Jakarta – The Indonesian government and parliament should meet to discuss the impact of fuel subsidies on the nation's budget, Mines and Energy Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said ye

Jakarta – The National Defence Forces (TNI) will make a "comprehensive and meticulous" assessment of President Abdurrrahman Wahid's proposal to revoke a 1966 Provisional People's Consul

Jakarta – Jakarta Police Chief Major General Nurfaizi has appealed to warring gangs in East Jakarta, who were still fighting yesterday, to stop their continual clashes.

Semarang – Indonesian Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri has announced a new line-up for the executive board of her Indonesian Democratic Party Perjuangan but her party members doubt

Jakarta – More than 200 Indonesian protestors picketed an empty parliament building here for the second consecutive day yesterday to demand that the government scrap a planned rise in f

Haryoso, Semarang – The Central Java high seas are rich in marine resources; most notably fish but, ironically, loan sharks, who prey on local fisherfolk by throwing them into the jaws

Jakarta – Violence marred protests against the controversial fuel price hike and former president Soeharto on Saturday.

Robert Go, Jakarta – Taking his case directly to the people after Friday prayers in Jakarta, President Abdurrahman Wahid made his strongest appeal yet for a review of 1966 parliamentary

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – In a manner some here see as reminiscent of Golkar's elections during the rule of former President Suharto, Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri was unanimou

Jakarta – Indonesia faces a race against time to fulfil pledges made to the International Monetary Fund if it is to persuade creditors to reschedule its debt and the IMF to release its

Michael Richardson, Singapore – The United States is moving toward restoring full military ties with Indonesia that were cut in September when hard-liners in the Indonesian Army were ac

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – The Indonesian government yesterday delayed a fuel hike to avert threats of mass demonstrations in the country.

Esther Permatasari, Jakarta – Around 2000 students from the National Student League for Democracy (LMND) and 5000 workers under the banner of the Indonesian National Front for Labour St

Marianne Kearney, Semarang – Charismatic Vice-President Megawati Sukarnoputri is still hugely popular with ordinary Indonesians.

Jakarta – Jakarta Police chief Maj. Gen. Nurfaizi said on Friday the capital would be on high alert from Saturday through until the end of April.

Jakarta – The Indonesian capital, put on top security alert in anticipation of planned massive demonstrations against fuel price hikes, was essentially quiet Saturday except for a brief

Jakarta – Although on Friday the government delayed the price increase of fuel, thousands of high school, university students and workers went ahead with a demonstration on Saturday.

Jakarta – After more than two years of waiting as a result of unclear stories, Diah Sujirah, the wife of a young poet and member of the People's Democratic Party (PRD), have finally rep

Jakarta – The government collected Rp 95.57 trillion (US$12.74 billion) in income, sales, value-added and property taxes in the fiscal year which ended on Friday, about 3 percent above

Indonesia has consulted the International Monetary Fund on its delay in raising fuel prices, said Economics Minister Kwik Kian Gie.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has shut down polluting pulp maker PT Inti Indorayon Utama (JSX: INRU) in Porsea, North Sumatra, pending a permanent settlement of its case by an arb

Jakarta – Indonesian police fired tear gas during clashes yesterday with protesters against a planned weekend increase in fuel and electricity prices.

Jakarta – Seven student and labor organizations have vowed to bring some 10,000 people to the streets on Saturday to protest the government's plan to raise fuel prices the same day.

Slobodan Lekic, Jakarta – Leaning forward in his armchair, Indonesia's founding father, President Sukarno, hands a sheaf of papers to a general seated on his right.

Sidrap – Thousands of farmers in Sidrap regency, some 230 kilometers north of the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar, have threatened to stop growing rice if the price of unhusked rice

Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid openly criticized his Cabinet – particularly the economic team – on Thursday, banning ministers from overseas travel until they are able to resolve

Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that instability could occur if the government presses ahead with its plan to increase prices in the energy sector, at a time

Shoeb Kagda – Concern over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) delaying its next loan payment of US$400 million to Indonesia sent the rupiah skidding yesterday to its lowest level in

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Only a day after attending a lavish reception in Jakarta for his grand-daughter's wedding, former president Soeharto has claimed he is not healthy enough to a

Comment by Max Lane – Socialists and progressive people face an important challenge in the coming few years to match the "solidarity" the Australian ruling class is extending to the new

Singapore – The chief of the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) said Tuesday top Indonesian ministers have given "verbal" approval to issue bonds to bail out 48 companies indeb

Pip Hinman – Indonesian House of Representatives speaker and Golkar faction leader Akbar Tandjung wants the Abdurrahman Wahid government to ratify the draconian security law which was p

Editorial and opinion – Competing agendas remain one hindrance to reform within the Indonesian Military, says Damien Kingsbury, the Executive Officer of Monash Asia Institute, who recen

Hundreds of Indonesian illegal immigrants rioted at a holding centre in Johor.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government will pay out 495.8 billion rupiah (S$112 million) in subsidies for the poor and public transport operators to offset planned fuel price hikes.

Jakarta – A close friend of former president Suharto was detained yesterday by the Attorney-General's office in connection with an investigation into the alleged misuse of funds involvi

Semarang – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday that his government will propose that the country's next president and vice-president be elected directly by the people

Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has proposed breaking his country's reliance on the United States for military equipment.

Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid said Indonesia must develop its own military industries, diversify its weapons- sourcing and move away from dependence on the United States.

Michael Richardson, Jakarta – After sidelining the military and consolidating democracy in Indonesia, a country long used to authoritarian rule, the government of President Abdurrahman

Paul Daley, Canberra – Indonesian military figures associated with the discredited Suharto regime are deliberately smearing Australia with unsubstantiated allegations of unauthorised RA

Jakarta – Three generals, allegedly involved in quashing a 1984 riot in Jakarta when scores of Muslim militants died, have been identified by the National Commission on Human Rights (Ko

Jakarta – The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) – a watchdog body that monitors abuses involving corruption, collusion, and nepotism (KKN) – commented that President Wahid has not yet s

Jakarta – Police found the remains of at least 34 foetuses yesterday at a burial site on the southern outskirts of Jakarta.

Jakarta – Indonesia's General Elections Commission (KPU), plagued by allegations of corruption, has elected a presidium to replace its chairman, retired General Rudini, who resigned rec

Makassar – President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday said he supported a plan for the construction of three new naval bases – in Sorong, Sumatra and Java – to better assure security in this

Jakarta – Thirty years after the military dealt with a communist threat, the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) – the country's highest authority on Islam – is pressing the government to m

Jose Manuel Tesoro, Jakarta – "Indonesian politics these days is like a Chinese movie," says a disgruntled Indonesian former civil servant.

Melbourne – Prime Minister John Howard today responded to overtures from Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid by praising Mr Wahid's leadership and democratic principles.

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – In a stunning reversal, Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid has praised the Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, for his "strength" in sticking to his controversial v