Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The state secrecy bill, set to be passed in October, has raised concern that Indonesia will step back and revert to a tyrannical state, a discussion concluded

Alyssa Braithwaite, Melbourne – East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta hopes the new movie Balibo, about the murder of six Australian journalists in 1975, prompts world leaders to lea

Camelia Pasandaran – The campaigns representatives of Megawati Soekarnoputri and Jusuf Kalla are filing suit over their concerns about this year's presidential election.

East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta says he will not push for a war crimes tribunal to investigate the deaths of six Australians in 1975.

Ary Hermawan – Indonesia dismissed as fiction the recently premiered Australian film describing the murder of five Australian journalists by the Indonesian Army during the 1975's war in

Nurfika Osman – A leading graft watchdog warned on Friday that the state secrecy bill threatened to undermine any progress the country had made in cleaning up its reputation as a haven

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – A quarter of all children who finish primary school in Riau do not go on to junior high, and may fall prey to exploitation and abuse, says an official.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Six university students were sentenced to five years imprisonment each Thursday for their involvement in a violent protest that led to the death of North Sumatr

Niken Prathivi, Denpasar – In response to growing moves aimed to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), an alliance of NGOs in Bali declared their support for the anticorru

Stephanie Tangkilisan – The media was criticized on Friday for its coverage of last week's bombings at two Jakarta hotels, including broadcasting graphic images of the victims and repor

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Christian Motte – The Papuan People's Assembly, a body representing the cultural and social rights of Papuans, on Friday urged the police to find those responsible for a recent series o

Jakarta – Journalists reporting on sensitive issues face imprisonment or the death penalty if the government and the House of Representatives pass the current draft of the state secrecy

The recent bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta were an ominous reminder that terrorists still view Indonesia as a prime regional location for launching attack

Camelia Pasandaran & Stephanie Tangkilisan – A Supreme Court ruling has ordered the General Elections Commission to reallocate seats in the House of Representatives using a formula

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being further derided after he criticized the media for "twisting around" his statements in response to last Friday's bom

Twenty years after the death of her brother, one of five journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, grandmother Maureen Tolfree began a painstaking search for the truth.

Adam Gartrell – The new feature film about the Balibo Five may stir up fresh controversy in Australia but as far as Indonesia is concerned the case is closed.

Agus Maryono, Banyumas (Central Java) – The rapid growth of prostitution has been blamed for the high number of people living with HIV/AIDS in Central Java, with more than 2000 people r

Rendy A Witular, Jakarta – Fighting terrorism has never been a lower priority for the police than it has been under the watch of police chief Gen.

Christian Motte, Jayapura – The trial of 15 people accused of treason just days before April's legislative elections began on Thursday in Papua's Nabire District Court.

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Three more people were wounded by gunfire Wednesday at the world's largest gold mine, the latest ambush targeting employees of US conglomerate Freeport in Ind

Christian Motte & Farouk Arnaz – Another convoy of PT Freeport Indonesia vehicles came under attack in Papua on Wednesday, leaving a Timika Police officer and a local Freeport emplo

Nelson Rand – The day before last week's bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta, the Australian Strategic Policy Research Institute (ASPRI) released a report warning of possible new a

East Timor's Ombudsman is calling for the country's Minister of Justice to be prosecuted, over allegations of corruption, following calls from the country's opposition for Prime Ministe

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Having been defeated in this year's legislative and presidential polls, the future of the Golkar Party now hangs on its ability to enco

Paul Toohey, Solo – Abu Bakar Bashir has endorsed the deadly work of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Top, saying Allah would protect him in his fight for Islam.

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won reelection with nearly 61 percent of the vote, according to official results from the General Elections Commission.

The number of neglected children is going up, and government programs have done little to help, according to an official at the Social Affairs Ministry.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Muninggar Sri Saraswati, April Aswadi & Farouk Arnaz – In what is becoming a nagging political problem, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speech just ho

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office indicated on Thursday that it would likely request a Supreme Court review of the acquittal of former top intelligence official Muchdi Pur

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has renewed calls for the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to keep its promises to uphold human rights.

Camelia Pasandaran – Media analysts and open-government advocates warned on Thursday that the state secrecy bill now before the House of Representatives would prevent journalists from d

Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta and Tom Allard in Java – The terrorist network behind the Jakarta hotel bombings received help from al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the Indonesian Armed Forces to deploy personnel down to the village level to help prevent of further terrorism

Palembang – The number of hot spots in South Sumatra is rising ahead of the peak of the dry season in August.

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The race to be the Golkar Party's next chairman is growing heated, with all three frontrunners claiming to have secured the necessary backing.

Candra Malik, Solo – Hard-line Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Wednesday blamed the US Central Intelligence Agency for Friday's bomb attacks on two hotels in Jakarta.

Nivell Rayda – At least 20 prominent lawyers declared their support for the Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday, saying members of the group were ready to legally challenge a

Mataram – Police were still questioning four people Tuesday following a clash with police officers Monday night in Rasabou village, Bima regency, West Nusa Tenggara.

Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's crackdown on militant Islamic groups has been widely praised in recent years, particularly by the United States.

Surabaya – Dozens of university students under the Indonesian University Students Alliance (SMI) rallied outside the Grahadi building in Surabaya on Tuesday to protest the new law on ed

Melbourne – A hard-hitting movie depicting the infamous killing of six Australian-based journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor should prompt war crimes charges, its

One person was injured in a shooting Wednesday along the embattled road leading to the Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua.

Timika, Papua – Fourteen people have been arrested over a series of deadly ambushes near a Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua province, police said yesterday.

Fourteen local Papuans have been arrested over the series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine last weekend.

East Timor's ombudsman is calling for the country's Justice Minister to be prosecuted following a corruption investigation.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out a judicial review request over a Criminal Code article about provocation in public filed by former coordinating

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The arrest of a key figure in the Indonesian terrorist network just weeks before the deadly Jakarta hotel bombings is believed to have prompted the terrorists to b

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono has been urged to apologize for linking Friday's hotel bombings to complaints made about the presidential election.