Timor-Leste is reported to be offering to bankroll construction of a new pipeline to export gas from the Timor Sea in a renewed effort to kick-start Woodside Petroleum's stalled Greater

Rebekah Kebede, Perth – East Timor is offering to invest $800 million to build a pipeline to take gas from the Timor Sea to the tiny nation, as it makes a new pitch to resolve a dispute

Joel Magarey – West Papuans who attended a church meeting to pray for Australian activists sailing towards West Papua in a "Freedom Flotilla" have been arrested by Indonesian police, Am

East Timor is offering to invest $800 million to build a pipeline to take gas from the Timor Sea to the tiny nation, as it makes a new pitch to resolve a dispute with Australia's Woodsi

Ezequiel Freitas – Fretilin bench MP Leonel Marcal said on 30 August 1999, 14 years ago, all Timorese closed their homes and went out to vote and changed the course of their destiny.

aulina Quintao – The Secretary of State for Professional Training Policy and Employment (SEPFOPE) has set the minimum wage at $115 per month but employers continue to pay domestic worke

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Mid-ranking Golkar Party members are increasingly nervous about presidential candidate Aburizal Bakrie's low popularity among voters and plan to raise his nom

Ethan Harfenist – Director Joshua Oppenheimer will make his acclaimed documentary on Indonesia's 1965 communist purge "The Act of Killing," available as a free download in the hopes tha

Yuli Krisna, Novy Lumanauw & Robertus Wardi, Sumedang, West Java/Jakarta – Need a land or birth certificate? Or a driver's license or car registration?

Indonesian police in Sorong, West Papua, yesterday arrested four leading Papuan customary leaders for organising a welcome celebration and prayer for the safe arrival of the Aboriginal-

Marni Cordell – A West Papuan political prisoner serving three years in jail for treason was offered a pardon by the Indonesian government if he renounced the struggle for independence.

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Marni Cordell – Indonesia officially acquired West Papua in 1969, after a sham ballot on independence in which only a handful of the local population were allowed to vote.

Jayapura – In a recent statement, the Chief of Police of Indonesia, Inspector-Commissioner Muhamad Tito Karnavian said that the ships taking part in the Freedom Flotilla are trying to d

Palembang, South Sumatra – Indonesian Army Chief of Staff Moeldoko said Indonesian Military (TNI) has deployed personnel to avoid oil stealing that often takes place in Palembang, South

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Indonesia must make the most of its high level relationship with the US, which was marked by new commitments on military sales and cooperation, especially to

Zulfi Suhendra, Jakarta – A number of companies and industrial zones have been included as Indonesian National Vital Objects (OVNI) in the industrial sector and now come under governmen

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Banjir Ambarita & Yeremia Sukoyo – The new chief of Indonesia's armed forces was sworn in on Tuesday following approval by the House of Representatives.

Jakarta – Around 100 people staged a protest in front of the Lenteng Agung sub-district office in Jagakarsa, South Jakarta, on Wednesday, demanding the dismissal of a newly installed Ch

Apriadi Gunawan, Samosir – Millions of hectares of customary territories in Indonesia reportedly have yet to be mapped, which could potentially spark open conflicts among communities, d

Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla says he disagrees with a proposal to ban government officials from playing golf as part of an attempt to prevent bribery.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A government human rights official has joined Islamic organizations in calling for the Miss World contest scheduled for Indonesia next month to be canceled.

Activists in the Indonesian province of West Papua have gathered to show support for the boatload of Australian activists due to arrive there early next month.

Manokwari – Although controversy is still raging about the Freedom Flotilla which has a number of Papuan activists on board, a group of Papuans who recently proclaimed the establishment

Rizky Amelia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The mark-up in the contracts for government projects could be nearly half of the projects' real values, according to former Democratic Part

Satria Sambijantoro and Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – Local financial markets remained bearish with stocks, bonds and currency markets all down on Monday as market players responded negati

Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha demanded Indonesian economist Faisal Basri provide evidence to back up his claims that the president had large savings of US dollars.

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Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – One of Indonesia's most influential Islamic groups is urging the government to cancel the Miss World pageant scheduled for next month, saying the exposure of s

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The government is trying to calm the debt market, reassuring it that it has sufficient funds at its disposal to pay its dollar debts, as the local currenc

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia & Novianti Setuningsih – The antigraft agency should widen its investigation into the awarding of contracts for the Hambalang sports center, i

Carey L Biron, Washington – US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced on Monday that Washington is going forward with a controversial sale of eight attack helicopters to the Indones

A group of Australian activists says it has been granted authority to enter Indonesia's Papua province by local people who have a sovereign right to grant access to their own land.

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The public considers vote-buying a normal phenomenon, the Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) found ahead of Thursday's East Java gubernatorial election.

A group of Australian activists say threats of force by Indonesia have not hindered their determination to make it to Papua's shores.

Indonesia will buy eight Apache attack helicopters off the United States, it was announced on Monday, as US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo

Jakarta – Army General Moeldoko said modernization of the military equipment will come first in his agenda as a new Indonesian military chief.

The United States will sell the Indonesian army eight Apache attack helicopters in a deal worth $500 million, including radar, training and maintenance, a US defense official said on Mo

Gopal Ratnam & Berni Moestafa – The US agreed to sell a fleet of Apache attack helicopters to the Indonesian Army in a transaction valued at as much as $500 million.

Farouk Arnaz & Shesar Andriawan – Thousands of members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front paraded through the streets of Jakarta on Sunday to commemorate the group's 15th anni

Scores of non-violent activists from the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) were arrested across Papua over the last two weeks, when Indonesian Police carried out pre-emptive sweeps a

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua General Elections Commission (KPUD) confirmed that 662 legislative candidates will contest 56 seats at the Papua Legislative Council (DPRD) in t

The Democratic Party this weekend sent out invitations to public figures to take part in its convention to pick a presidential candidate.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Several Shariah police officers were injured in the early hours of Monday morning after more than a hundred youths attacked them while they were trying to dis

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Anushka Shahjahan – Displaced Shia residents from the trouble-plagued East Java island of Madura must be allowed to return home safely, voluntarily and with dignity, Amnesty Internation

In a risky and symbolic act of defiance, unidentified West Papuan pro-independence activists raised the banned symbol of West Papuan liberation, the Morning Star flag, atop a foggy Moun

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The ailing Democratic Party kick started on Saturday a preliminary examination to shortlist candidates for the 2014 presidential poll.