Arti Ekawati – More than 200,000 hectares of Aceh's rain forests were cut down between 2006 and 2008 for use in the province's post-tsunami reconstruction, an environmental lobby group

Makassar – Some 50 students from the Makassar Solidarity for Polongbangkeng Residents group staged a protest on Tuesday before the office of state plantation company PT PTPN XIV, demand

Suherdjoko, Semarang – There are 1.23 million people in Central Java unemployed says a manpower agency official.

Shirley Shackleton wondered whether the truth of her husband's murder could ever be communicated to Australian cinema audiences. This is her response to Balibo.

Clinton Fernandes – In October 1975, the Indonesian military was conducting a terror and destabilisation campaign in the border regions of East Timor.

Febriamy Hutapea – Experts and activists have warned that the country's fight against corruption will suffer a serious blow if the House of Representatives fails to pass the antigraft c

Tom Allard, Barung (West Java) – Dani Dwi Permana was a conscientious, basketball-loving young man, a solid student from a troubled family who, nonetheless, seemed to have a lifetime of

Heru Andriyanto – Although mention of "the communist threat" has disappeared from government propaganda since the downfall of long-serving President Suharto in 1998, prosecutors are sti

Makassar – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said Monday that police officers had committed human rights violations during a clash with local residents over a land di

Candra Malik & Febriamy Hutapea, Yogyakarta – Aggrieved nurses from around the country are expected to demonstrate outside the House of Representatives in Jakarta and in other city

Michael Vatikiotis, Singapore – To visit Aceh today is to experience something the world rarely sees; the dividends of peace.

Lincoln Tan – A West Papuan activist is leading protests in Auckland to ban imports of kwila, an endangered tropical hardwood used in decking and outdoor furniture.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The military would not try to influence President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in any decision he made to choose a new defence minister, Military Chief Gen.

Heru Andriyanto – US mining giant Freeport McMoRan has criticized a lawsuit filed by Papua's Amungme people, who are seeking $30 billion in damages over the company's 40-year mining ope

The Australian Labor Party's National Conference has adopted a motion recognising that West Papuans in Indonesia are experiencing serious human rights abuses.

Cairns – West Papuans in Cairns to lobby the two-day Pacific Islands Forum for observer status and a response to the abuse of human rights in the Indonesian province have been disappoin

Jakarta – The National Police has dismissed between 300 and 350 officers annually over the past few years due to human rights violations, a senior officer says.

Stephen Coates – Asian terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top is probably still at large in Indonesia despite reports of his death, police said Monday, even as the net closed around his ex

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police were so close to catching fugitive Malaysian terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top that they even managed to photograph him outside a Jakarta s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Military Chief Gen.

Takalar – A clash between local residents and police at a sugarcane plantation in Takalar regency, South Sulawesi wounded 10 people on Sunday.

Ismira Lutfia – Several prominent women's activists are spearheading a campaign aimed at securing government ratification of the International Convention on Migrant Workers, which they

Anita Rachman – The government said it would throw its weight behind a newly launched coalition of labor unions that hopes to help migrant workers who would otherwise lack representatio

In May, The Jakarta Post wrote in this column that many parties were gunning for the demise of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Police should revoke their recent order for cessation of investigations into who was responsible for the Lapindo mudflow disaster, the East Java chapter of the For

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The latest data from the Indonesian Central Securities Depository (KSEI) shows that foreign investors controlled 66.1 percent of assets in the local stock mar

It appears Noordin Top has eluded capture in a third police raid, Tom Allard writes in Jakarta.

Indonesia's health care system is failing to provide even the most basic care to vast swathes of the population, specialists say.

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Amir Tejo, Surabaya – More than $30 million worth of infrastructure relocated because of the three-year-old Lapindo mudflow in East Java may be once again under threat, this time from a

Vanuatu Prime Minister, Edward Natapei says there simply wasn't time to raise the issue of West Papua at the Pacific Islands forum meeting.

Jakarta – A study by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has found that around 70 percent of corruption defendants were freed by district courts in the first semester of 2009 whereas the C

Australian film Balibo, about the murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor in 1975, won two of the five jury prizes at the 2009 St George Bank Brisbane International Film Fes

Eka Budianta, Cikarang (West Java) – The leading Indonesian poet and playwright, W.S.

Joe Cochrane – Noordin M Top has certainly lived by the sword, so it would have been fitting if he had met his demise amid a hail of bullets and bomb explosions inside a farmhouse in Ce

Muhamad Al Azhari – The economy grew at a slower pace in the second quarter of 2009 compared to the previous quarter largely due to lower private consumption and an anticipated contract

Camelia Pasandaran – There should be no change to the current allocation of legislative seats for the new House of Representatives, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday.

Naila Firdausi and Achmad Sukarsono – The reported deaths of Noordin Mohammad Top, suspected of masterminding a series of bombings in Indonesia, and two of his associates may reduce ris

Jakarta – The death of Malaysian terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top would be a huge blow to his network but would not mean the end of Islamist suicide bombings in Indonesia, analyst

A leading Southeast Asian terrorist suspect reportedly killed Saturday in a gun battle with police at a village hide-out was planning a suicide car bomb attack on Indonesia's president,

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police will today intensify their attempts to determine whether a man who identified himself as the terrorist Noordin Top, and who was killed i

Anti-graft activists urged the police to focus on investigating Nasruddin's murder case instead of following up on the written testimony of suspended chief of the Corruption Eradication

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Suspected terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was believed to have been killed in a Central Java police raid today.

Amir Teja, Surabaya – East Java Police on Friday dropped an investigation into 13 people named as suspects in relation to the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo.

Jakarta – Thousands flocked to the late artist W.S.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Thousands of hectares (ha) of mangrove forest in northern coastal areas have been seriously damaged due to fish farms, residences, industries, tourism and illegal

Tom Allard and Karuni Rompies in Jakarta – Noordin Mohammed Top, the man suspected of masterminding a series of terrorist attacks across Indonesia, including the Jakarta hotel bombings

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government has been under fire for "neglecting" the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) that has resulted in a lack of employees and a poor performa

Camelia Pasandaran – The General Elections Commission admitted during testimony in the Constitutional Court on Friday that it had knowingly furnished the presidential campaign teams wit

Fadli, Batam – The Riau Islands chapter of the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI) has asked regencies and municipalities in the province to totally close entertainment centers, such as pubs,