Adi W and Radzie, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of students from the Acehnese Alliance of Private Collage Student Executive Councils (Aliansi BEM PTS Aceh) held a demonstration on Wednesday Feb

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Hera Diani, Jakarta – Like goldfish, people seem to have a memory span that is all too short.

Jakarta – Academics and politicians are alarmed at the government's inaction amid a flood of religion-based regional regulations with the potential to sow conflict.

Sarah Stephen – Among the 43 West Papuan asylum seekers who were transferred to Christmas Island on January 18 are four family groups.

Kerryn Williams – The arrival on Australian shores of 43 West Papuan refugees on January 18 has put the spotlight on the long suffering – and determined resistance – of the people of We

Joseph Nevins, New York – The logic of reparations for war-related crimes has a long history.

Canberra – Australia wanted East Timor to remain an Indonesian province and Foreign Minister Alexander Downer lobbied Jakarta to delay a vote for independence, a report to the UN has fo

Jakarta – Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has made a deft move in nominating the country's airforce chief as the next boss of the powerful but reforming armed forces, ana

Jakarta – Indonesian police are investigating possible links between a purported new militant network with al Qaeda, with initial indications showing it was set up by two key Malaysian

Tom Allard – The Indonesian military is using the same tactics of terror in West Papua that were employed during its bloody reign in East Timor, and Australia should step in to mediate

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Since his government last year brought about what looks like the end of the separatist conflict in Indonesia's tsunami-wracked Aceh province, President Susilo Ba

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Indonesia has scored a major victory in the war on corruption after the return to the country of a crooked banker who fled before being sentenced in absentia to e

Greg Poulgrain – Ten US members of Congress have described the arrival on Australian shores by canoe two weeks ago of 43 asylum seekers from West Papua as a flight to freedom.

West Papuan asylum seekers on Christmas Island have told Greens senator Kerry Nettle their families have been terrorised by Indonesian security forces since their journey to Australia.

Jakarta – Protesters disrupted a concert by a US hip-hop artist touring Indonesia at the US Embassy's invitation, an embassy official and witnesses said Tuesday.

Makassar – A soldier was killed and three seriously wounded when a police truck rammed into a crowd of people amid a dispute between military troops and police officers in Manado, North

Australian refugee advocates say they are alarmed by the Indonesian Government making a direct request to Prime Minister John Howard for the return of 43 Papuans.

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Jayapura – A man was arrested by Jayapura Police officers Saturday, allegedly for hoisting the outlawed Morning Star flag, the symbol of the Papuan independence struggle.

Andra Jackson – A group of West Timorese is seeking asylum in Australia from Indonesia claiming they have been pressured into carrying out attacks against Christians in their village.

Jakarta – Dozens of high school students protested about the dangers of lead pollution in the air at the National Monument in Central Jakarta on Saturday.

The government submitted the final draft of its Aceh government bill to the House of Representatives on Thursday, a major step following the historic peace agreement signed in Helsinki

Phelim Kyne, Jakarta – Investors in New York have asked US investigators to determine whether millions of dollars allegedly paid by mining giant Freeport to Indonesian military officers

Sian Powell – In September 1999, a young East Timorese woman was brought to a militia post in Gleno.

Russell Skelton – Australia and Indonesia are headed for a diplomatic crisis over the fate of 43 West Papuan asylum seekers whose claims of persecution now appear likely to be recognise

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The final draft of the government's bill on Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam opens the possibility for the redrawing of its borders, which would violate the peace agree

Rendi Akhmad Witular, Karawang, West Java – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appealed to labor unions Friday not to use welfare issues for political means, which could jeopardize effo

Suherdjoko and Andi Hajarmurni, Semarang/Makassar – Incessant rain over the last three days has inundated several cities in Central Java and South Sulawesi, forcing thousands of residen

Jakarta – Three more children have contracted polio in Indonesia, bringing the total cases to 302 since the crippling disease resurfaced last year, the United Nations Children Fund ( UN

Jakarta – Regional administrations are using the money paid out to schools under the national fuel compensation scheme as an excuse to cut back on their education budgets, a study has f

Jakarta – Four hunger-strikers seeking adequate compensation for their properties acquired by the government for a transmission line project received a dead chicken and a threatening no

The International Crisis Group's Southeast Asia project is analyzing recent developments of terrorism in Indonesia, which most recently saw a bomb explosion kill seven people in Central

Leony Aurora, Jakarta – Businesspeople, arguing that power rates are already higher than those in neighboring countries, are threatening to refuse to pay proposed additional charges, ev

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – Primum non no cere – above all, do no harm – is the rule for all physicians when they treat patients.

A group of Papuan asylum seekers being held in immigration detention on Australia's remote Christmas Island is expected to meet their lawyers for the first time this weekend.

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Infrastructure development can be dilemmatic at times.

Jakarta – The group of junior high school students waited impatiently on the side of the road on busy Jl. Plumpang, North Jakarta. And waited.

Jakarta – Taking an industrial dispute to the labor court will figure at the end of a new, expedited process of seeking a settlement.

Aguswandi, Banda Aceh – The fundamental problem facing Muslims and others seeking to understand Islam is not that there are too many versions of Islam.

Jakarta – Malls decked out in festive red and restaurants offering special delicacies for the upcoming Chinese New Year are cold comfort when one's citizenship is still questioned, Chin

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The long-awaited labor court has been promoted as a fairer, faster and less expensive means to settle industrial disputes, which are likely to rise amid to

Jakarta – Unlike the old system for handling industrial disputes under the Regional and Central Committee for Settlements of Industrial Disputes (P4D and P4P), the new one based on the

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Every morning, traffic-jammed commuters throughout Jakarta get something to think about, as street vendors weave through the lines of cars, flashing posters of pou

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Semarang – At least 300 farmers in the plantation area of Rumpun Sari Kaligintung owned by PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) IX, have complained about the company to the governor.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, Kupang – Flash floods swept through the East Java cities of Malang, Kediri and Jombang on Wednesday, leaving one person dead and destroying dozens of resid

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Relations between Indonesia and East Timor have soured, with Jakarta canceling President Xanana Gusmao's visit to deliver a report alleging Indonesian crimes agai

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Human rights activists have criticized the government's defensive stance on a report by an independent commission, which claims that up to 180,000 people d