Melbourne – Woodside Petroleum expressed doubts its Greater Sunrise gas prospect could go ahead this decade, leaving it off a list of growth projects out to 2019 and beyond in its annual results pr

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has dropped Budi Gunawan as candidate for chief of the National Police, citing the need to maintain peace and order following public discontent over Bu

Indepedent since 2002, East Timor is one of the world's newest nations.

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Jakarta – The House of Representatives has dropped an article that was set to ban lawmakers appearing publicly for entertainment purposes.

Jakarta – A number of activists on Tuesday filed a report against judge Sarpin Rizaldi with the Judicial Commission (KY) following his controversial pretrial decision on Monday ordering the Corrupt

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite government plans to eradicate illegal logging that have been in place over the past five years, encroachment on the country's forests remains rampant, a recent

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Anti-corruption activists have given the cold shoulder to President Joko Widodo's decision to dump graft suspect Comr. Gen.

Farouk Arnaz & Muhammad Kiblat, Jakarta – The South Sulawesi Police on Tuesday has named Abraham Samad, chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, a suspect for allegedly forgin

Ina Parlina and Haeril Halim, Jakarta/Bogor – A historic court decision invalidating the move of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to name a politically wired police general a graft suspe

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – A new report from Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has recorded more than 600 reported corruption cases in Indonesia last year, with an estimated cost of trillions of rupia

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Indonesia's fisheries minister, Susi Pudjiastuti, has fast become one of the most popular ministers in President Joko Widodo's cabinet, thanks in large part to her trigger-

Dili – East Timor Monday inaugurated a new prime minister at the head of a unity government, as it seeks to hand power to the next generation of leaders more than a decade after gaining independenc

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The government is to issue a revision to a land-procurement regulation to expedite land acquisition, which has proved an obstacle to a number of infrastructure projec

Jakarta – Papuans and human rights advocates are concerned that President Joko Widodo's visits and campaign promises to the province are merely ceremonial rather than indicative of real change for

Kandhi Barnes, Dili, East Timor – Opposition party member Rui Maria de Araujo was sworn in Monday as East Timor's prime minister, leading a smaller 38-member Cabinet for the half-island nation.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen.

Tassia Sipahutar and Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Having achieved lawmakers' approval, the government must now step up the disbursement of state funds and improve its capacity to channel the mone

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which with other parties in the Great Indonesian Coalition has supported the nomination of Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – Judge Sarpin Rizaldi, who presided over Comr. Gen.

Arnold Sianturi, Medan, North Sumatra – An antigraft activist in Medan, North Sumatra, was hospitalized on Sunday after four unknown people opened fire on him with airsoft guns, amid an increase in

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court on Monday granted a pretrial motion filed by National Police chief candidate Comr. Gen.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo may have enough political backing to nominate a new National Police (Polri) chief, but the nation is likely to wait at least one month for an

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has agreed to deploy 1,000 personnel to help the Transportation Ministry secure its vital facilities.

It's a Black Monday for Indonesia. Corruptors must be celebrating now that Judge Sarpin Rizaldi ruled that all the national antigraft agency's charges against Comr. Gen.

Tim Lindsey – For months, Indonesian President Joko Widodo – popularly known as Jokowi – has repeatedly stated his determination to show no mercy to drug offenders facing execution.

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court's decision to revoke the suspect status of President Joko Widodo's candidate for National Police chief, Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against corruption has come under threat with the South Jakarta District Court's decision on Monday to revoke the suspect status of National Police chief candidate Comr.

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Port Moresby, PNG – Papua New Guinea Enterprises and State Investment Minister Ben Micah has rejected suggestions that the Prime Minister's announcement of a policy shift on West Papua was a knee-j

Jakarta – The government has dropped its demand that Freeport-McMoran Inc build a $1.5 billion copper smelter in Papua province, saying a regionally owned enterprise would take on the project inste

Jakarta – Former Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Wiranto has been unanimously reelected chairman of the Hanura Party and will lead the party until 2020.

Pacific churches have urged Indonesia's President, Joko Widodo, to honour an election promise to address human rights abuses in West Papua.

More information has emerged that Indonesian police have shot two more West Papuan civilians in the Yapen Island village of Kontiunai, killing one, after the unprovoked killing of another civilian

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo vowed to stop sending Indonesians to work as housemaids abroad, because the poor treatment they received was humiliating for the nation.

Jakarta – Dozens of Indonesian couples suspected of doing "the nasty thing" have been detained in Valentine's Day raids in several major Indonesian cities.

Pandaya, Jakarta – His case may have been eclipsed by the embarrassing conflict pitting the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) against the National Police over graft charges leveled against on

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Valentine's Day is traditionally known as a day couples spend together celebrating their love.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's planned ban on the dispatch of Indonesian migrant workers would be a big 'setback' for the country's efforts to create decent work for its citizens, no ma

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will continue a inquiry into alleged gross human rights violations that occurred in relation to mass murders li

Manokwari – The newly formed West Papua Police are expected to recruit more Papuans as policemen, as part of empowerment program for Papuans.

Michelle Nichols, United Nations – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia on Friday not to execute prisoners on death row for drug crimes, including citizens of Australi

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council's (MUI) chairman of education affairs, Anwar Abbas, on Saturday thanked a number of mayors across the archipelago for banning Valentine's Day celebrations.

Michael Bachelard – It's a tale of two drug rings in Indonesia.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, is intensifying its investigation of alleged human rights violations in security forces' deadly shooting of

Tom Allard – In the annals of East Timor's extraordinary emergence as a nation state after 500 years of foreign domination, no figure has loomed as large as Xanana Gusmao.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Economic reforms undertaken by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo have drawn strong inflows in the equity and bonds markets, but have failed to propel the rupiah as curre

Jakarta – Regional governments and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) have banned the celebration of Valentine's Day on Feb.

Jakarta – The Golkar Party appears no closer to ending the most serious rift in its 50-year history, with two rival factions continuing to wage a battle for the leadership of Indonesia's grand old

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police's Internal Affairs Division has been investigating several senior officers allegedly involved in "secret cooperations" with the Corruption Eradicatio