Agustina Wayansari, Melbourne – The director of Balibo, Robert Connolly, is excited with Indonesians' enthusiasm toward his movie despite its banning by the Film Censorship Board (LSF).

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Abuse of power continues to be a problem during police raids, the National Commission on Human Rights said on Wednesday.

Censoring a film is a step backward for the Indonesian democratic progress.

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's political troubles are being compounded by a street movement led by several of the democracy-promoting n

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has accused Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie of trying to discredit her in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Underpaid female workers are turning to prostitution to make ends meet, union activists say.

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – So at what point did the public decide that enough was enough?

Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian public needs real action on corruption instead of "heavenly" promises, a political analyst said on Wednesday, following President Susilo Bambang Yudh

Indonesia added some local spice to International Anti-Corruption Day on Wednesday, chanting "Hang the corruptors!" in Banda Aceh, attacking a KFC restaurant in South Sulawesi and burni

Adam Gartrell, Jakarta – An Australian Federal Police (AFP) probe into the Balibo Five killings is still in its early stages and it's too soon to say if investigators will seek to inter

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Jakarta hopes to bring historic people-smuggling legislation before parliament as soon as next year, with penalties of up to 10 years' jail for those conv

Stephen Fitzpatrick – The retired Indonesian commando at the centre of the Balibo Five killings says he will refuse to give evidence to an Australian Federal Police investigation into t

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As they cowered in a flimsy shack in a banana grove, the Balibo Five were killed by ferocious volleys of gunfire from Indonesian soldiers and their Timorese allies

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – The country's justice system has once again found itself uncomfortably in the spotlight, this time over the arrest and jailing of a Yogyakarta grandfather for

Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday held a rally outside the Attorney General's Office in South Jakarta, demanding that prosecutors challenge the acquittal of the former intelligence

Dessy Sagita, Heru Andriyanto & Febriamy Hutapea – A week after losing her appeal in a controversial defamation suit, Prita Mulyasari now has more than enough money to pay off the R

Jakarta – Forget about competing with China – Indonesia lags behind Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia in terms of trade and investment relations with EU member countries, an EU study revea

While President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has pledged to root out persistent case brokers undermining law enforcement by the police force, the Attorney General's Office (AGO), and the ju

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has insisted the foreign journalists known as the Balibo Five were accidentally killed in East Timor in 1975, despite an admission by a former ar

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ashlee Betteridge – The Armed Forces on Tuesday shrugged off a former soldier's statement that Indonesian military forces killed the so-called Balibo Five

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – Balibo is just one shameful chapter in our Indonesia's past, but it could be viewed as a symbol for so many human wrongs, for so many shameful things, t

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Amid the high spread of HIV and AIDS through sexual contact in Indonesia, youths are still finding it hard to discuss sexuality and safe sex with their paren

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's top security officials said on Monday that they were preparing for possible riots in Central Jakarta and that military troops would be on standb

Nivell Rayda – A number of activists on Tuesday refuted the government's claims that rallies to mark World Anti-Corruption Day were designed to overthrow President Susilo Bambang Yudhoy

Papuan priest Yohanes Jonga has been named the recipient of the 2009 Yap Thiam Hien Award, the country's most prestigious human rights accolade, for his fearless struggles in the troubl

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Residents of Rengas subdistrict, Ogan Ilir regency, reported Monday the regency police's Mobile Brigade Unit's (Brimob) Friday attack to the South Sumatra pro

Manokwari – A group of people attacked Monday the West Papua governor's office in Manokwari, injuring several civil servants and forcing police to guard the building.

Camelia Pasandaran – Demonstrators on Monday burned photographs of President Susilio Bambang Yudhoyono's son Edi Baskoro, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa and others a

Among other bad practices, the anti money-laundering agency listed that corruption has so far this year become the main source of activity leading to the crime of money laundering, as s

Matt Crook, Dili – The UN mission in East Timor needs to hand over formal control of the country's national police force as soon as possible to avoid doing irreparable damage, according

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – The Balibo Five were deliberately killed during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor, according to a retired commando who was in the special forces squ

A former Indonesian army colonel has admitted Indonesian soldiers deliberately killed the so-called Balibo Five journalists to cover up the invasion of East Timor.

Rod McGuirk, Jakarta – A former Indonesian army colonel has told a magazine that soldiers deliberately killed five Western journalists in East Timor in 1975, contradicting his governmen

Talek Harris, Sydney – Relatives of five journalists killed in the East Timor border town of Balibo in 1975 on Tuesday welcomed a former soldier's "milestone" statement that they were s

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The government's plan to issue a regulation on lawful wiretaps has been deemed by antigraft activists as repressive and just another way to undermine the Corr

Riyadi Suparno, Jakarta – An alliance of mysterious forces is aligning its power to unseat Vice President Boediono and/or Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

Simon Montlake Bangkok – A movie that depicts Indonesian war crimes in East Timor has become a lightning rod for free-speech activists in Indonesia, who have defied a government ban on

Ulma Haryanto – The days of demonstrators converging on the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle are numbered.

Camelia Pasandaran – Political analysts on Sunday said it was wrong for the new government to claim it had performed satisfactorily during its first 30 days in office because the criter

Arwa Damon – Driving through Indonesia's central Sumatra, it appears that all life on earth has been obliterated, like a scene from some apocalyptic movie.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Amid rising political tension over the Bank Century scandal, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party on Saturday replaced secretary general Marz

Farouk Arnaz & Nurfika Osman – Despite President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying they were politically motivated, anticorruption and rights activists confirmed plans to hold demonst

Emmy Fitri – As Golkar's Idrus Marham, a friend of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was being voted in on Friday to chair the House of Representatives special committee to investigat

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Eleven residents in Renggas village, Payaraman district, Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra, were wounded when members of the local police Mobile Brigade Unit a

Nivell Rayda & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Just two days after she lost an appeal in the Banten High Court over a civil defamation suit brought against her by Omni hospital, Prita Mulyas

Febriamy Hutapea – Howls of protest immediately followed the appointment on Friday of Golkar Party lawmaker Idrus Marham as chairman of the House of Representatives special committee in

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – In response to questions about Governor Fauzi Bowo's statement about limiting the use of the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle, the city administration expl

Camelia Pasandaran & April Aswadi – Under growing pressure over the PT Bank Century fiasco, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono alleged on Friday that opposition political forces wer

Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans has been appointed Chancellor of The Australian National University by the University Council today.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Medan District Court on Thursday sentenced a former North Sumatra legislator and a journalist to a four-year jail term each and a youth leader to 10 years