Reko Rennie – Police ordered staff at a Sydney hotel to use a master key to gain entry to the room of an Indonesian governor, a hotel employee said today.

Iqbal Fadil, Jakarta – The raid on Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso's room at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney, Australia, is related to his past when as a officer of the Indonesian military (TN

Anwar Khumaini, Jakarta – Non-government organisations from Indonesia's NGO Coalition for International Human Rights Advocacy (Koalisi LSM) say that Jakarta governor Sutiyoso should hav

Hamish McDonald – An Indonesian politician visiting Sydney yesterday had an awkward reminder of an event in his past he must have thought long buried: the death of five Australian newsm

A senior Indonesian politician has demanded an apology from Australia over an attempt to have him testify at a politically sensitive inquest into the Balibo Five deaths.

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Cath Hart – A foreign policy expert has warned the Government that relations with Indonesia would be damaged if Australia ratified the Lombok Treaty without clarifying Jakarta's expecta

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) has urged the government to annul its recent deal with US giant software producer Microsoft for the use of

By Jim Elmslie with Peter King and Jake Lynch. A report prepared for the West Papua Project at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Sydney.

Rohan Pearce – February 23 marked the deadline for submissions to the federal parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) on the new Australia-Indonesia "security" pact.

Rob Taylor, Canberra – Australian rights activists on Monday criticised a security pact with Indonesia, telling parliament in a submission that it could help Jakarta brutally put down s

Donald E. Weatherbee, Honolulu – For six years the administration of George W. Bush has nurtured a restored relationship with Indonesia.

In little more than a decade, Indonesia has transformed itself from international pariah to indispensable regional power.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Indonesia's exports wrapped up 2006 on another record high, booking growth of nearly 20 percent over the previous year to close at more than US$100 billion for t

Television ads will start screening in capital cities around the country tonight, calling on Federal Parliament to modify a security treaty between Australia and Indonesia.

John McBeth, Jakarta – The new Democrat-dominated US Congress is not good news for Indonesia.

Jakarta – New Zealand has restored defence cooperation by inviting Indonesian officers to join a military training in the New Zealand Defense Force's Staff and Command Academy, a press

Dario Thuburn, Moscow – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to expand energy ties and arms trade during talks in Moscow.

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Theresia Sufa, Bandung/Bogor – Angry public bus and minivan owners in Bogor are planning to bill the government for losses incurred by United States President Georg

Abdul Khalik, Bogor – At least two of the experts who attended the bilateral talks between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and US President George W.

Bogor, Bandung, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Makassar – Some braved the rain to protest, while other chose to watch proceedings from afar during the visit of United States President George W.

Urip Hudiono, Hanoi/Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has warned people not to "excessively" protest US President George W.

Zakki Hakim, Jakarta – Thousands wound through the streets of Indonesia's capital and gathered at a grand mosque Sunday to protest President Bush's upcoming visit to the world's most po

Bhimanto Suwastoyo, Jakarta – Thousands of hardline Muslims have rallied against US President George W.

Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Thousands of protesters ranging from militant youths to mothers carrying babies demonstrated across Indonesia against US President George W.

Palu, Central Sulawesi – Protests against US President George W. Bush's planned visit to Indonesia on Nov. 20 continue in parts of the country.

Duncan Graham, Surabaya – There's a critical five-letter word absent from the Framework for Security Cooperation agreement signed this week (Monday Nov.

Duncan Campbell – Indonesia is of vital strategic importance to Australia. That much is generally agreed. How we should deal with that reality is not.

Adam Henry – The enigmatic Jakarta Lobby is "... an informal group of like-minded people who regard Indonesia as a special case".

Bogor – Hardline Indonesian Islamic groups are considering launching a no-confidence motion against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over US President George W.

Mark Forbes in Senggigi, Lombok – With two signatures and a handshake, Indonesia and Australia have proclaimed a new era of closer relations with a treaty aimed at ending a roller-coast

Indonesia and Australia will sign a new treaty on Monday aimed at smoothing prickly ties through greater security cooperation, and underlining support for Jakarta's sovereignty over res

Indonesia said it was confident Australia will no longer be used as a staging post for separatist groups following the signing of a historic security pact.

Indonesia is hoping a new security treaty with Australia will uphold the sovereignty of both countries, including restive areas such as Papua, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Hassan Wiraju

Karen Michelmore – The Federal Government has given a clear commitment under a new security pact to oppose Indonesian separatist movements, including those operating within Australia, I

The Australia West Papua Association spokesperson Joe Collins expressed grave concerns at the new security treaty with Indonesia.

Andra Jackson – Australia was "killing off" democracy in Papua with its impending treaty with Indonesia, a Papuan leader has said in Melbourne.

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Mark Forbes, Jakarta – Australia will help Indonesia develop a nuclear program, conduct joint border protection patrols, expand military and intelligence ties and agree to suppress Papu

Jakarta – Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono said political or military issues would not be discussed during US President George W. Bush's impending visit.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Representatives of the Bogor municipal administration in West Java province, the police and Indonesian Military (TNI) have been holding a number of meetings

Paul Kelly – The Howard Government must rethink its policy towards Papua to prevent tensions or even hostilities with Indonesia and to terminate the myths that underwrite our public sym

Malcolm Cook and Ivan Cook – Unlike people, countries cannot choose their next-door neighbours or the neighbourhood they live in.

Andra Jackson – Thirty-seven years ago former Papuan politicians Clemens Runawery and Wim Zonggonau boarded a plane on an urgent mission that might have changed the political fate of th

Hamish McDonald – Political leaders in Canberra and Port Moresby want the voices of a diplomatically awkward rebellion buried in East Awin, Papua New Guinea, a settlement in a vast and

John McBeth – For three years now, the small white house across the street from the football field in the heart of the frontier town of Atambua has been used as a mess by Indonesia's pa

Cath Hart and Samantha Maiden – John Howard has pulled the plug on his controversial migration bill to avoid facing a defeat in the Senate.

Tom Hyland – The Indonesian Army manipulated the voyage to Australia of 43 West Papuan asylum seekers in a secret pyschological warfare operation that gave Jakarta a diplomatic and stra