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Helen Brown in Jakarta, staff – More than 80,000 women will be running for office in this year's presidential election in Indonesia, encouraged to be part of the country's plan to have

Sita W.Dewi, Jakarta – Deputy Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said on Tuesday he had been touted as a potential 2014 vice presidential candidate.

Fadli, Batam – Hundreds of workers of the Indonesia Metal Workers Federation (FSPMI) staged a rally in front of the Batam office of state power firm PT PLN and demanded it cancel the pl

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Kate Lamb – The highest court at The Hague ruled on Monday that "Australia shall not interfere in anyway in communications between Timor-Leste and its advisors in connection with the pe

Havana, Cuba – Cuban doctors in East Timor are drawing up a comprehensive strategy to fight Cancer based on the records on the disease collected by the medical brigade in that country a

East Timor's journalists' union has criticised the country's proposed media laws for being too restrictive on journalists.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua General Elections Commission (KPUD) has disqualified five candidates vying for a seat on the Papua Regional Representatives Council (DPD).

Suva, Fiji – An Indonesian delegation arrived into the country last night to strengthen the growing relations between Indonesia and Fiji.

A New Zealand group supporting West Papuans has called on their government to end its police training project in Indonesia.

Tom Allard – Australia has been ordered to cease spying on East Timor and its legal advisers, in a landmark decision by the International Court of Justice relating to a bitter dispute b

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Andrew Pulver – On an Oscar night of few surprises, one award that didn't quite go the way pundits may have hoped was way down the bill in the best documentary category.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – An Aceh National Party (PNA) legislative candidate was shot and killed late Sunday night in a hail of bullets – the latest attack on the political party ahead

Markus Junianto Sihalolo, Jakarta – The Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) are engaged in a tug-of-war over the right to issue Halal certificates an

Jakarta – The 12 political parties to contest the legislative election next month have submitted their second financial reports, the final report prior to the election; with the Gerindr

Yanto Soegiarto & Albertus Weldison Nonto, Jakarta – Aburizal Bakrie is busy shuttling around Indonesia to consolidate his powerful Golkar Party base ahead of the upcoming legislati

Jakarta – More than 2,400 people have signed a petition urging the Jakarta Police to charge Sitok Srengenge, a notable poet who allegedly raped a University of Indonesia (UI) student.

Jakarta – The Indonesian co-director of "The Act of Killing," hopes the Oscar-nominated documentary will continue to inspire conversation about the 1965 communist killings, calling the

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The nomination and possible victory of Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing" at today's Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood will put immense pressure on Indonesia to confront and s

Jayapura – Fiji's opposition has accused an Indonesian delegation planning to visit the Pacific country next week of intervening in Fiji's internal politics by supporting Prime Minister

Jakarta – Women's ability to breastfeed is a national asset, and hence the state has a great responsibility to fully support the breastfeeding mothers' movement, a breastfeeding mothers

Indra Harsaputra and Ina Parlina, Surabaya/Jakarta – As part of an ongoing attempt to heal an internal rift, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soek

Balikpapan – The world's largest population of proboscis monkey, locally known as bekantan, and its natural habitat in Balikpapan Bay is in danger due to the expansion of oil palm plant

Michael Bachelard, Indonesia – When the parents of Demianus and Seth Gobay died in their small West Papua village of Nabire perhaps five years ago, not all their six children could affo

Jakarta – The Jakarta Post ranked second on a list of Indonesia's most popular newspapers compiled by 4 International Media and Newspaper, as published on its website www.4imn.com.

Jakarta – The National Police on Friday announced that Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti would take over as the country's deputy chief and replace outgoing deputy chief Comr. Gen.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Four months before the implementation of a regulation requiring pictorial warnings on the dangers of smoking on cigarette packaging, efforts to comply appear to

Jakarta – The border between Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province and Timor Leste remains prone to drug smuggling, although the police have stepped up efforts to detain suspected ind

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The national antigraft body has denied that it deliberately neglected to name a potential presidential candidate in its indictment of Akil Mochtar, th

Havana, Cuba – Mari Alkatiri, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, requested from Cuba on Friday in this capital professional and technical assistance in the

Phelim Kine – Indonesia has a problem with Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary "The Act of Killing." The groundbreaking film, nominated for best documentary at this year's Academy Awards,

Jasmin Ramsey, Washington – Watching former gangsters and paramilitary leaders proudly reenact scenes from Indonesia's military-led mass killings of 1965-66 in the Oscar-nominated docum

Kim Doyle – In early 2013, the Australian Signals Directorate was spying on Indonesian officials involved in trade negotiations with the US.

The prime minister of Timor-Leste, Xanana Gusmao, plans to step down in September so a younger generation can lead the tiny nation, his deputy has said.

Jakarta – With the majority of the public still unaware of the national healthcare program (JKN), the government initiative remains unpopular, two months after being implemented.

Alina Musta'idah, Jakarta – Indonesia's palm oil industry has denied green activists' claims that it was behind the deforestation that has driven the highly endangered orangutan from it

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has finished drawing up campaign schedules for political parties contesting the 2014 legislative election.

Kanupriya Kapoor & Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta/Madiun – A chilling documentary about one of the worst massacres since World War Two is up for an Academy Award this weekend.

Andreas Harsono, Jakarta, Indonesia – I grew up in the shadow of the Indonesian massacres exposed in Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary documentary, "The Act of Killing," which has been

Jayapura – Vanuatu's Prime Minister (PM), Mr Moana Kalosil Carcasses will raise demand of completion of the Papua issue to the international world.

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold said its Indonesian unit may need to declare force majeure on copper concentrate sales if a dispute with the government over export taxes dr

Brad Simpson – In The Act of Killing, one of the nominees for an Academy Award for best documentary, a group of elderly Indonesian men re-enact their role in the killing of alleged Comm

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Reports in Papua New Guinea say the government has details of incursions across the border by armed Indonesia soldiers earlier this month.

SP/Fana FS Putra, Jakarta – Forty-three-year-old Lestari had no choice but to move from her home on the banks of the Sentiong River in North Jakarta's Sunter Agung ward after it was dem

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia has called on consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) to stop sourcing palm oil from firms responsible for destroying the natur

Jakarta – Indonesia's Riau province declared a state of emergency on Thursday as haze from raging forest fires, often deliberately set, disrupted flights and marine navigation and autho