Tony Abbott says activists who want to "grandstand" against Indonesia are not welcome in Australia.

Rowan Callick, Deborah Cassrels – Crossbench politicians are demanding that the Abbott government back the calls of three West Papuan activists who in the early hours of yesterday morni

Australia's Consul-General in Bali has denied making threats to three West Papuan protesters who sought refuge inside the consulate.

Australian Greens Senator, Richard Di Natale, today called on Trade Minister Andrew Robb to explain misleading remarks about West Papuans who visited the Australian consulate in Bali ov

Simon Benson – Tony Abbott was warned in a phone message from a Victorian Senator that a group of activists were planning to break into the Australian consulate in Bali to stage a prote

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Marni Cordell and agencies – Three West Papuans who entered the Australian consulate in Bali overnight have left the compound after being warned by the consul-general that the Indonesia

AWPA has faxed the below letter to the Australian Consulate in Bali seeking clarification if the 3 West Papuan students left voluntarily or if were told that they would be handed over t

Australian Greens Senator, Dr Richard Di Natale, today called for the Australian Government to immediately offer sanctuary to three West Papuans.

Independent senator Nick Xenophon says West Papuan activists were "effectively threatened" to leave the Australian consulate in Bali ahead of Prime Minister Tony Abbott's arrival for th

Jakarta – Russia has always supported Indonesia in international politics, said Indonesian Ambassador to Russia Djauhari Oratmangun.

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Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste has expressed its wish to be associated with the Malaysian Parliamentary Friend to facilitate better cooperation between the two countries.

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott skirted the question of asylum seekers in talks on Monday in Indonesia, an issue which has threatened to overshadow his

Sandra Siagian – Despite Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's push to strengthen ties with Indonesia during a meeting with business and government delegates on Tuesday morning, a pre

Kuala Lumpur – Timor Leste has expressed the desire to emulate Malaysia in developing its infrastructure.

In Tony Abbot's Joint media conference with the Indonesian President he said,

Otniel Tamindael, Jakarta – Most of the basic necessities for the people of Timor Leste, formerly known as East Timor, are sourced from Indonesia.

Havana, Cuba – The President of the Democratic Republic of East Timor, Taur Matan Ruak, placed a wreath on Friday by the Monument to National Hero Jose Marti located at the capital's Re

Havana – In a bilateral meeting with his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, last Friday in Havana (or Saturday morning in Timor-Leste), H.E.

Jakarta – Senior officials from Indonesia, Timor Leste and Australia held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 68th United Nations General Assembly, in a bid to enhance connecti

Havana – The President of Timor-Leste, Taur Matan Ruak, will arrive in this capital today, after attending the UN General Assembly, in which he condemned the US blockade against this co

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop are visiting Indonesia at the end of September.

Oecusse, Timor Leste – Timor Leste Home Affairs Minister Jorge da Conceicao Teme has expressed his hope that brotherly relations with Indonesia, particularly with the people of West Tim

Michael Taylor – Indonesia's anti-monopolies regulator has begun an investigation into the country's rapidly growing soybean trade, after a recent spike in domestic prices and a strike

SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Dyah Ayu Pitaloka – The government's poor management of commodities has caused loopholes that have resulted in the creation of cartels among several groups

Jakarta – The Alliance to Save the Indonesian Embassy in Germany has criticized the government for proposing former Jakarta governor Fauzi Bowo as the new envoy to Germany, Europe's lar

Hanoi (Xinhua) – Vietnam and Timor-Leste pledged to further strengthen cooperation in fields of politic, economics, trade and investment, agriculture, forestry and fishery, energy and e

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Indonesia must make the most of its high level relationship with the US, which was marked by new commitments on military sales and cooperation, especially to

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) has called on the government to recall its Ambassador to Egypt, Nurfaizi Suwandi, as a form of protest for the violence against demonstrato

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia will likely see its trade deficit breach a record high of US$5 billion this year, more than double the figure last year, as the bleak export outlook

Jayapura – The Second Secretary for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Jakarta, James P.

The State Palace on Monday lashed out at foreign governments that allegedly spied on Indonesian leaders, saying the practice was unethical.

Linda Yulisman, Headlines – Indonesia will remove import quotas for beef and live cattle to stabilize domestic prices and curb inflation, a trade official says.

Jayapura, Papua – Britain still recognizes Papua as an integral part Indonesia, a British diplomat said.

Clayton Bennett – East Timor will open a consulate in Darwin.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The government will flood the market with imported basic-food commodities to help push down prices and ease inflationary pressure during the consumption-heavy

Mark Colvin: East Timor's president, Taur Matan Ruak, is on his first official visit to Australia since he won last year's election.

Simon Santow: Indonesia has invited the foreign ministers of four Pacific Island countries to visit its two easternmost provinces – Papua and West Papua – to see for themselves if the p

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's commitment to help develop Indonesia's easternmost region could instead lead to more abuses of Papuans, an activist wa

Australia's Deputy Opposition Leader and Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop is in East Timor.

Ezra Sihite, Bogor, West Java – Visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd reiterated his government's recognition of Indonesia's sovereignty over Papua on Friday.

Australia's deputy opposition leader and foreign affairs spokeswoman, Julie Bishop, is in East Timor to meet with the country's prime minister Xanana Gusmao and foreign minister Jose Lu

Dili – Timor Leste and Australia will go to a tribunal over a deal on sharing energy revenues after the half-island nation accused Canberra of spying during negotiations, the Timorese p

East Timor is seeking partners for human resource training, infrastructure construction and development of the oil, agriculture and tourism sectors, East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is visiting Indonesia for the third Indonesia-Australia Leaders' Meeting, from 4 to 5 July

Kupang – Timor Leste's plan to import chicken meat from Indonesia, specifically East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), has been impeded by the absence of an official notification from the province's

The foreign ministers of Japan and East Timor agreed to deepen bilateral cooperation in developing basic infrastructure in the violence-wracked Southeast Asian nation, during talks Sund

Wellington – The governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste on Wednesday signed a defense agreement to enable smoother cooperation between their armed forces.

Diska Putri Pamungkas – Greater cooperation between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia may be on the horizon following a three-day visit by Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and 100 of the count