Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Golkar would rather join with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's coalition than be left out of power, party officials admitted Tuesday.

Noordin Mohammed Top is always a step ahead of authorities, writes Tom Allard in Jakarta.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is implementing bureaucratic reforms halfheartedly, Gadjah Mada University's Indonesian Judiciary Supervisory Community (M

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – The suicide bomber at the Ritz-Carlton gave a non-existent room number as he entered its restaurant.

Candra Malik – Hard-line preacher Abu Bakar Bashir was reportedly barred by police on Tuesday from delivering a sermon in Malang, East Java, after complaints from local residents marked

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – Indonesian police Tuesday questioned teachers at an Islamic boarding school amid reports a former student was one of two suicide bombers involved in last week's

Tom Allard in Jakarta, Brendan Nicholson in Canberra – Australia and Indonesia say they will take their close police and security relationship "to a new level of intensity" after the Ja

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The results of the General Elections Commission's (KPU) official vote counting have confirmed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's triumph over his rivals in se

Jakarta – Intelligence experts say the recent presidential election distracted the police from the activities of terrorist organizations, leading to the recent bombings of the JW Marrio

Joe Cochrane, Bogor – Irwansyah is in a bit of a bind.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – A draft bylaw on the planning and improvement of traditional markets, shopping centers and modern stores, currently being drawn up by the Makassar municipal

Jayapura, Indonesia – Indonesian police have questioned 12 people in connection with deadly shootings near the giant Grasberg mine in Papua operated by a unit of Freeport McMoran Copper

Jakarta – Leaders of various religious groups as well as anti-violence activists held two separate mass prayers on Monday at the site of the Jakarta hotel bombings, which killed nine pe

The Australian foreign minister says he's leaving it up to Indonesian authorities to decide whether to take up his country's offer for more assistance to investigate the deadly shooting

Camelia Pasandaran – The nation's capital has handed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his running mate Boediono a landslide result in the presidential elections, with the incumben

Camelia Pasandaran – Still crying foul over the July 8 presidential election, runner-up Megawati Sukarnoputri will likely refuse to sign the final official results slated to be announce

Febriamy Hutapea – After taking a long, hard look at its back-to-back defeats in the recent polls, Golkar Party leaders have indicated that the party would accept its failures and would

Paul Toohey – A "highly protected" Australian Federal Police ballistics report shows that one of Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta's personal guards, who claims he shot dead the rebel

Surabaya – Suicide bombings at two Jakarta hotels on Friday had nothing to do with Jemaah Islamiyah, a member of the Muslim Lawyers Team said on Monday.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – An extraordinary address by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in which he all but linked one of his political rivals to Friday's terrorist attacks has

A regular breakfast meeting was the perfect terrorist target, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Indonesia, Jakarta – The El Nino climate phenomenon could hit Indonesia this year, producing a dry spell that could threaten its rice fields.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda reportedly led a failed effort to strengthen the future powers of Southeast Asia's first regional human rights body during talks Sunday in Th

Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor – The Jakarta bombers aimed to destabilise Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's technocratic, mainstream, economically liberal government days after its landsli

Marcus J Sihaloho – Former Vice Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto brushed off questions about his political rivalry with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as he visited the site

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Terrorism has no place in any religion, the leader of one of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations said at a prayer gathering Monday for victims of the rec

Damien Kingsbury – Just two weeks ago, observers were congratulating Indonesia for a presidential election that was seen to consolidate that country's process of democratisation.

Presi Mandari – Indonesian police confirmed regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah as the culprits behind twin suicide blasts at Jakarta hotels, and said one of the bombers had been id

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Dessy Sagita – An Islamic boarding school in Central Java founded by radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, the reputed leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group, denied on

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities said Sunday that there is an increasing evidence that the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), an Islamist group responsible for more than 300 murders i

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As first light emerged and a soft mist hung over the rainforest, Drew Grant had every reason to be upbeat as he relaxed in the back of a Toyota LandCruiser, his ma

Christian Motte – For the sake of their own safety, thousands of Freeport employees are temporarily forbidden to leave the company's Tembagapura mining site in Papua following a series

Jakarta Globe – A heavy smoke haze from forest fires curbed visibility in Riau early on Friday, forcing delays in flights landing and taking off from the Pekanbaru airport, an official

Jakarta – Indonesia's healthy economic growth and market resilience will sustain the damaging impact of blasts that ripped through the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels on Friday,

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – Experts have written the obituary of extremist violence in Indonesia, but the violent extremists keep refusing to read the script.

Dicky Christanto and Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The State Intelligent Agency (BIN) has admitted its failure to detect the infiltration of terrorists allegedly behind the bomb blasts tha

Jakarta – "Foreign countries" could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near a US-owned goldmine in Indonesia's remote Papua province that have killed three people, the defence minist

A former journalist's return to the site of the massacre of five of his colleagues in Balibo sparked bitter memories and a determination to record the event, writes Fiona Purdon.

A Papua human rights activist has dismissed claims by Indonesia's Defence Minister that foreign governments or NGOs could be behind a series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine in

In November 2004, the newly elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono promised to bring the killer of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib to justice, a killing he once referred to

Telly Nathalia and Olivia Rondonuwu, Jakarta – Bomb blasts ripped through luxury hotels in the heart of Indonesia's capital on Friday, killing eight people and wounding dozens in attack

Adam Gartrell, Dili – Angelita Pires talks a lot about conspiracies.

Jakarta – While trailing presidential candidates have claimed the July 8 presidential election process was "flawed and unfair", the latest survey results from the Indonesian Survey Inst

Greg Poulgrain – At dawn last Saturday in the Indonesian province of Papua, on the mountain-road near the world's largest gold mine, 29-year-old Australian Drew Grant was shot and kille

Tanalee Smith, Adelaide – An Australian think tank predicted that Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah might launch new attacks just a day before Friday's deadly hotel bombi

Nivell Rayda – More than 100 Muslim students from the University of Indonesia staged a rally and "sealed" the Chinese embassy in Jakarta on Wednesday to protest China's oppression of th

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government and lawmakers have been urged to reevaluate the regional autonomy policy, which in 10 years has led to the creation of more than 200 new regions

Stephanie March, Steve Holland for Radio Australia – East Timor's Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, has defended his role in authorising a multi-million dollar contract for a company part-

Jakarta – The Papua Council Presidium (PDP) has called on the central government to form an independent team to investigate a series of shooting along the road to Freeport Indonesia's G