running out of money due to the decline of its oil industry and government overspending.

The nation has been spectator to an extremely shrewd political game in the past week; the political showdown was preceded by a revelation of devious business deals in relation to a prop

Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities in Yogyakarta celebrated on Friday the Transgender Day of Remembrance by staging a silent rally at

Jakarta – Aboe Bakar Alhabsyi, a lawmaker for the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), wants the Indonesian "traitors" who attended proceedings of the International People's Tribunal 1965 in

Shane Rosenthal, Dili – The impending launch of the ASEAN Economic Community is being marked this week at a summit in Kuala Lumpur.