Jakarta – The minimum wage is still not enough to fulfil the daily needs of workers in the major cities of Medan, Bandung, Jakarta and Surabaya.

Jakarta – The National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) has decided to be realistic.

Eleanor Hall: It's more than 30 years since five Australian based newsmen were shot dead at Balibo in East Timor.

Jakarta – Speculations on the financial market, including futures trading, have exacerbated the energy and food crisis by inflating prices in spite of a global economic slowdown, a disc

The government has raised the price of fuel, triggering protests everywhere.

The British-based Free West Papua Campaign plans to deliver a Petition to the Prime Minister Gordon Brown to mark May 1st, the 45th anniversary of Indonesia's occupation of West Papua.

The West Papua National Coalition of Liberation says Indonesia can point to little in the way of progress in the Papua region since its occupation in 1963.

Rofiqi Hasan, Denpasar – Hundreds of workers, students and journalists in Bali commemorated International Labour Day at the Bajra Sandhi Monument in the provincial capital of Denpasar,

Erick Priberkah Hardi, Bandung – Thousands of people from worker, farmer and student organisations inundated the Gedung Sate building complex in the West Java provincial capital of Band

Factory workers from the East Java Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration to greet International Labour Day on May 1 in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya deman

East Timorese authorities hosted an alcohol-fuelled party for a band of rebels after they surrendered for trying to assassinate the nation's top leaders.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – As East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta convalesces in Dili, some of his compatriots perhaps are wishing he had taken a while longer to recuperate, no

May 21 will mark the tenth anniversary of the fall of the dictator Suharto.

[The following is a translation of a series of 12 interviews with leaders of labour, peasant, fisherpeople, urban and rural poor, environmental, student and social-political organisa

Khairina – The narrow lane in Rawa Terate, Pulo Gadung, East Jakarta, was dirty and suffocating that afternoon.

Nana Rukmana, ID Nugraha and Panca Nugraha, Kuningan/Surabaya/Mataram – Thousands of followers of the Ahmadiyah sect in Kuningan, West Java, are living in fresh fear of sectarian violen

Loro Horta, Dili – With its political and security institutions in shambles, East Timor, also known as Timor Leste, is now emerging as a soft landing spot for regional organized crime s

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Timor Leste and Indonesia agreed Tuesday to greater cooperation on many issues, with the leaders of the two nations expressing a commitment to preserving good

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta has expressed regret for publicly accusing Indonesian elements of being involved in an assassination attempt against him

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups is warning President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono against banning Ahmadiyah, saying the move would escalate attacks on the Islami

Agus Maryono, Banjarnegara – "It's been more than two months since we had side dishes other than boiled vegetables to go with our rice, and only boiled cassava as a snack at most.

Rendi Akhmad Witular, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono accepted on Tuesday a proposal from a powerful business lobby to help accelerate private investment in food crops and

Thousands of workers from various companies held protest actions at different locations in Jakarta on Wednesday April 30 in the lead up to the commemoration of International Labour Day

Jakarta – Most Indonesian domestic workers are denied their rights and many fall victim to abuse, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said here Tuesday.

Through massive protest actions last year, workers throughout Indonesia united and successfully defeated efforts to enact the proposed draft revisions to Law Number 13/2003 on Labour th

Basic changes in the struggle by the working class before and after reformasi represent a shift from a struggle for wages and conditions to a struggle for job security.

B. Josie Susilo Hardianto – The lunch boxes had only just been handed out when they began to discuss the story of Mardi – a worker in Tangerang, Banten province.

Paul Toohey – East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta yesterday came face to face with and shook the hand of the rebel he believes shot him on February 11 at a formal surrender ceremony i

Jakarta – Women from four Asian countries have gathered to discuss women's issues and gender empowerment from an Islamic perspective.

Desy Nurhayati and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Malang – The government has maintained its silence on Ahmadiyah two weeks after a coordinating board of top government officials recomme

Nurni Sulaiman, Balikpapan – People of the Dayak indigenous tribe under the auspices of the Dayak Solidarity Organization on Monday staged simultaneous rallies in five cities across Eas

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Theresia Sufa and Panca Nugraha, Sukabumi/Mataram – A group calling itself the Jamaah Al Mubalighin Communication Forum burned down a mosque belonging to the "deviant" Ahmadiyah sect in

Sutarto, Jakarta – Lawyers and human rights activists went to the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) offices on Tuesday April 29 to declare their support for the commission's

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Justice for the victims of Indonesia's occupation of East Timor appeared more remote than ever on Tuesday after the two nations' leaders said they would draw a

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A national team established by the President began on Monday efforts to transfer Indonesian Military (TNI) business assets to the state, even as some experts dis

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – The government may again reduce its industrial output growth target for this year as soaring oil prices push up production costs and inflation.

Tito Belo, Dili – The leader of a group of East Timor rebels accused of trying to assassinate President Jose Ramos-Horta surrendered on Tuesday, raising hopes that the troubled young na

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Human rights activists and political experts have criticized retired military and police generals for protesting against attempts to question them in connecti

Non-governmental organisations and churches in Indonesia have released a report detailing what they say are thousands of cases of torture and abuse in Aceh, Papua and East Timor, while

Jakarta – The Press Council has issued a journalists' protection standard in a bid to protect media workers from violence, intimidation and censorship while upholding press freedom.

Reporter: Jeff Waters

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters chanting "Kill, kill" set fire Monday to an Indonesian mosque belonging to a Muslim sect they claim is heretical, police said.

Jakarta – Siti Supiati, a farmer in Cisait Muncang village, Banten, did not believe the government has raised the price of unhusked rice to Rp 2,200 (45 US cents) from Rp 2,000 and that

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – Indonesia has gone through a transitional period over the last 10 years, which has seen improvements in democratization and legal institutional reform, including

Jakarta – Already under threat of a fiscal calamity amid soaring oil prices and unrealistic government fuel subsidy spending, Indonesia is expected to miss this year's oil production ta

Dicky Christanto, Denpasar – Indonesia's regimes since 1998 have made all sorts of promises but few have been implemented and – even worse – the oppressive political system persists, a

Frenky Simanjuntak, Jakarta – A recent statement by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono makes us wonder whether he, or his administration, is actually serious in their effort to fight co

John McBeth – When Mr Xanana Gusmao pays his first visit to Indonesia as Timor Leste's Prime Minister next week, the former guerilla leader and President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will h

Australia will withdraw 200 troops deployed to East Timor following February's attacks on the troubled country's president and prime minister, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says.