East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta says the Australian company Woodside Petroleum is taking a stubborn approach to debate on the Greater Sunrise gas field.

Purwokerto – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is looking to bounce back from its poor performance at the ballot box in 2008 with an eye to winning the 2014 elections.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Indonesia is bringing the army into the fight against terrorism, authorizing military officers to do everything from investigating suspected terrorists to tellin

Tiny East Timor has its first airline. Timor Air was launched yesterday and will operate daily flights between Dili, and Darwin in northern Australia.

A graphic video showing the last hours of a rare Sumatran tiger as it writhes in a trap in Indonesia exposes the gruesome toll of rampant rainforest clearing, Greenpeace activists said

An Indonesian lawmaker reiterated his position on Tuesday that Greenpeace should be expelled from the country if an investigation finds the environmental group is trying to "ruin our so

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia may fail to achieve balanced population growth by 2015 without intensifying the family planning campaign to curb men's refusals to use contrace

Jakarta – A wedding was aborted in Banten province after it was discovered that the groom was a woman, Indonesian media reported on Tuesday.

The statement by former general Slamet Singgih on Tuesday about a secret meeting to plan the infamous July 27, 1996, attack on the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI)

Jayapura – Syamsul Arief Rivai has been installed as Papua's caretaker governor amid legal uncertainties about the next election.

Nani Afrida – Free seeds, fertilizers, farming tools and financial capital, funded by taxpayer money, are up for grabs for thousands of poor farmers.

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Jakarta – The State Enterprises Workers Union (FSP BUMN) filed on Monday for a judicial review of the 2004 Social Security Law with the Constitutional Court, saying that the court shoul

Alex Rayfield – In an extraordinary media statement dated Monday 18 July the chief of the Army in Indonesian occupied West Papua, Major-General Erfi Triassunu, issued a very public apol

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A former combatant of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in front of his coffee kiosk in Bireun, Aceh, on Friday evening

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Sentul, West Java – The Democratic Party wound up its national coordination meeting here on Sunday leaving its leadership unchanged in the wake of recent troub

Ulma Haryanto – Corruption Eradication Commission spokesman Johan Budi said the antigraft body would not ignore allegations leveled against one of its deputy chairmen by graft suspect a

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A preponderance of procurement-related graft cases should prompt the government and the House of Representatives to accelerate the drafting of a bill on procureme

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The repressive methods applied in Indonesia' fight against terrorism, particularly those reportedly being applied by the police's anti-terror special deta

S.K. Zainuddin – In the fight against poverty, the yardstick used to measure progress has long been statistics.

Jakarta – A group of NGOs have called on lawmakers to include principles of food sovereignty in their draft revision to the 1996 Food Law to protect local farmers.

Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono vowed on Monday to boost spending on infrastructure next year at the cost of subsidy cuts on programs including fuel and electricity to

Donny Syofyan, Padang – Democratic Party executives are supposed to question themselves over the party's politicians getting entangled in corruption.

Larine Statham – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta says he supports Australia's refugee swap deal with Malaysia.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party says it will tap into the booming popularity of social networking sites in the country to carry it to victory in the 2014 elections.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Indonesian children voiced their health concerns by urging the government to increase cigarette prices and intensify anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol campaigns.

Matthew Lee, Associated Press, Nusa Dua – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is urging Indonesia to promote democracy in Myanmar and countries in the Middle East and North Afr

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Sentul – There have been few signs of concrete action by Democratic Party politicians during their two-day working meeting to repair the party's image that has been

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday urged Indonesia to cut tariffs, saying trade between the two countries lagged behind others in Southeast Asia.

Lisa Siregar – Dewi Triana found herself sitting cross-legged in a small room listening to sermons denouncing Indonesia and exhorting her to help make the country an Islamic state.

Nivell Rayda – Its controversial leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, has been locked up inside a heavily fortified detention facility in Jakarta, but hard-line group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid seems

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Political tensions were expected to calm gradually in the once-restive Aceh after parties agreed to accept nominations of independent candidates on the con

Ismira Lutfia – Activists have welcomed a new policy that may allow the direct hiring of Indonesian migrant workers by prospective Malaysian employers, but they insist the mechanism mus

Arientha Primanita & Febriamy Hutapea – Just as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono broke his silence on the Muhammad Nazaruddin case on Friday and urged the rogue former Democratic

What do Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, and Richard Marles, the parliamentary secretary for Pacific island affairs in the Gillard government, have in common?

Anita Rachman – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie was expected to read out a brief end-of-year report before the close of the plenary session on Friday – marking the end of

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Indonesia looks set to overtake Thailand as home to the largest automotive industry in Southeast Asia on the back of its rising middle class, an automotive indus

Once renowned for its pristine beaches, Untung Jawa Island, just an hour's boat ride from Jakarta, is now known as "trash island." With hundreds of tons of styrofoam, plastic and the oc

Jakarta – Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from Indonesia representative Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin said Islamic radicalis

Stephanie Riady – This past May the national education minister proudly announced a staggering 99.2 percent passing rate for students taking the national exam.

Ronna Nirmala – Around 5,000 people rallied in front of the House of Representatives on Friday to demand lawmakers ratify pass the much-discussed and delayed social security bill.

Dion Bisara – The House of Representatives approved on Friday a hefty 35 percent increase in fuel subsidies amid speculation that the government was planning to raise subsidized fuel pr

Kupang – Nine soldiers tried for beating to death Charles Mali, 17, a detainee at the Military Batallion 744 headquarters in Atambua, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), were all sentenced to les

Jakarta – The Indonesian military continues to misunderstand the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), with the result that Indonesia still has not ratified the intern

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Jakarta – East Kalimantan Prosecutors Office head Faried Harianto said on Thursday that petty corruption is acceptable and should not be investigated.

Who will speak Iniai in 2050? Or Faiwol? Moskona? Wahgi?

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A military tribunal in Papua indicted three low-ranking soldiers on Wednesday for the killing of a civilian in Puncak Jaya district last year.

Banjir Ambarita – An Indonesian soldier was killed in an ambush at Puncak Jaya district in Papua on Thursday.

Ulma Haryanto – The head of the workers' union at a Converse factory in Sukabumi, West Java, dismissed on Wednesday a recent report by The Associated Press alleging rampant rights viola