Gordon Peake and Piers Kelly – With allegations of Australian chicanery during the Timor Sea negotiations, a definitional question emerges for the media: just what is the correct name o

Despite the usual diplomatic niceties at the celebration of the thirty-eighth anniversary of Timor-Leste's declaration of independence in Canberra last week, the raid on that nation's l

Donald K. Anton – Claims of Australian spying on East Timor are only the latest chapter in a saga of clashes over treaties.

Damien Kingsbury – The new government is not off on the right foot in foreign policy terms, with the Indonesian spying scandal dominating headlines.

Camelia Pasandaran – Two more Indonesian churches have been taken out of commission in Sulawesi and West Java over the last week as Christians and local governments once again locked ho

Julian Drape – East Timor says it won't be deterred from challenging a multi-billion dollar oil and gas treaty with Australia in The Hague despite raids on a lawyer's office and the hom

Nick Miller – East Timor's government will not be deterred in pressing its case to scrap an oil treaty worth billions of dollars over claims of spying by Australia, an international neg

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor says the Australian Government knew it would call upon the testimony of four whistleblowers in its dispute regarding a $40 billion oil and gas treaty.

Lenore Taylor – The inspector general of intelligence and security has issued an unusual public statement to deny that any former spy had raised concerns with her or her predecessor abo

Camelia Pasandaran – A beleaguered Ahmadiyah congregation in Bekasi was handed a hollow victory on Thursday when a court invalidated a municipal order to board up the group's mosque – t

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Jennifer Robinson – West Papua's claim to self-determination is gaining grounds internationally.

Farouk Arnaz – The Deputy Chief of the National Police has responded to the controversy surrounding whether or not female police officers can wear headscarves by telling those who wish

It is disturbing that more than a decade after East Timor secured its independence, with the assistance of Australian forces, our nations now are in dispute.

Australia's role in supporting the transition of East Timor, or Timor Leste, to independence in 2002 – making it the first new sovereign state of the 21st century – was pivotal.

Bernard Keane – As the United States-style war on whistleblowers and journalists ramps up in Australia, one of the key myths about national security whistleblowers has taken another ham

Camelia Pasandaran & Amir Tedjo – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to Sampang, East Java, has done little to resolve long-simmering tensions between local Sunni and Shia M

Dessy Sagita & Kennial Caroline Laia – A senior government health official has sought to distance himself from the controversy over a condom promotion campaign following opposition

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Keerom – Refugees who have returned to Indonesia's Papua province from exile in neighbouring Papua New Guinea (PNG) are disillusioned with their new lives.

Keerom – Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia's easternmost province, struggle for employment because most jobs in the gold-rich region go to migrants despite government efforts to tac

Paul Cleary – Oil and espionage have gone hand in hand during the past four decades of contestation over the lucrative petroleum resources of the Timor Sea, so the latest revelations sh

Jakarta – A number of travelers have called on the police to take harsh action against workers who launched a blockade on the toll road leading to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport,

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Education experts and campaigners have welcomed the Education and Culture Ministry's decision to scrap the national examination for elementary school stud

Angela Dewan – Samarinda, East Kalimantan. Barges loaded with mountains of coal glide down the polluted Mahakam River on Indonesian Borneo every few minutes.

Tunggul Wirajuda – For millions of East Timorese, Indonesia's 24-year occupation of their country seemed an interminable nightmare.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Army has been given six months to complete the construction of 14 roads stretching more than 900 kilometers in Papua and West Papua provinces.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Scores of young people vandalized a shariah police office and injured a religious police officer in the early hours of Tuesday morning after the Islamic autho

Andi Hajramurni and Slamet Susanto, Makassar/Yogyakarta – While the government's commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunities for disabled people is being questioned, people wi

Jane Wardell, Sydney – Attorney-General George Brandis said on Wednesday raids by Australia's domestic spy agency on the Canberra offices of a lawyer representing East Timor over Austra

East Timor's prime minister says he is shocked by the Australian Government's decision to authorise raids on a lawyer and whistleblower who were set to provide evidence against Australi

Tom Allard – The former senior spy who blew the whistle on alleged Australian bugging of East Timor's government took his case to the intelligence watchdog but it did not investigate an

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court heard on Tuesday allegations that members of the First Family's inner circle were involved in the corruption scandal surroundi

Jakarta – The fight against rampant corruption in the country has not made much progress in the past year, Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) has revealed in its annual Corrup

Vento Saudale – Officials from Bogor have since October torn down 75 holiday villas and buildings as part of efforts to eliminate a total of 239 illegal buildings in the Puncak area in

Amir Tejo, Dessy Sagita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A backlash against a government campaign to emphasize the importance of condoms as part of an HIV/AIDS awareness program could h

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police is now reconsidering their policy of allowing female officers to wear the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, on duty.

Ni Komang Erviani and Tassia Sipahutar, Denpasar, Bali – Large contingents of uniformed and plainclothes police officers were sent to guard foreign consulates and strategic facilities i

Terrorism in Indonesia has been reduced to "low-tech, low-competence, low-casualty attacks" by weakened groups – but could shift up to a more deadly threat if Indonesians fighting in Sy

Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party is the most popular political party on social media, a survey has shown.

Clinton Fernandes – It is not hard to see why ASIO yesterday raided the office and home of a Canberra-based lawyer, Bernard Collaery, and the house of a former Australian intelligence a

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A lawyer representing East Timor in its spying case against Australia says his office has been raided by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).

Katharine Murphy and Lenore Taylor – A first-hand witness to alleged Australian spying against Timor-Leste in 2004 has been detained and searched at his Canberra home, according to a pr

Protestors against Indonesian rule in West Papua have gathered outside New Zealand's parliament and raised the Morning Star flag.

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar, Bali – Dozens of university students and members of non-governmental organizations rallied in front of the American consulate in Denpasar, Bali, on Monday,

Around 300 demonstrators from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) gathered in front of the Negara Grahadi building in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya on December 2 demanding t

Marni Cordell – At least one person was killed and others injured when Indonesian police opened fire and beat activists during a demonstration in the West Papuan capital of Jayapura las

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The Indonesian Military has denied reports it was involved in a deadly raid on a village on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Free Papua

Jakarta – Former speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Amien Rais facilitated a meeting between Muslim-based political parties in an effort to set up a coalition known as