Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – David S. was surprised when his wife brought home cans of food with World Food Programme (WFP) labels on them.

Jakarta – Indonesian Military chief Gen.

Dili – Three East Timorese opposition parties on Wednesday called on the government to suspend all talks on developing Timor Sea oil and gas resources until after general elections next

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – Hundreds of workers grouped under the Coalition of Bogor Workers demanded on Monday that the team in charge to assessing the minimum wage conduct a survey on livi

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of employees at state plantation company, PTPN II, here held a protest on Monday, demanding the government increase their wages and conditions after f

Anthony Deutsch, The Hague – A key 1969 vote on the future of the Indonesian island province of West New Guinea was "a sham" orchestrated by Jakarta, a Dutch government-commissioned stu

This week, the Jakarta administration will launch a large-scale crackdown on unskilled migrants who have entered the city after the Idul Fitri holiday.

Jakarta – A court in the Indonesian capital rejected a government multi-million-dollar pollution lawsuit against US mining giant Newmont and ruled the case should be settled by arbitrat

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – Conventional wisdom about what happened in Indonesia during the second half of the 1960s generally held leading Army officers, in collaboration with som

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The police said they would continue their investigation into five men who are suspected of being responsible for the recent beheadings of three schoolgirls in P

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – The Jakarta office of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS Jakarta) has registered over 28,000 new families that may be eligible to benefit from the government's

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – At least 50,000 hectares out of a total of 216,000 hectares of forest in the Gunung Leuser National Park has been deforested since 1980, sparking concern over a

Jakarta – Having to dodge cars, three-wheeled taxis, motorcycles and carts appearing from nowhere could soon be a thing of the past for Central Jakarta residents, thanks to the municipa

Alisa P, Banda Aceh – The composition of the draft law on the organisation of a government for Aceh as mandated by the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Indonesian governmen

Local soap star Anjasmara is naked! And it's an Adam and Eve installation! Is it art or pornography?

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – As police widened the search for the followers of master bombmaker Azahari, an antiterror official warned on Saturday that Islamic militants could carry out

Fadli, Batam – A lot of folks' favorite fish, such as the selar and tongkol, are getting harder to find in Batam as hundreds of fishing boats that usually bring them in have curbed oper

Several churches in Jakarta and West Java were closed down by force recently, prompting practitioners to conduct their prayers outside their church.

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – A swarm of flies settled on a heap of rotting corn abruptly rose as Siti Maesaroh (not her real name), 17, walked passed the pile of garbage on Wednesday.

Tiarma Siboro and Eva C.

Malang/Semarang/Surakarta/Jakarta – Fingerprinting has confirmed the death of Azahari bin Husin, a bombmaker blamed for the deadliest terror attacks in the region, during a gun battle w

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – One of Southeast Asia's most-wanted suspected terrorists has blown himself up – or been gunned down – only days after it was revealed that al-Qaeda's former South

Yesterday [10 November 2005], on the 4th anniversary of the murder of West Papuan independence leader Theys Hiyo Eluay by Kopassus [Indonesian Special Forces], the West Papua Street Par

Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – Indonesia needs more cooperation from the public to track down Islamic militants who are sometimes regarded as heroes in the world's most populous Muslim nat

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Environmentalists in Lampung lashed out at the Bumi Kedaton Safari Park (TWABK) management for treating animals under its care poorly.

Jakarta – Around 80 truck drivers working for the Jakarta International Container Terminal at Tanjung Priok Port, North Jakarta, staged a rally at the City Council on Thursday to ask fo

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – About 70 American congressmen urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to make "a clear legal move" to resolve the murder of noted rights campaigner Munir, who

Dili – Unidentified groups are seeking to destabilize East Timor to impede foreign investment and weaken the government, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Thursday.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Khairil Anwar acknowledged he felt depressed.

Tantri Yuliandini, Jakarta – Some 600,000 workers in Greater Jakarta are likely to lose their jobs next year, following the implementation of new provincial minimum wage, the Employers'

Rendi A.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom, discrimination on the basis of religious belief is a cause for concern in this country, accordin

Rendi Witular, Jakarta – The government has expressed guarded optimism that the United States will not extend its 13-year military embargo on Indonesia.

East Timor says it's only weeks away from finalising a boundary deal with Australia to exploit the oil and gas reserves of the Greater Sunrise field in the Timor Sea.

Jakarta – Indonesia has greeted with a sigh of relief a decision by the United States Congress to omit references to Papua from the State Department Authorization Bill, saying it reflec

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – An order from the military leadership to all 11 regional military commands to set up special counterterrorism desks has been criticized by right activists conce

Kompas – The head of the army's information office, Brigadier General Hotmangaradja Pandjaitan, has confirmed that they have already established an extra-structural organisation at ever

Jon Lamb – The Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) in East Timor has completed its report documenting human rights violations that took place under 24-year-long In

Dili – East Timor's government is ready to adopt "drastic measures" to reconstruct Dili, ending anarchy and reducing population pressures, Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri said Wednesday.

Tantri Yuliandini, Jakarta – The city administration has raised the minimum wage for workers here from the current Rp 711,843 (about US$71) to Rp 819,100, effective next year, but the e

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) is reactivating its intelligence unit that used to work within the community to help the police fight terrorism.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Sumedang – Darya still tends to his sheep and crops on his land located along the edge of a slope which is supposed to become part of dam in the Jatigede area of Sumed

Rendi A. Witular and Adianto P.

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu – The deadly clash between the police and followers of sect leader Madi almost two weeks ago, and the ensuing hunt for him, have caused hundreds of people to seek

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) anti-terror desk which was established in each military regional command and the units below this command have begun to work, including the villa

Jakarta – Indonesia's military chief General Endriartono Sutarto has officially ordered the revival of a much-criticised community-based intelligence system to be used to fight terroris

Rendi A.

Indonesia has criticised the United States for stalling efforts to restore full military ties between the two countries because of unresolved murders in its province of Papua.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Despite workers' demand for a 100-percent salary raise following the skyrocketing prices of basic necessities due to the fuel price hikes, the West Java admi

Mark Forbes, Jakarta – Indonesia has denied it refused to cut the sentence of the Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir because of Australian pressure.