Ten years after voting for independence, the Timorese have little to show for supposed freedom. Lindsay Murdoch paid a visit.

Ten years ago tomorrow, the people of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a popular referendum sanctioned by the United Nations.

Ezki Suyanto – As East Timorese celebrate the 10th anniversary of the referendum that led to the country's independence, the Jakarta Globe presents contributor Ezki Suyanto's interview

Australia is still atoning for East Timor's suffering 10 years after the independence vote. No nation has paid a higher price for independence than East Timor.

Febriamy Hutapea – A senior official with the Democratic Party tried to quell a tempest of controversy on Friday, saying there had been no hidden agenda surrounding a recent meeting wit

Around 370 operators and employees of entertainment centers in Bekasi, east of Jakarta, have demanded that the local authorities pay them a Ramadan allowance following the closure of th

The United Nations is preparing for a gradual withdrawal from East Timor early next year and expects Australia will begin to reduce its troop numbers at the same time.

Sara Everingham – Thousands of refugees in East Timor displaced during the 2006 military crisis have been moving back to their communities, with only a few remaining in makeshift camps

John Aglion, Dili – Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor's president, has called for those responsible for the death of Sander Thoenes, the Financial Times journalist killed during 1999 violenc

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office is putting together a new corruption case against Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra in an attempt to keep the injunction on his 36 million eur

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia has been dealt a blow by Britain's highest court of appeal, with a ruling in favour of convicted murderer Tommy Suharto getting his hands on Eur

Matt Crook, Dili – After three years behind bars as a political prisoner in Indonesia, British human rights campaigner Carmel Budiardjo saw firsthand the viciousness of former President

Sara Everingham – East Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta has dismissed calls by Amnesty International to establish a war crimes tribunal to investigate human rights violations there du

Jakarta – Police are verifying intel that the country's most wanted terrorist, Noordin M.

Meredyth Tamsyn – The day, like most others in East Timor, started very early. But it was not the chickens or motorbikes that woke us that day, it was heart-pounding excitement.

Jakarta – How long will the country tolerate the prolonged slavery of housemaids?

Nurfika Osman – The company uniform at the world's largest copper-and-gold mine in Papua is looking decidedly more severe these days.

The nation's best strategy in its battle against terrorism would be to increase the capacity of civilian law enforcement and not provide more authority to military or intelligence agenc

Jakarta – Migrant Care, an NGO advocating for the rights of migrant workers, has urged the government to immediately ratify the 2003 ILO convention on the protection of migrant workers

Often it takes the death of a white man to get the story of West Papua past the gatekeepers of the media.

Camelia Pasandaran – In somewhat unusual circumstances, two beautiful North Sulawesi women wearing skirts slit all the way up to their waists and low cut white silk tops performed a tra

Camelia Pasandaran – Commercial interests, self-censorship and fear of lawsuits are hindering the growth of high-quality news media in Indonesia, journalists and analysts say.

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesian media have yet to take full advantage of freedom of the press, senior editorial staff members said.

Nurfika Osman – Industry experts on Thursday blamed corrupt city officials for the sharp decline in the amount of green space in the capital.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Human rights activists on Thursday criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for using the military in the fight against terrorists in the country, saying

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Claims that local election officials demanded payment from political parties for legislative seats have emerged from two new regencies in Lampung.

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A Democratic Party official is once again stirring controversy by saying that current negotiations with a major rival party about posit

Jakarta – Drivers working for the US-based company PT Freeport Indonesia have demanded a security guarantee in the wake of shootings near Grasberg mine in Mimika, Papua, in recent month

The terror network blamed for the Jakarta hotel bombings is "larger and more sophisticated" than thought, a think tank said Thursday.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The publisher of a popular Indonesian Islamist website and magazine has been arrested by counter-terrorism authorities, accused of organising the financing for att

East Timor's stability is threatened by the failure to prosecute those behind the 1999 violence.

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – The United Nations Security council should set up an international criminal tribunal to investigate abuses in East Timor both under Indonesian rule and in the

Long-term development in East Timor – which celebrates the tenth anniversary of its vote for independence on Sunday 29 August 2009 – will be "seriously hindered" if justice for past cri

Havana – The National Parliament of the Democratic Republic of East Timor has passed a resolution to constitute the Parliamentarian Solidarity with Cuba Group.

Ricky Gunawan, Jakarta – Indonesia ratified the UN Convention against Torture almost 11 years ago.

Camelia Pasandaran – The voters list fiasco of this year's legislative and presidential elections was not solely the fault of the General Elections Commission, the Elections Supervisory

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Madalena is 16 but weighs just 13 kilograms, her arms and legs thin and twisted. If she could speak, she would say how happy she is to see Sister Florencia.

A junior high student in Bandung, West Java complains her religion teacher burned her and fellow students with blown-out matches to teach them about hell.

Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie claimed Tuesday that he was the most popular candidate for the next Golkar chairman.

Three key industries – food and beverages, cosmetics and pharmacy – are bracing for hefty additional costs and to risk losing trillions of rupiah in margins if the nation presses ahead

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House of Representatives members responsible for drafting the military tribunal bill were criticized on Wednesday for poor attendance, which had all but sunk

Jakarta – Parliament will most likely pass the corruption court bill proposed by the government, which places the graft court under the jurisdiction of district courts, and call for mor

Yemris Fointuna, Dili – A solidarity network for Timor Leste will hold a conference in Dili from Aug.

Agus Maryono, Banjarnegara – The poverty rate in Banjarnegara regency, Central Java, has increased sharply to more than 60 percent as of the first semester this year, compared with the

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Under former dictator Suharto, the military linked Golkar party dominated Indonesian politics for decades.

Jonathan Wootliff – Although Indonesia covers only 1.3 percent of the planet's land surface, this island nation is home to about 17 percent of Earth's plant and animal species, some of

Debnath Guharoy, Consultant – Just a few weeks ago, the Mega-Pro ticket proclaimed that the "cultural invasion" by the West must be stopped.

Fadli, Batam – The police in Natuna regency, Riau Islands, on Monday released three NGO activists who had allegedly been involved in a free Natuna movement on the grounds that they had

Mark Dodd – East Timor has called for an end to delays over the development of the oil and gas-rich Greater Sunrise field in the Timor Sea after new interest from investors in Malaysia,

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – ASEAN countries must consider forming a regional human rights court if they are truly committed to protecting the basic rights of their citizens, a coalition of