Nivell Rayda& Farouk Arnaz – Antigraft watchdog groups on Friday urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to question the National Police over its decision to pursue a corruption ca

Bramantyo Prijosusilo – Poet, writer, dramatist, cultural activist and theater director, WS Rendra, died on Thursday night, approaching the age of 74, after battling heart and kidney pr

Noted poet and playwright Willibrordus Surendra Broto Rendra, more popularly known as WS Rendra or "the Peacock," died at around 10 p.m.

Lisa Siregar – Friends and family gathered for the funeral of poet WS Rendra on Friday, with prayers at Jami Nurul Yaqin Mosque in Depok.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A decision by the Army to deploy personnel to assist police in conducting antiterrorism operations was criticized by a number of nongovernmental organizations

Anthony LaPaglia strived for truth about the Balibo Five, writes Philippa Hawker.

Caroline Overington – The Australian media bears more responsibility than the Australian government for the deaths of five journalists in Balibo in 1975, according to retired diplomat R

Dili – East Timor's opposition Fretilin party called for Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to sack his justice and finance ministers Thursday after investigators recommended action against t

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office has received a copy of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld the acquittal of former top intelligence official Muchdi Purwoprandjono, who

Heru Andriyanto – The Amungme tribe on Thursday filed a $30 billion lawsuit against Freeport McMoRan, one of the world's major mining firms, for alleged damages sustained over 40 years

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Ismira Lutfia – The Alliance of Independent Journalists announced on Thursday that it would honor a journalist and a kiosk owner for their exceptional contributions toward freedom of t

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police apologized on Thursday for a July 17 incident in which Yogyakarta Police broke up a workshop attended by history teachers on suspicions that the sess

Kerry O'Brien, presenter: It's now 10 years since the people of East Timor were finally given the chance to decide their political future and vote in a referendum on independence.

An Australian woman charged with conspiring to kill East Timor's President is stressed and concerned by the trial, her Darwin solicitor says.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono and an Armed Forces spokesman on Tuesday both professed to have no information on a report that an Indonesian company had be

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President re-elect Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says the new Cabinet he intends to form with running mate Boediono will consist mainly of figures from political par

Niken Prathivi, Nusa Dua – It takes women to make other women talk, to share and discuss their toughest experiences in the hope of eventually solving their common problems.

Kupang – Strong public opposition to a government plan to move 10 Komodo dragons from their natural habitat to Bali was fervent as ever on Tuesday.

Jakarta – The newly submitted corruption bill could derail the war against corruption by undermining the authority of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), antigraft activists wa

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Judiciary Commission must be strengthened if the government is serious about eradicating corruption in the judiciary and stamping out the so-called "cour

E Mei Amelia R, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office is again being urged to immediately submit a judicial review over the Supreme Court's verdict to release Muchdi Purwoprandjono.

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – A Jakarta company has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to supply police and army equipment to East Timor.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Army says it is fully prepared to assist the police in antiterrorism work, particularly in the areas of intelligence gathering, bomb disposal and the depl

Border crossings between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea that were closed last month remain restricted due to the security situation in Papua province, a military official said on Tuesda

Jakarta – Three brothers who played a crucial role in the re-election of Indonesia's president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, are emerging as a formidable political force with considerable

Camelia Pasandaran – As the campaign teams of losing presidential candidates Jusuf Kalla and Megawati Sukarnoputri began presenting their complaints to the Constitutional Court on Tuesd

Farouk Arnaz – Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the National Police headquarters on Tuesday to demonstrate against the acquittal of Muchdi Purwoprandjono on a charge of ordering

Nivell Rayda – The Supreme Court has taken disciplinary action against 89 judicial officials, including the dismissal of 21 judges, in the first six months of the year, Supreme Court Ju

Caroline Overington – There is a scene in the new Australian film Balibo that is so sickening in its violence that it is almost unbearable to watch.

Balibo is a political thriller that uncovers the true story of five journalists, including New Zealander Gary Cunningham, killed in East Timor in 1975.

Anita Rachman – The government's proposed budget allocation for the Ministry of National Education is too small to significantly improve educational standards, activists said on Tuesday

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Jim Elmslie – The recent shootings at the Freeport Mine in Papua, which resulted in the death of Australian Drew Grant, is the first real test of the 2007 Lombok Treaty between Australi

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Most analysts believe last month's double hotel bombing in Jakarta is unlikely to have much permanent impact on Indonesia's economy, provided it was not the sta

Kafil Yamin – On a hot and sticky recent Saturday, hundreds of travelers heading out of the capital to Bogor found themselves stranded in "UKI," a well-known transportation depot in Eas

Several West Papuans are gathering in Cairns this week to lobby Pacific Islands Forum leaders at their annual summit to have Indonesia's Papua region discussed at the Forum.

Leading environmental watchdog Greenpeace demanded that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tackle the mostly man-made forest fires that have ravaged the nation every year for over a dec

Nurfika Osman – The country's highest authority on Islam reminded Indonesians on Monday that it had previously issued an edict against Muslims carrying out acts of terror.

Anita Rachman – Nongovernmental organizations on Sunday urged the government to participate in an International Labor Organization plan to adopt an international convention on the prote

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Joe Cochrane – The Attorney General's Office said on Sunday that it was ready to take action against any publication used by terrorists to spread radicali

Jakarta – A group of unelected legislative candidates say the General Elections Commission (KPU) must quickly implement a ruling issued by the Supreme Court, which would give candidates

Dessy Sagita – A number of organizations have urged the House of Representatives to revise the draft of a health care bill it has been debating since 2002 to ensure money is set aside f

Kafil Yamin – Drought has dried up the groundwater in several places throughout West Java's Bandung district, forcing residents to cut back on bathing and other usage.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The government defended Friday its decision to approve the creation of an ASEAN regional human rights body which has been widely criticized for being toothless a

Jon Lamb - August 30 marks 10 years since the UN-sponsored referendum on Indonesian-occupied East Timor's political status.

Max Lane – The first major political incident after the July 8 Indonesian presidential election were two co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on Jakarta's Marriot and Ritz Carlton luxury h

Max Lane – For 17 years, from 1990 through to 2007, I regularly contributed articles on Indonesian politics to Green Left Weekly, a newspaper published by the Democratic Socialis

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – Hundreds of protesters rallied Thursday in Purwokerto, Central Java, to demand Banyumas Regent Mardjoko resign for what they claimed was his failure to make g

Police have charged five more suspects in a spate of deadly shootings at the Indonesian gold mine of US company Freeport, but the motive for the attacks remains a mystery, officials sai