Sophie McNeill – Doctors and healthcare workers in East Timor are battling to save people from diseases that most Australians may think have been consigned to history.

Vanuatu's Prime Minister Joe Natuman has reconfirmed his government's support for West Papuan independence aspirations to Indonesia's government.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has thanked visiting US senator John McCain for his country's support to help modernize the Indonesian Military's (TNI) weaponry system.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) appeared strong during a hearing at the Constitutional Court on Monday, with witnesses from Regional General Elections

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Jakarta – In spite of Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's plans to equip the city's Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers with firearms for protection, the Jakart

Jakarta – The Setara Institute announced on Monday that this year's elections had reduced the number of violations against religious minorities, as people channeled their religious prej

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Jayapura – Amid growing public disillusionment with the statesmanship of the losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, one of his trusted confidantes has openly declared he will u

Jakarta – A group of artists from the Indonesian Arts Coalition has criticized a draft bill on culture that is currently being legislated by the House of Representatives.

Stephen Sherlock – A huge sigh of relief that Prabowo was (just) defeated and that Indonesia will not be led by relic of the New Order, a xenophobe... well we all know the rest.

Makassar – Hundreds of residents from Harapan and Pasi-Pasi villages in East Luwu regency, South Sulawesi, have staged a protest against nickel mining company PT Vale Indonesia for alle

Jakarta – Indonesian Army spokesman Gen. M. Fuad Basya said that in six months the Army and the National Police lost at least 40 firearms in Papua.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Jayapura Police have taken 21 civilians into custody for their alleged involvement with the separatist Free Papua Movement's (OPM) activities in Kampu

Jakarta – Papua Police said they arrested 21 alleged members of the Free Papua Organization (OPM) as they intercepted a convoy of new recruits for the group's military wing on Sunday, I

Dina Manafe, Jakarta – The number of violations of religious freedom in Indonesia has decreased dramatically in the first half of the year, a watchdog said on Monday, adding however tha

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Ina Parlina and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Experts have urged losing presidential ticket Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa to step up their legal game or risk further embarrassing themse

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Three women in Aceh charged with consorting with non-related males could face three to nine lashes of the cane following their arrest by the province's sharia

Jakarta – Human rights activists have questioned the decision of president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to appoint former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief A.M.

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Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has reportedly sacked the party's deputy chairman, Agung Laksono.

Jakarta – The Aceh provincial administration has called on the central government to immediately finish the deliberation of crucial regulations as mandated by the Aceh Governance Law.

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Malang/Balikpapan – The hard-line group Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, or JAT, appears to be crumbling after its jailed leader Abu Bakar Ba'as

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Experts and women's activists praised on Friday the government's move to issue Government Regulation No.

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – Customary villages, members and leaders of communities have been called on to stage major protests against the planned massive project to reclaim Benoa Bay t

Ina Parlina and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Supporters of the losing presidential ticket Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa threatened to besiege the Constitutional Court on Monday to forc

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – A legal pressure group said on Friday that it had made a police complaint against four polling organizations on the grounds they had subverted data to show P

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The city government plans to do away with civil servants' official cars in favor of a monthly transportation stipend as part of a drive to get more offic

Erwin Sihombing & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Indonesia's election commission is demanding the Constitutional Court to reject the legal challenge filed by losing presidential candidate

Jakarta – A preliminary finding by a compliance audit conducted by a government-sanctioned team has uncovered several irregularities involving local governments and agroforestry compani

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A new government regulation, which will come into effect next week, will allow drug users in the country to be sent to rehabilitation centers rather than bei

Copper mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia aims to complete 7.5 percent of its smelter development in the coming months, although the company has not released details as to when it plans

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Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his die-hard supporters have vowed to fight until the last drop of blood to secure the presidency for the

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has led his Democratic party in a political about-face, withdrawing support previously given by party officials for Prabowo Subianto's Merah

Arnold Belau, Papuan, Jayapura – Two members of the Manokwari district West Papua National Committee (KNPB), Robert Helemaken (17) and Oni Weya (21) were arrested and severely beaten by

Jayapura – Police in Papua and the French Embassy in Jakarta confirmed on Friday the arrest and detention of two French journalists in Papua.

Jakarta – Award-winning human rights advocate Yan Christian Warinussy has suggested the establishment of a ministry to focus specifically on Papua.

Khoirul Amin, Jakarta – A number of business associations have called on the government to entirely scrap the fuel subsidy, instead of limiting consumption of subsidized fuel types in c

Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesia unit will complete on Thursday loading for its first copper concentrate export shipment since new mining rules were introduced in the Southeast Asian na

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – With the government's subsidy on fuel expected to reach Rp 246 trillion ($21 billion) this year, up from an initial target of Rp 210 trillion, the in

Jakarta – The Indonesian Baha'i Society thanked the government on Thursday for officially recognizing the monotheistic faith as a religion, after Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Roughly a month after Indonesians across the archipelago elected a new president, defeated candidate Prabowo Subianto, who has spent the weeks after the election

Carlos Paath, Erwin Sihombing & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court is expected to reject a lawsuit filed by losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto based on a

Ezra Sihite & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Jakarta – The Communication and Information Ministry has blocked access to websites about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the government

Rizky Amelia, Jakarta – Advocacy group Migrant Care estimated that every day between 400 to 500 Indonesian migrant workers are extorted by security and immigration officers on their ret

Erwida Maulia & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The team of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto says it will dispatch thousands of supporters in Jakarta to the Constitutional Co

Jakarta – Losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto testified before Indonesia's final electoral court of appeal on Wednesday, telling judges that "North Korean" levels of fraud ha

The Free West Papua Campaign says a political prisoner Victor Yeimo has been released from jail in Indonesia after serving more than a year.