Phelim Kine – The fear of communists is alive and well in Indonesia.

Guteriano Neves – After almost two months of intense political theater among the Timorese political elites, the new government was finally sworn in on September 15, 2017 with the new minority gover

Michael Leach – Almost two months since the 22 July election, a new government will be sworn in today in Dili.

John McBeth, Jakarta – With his popularity steadily rising, an unusual phenomenon in the middle of a presidential term and with a worryingly stagnant economy, little now appears to stand in the way

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Paul Malone – The announcement by the Permanent Court of Arbitration last week that Australia and Timor Leste have reached an agreement on maritime boundaries will hopefully bring to an end a shame

John McBeth, Jakarta – The enigmatic expression on Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati's face as she sat between Mines and Energy Minister Ignasius Jonan and US-based Freeport McMoRan Copper &am

Damien Kingsbury – Australia's agreement with East Timor to settle a permanent maritime boundary in the Timor Sea appears to bring to an end a long-running and often bitter dispute, which has marre

Curtis S. Chin – A decade ago, I traveled to East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, to look at the condition of roads and other infrastructure in Asia's newest country.

Today, the 30th of August, is a bittersweet day for the Timorese.

Resty Woro Yuniar – It's been nearly two decades since Indonesian dictator Suharto was toppled in a people-led revolution that was supposed to put the country on the road to full-fledged democracy.

John Cheong-Holdaway – In 2016 Indonesia's Ministry of Public Works dramatically underestimated the funds it needed to acquire land for toll road development.

Eve Warburton and Edward Aspinall – For much of the past decade, observers have praised Indonesian democracy.

Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) – For the umpteenth time fires have burned our forests and peatland, posing threats not only to people in the vicinity but also to our relationships with our neighbou

Damien Kingsbury – Although unlikely to be formalized before 22 August, the shape of Timor-Leste's next government is starting to become clear.

Andreas Harsono – The Indonesian government has been doing something remarkable over the past year with its political prisoners in Papua and West Papua provinces: Releasing them.

Dave McRae – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's hard-line rhetoric in recent weeks on the fatal shooting of drugs suspects has prompted many to question whether Indonesia is contemplating a Rodrigo D

Jakarta – The filing of criminal charges with the South Jakarta Prosecutor's Office against a suspected tax evader by the tax office on Wednesday is only the first step in a massive crackdown on ta

Damien Kingsbury – Timor-Leste came through the 2017 parliamentary elections with a general expectation that the two major parties, CNRT and Fretilin, would continue to dominate the small country's

Andreas Harsono – Twenty-eight-year-old Yulius Pigai of West Papua's remote Deiyai regency is the latest native Papuan shot dead by Indonesian police.

Jakarta – The campaign for an independent Papua has been relentless and has made significant gains in past years.

Andreas Harsono – The official Ombudsman of Indonesia has accused both the Attorney General's Office (AGO) and the Supreme Court of "maladministration" in denying a Nigerian citizen, executed for d

And the witch-hunt begins.

Gustav Brown – Many have cast the recent Jakarta gubernatorial election as a defeat for religious pluralism at the hands of political Islam, a movement which appears more potent and visible than at

Georgina Downer – For a nation that only won its hard-fought battle for independence 15 years ago, Timor Leste has travelled a long way fast.

Rifqi Assegaf – In late April 2017, the House of Representatives (DPR) stared down protests from the public – and some of its own members – and launched a special inquiry into the Corruption Eradic

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network) – We Indonesians pride ourselves on being a nation of plenty.

Khoo Ying Hooi –- On July 22, 77 percent of Timorese cast their votes in the Timor-Leste's parliamentary election, which was contested by almost two dozen political parties in a country of just abo

Michael Leach – With final votes tallied in the Timor-Leste parliamentary elections overnight, the results in Dili suggest a reframed power-sharing government will emerge, showing some continuity w

Nava Nuraniyah – The Indonesian government's partial blocking of the messaging application Telegram – which has several million users in the country – may be an effective tool to pressure the tech

David Webster – On May 20, 2017, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (the country's official name, using the Portuguese words for East Timor) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the restoration o

Anthony Fensom – Elections in Timor-Leste have highlighted the challenges facing one of Southeast Asia's poorest nations, amid predictions that its key oil and gas resources could be depleted by th

Damien Kingsbury – In a colourful and noisy event, unblemished so far by the violence that marred the first few years of independence, Timor-Leste prepares for its fourth parliamentary elections th

Alexander R Arifianto – On July 10, 2017, Indonesian President Joko Widodo (popularly known as Jokowi) signed a government regulation which amends Law No.

Michael Leach, Dili – Twenty-one parties will contest 65 parliamentary seats and decide who governs Timor-Leste in national elections this Saturday.

Tahnee Reed – There is a lot of doom and gloom about the possibility of Timor-Leste becoming a failed state. Caution is understandable, as failed states create regional instability.

Julie Chernov Hwang – Last week, Indonesian President Joko Widodo signed into law a decree to make it easier for his government to ban any group it deems "extremist."

Andreas Harsono – The Indonesian government today ordered the disbanding of Hizbut Tahrir, a conservative Islamist group that supports the creation of a Sharia-based Islamic caliphate to replace th

Jeffrey Hutton – Amid the din of a few hundred protestors that he helped assemble in front of the main gate of Indonesia's parliament, Cecep Supriyanto struggled to make himself heard by a visiting

Jakarta – The scene could not be more symbolic and the parallel could not be more striking.

Khoo Ying Hooi and Guteriano Neves – A total of 21 political parties are registered to contest the Timor-Leste parliamentary election on July 22.

Jeremy Menchik – In May, the governor of Jakarta, Indonesia – a Christian – was convicted for blasphemy against religion and sentenced to two years in prison.

Eka Kurniawan, Jakarta, Indonesia – Rizieq Shihab may be the most controversial public figure in Indonesia today.

Sana Jaffrey and Siswo Mulyartono – Indonesia has had a tumultuous year dealing with a divisive election and massive protests against Jakarta's former governor, led by the Islamic Defenders' Front

Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir, Luqman-nul Hakim and Diatyka Widya Permata Yasih – More than any other previous Indonesian election, the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election saw candidates playing with iden

Andre Vltchek – "America first" and "to hell with the rest of the world"!

Amalinda Savirani – As some scholars argue, there is insufficient proof of the 'neoliberal' nature of the policies that outgoing Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has led.

Just a few months ago, the governor of Indonesia's largest city, Jakarta, seemed headed for easy re-election despite the fact that he is a Christian in a mostly Muslim country.

I visited Timor Leste this May, just as the first new nation of the new millennium turned fifteen.

James Scambary – On 26 October 2015, East Timor's Audit Chamber vetoed the largest contract in the country's history – worth US$719 million dollars – for 'non-compliance with basic standards in for