Jill Jolliffe – From the other side of the cyclone wire fence, a man with a large scorpion tattooed on his face peers into East Timor.

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Australia is playing down differences with Indonesia over terrorism and human rights as it moves cautiously to rebuild a once-intimate defence relationship shat

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Residents of Jakarta have been feeling increasingly insecure these days, with the specter of crime seemingly hanging over the entire city.

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – The Australian Government yesterday announced its first specific moves to rebuild ties with Indonesia's military since 1999's East Timor crisis.

Jakarta – Fire has ravaged 11,569 hectares of plantations and commercial forests in Riau province over the past month, a local environment expert said in the provincial capital of Pekan

Jakarta – The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto was formally charged yesterday with ordering the murder of a judge, a crime punishable by death.

Richel Langit, Jakarta – Barring the unexpected, Indonesia's long-awaited human-rights trials will kick off next Thursday, with military and police personnel as well as civilian authori

Indonesian prosecutors said they would detain Indonesia's parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung after questioning him for seven hours at the attorney-general's office about graft allegations

Dili – East Timor, where women hold 24 per cent of Constituent Assembly seats, joined the world today in celebration of International Women's Day during a ceremony held in Dili attended

Fairus Husaini, Dili – The UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration have ass

A court rejected a request by prosecutors to resume the corruption trial of former Indonesian dictator Suharto, saying he is still too ill.

Jakarta – The military police team set up to probe the death of Papua Presidium Council leader Theys Hiyo Eluay has suspended its investigation, as there have been no further developmen

Robert Go, Jakarta – The Indonesian government yesterday threw out a controversial plan to allow some of its biggest debtors more time to repay money, and instead demanded full settleme

Dadan Wijaksana, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) found last year 1,076 cases of irregularities in the state budget, which potentially caused a total of Rp 2.8 trillion (around

Jakarta – Australia and Indonesia are considering resuming joint military exercises, which Jakarta suspended in 1999 over Canberra's role in East Timor, as part of efforts to counter te

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Jakarta – Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri shocked employees at the palace complex in central Jakarta with a snap inspection for cleanliness, a report said Thursday.

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The newly installed public face of the Indonesian armed forces, Major-General Sjafrie Sjamsuddin, took office this week amid continuing debate about his appoi

Kurniawan Hari and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is employing a strategy of intimidation and threats to block a plan on Thursday to establish an inquiry into a Rp 40

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – After several delays, the Public Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) announced on Wednesday the names of legislators who had not submitted a list of their

An Indonesian court has jailed a militiaman for six years for the brutal murder of a New Zealand peacekeeping soldier in East Timor in 2000.

Jakarta – Hundreds of supporters of Indonesia's former ruling party Golkar staged a show of strength outside parliament Thursday as legislators debated whether to call a special inquiry

John McBeth/Jakarta and Murray Hiebert/Washington – Two-and-a-half years after Indonesian troops and local militias went on the rampage against pro-independence voters in East Timor, it

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – A tussle has broken out between the presidential palace and the Parliament in Jakarta over the control of foreign policy, and the focus of their dispute is,

Joanne Collins, Jakarta – Sportswear giants Nike Inc and Adidas-Salomon have taken steps to shed their sweatshop image in Indonesia but employees are still overworked and underpaid, a l

Jakarta – Striking workers at state-owned aircraft industry PT Dirgantara Indonesia are likely to return to work on Thursday following the government's assurance that the company's mana

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Dozens of members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) rallied in front of City Hall on Wednesday to demand that Jakarta Go

Banda Aceh – Seven separatist rebels and three soldiers have been killed in Indonesia's troubled Aceh province, the military said Thursday.

Banda Aceh – The government is considering holding peace talks inside Indonesia to end the decades-long separatist conflict in Aceh province if dialogue held overseas fails, a top minis

Dili – Almost half East Timor's population don't have enough food to eat and eke out a living on or below the poverty line, a survey carried out with the UN and other international agen

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Of more than 1,270 companies employing a total of 95,000 workers in the West Java regencies of Cirebon, Indramayu, Majalengka and Kuningan, only 40 percent have

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Complications have thwarted progress in the labor disputes at state-owned aircraft manufacturing industry PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PT DI) after the managemen

Grassroots opinion on East Timor's draft Constitution has been summarized by Constituent Assembly members over the last three days before a final debate on the document.

Jakarta – The Aceh provincial administration will soon set up religious police to help effectively enforce Islamic syariah law in the rebellious province, a local senior official said o

At least 52 people have died of various diseases following floods that inundated much of the Indonesian capital Jakarta last month, an official said.

Max Lane – On February 26, Australian defence minister Robert Hill told reporters at the Asian Aerospace 2002 conference in Singapore that Canberra wanted to encourage the Indonesian au

Jakarta – The rupiah broke through on Tuesday the Rp 10,000 level against the U.S.

John McBeth and Murray Hiebert – As the nation with the world's biggest Muslim population, Indonesia is high on Washington's list as a potential partner in the anti-terror war.

Jakarta – Around 100 PDI Perjuangan members from Surabaya, East Java, demonstrated at the party's headquarters on Jl.

Joanna Jolly, Dili – The first contingent of 24 Japanese military engineers arrived Monday to join a U.N.

Indonesian police allowed a small group of Falungong practitioners to hold a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Jakarta after banning a march by hundreds of the sect's supporters th

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – The territorial function the Indonesian Military (TNI) has adopted for the past four decades is no longer relevant and should be immediately phased out, a semina

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Controversy continued to dog the selection of Maj. Gen.

Jakarta – Indonesia made progress in some areas last year in its transition to democracy but the government's human rights record remains poor, the US State Department says.

Dominic Whiting, Bangkok – East Timor independence hero Xanana Gusmao, the front-runner to lead the nascent Southeast Asian state, said on Tuesday he wanted to be defeated in his countr

Jakarta – The government has decided to look the other way and write-off the expenditure incurred on 46 legislators who allegedly used their status to gain access to state facilities du

Jakarta – The government confirmed on Monday plans to sell its stakes in five firms to meet the privatization target of Rp 3.5 trillion (some US$340 million) for the first half of the y

Jakarta – Prosecutors of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) have launched cases against three men accused of 27 crimes against humanity during a viole

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Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Muslims in Aceh who do not wear Islamic dress will be barred from urban areas from the middle of this month as the authorities start enforcing the Islamic sy