Sonya Hepinstallm, Washington – The human rights picture in Indonesia has steadily deteriorated as Jakarta loses control over ethnic, social and religious strife in its most unstable pr

Jakarta – A man was killed and another was injured Friday night in a communal clash that broke out in Woja district, Dompu regency, West Nusa Tenggara.

Associated Press in Jakarta – Australian peacekeepers clashed with suspected militiamen in East Timor, UN officials said on Saturday.

Reuters in Sampit – Terrified refugees crammed onto an Indonesian navy ship on Saturday to escape marauding mobs in Borneo as officials said the death toll from a week of ethnic bloodsh

Madiun – Some 4,000 supporters of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid hit the streets in East Java on Sunday, resuming protests against efforts to oust the beleaguered Muslim cleric.

Jakarta – A pro-integration East Timorese militia member told the North Jakarta District Court on Thursday that he had stabbed a UNHCR humanitarian aid worker after witnessing another m

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Most Indonesians will not be able to watch the coverage of inter-ethnic clashes like those in Central Kalimantan on their television screen under a new broadcas

Philip Bowring, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia faces many crises, several of his own creation.

Agencies in Sampit and Palangkaraya – The death toll from six days of brutal ethnic clashes on Borneo island rose to at least 143 yesterday as the violence spread and armed bands of Day

Jakarta – Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) chief Lt. Gen.

Jakarta – An official said on Friday that the long awaited trial of proindependence activist Muhammad Nazar would be transferred to Banda Aceh rescinding a previous decision to try the

Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor will go to the polls on August 30 – the second anniversary of its United Nations-brokered referendum – in a historic vote that will mark the transition of t

Banda Aceh – Violence continued in Aceh as Indonesian Police and Military officers held talks with the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) on Thursday and Friday, officials said.

Hamish McDonald – The World Bank warned yesterday that if a political or economic crisis broke out in Indonesia it would cease all new lending until stability is restored.

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The recent ethnic bloody violence in central Kalimantan was orchestrated by two civil servants who were furious at having lost their jobs in a regional auton

Jakarta – The official death toll from six days of brutal ethnic slayings on Borneo island rose to more than 200 Friday, a medical worker said.

Associated Press in Portland – Workers at nine of Nike's contract factories in Indonesia have witnessed verbal and physical abuse by supervisors against their colleagues and seen female

Jakarta – East Timorese leaders told Indonesian parliamentary heads Friday that unless Jakarta moves soon to try those accused of committing crimes in East Timor, an international war c

Washington – The International Monetary Fund sought Friday to reassure financial markets that it wasn't turning away from engagement with Indonesia, following speculation in Indonesia t

Indonesia's stock market watchdog has issued a ruling allowing mainly listed firms to make substantial transactions without shareholder approval as part of efforts to revive the indebte

Jakarta – Indonesia's Supreme Audit Board said yesterday that government departments, including the presidential office, had misused 8.05 trillion rupiah (S$1.5 billion) last year.

Jakarta – The government will proceed with its plan to raise fuel prices in April despite concerns that it could trigger a new wave of social unrest, according to Minister of Manpower a

Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency disclosed on Thursday that it found 1,760 instances of financial irregularities involving a total sum of more than Rp 11.8 trillion (US$1.2 billion) i

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid left Jakarta yesterday on an overseas trip which takes him out of the country for two weeks while a leadership crisis grows at

Warren Caragata – Wimar Witoelar, the spokesman for Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, has said that decision-making within the Indonesian government is not quite like turning on a

Surabaya – The situation in Sampang regency, Madura Island, has become increasingly tense as opposing forces of elected regent Fadhilah Budiono on Wednesday look set for a showdown.

Makassar – Makassar District Court commenced on Wednesday the trial of deputy South Sulawesi governor Masnawi on corruption charges.

No sooner after President Abdurrahman Wahid had pledged "zero tolerance" for past corruptors this month, the Attorney General's Office went into full gear to prosecute top business lead

Jakarta – The police have found indications of the commission of a crime in an alleged land scam linked to House of Representatives Speaker and Golkar Party chairman Akbar Tandjung, Nat

Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid fired another shot in the battle against corruption on Wednesday, approving the establishment of a special court to try graft cases.

Jakarta – Indonesian military observers have warned the country's newly-empowered MPs pose a serious threat to the armed forces' attempts to extricate itself from politics.

Mark Dodd, Dili – The Australian wife of the independence leader Mr Xanana Gusmao has blasted Indonesian authorities over their lack of action in securing the freedom of an East Timores

Danielle Knight, Washington DC – Indonesian pulp and paper facilities, supported in the 1990s by financial institutions in Europe, Japan and North America, have caused widespread defore

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The thousands of students who have been protesting across Indonesia in the past few weeks might argue that replacing President Abdurrahman Wahid is the only

Jakarta – A retired Indonesian general accused of killing five Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975 told a parliamentary hearing here Thursday that new witnesses in the ca

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Jakarta plans a crackdown on separatist movements in Aceh and Irian Jaya that observers say will almost certainly end reconciliation talks promoted by Preside

Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has found irregularities involving over Rp 260 billion (about US$27.36 million) in insurance firm PT Tugu Pratama Indonesia, which is owned by s

Three days after mobs torched some 100 houses in the town of Selat Panjang in Riau, the village is now a ghost town as most of the 6,000-odd ethnic Indonesian Chinese have fled north to

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Prosecutors yesterday began questioning the eldest daughter of former dictator Suharto over corruption allegations involving Indonesia's state oil and gas com

Jakarta – A member of the Indonesian Military/National Police faction in the Aceh provincial council said rogue forces in the province had exacerbated tensions between security forces a

Jon Land – The Australian government is attempting to prevent East Timor from gaining full sovereign rights over vast oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea that are expected to generate

Max Lane – The Indonesian political elite is becoming increasingly fearful of a radicalisation of the country's masses, which is being provoked by a right-wing campaign to destabilise P

Indonesia's top economics minister left yesterday for crucial talks with the International Monetary Fund, after an advisory panel warned that the country's fragile economy would not rec

Jakarta – Indonesia said yesterday that a number of mining companies have suspended exploration due to uncertainty over new regional autonomy laws and warned that this could hit the eco

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Dozens of Indonesian maids working in Saudi Arabia and Malaysia have fled their jobs due to sexual harassment or violence at the hands of their employers, a

Jakarta – The civil servant who set off a national corruption scandal when he released 3.9 million dollars of state funds a year ago was convinced he was acting on the orders of Indones

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The renewal of a ceasefire between secessionist rebels and the Government in Aceh was greeted by more violence, but human rights activists say the peace pact

Banda Aceh – At least two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in the latest violence to hit the troubled Aceh province despite a new peace deal, police and rebels said Tuesday

Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung ruled out on Monday independence for Irian Jaya, dealing a blow to separatist rebel leader Willem Onde during his visit here.

Jakarta – Indonesia's economy grew 4.77 percent last year but is likely to slow to around four percent this year, the government said Tuesday.