Jakarta – Police in East Java have charged 18 people in connection with the death of a farmer who had been leading a protest against mining activities in his village.

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Judicial watchdog Indonesian Legal Roundtable (ILR) has called on President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration to annul its plan to issue an anti-criminalization regulati

Palu – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has deployed 100 personnel from two elite forces to support a police-run operation to hunt for members of a terrorist group in Poso regency, North Sulawesi.

Alex Blucher – The coffee country of Timor Leste is a world away from the birthplace of permaculture in northern Tasmania but it's taking off there in a big way.

Sydney – The Australian government will "vigorously defend" arbitration proceedings initiated by Timor-Leste in relation to their treaty, which determines jurisdiction over oil and gas resources in

Joe Cochrane, Jakarta – The young woman sat on a bench at a bus terminal here one recent morning, listening to her iPod beneath a bright blue sky.

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Jakarta – Former Army Strategic Reserves Command (green berets) Chief of Staff (Kaskostrad) Kivlan Zen claims that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is trying to rebuild its forces in order to r

The appearances of imprisoned graft convict and former low-ranking tax officer Gayus Tambunan in public places is nothing extraordinary for former convict Bona Paputungan, because he often witnesse

Singapore has launched legal action that could lead to large fines against Indonesian companies blamed for farm and plantation fires spewing unhealthy levels of air pollution over the city state.

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Jakarta – The involvement of police and Indonesian Military (TNI) officers has exacerbated thousands of land conflicts in regions across the country, the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas

Robertus Wardhy, Jakarta – Indonesia's Army chief has lashed out at members of Kopassus, the notorious special forces, over two recent incidents in a litany of criminal conduct.

Rizal Harahap and Ina Parlina, Pekanbaru/Jakarta – Smoke produced by land and forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan has continued to intensify over the past few days, severely threatening the heal

Jambi – President Joko Widodo has again been forced to cancel a trip to monitor efforts to quell haze-causing forest fires, as visibility was still too low on Friday to safely fly the presidential

Sabam Siagian – It would be difficult to expect the emergence of a fearless fighter for democracy and staunch advocate of human rights to equal the late Adnan Buyung Nasution, or "Buyung" for short

The Australian and East Timor governments are embroiled in an oil and gas controversy involving the pipeline to Darwin from the Bayu Undan gas field.

Canberra, Australia – East Timor has abandoned talks on a maritime boundary with Australia and renewed a legal challenge to gain a larger share of potentially lucrative undersea oil-and-gas fields.

Jakarta – Agriculture Minister Amran Sulaiman has said the government is striving to control food imports and has saved a significant amount of foreign exchange reserves ahead of the one-year anniv

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Jakarta – Muslims in Tolikara, Papua, who clashed with a local church congregation in July, celebrated a peaceful Idul Adha holiday on Thursday.

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – Plans to revive a massive commercial agribusiness and biofuel plant in the Indonesian province of Papua violate the land rights of the indigenous and local communities who hav

Jakarta – Deputy Speaker Fahri Hamzah has come under fire for urging the Ethics Committee at the House of Representatives to keep quiet about a probe against two of his fellow House leaders over th

Jakarta – Stern opposition continues to mount among government officials and anti-smoking activists against a bid by the House of Representatives to recognize kretek, Indonesia's clove-flavored cig

Jakarta – The regional administrations will soon be authorized to establish tourist areas that will be allowed to sell liquor with up to five percent alcohol content, otherwise known as Group A liq

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – After weeks of investigations, the Bali Police on Monday officially dismissed Comr.

Without war correspondents to tell the truth, all we'd be told are official lies, says Shirley Shackleton, widow of reporter Greg Shackleton who was murdered while reporting from East Timor.

Jakarta – Noted Indonesian lawyer Adnan Buyung Nasution has passed away at Pondok Indah Hospital. He died at 10:15 a.m. today, Wednesday 23 September.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has announced the revocation of permits for four firms whose concessions in Sumatra and Kalimantan have burned up recently, adding to the haze fire disa

Yogyakarta – Transferring a graft convict notorious for his out-of jail jaunts to a higher-security prison will solve nothing as long as the systemic corruption that allowed the fiasco to play out

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is adamant it will not issue a formal apology to the victims of a state-sponsored anti-communist purge 50 years ago that left up to three million people dead.

Jakarta – Legal experts have criticized the latest Constitutional Court ruling that requires law enforcement officers to secure approval from the president before investigating legislators in conne

Jakarta – Ex-tax officer, now prisoner, Gayus Halomoan Tambunan has admitted that he did indeed enjoy a meal at a restaurant recently, the photo of which went viral on social media.

Jayapura, Jubi – The Indonesian government is desperate to avoid further condemnation of this heavy military build up.

The Vanuatu opposition MP Joe Natuman says the government should speak up more about West Papua.

Yogyakarta, Jubi – "The real Free Papua Movement (OPM) do not create havoc.

Jakarta – National Development Planning Minister Sofyan Djalil has called on giant gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia to increase its procurement of goods and services from state-owned ent

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Following the government's decision to cut Rp 7 trillion (US$490 million) from the defense budget next year, the Navy revealed on Monday a plan to purchase two new submarines

Jakarta – The government will relax the sale of liquor and let regional administrations determine the places where people can buy alcoholic beverages with the condition the outlets are not close to

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Jakarta – An official in Aceh has been demoted for featuring a "vulgar" and "erotic" Indian dance performance during a cultural festival in the province's capital last week.

Jakarta – Publicly listed retail company PT Hero Supermarket (Hero) has closed the doors of dozens of its stores during the first half of this year to cut costs amid the domestic economic slowdown

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Robert Isidorus, Papua – The two Indonesian loggers held captive by a Papuan separatist group earlier this month in Papua New Guinea said they were stripped naked and beaten by their captors during

Jakarta – The government has recently rejuvenated a plan to build mega nuclear power plants (PLTN) in the country as it has cooperated to expand knowledge on nuclear technologies and management.

Jakarta – Wahid Institute director Yenny Wahid called on Indonesians to spread more peaceful messages during the opening of the International Peace Day at City Hall in Jakarta on Sunday.

Jakarta – Indonesian police are expediting a criminal investigation into one of 10 companies charged so far with starting forest fires that have generated choking haze across vast swaths of Sumatra

Chip Henriss – Sixteen years ago on September 20, I was with the Australian Army's 3rd Brigade, the Townsville-based ready Deployment Force.

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will bring a new dimension to Australia's relationship with Indonesia given his former international business career, according to Trade M