Daniel Cooney, Jakarta – Indonesia's military admitted Tuesday that some of its troops have taken sides in the long-running Christian-Muslim war in the Maluku islands.

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Vaudine England, Jakarta – Men in Indonesian military uniform have been filmed providing covering fire for Muslim fighters as they attacked a Christian neighbourhood in the violence-wra

Sydney – US Secretary of Defense William Cohen confirmed Monday that the US is reestablishing military links with Indonesia. But he denied his country is selling arms to Jakarta.

Jakarta – A joint military-police investigation team initiated on Monday an inquiry into the involvement of both military and police personnel in the July 27, 1996 attack on the Indones

Jakarta – Some 1,000 Indonesian farmers on Tuesday rallied peacefully in the national parliament complex here to demand land reform and the return of farmlands forcibly taken over by th

Djoko Tjiptono/BI & LM, Jakarta – Thousands of peasants from West Java have converged on the National Development Planning Board (Bappenas) office and then the parliament complex in

LH, NL/FW, BS & Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – The plot behind the bombing of the Attorney General's office on July 4 and its connection to the Suharto family continues to unfold.

Vaudine England, Jakarta – "We wish a lot of the talking would stop and everyone would just get on with their jobs," said a housewife who lives in sight of Jakarta's green and mushroom-

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Corruption and weak law enforcement promise to make the polluting haze caused by Indonesian forest fires a perennial problem.

Jakarta – Indonesia's Defence Minister, Dr Juwono Sudarsono, has blamed rogue army officers for inflaming religious war in the riot-torn Maluku islands, where seven people died in fight

United Nations – Six Indonesian non-government organizations are opposing resumed military ties with the United States, saying it would send signals that Washington supported Indonesia'

Daniel Cooney, Jakarta – Christians and Muslims waged fierce street battles in the Maluku islands, leaving at least 11 people dead, hospital officials said Sunday.

The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) must form an a commission to resolve the abductions of pro-democracy activists in 1997 and 1998.

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Relations between President Abdurrahman Wahid and his Vice-President, Megawati Sukarnoputri, have soured dramatically, raising questions about the stability o

Don Greenlees – Indonesia's Defence Minister, Juwono Sudarsono, has requested Australian military assistance in meeting the huge humanitarian burden in the country's violence-racked eas

Jakarta – Nearly 3,000 volunteers of a militant Indonesian Muslim jihad (holy war) force are still in the riot-torn eastern city of Ambon, a report said Saturday.

Jakarta – The ongoing economic crisis and political instability in Indonesia since mid-1997 have pushed up unemployment to 37.4 million, a local newspaper controlled by the former rulin

A July 12 meeting between Indonesia's top four political leaders was indefinitely postponed at the very last minute.

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid is facing yet another threat to his already shaky presidency with the latest bid by his political opponents in parliament to probe i

Jakarta – Top reform leaders blamed each other on Thursday over last night's aborted meeting between them, boding ill for a speedy resolution to the current political disharmony, despit

Time is running out for Indonesia's first democratically chosen president. The task is vast.

Jakarta – A mass brawl broke out again in the Matraman area of East Jakarta on Thursday as residents of the bickering Palmeriam and Berlan subdistricts pelted rocks and threw Molotov co

H Dharmastuti/SWA & LM, Jakarta – The fate of 14 people abducted in the dying days of the Suharto regime remains unknown.

L Hakim/SWA & LM, Jakarta – Vice Director of the General Crime Division at the National Police Headquarters, Senior Superintendent Makbul Padmanegara, has admitted that their invest

Maryadi/FW & LM, Pontianak – Indonesia's most prominent environmental protection group, WALHI, has slammed President Abdurrahman Wahid and the current government for their lack of c

Jakarta – Regional Autonomy Minister Ryaas Rasyid has warned that some local bureaucrats and politicians were using the Indonesian government's new decentralisation policy to blackmail

John McBeth, Jakarta – For members of a visiting group of US editors, a mid-afternoon conversation with President Abdurrahman Wahid in late June ended in near-complete bewilderment.

Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank said Thursday it can fully implement a new monetary policy only once economic stability in the country is restored.

North Sumatra – Looting of plantations has become a major headache in Indonesia, hitting bottom lines in the sector and threatening investment and privatization plans.

C.A Tanjung/SWA & LM, Jakarta – Thick smoke blanketing Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau Province, Sumatra, since Wednesday has been attributed to land clearing activities by businesse

Maryadi/Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – Smog in and around Pontianak, West Kalimantan, caused by slash and burn land clearing has reached hazardous levels while the local government has yet to

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) yesterday appointed three commission members to revise its rejected report on the 1984 massacre in Tanjung Priok, North Ja

Jakarta – A recent poll conducted by the Center for Electoral Reform showed the majority of Indonesians supported direct presidential elections.

Jakarta – The official number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia now stands at 1,283, although health experts predicted the real figure could be as high as 350,000 or more, a senior officia

Jakarta – Security authorities have seized thousands of weapons and explosives in a series of arms sweeping operations in Maluku, which remains tense despite the two-week imposition of

Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Husein could do nothing when the mob set his son Dian on fire. "If I had protested, they would have killed me too," he says simply.

John McBeth, Talawaan – An ecological disaster looms over North Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula.

John McBeth in South Kalimantan and North Sulawesi – They come equipped with scores of excavators and more than 500 trucks. Their backers have wealth and influence.

Jakarta – Despite sinister political maneuvers and other efforts to discredit President Abdurrahman Wahid, the one thing in his favor is that there's no one good enough to replace him.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy said it had captured two boats illegally ferrying weapons to North Maluku.

James Balowski – The sinking of the overloaded Cahaya Bahari ferry on July 6 – which killed at least 481 Christian refugees fleeing the latest outburst of violence in Indonesia – highli

James Balowski – The government of President Abdurrahman Wahid appears to be indulging in a veritable orgy of investigations into human rights violations – ranging from the post-ballot

Pip Hinman – Indonesia's most prominent left-wing political party, the People's Democratic Party (PRD), has filed a 5.5 billion rupiah (US$617,000) lawsuit against Suharto over the aili

Jakarta – A defendant in a court trying a 2.1 million-dollar counterfeit money case has testified that Indonesia's army chief had full knowledge of the production of fake bills, a repor

Jakarta – The situation in Dumai municipility, 200 kms from the Riau capital of Pekanbaru, remained tense yesterday, as self-titled commander of Free Riau, Muhammad Sabri, continued to

Bogor – Hundreds of illegal miners working at gold-rich Pongkor Mountain thronged the Bogor Council building on Monday, complaining about violent measures they had suffered from securit

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Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a new bill on the rights of workers to unionize.

President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia has ordered the military to safeguard mining operations in the country, following a series of attacks on foreign-owned mines.