Payabedi – When his home in Kampung Dalam village was hit by flash floods, Ishak volunteered to stay behind as the boat sent by his wife's family could not carry all 13 people trapped i

Payabedi – Around a hundred angry and mostly female Indonesian flood victims Thursday looted an aid distribution post, complaining they had not received any food supplies.

Benget Simbolon Tnb., Jakarta – The government made a big push in 2006 to lure new foreign investors to Indonesia, but a number of urgent problems continue to keep investors away.

Former President Gerald Ford died last night at the age of 93.

Jakarta – Deforestation in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, sped by post-tsunami reconstruction activities, caused the huge flooding and landslides on Sumatra Island that have so far claimed m

Nabiha Shahab, Jakarta – Disasters such as the flash floods which have killed 100 people and displaced more than 400,000 will be repeated unless Indonesia takes swift action to restore

Few might have ever thought when this nation – through its representatives in the People's Consultative Assembly – agreed in 2001 to establish the Constitutional Court, that the new jud

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The early release of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, the only suspect in the 2004 murder of noted human rights campaigner Munir Said Thalib, sparked protests Tues

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, whose conviction on terrorism charges was recently overturned, has canceled his plans to sue the government for wrongful imp

Jakarta – The nation's security forces are still operating above the law as the government's protection of human rights increases, a rights watchdog says.

Jakarta – The only suspect in the poisoning death of Indonesia's most prominent human rights activist was freed from prison after receiving a month's reduction in his sentence as part o

Lindsay Murdoch – Two years after the Boxing Day tsunami more than 25,000 poor and landless families in the hardest hit area of Indonesia's Aceh province are being denied housing under

Port Moresby – A flag-raising campaign in Indonesian Papua's Highlands could escalate into open conflict between tribal warriors and Indonesian troops, human rights advocates warn.

Dili – East Timorese celebrated a peaceful Christmas on Sunday as church and political leaders called on them to reject violence which earlier this year forced 15 percent of the populat

Jakarta – Floods and landslides in Indonesia's Aceh and North Sumatra provinces have killed at least 80 people and forced tens of thousands to flee to higher ground, authorities in the

Ahmad Pathoni, Banda Aceh – At 30, Beti has to raise her four young children alone after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami snatched her husband, and she has no regular job.

Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – A friend in need is a friend indeed, the saying goes.

Mark Dodd – More than 70,000 East Timorese are still living in emergency shelter as a result of ongoing gang violence that flared earlier in the year and left 37 people dead.

Dili – A shipment of emergency clothing, food and wheelchairs intended for impoverished residents of East Timor was unloaded from a port in the capital Friday, three years after it was

Jakarta – Former defense and security minister Gen. (ret) Wiranto on Thursday announced the formation of a new political party to contest the 2009 elections.

George Junus Aditjondro, Yogyakarta – As if commanded from one center, two anticommunist actions in Surabaya on Wednesday, Dec.

Nelson da Cruz, Dili – Baby Xestalino Soares lies fast asleep on a mat, sharing a cloth blanket with one of his older brothers, while his mother tries to cook as rain lashes the tarpaul

The rage over a cleric's decision to take a second wife continues, particularly among women, but what it means for the women's movement here is an open question.

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – With a number of sectors having contracted in 2006, the country's industrial sector is set to grow by a less-than-expected 5 percent this year, almost 1 percent

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Kosmonita Radio manager Idah Ernawati was engaged in a serious discussion with a new announcer, Elly.

Bulukumba, Tribun – Dozens of youth and students from the Preparatory Committee of the National Liberation Party of Unity (KP-Papernas) in the Bulukumba regency of South Sulawesi demons

Tony Hotland and Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The government will prepare new legislation mandating the Corruption Court after it was declared unconstitutional on Tuesday by the Constitution

John McBeth, Jakarta – The United States may have finally lifted the arms embargo imposed on Indonesia in the wake of the 1991 East Timor massacre, but it could be decades before Jakart

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court turned down Wednesday a petition for it to scrap an article in the Criminal Code allowing law enforcers to detain suspects over fears th

Malang - Dozens of protesters from the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) held a demonstration yesterday criticising government policy in the East Java city of Malang.

Mojokerto – Scores of protesters from the Preparatory Committee for the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) in the East Java city of Mojokerto took to the streets on December

Janet Fyfe-Yeomans – Crack SAS troops were poised to launch a secret mission into East Timor to rescue the five Australians three days before their deaths, but were ordered to stand dow

Nani Afrida and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Banda Aceh – Sharia-style local government bylaws in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam are bringing unnecessary hardship to the Acehnese and discriminating ag

Dili – An army rebel who played a key role in the revolt that sent East Timor into chaos earlier this year held reconciliation talks with the defence chief on Thursday on the crisis tha

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia overturned a terror conviction Thursday against the militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who served 2 1/2 years for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali

Jakarta – Some 4,000 people who escaped a deadly quake on the Indonesian island of Sumatra earlier this week are refusing to return home despite assurances from seismologists, according

More than 2,000 former employees of state aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara (PT DI) began a march (see photo) Tuesday from Bandung to the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, to demand the

Jakarta – In another move to tighten the screws on those involved in white-collar corruption, the country's capital market watchdog, Bapepam-LK, threatened Tuesday to freeze all the dir

Dr. Vedi Hadiz, Associate Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore, is writing his fifth book Local Power in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

Adi Sucipto, Gresik – As many as 15 people from the Gresik chapter of the Preparatory Committee for the National Liberation of Unity or KP-Papernas demonstrated at the Gresik Regional H

The State Grahadi Building on Jl. Gubernur Suryo in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya is a popular target of protest actions.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – While the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) on Friday concluded its 15-month mandate to supervise the implementation of the peace agreement in the province, non-go

Nani Afrida and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Banda Aceh – As the ballot counting continues from last week's elections in Aceh, it is clear voters favored independent candidates with ties to the

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday the Corruption Court must disband in three years, unless the House of Representatives enacts a new law to mandate the trib

Jakarta – US gold mining giant Newmont Mining Corp.

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A lack of bureaucratic reform was to blame for the poor quality of public services in Indonesia, development experts said here Tuesday.

Jakarta – Victims of human rights abuses should move on because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR) is currently dead in the water, State Secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra said M

Ahmad Fikri, Bandung – The Legal Aid Insitute (LBH) urged the annulment of Decree No. 27/1999 on Criminal Code Revision.

Multa Fidrus, Banten – Residents of a Bintaro housing complex have threatened to ram road blockades developer PT Jaya Real Property plans to use to close access from Pondok Aren to Cipu

With two former members of the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM) apparently set to claim victory in last week's landmark gubernatorial election in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, some parti