Deddy Sinaga, Jakarta – The 2004 General Election observers from European Union (EU) countries have said that they considered the election went well and peacefully despite some weakness

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The palace is plotting.

Banda Aceh – Indonesian soldiers have shot dead eight separatist rebels in Aceh and seized weapons, the military said on Thursday.

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – What a difference a week makes in politics! Seven days ago, Golkar and the Indonesian Democratic Party-Struggle (PDI-P) carried the banner of the Big Two.

Andrew Burrell – Remember these initials: SBY.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a special court's decision to acquit a middle-ranking officer and to sentence a senior government official on charges of gross human right

Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against terrorism is being hampered by a US military embargo, President Megawati Sukarnoputri said Wednesday.

Patricia Reaney, London – More than 300 of the world's rarest and most exotic creatures, including flying foxes in the Comoros Islands and yellow-eared parrots in the Colombian Andes, a

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – A human rights expert has called for new charges to be laid against senior Indonesian leaders, based on war crimes evidence salvaged from smouldering barracks duri

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Several local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) reported vote buying on Tuesday allegedly committed by political parties ahead of the April 5 poll.

Banda Aceh/Jayapura/Ambon – Violence marred polling day on Monday in several parts of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam in an apparent attempt to disrupt the election, while people cast their vo

Counting continues after Indonesia's national elections in the world's third largest democracy.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The Ministry of Forestry is demanding an objective investigation into the recent arrest of environmentalist Bestari Raden, 50, after the Aceh martial law adminis

Aguswandi – A high court decision last Monday could have major repercussions for the democratic development of the world's fourth most populous country, which goes to the polls in natio

Indonesians have been voting in parliamentary elections today in a crowded contest billed as the biggest one-day vote in history.

General Wiranto, a possible presidential candidate from the Golkar Party, gave student protesters the slip in Surabaya on Saturday.

Sian Powell, Jakarta – Australians who mourned the dead at the first commemoration of the Bali bombings will remember the man who is now the favourite in Indonesia's presidential race.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Police here said on Sunday that they had shot dead a suspected separatist in the troubled province of Papua for allegedly trying to discourage people from

Jill Jolliffe, Dili – An international expert says Australia "shares some responsibility" for the 1999 atrocities in East Timor, despite its leading role in the United Nations peacekeep

Tiarma Siboro and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – A number of arrests of Acehnese activists across the country for their alleged link with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has raised que

His name is Ayus Rizal, 13. He is the youngest Acehnese resident currently undergoing training at the military camp for former separatist rebels in Reuleut village, North Aceh.

Dili – Sitting in his cramped jail cell, Joanico Gusmao readily admits he helped torch a village and stabbed to death a pro-independence supporter during the violence that enveloped Eas

Banda Aceh – Indonesia's parliamentary elections on Monday have been enthusiastically awaited by the majority of the country's voters.

Sentani – Less than three years after special forces troops killed his father, restive Papua's most prominent independence leader at the time, Boy Eluay wants to be an Indonesian politi

Rachland Nashidik – The past is catching up with General (ret) Wiranto.

Banda Aceh – Separatist rebels in Aceh province have threatened to shoot or fine residents who vote in Monday's Indonesian general elections, an election monitor said Saturday.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A key witness to the 2002 ambush in Papua that left two Americans and one Indonesian dead has changed his testimony that Army soldiers were responsible fo

Jakarta – Prosecutors have indicted two senior police officers on charges of allowing their men to torture hundreds of people in the eastern province of Papua, officials said on Thursda

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have criticized Governor Sutiyoso administration's policies on eviction and the environmental and for delaying imp

Brad Howarth – The newest nation is struggling to its feet, but little will happen without foreign investment.

Peter Kammerer – The tussle between East Timor and Australia for oil and gas reserves under the Timor Sea is becoming markedly vocal and tactical.

Canberra's insistence on a bilateral resolution to sea border issue is not fair

Ruslan Sangadji and Irvan NR, Poso/Palu – Calm has been restored in the troubled regency of Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Wednesday after a series of shooting incidents that killed a rever

Surabaya – Defying mounting protests, former Army chief Gen. (ret) R.

Jakarta – A human rights group in Papua province said Thursday it was being sued by Indonesia's powerful military for alleging that troops carried out an ambush which killed two America

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – Golkar leaders have chosen an apt party slogan.

Jakarta – The Malaysian government is forcibly returning Indonesian refugees from Aceh province to Indonesia where their safety is at risk amid a continuing conflict there, Human Rights

Tiarma Siboro and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – The Aceh military has set up security arrangements to enable local residents in areas known as rebel strongholds to exercis

Laurel Teo – Dark clouds held the threat of rain yesterday morning.

Dan Robinson, Washington – In testimony to Congress, US military officials have reaffirmed their commitment to working with Indonesia in the fight against terror.

Alan Sipress, Bandung – When Gen. Wiranto's stump speech ended, the real action began. "We should fall no more!" he exhorted the crowd. "We have fallen enough.

An Indonesian Muslim-based political party has accused rivals of pre-election dirty tricks by circulating a video compact disc which purports to show a key party member being baptised.

Indonesians go to the polls on Monday in what will be the third free nationwide elections in the country's history.

Max Lane – On March 24, the Senate resumed debate of the Greater Sunrise Unitisation Bill 2004, a bill to allow for the implementation of the Greater Sunrise International Unitisation A

Nigel Wilson – The federal Government's release of exploration acreage in the Timor Sea has been described as "a slap in the face" for East Timor Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.

An environmentalist arrested in Indonesia's Aceh province is at serious risk of torture by the military, Amnesty International said.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The arrest of Acehnese environmentalist Bestari Raden has drawn strong criticism from rights activists and a sociologist, who see the move as part of systematic

If Australia and East Timor cannot agree on a maritime boundary, let the court decide.

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – As many as 52 villages in war-torn Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam may skip the elections due to the unfavorable security situation there, a senior Cabinet min

Nani Farida, Banda Aceh – The Aceh martial law administration has arrested an environmental activist for alleged involvement with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), sparking protests from hi