Jon Lamb – Twenty years ago, on December 11, 1989, the Australian and Indonesian governments signed the Timor Gap Treaty (TGT), giving the go-ahead to energy corporations to exploit the

Ardian Wibisono & Nivell Rayda – Flexing its muscles ahead of the expected return of its two suspended deputies, the Corruption Eradication Commission has begun examining the centra

Camelia Pasandaran, Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Party lines, and interests, have been drawn as a House plenary session opens today to investigate the government's c

Hendrik Sorandanya, Jayapura – On November 3, a small group of left-wing activists met in Jayapura, capital of Indonesia's Papua province, to form the Papuan Democratic Peoples' Movemen

Nala Edwin, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) is urging the government to investigate the beating of Buchtar Tabuni, a prisoner at the Abepu

Roffie Kurniawan – Indonesia's exports rebounded strongly in October, growing on an annual basis for the first time in 12 months, the Central Statistics Agency said on Tuesday.

Jayapura – Indonesian police arrested 13 Papuans on Tuesday as activists demanded sovereignty at rallies to mark the 48th anniversary of Papuan "independence", a police spokesman said.

Camelia Pasandaran – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo is drawing intense criticism from rights activists, experts and even Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi for stopping a scheduled antigr

The head of the health department in Solo on Monday said curbing the rate of HIV/AIDS had become more difficult after the closure of the city's main red-light district in 2002 because k

Budi Otmansyah – Illegal loggers have in the past two years cleared as much as 3,000 hectares of forest around the Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park in Indragiri Hulu district, Riau, local

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Environmental nongovernmental organizations released a report on Monday accusing Australia of using a bilateral forestry project in Kalimantan to avoid reducing

Adli and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Batam/Malang – Around 3,000 workers from 200 companies operating in Batam staged a protest Monday, urging the city's mayor to set their minimum wage equiv

Adam Gartrell – Australia and other countries should avoid carbon trading with Indonesia unless it cracks down on widespread corruption in its forest industry, a new report warns.

Armando Siahaan – Indonesia is home to an ever-growing number of film festivals. Some of the best of the past year have been the gay-themed Q!

Ilya Gridneff – Papuan activists have raised the outlawed Morning Star flag in defiance of Indonesia's hardline rule over the disputed territory.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – There is no need for the Indonesian Military (TNI) to set a territorial command in West Papua, says the Papua Parliamentary Caucus.

A man was arrested carrying three molotov bombs during a rally in front of the Parliament Building at Jalan Gatot Subroto on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Mimika police in Papua have put joint forces of 400 policemen and soldiers on alert ahead of the anniversary of the separatist Free Papua Organization (OPM) which falls on Dec

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – With terrorism still very much a threat across the archipelago, the government is now preparing to upgrade the existing anti-terror desk to allow it to inves

Jakarta – Amnesty International called Monday for an investigation into a "pattern of unchecked human rights violations" by Indonesian police in restive Papua province.

Alan Boulton, the International Labor Organization (ILO) representative in Jakarta, will conclude his eight-year assignment in Indonesia on Nov. 30, 2009.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Christian Motte – Police in Jayapura and five districts across Papua and West Papua were put on alert as authorities tightened security ahead of the Free

Jakarta – Anticorruption activists from the Coalition of Anticorruption Civil Society (Kompak) faced intimidation while demonstrating at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Ja

Jakarta – The move by the House of Representatives to establish an inquiry committee to probe the Bank Century scandal could hit a dead end earlier than expected, with parties pursuing

Luh De Suriyani, Bali – A number of patients suffering from HIV/AIDS have called for fair health treatment saying they have no access to the government-tailored national public health i

Jakarta – The latest number of HIV/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases in Indonesia has reached 298,000, Indonesian Public Welfare Minister Agung Laksono said here on Monda

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Rights activist Fauzi Abdullah died at age 60 on Friday, just before he was to be awarded for his work defending the rights of laborers in Indonesia.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Can anyone end a national culture of merchants and brokers for justice?

Camelia Pasandaran & Febriamy Hutapea – Despite a Constitutional Court declaration that the charges against suspended Corruption Eradication Commission deputies Chandra M Hamzah and

Pandaya, Jakarta – Information and Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring's plan to re-regulate wiretapping should be seen as the government's renewed attempt to curtail the Corrupti

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups says the House of Representatives' committee of inquiry into the Bank Century bailout must not be led by legislators

Alfian, Jakarta – Indonesia will need US$4 billion in investment for energy efficiency projects to slash its energy consumption by a quarter, concludes a survey commissioned by the Asia

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The Financial Transactions Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) has identified 17 recipients of potentially suspicious transfers from Bank Century, which recei

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – A proposal for wiretapping to be regulated by the Information and Communications Ministry has been met with mixed reactions, with activists claiming it would

Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry should be held responsible for the Dumai ferry tragedy that claimed at least 14 lives last Sunday, because according to IMO regulations, fiberglass

Budi Otmansyah, Pekanbaru – Seven foreign Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to a crane at port facilities of PT Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper in Riau were deported on Friday, whil

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has suspended two of its members over their alleged involvement in an apparent conspiracy to undermine the Cor

Ulma Haryanto – The distribution of qurban or 'sacrificial meat' at the Bhayangkari Field at National Police Headquarters in South Jakarta on Friday was marred by a number of incidents,

Dili – East Timor should form its anti-corruption commission soon to support the economy and maintain people's trust in the half-island nation, President Jose Ramos-Horta said Saturday.

Janeman Latul – In an apparent policy reversal, the new state enterprises minister announced on Thursday that he might drop plans to publicly list several important state companies if "

Anita Rachman – Parts of a sermon delivered on Friday by Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring linking the recent string of natural disasters to moral dec

A human rights activist claims the beating of a West Papuan political prisoner in Jayapura underlines the need for Indonesia to re-allow access to the region for the International Commi

Padang – Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring said on Friday that his office had set the goal of completing the government's draft regulation against p

Ardian Wibisono – A confusing dispute between two government agencies over financial information related to the probe of the PT Bank Century bailout has deepened, while the agency direc

Allegations that correctional officials tortured a political prisoner in a jail in Papua has prompted protests from about 30 highland tribesmen in front of the facility, reports indicat

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The military announced on Friday a plan to cooperate with some national universities as part of a drive to become more professional and innovative.

Jakarta Globe – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD continued his attack on the nation's embattled law enforcement institutions on Friday, stating that the war on the "judicial mafia"

Anita Rachman – Lawmakers on Friday backed a Supreme Court decision urging the Ministry of National Education to improve school facilities and teachers' skills before conducting the nat

Harlyne Joku – "They're being sent to a concentration camp." This is how a West Papuan spokesman for the Merauke group living in Port Moresby, Nicholas Balagaize, described the repatria

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A battle is already brewing within the House of Representatives to lead a special committee that will investigate the central government