Jakarta – One may have seen it coming.

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – An action opposing the arrival of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono that was being organised by the National Students Front (FMN) has ended in a clash.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) marked its 29th anniversary quietly on Sunday by holding prayers at mosques across Aceh province.

Gede Suardana, Denpasar – A sentence of five months jail and 10 months probation is being sought by the prosecution for 12 Udayana University students from the People's Struggle Front f

Jakarta – Authorities are preparing to charge 10 senior local officials from the Indonesian part of Borneo with involvement in illegal logging and embezzlement of state reforestation fu

Supriyono Pangribowo, Jakarta – The offence of insulting the president is being used again.

Banda Aceh – Sympathizers of former rebels in Aceh commemorate the movement's anniversary across the tsunami-ravaged province in a modest way on Sunday, following the rebels' decision t

Tim Hume – Teenage tsunami survivors in Indonesia's stricken Aceh province are turning to marijuana to escape the trauma and despair.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Large crowds gathered on Friday in Banda Aceh and Pidie to watch tsunami survivors publicly caned for gambling.

Nani Afrida and Tiarma Siboro, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Former Aceh rebels have decided against celebrating the 29nd anniversary of their movement on Sunday to show their commitment to prom

Jakarta – What you can and cannot see on TV is now practically in the hands of the government, and so is what you can or cannot hear on the radio, say some communications experts.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Papuans have continued protesting the presence of security forces in villages across their troubled province, which they say has caused t

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Although he spends his days and nights in a cramed prison cell, the spirit to fight for Papua's independence still burns brightly in the heart of convicte

Jakarta – Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, is scurrying to ready for a potential bird flu pandemic but health and animal husbandry officials warn they so far lack cru

Luh Putu Trisna Wahyuni, Mataram – Thousands of teachers in East Lombok regency have been on strike since Thursday to protest against the implementation of a bylaw passed two years ago

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Junior high school No.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Tony Hotland, Jakarta – A political grouping, officially launched here on Thursday by dissatisfied elements of former president Megawati Soekarnoputri's party, is

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The October bombings in Bali have proved to be a severe blow to Indonesia's tourism sector, with the number of foreign visitors dropping by nearly 31 percent to

Krishnadev Calamur, Washington – Critics of a deal between Australia and Timor Leste on disputed undersea oil and gas reserves say Asia's poorest nation is giving away too much in excha

East Timor's Foreign Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, says his Government hopes to sign the full agreement with Australia over the Greater Sunrise gas field in early January.

Jakarta – Higher crude palm oil and rubber production contributed to a 19 percent increase in the country's non-oil and gas exports during the first 10 months of the year, the Central S

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Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The Wirabuana Military Command is still questioning 25 soldiers accused of being responsible for attacking and looting houses in a remote subdistrict in Sout

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Prosecutors have recommended a life sentence for Garuda pilot Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto for the murder of the country's top human rights campaigner Munir.

Nethy Dharma Somba and Andi Hajramurni, Jayapura – The police have foiled an attempt to raise the outlawed Bintang Kejora (Morning Star) flag, keeping pro-independence action planned fo

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – The Bush administration's decision to drop its arms embargo against Indonesia and resume full military ties fits a pattern of policy failures in East Asia.

Sydney – The widow of one of five Australia-based journalists shot dead in East Timor in 1975 says she is not surprised by new documents revealing the Australian and British governments

Australia and East Timor have struck agreement on how to carve up lucrative Timor Sea energy reserves worth up to $41 billion.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite the Aug.

John Aglionby, Nusa – The community noticeboard in Nusa is conspicuously underemployed.

Timor has rejected a government commission's recommendation that Australia, Britain and the United States pay compensation for their part in Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor

Shoeb Kagda, Jakarta – The news last week from Washington that the United States would restore full military ties with Indonesia after a 14-year lapse must have been sweet music to the

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Governor JP Solossa on Wednesday told residents not to celebrate the self-declared independence anniversary of Papua on Dec. 1.

Jayapura – Security forces clashed with hundreds of rock-throwing protesters at an independence day rally Thursday in Papua province, police and witnesses said.

Nurvita Indarini, Jakarta – Although the sentence being sought by the public prosecutor for Pollycarpus is considered just, the former secretary of the Munir Fact Finding Team (TPF), Us

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The former Aceh rebels will be free to celebrate the anniversary of their movement on Sunday as long as it does not rekindle separatism, the governmen

Tb. Arie Rukmantara, Jakarta – It is true what they say, "Money can't buy everything".

Pip Hinman – The Melbourne-based Timor Sea Justice Campaign on November 23 described the Howard government's decision to discontinue funding to 13 East Timorese NGOs as "political inter

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Less than a week after the country refused entry to American researcher Sidney Jones, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered the lifting of the ba

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) found 11 cases of irregularities in the management of state enterprise funds during the first semester of the year, with potential

Jakarta – Indonesian rights activists have condemned a recommendation by East Timor's president that a probe into past human rights violations in the world's youngest country be kept un

Kerryn Williams – On November 22, the US State Department decided to override restrictions on US-Indonesian military ties imposed by Congress less than two weeks earlier.

Sian Powell and Richard Lloyd Parry – The Australian, British and US Governments and international arms makers should pay compensation for their part in Indonesia's brutal 24-year occup

Sean O'Neill – For 30 years Maureen Tolfree has suspected that the British Government lied to her about the death of her brother, Malcolm Rennie.

Richard Lloyd Parry – The British Government knowingly lied about Indonesian atrocities in East Timor, including the killing of British journalists in 1975, according to newly released

Amanda Freund, Newcastle – Newcastle City Council will fly the West Papuan flag from City Hall on December 1 as a gesture of support for the West Papuan people's struggle for independen

Sarah Stephen – When seven asylum seekers from West Timor waded ashore near the Western Australian Aboriginal community of Kalumburu on November 5, immigration minister Amanda Vanstone

Hera Diani, Jakarta – UNAIDS executive director Peter Piot could be in any city in the world for World AIDS Day, which falls on Thursday.

Jayapura, Jakarta – The central government must consistently implement the Special Autonomy Law in Papua in order to help quell the demands for independence for the resource-rich provin

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Recent raids conducted by city police and the immigration office have revealed thousands of foreigners staying in the capital either without proper permits or wi