Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – Fifty asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan and Somalia, have been camping on the basketball court of the Jakarta Immigration Detention Center, Kalideres, West Jakarta, s

Max Walden – Asylum Seekers and refugees residing in Indonesia have protested against the United Nations refugee body for lengthy processes and what some perceive as a discriminatory selection proc

Konradus Epa in Atambua, Indonesia – Rostiana Bareto experienced tough living conditions as a refugee when she and her family settled in Atambua, western Timor, on the border with Indonesia.

Samantha Hawley, Indonesia – Rabia Rezai thought it better she stay at home rather than be reunited with her husband in Australia.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – Notorious people smuggler "Captain Bram", who organised the asylum seekers' boat at the centre of the notorious 'cash for boat-turn-back' scandal in 2015, has been

Tama Salim, Haeril Halim and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has streamlined procedures for handling asylum seekers, clearing stumbling blocks that had earlier hindered them from enter

Tama Salim, Jakarta – The UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) has urged Indonesia to reconsider signing the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees as part of concerted efforts to res

Fadli, Batam – Dozens of people under the banner of the People's Information Center (Lira) gathered on Sunday at Aspirasi Park in Batam, where scores of refugees have been staying for months, and t

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Thousands of families residing in Timor Leste before its independence have returned to Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) after passing citizen verification and validatio

Lita Aruperes, Manado, North Sulawesi – The North Sulawesi Police have uncovered an alleged charging of illegal fees in the disbursement of compensation funds to former residents of East Timor (now

Fadli, Batam – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it will support whatever decision the Indonesian government takes concerning refugees and asylum seekers in Batam so lo

Jakarta – The Indonesian Minister of Social Affairs Khofifah Indar Parawansa handed over the compensation amount to 24 families of former of East Timorese but currently residents of Kediri, East Ja

Ben Doherty – Several of the Tamil asylum seekers stranded after arriving by boat on the Indonesian island of Aceh have been tortured in Sri Lanka and face certain persecution if they are returned,

Jakarta – In the same fortnight a boat load of Sri Lankan refugees in Aceh makes global headlines, the 13,000 asylum seekers calling Indonesia home reflected on World Refugee Day on Monday (20/06).

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Sri Lankans on board a boat marooned in Indonesia for more than a week insist they will continue their journey to Australia if their boat is escorted back

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Jakarta – Police fired a warning shot into the air after a group of Sri Lankan women who have been stranded off the coast of Aceh since June 11 disembarked from the

Banda Aceh – The Indonesian government has said it will not take in 44 Sri Lankan refugees who have been stranded in Aceh waters for the last few days.

Aceh fishermen are nominated to receive the 2016 Nansen Refugee Award from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) for rescuing hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh in

Deborah Cassrels – Under cover of darkness, 43 West Papuan asylum-seekers clambered aboard a dugout canoe at midnight.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Rote Island – The captain of an asylum seeker boat who said he was paid thousands of dollars by an Australian official to return to Indonesia has been sentenced to

The captain of an asylum-seeker boat allegedly intercepted by the Australian navy has told a court how he negotiated a hefty payment to take the migrants back to Indonesia to avoid goin

Jewel Topsfield – Tensions have once again flared between Indonesia and Australia over asylum seeker policy after a boat that was pushed back from Christmas Island by the Royal Australi

Jakarta – A lawmaker has emphatically opposed an idea put forward by Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan to provide an island to accommoda

Dylan Amirio, National – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that wil

Beh Lih Yi in Pelabuhan Ratu, Indonesia – Business has been bad for Gandi, a fisherman who rides the waves off Indonesia's rugged southern Java coast.

George Roberts, Indonesia – Indonesian police have provided new details about how Australian authorities allegedly intercepted an asylum seeker boat, transferred the passengers onto two boats and s

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa – The asylum seeker boat captain has spoken publicly for the first time, confirming he received a cash payment from an Australian official on the condition he never

Jakarta – The Australian government has paid thousands of dollars to turn back boats of asylum seekers for at least four years, a document reveals.

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Kupang, Indonesia – Photographs of thousands of US dollars handed to six people smugglers, which Indonesian police say is proof of bribery by Australian officials,

Australia would have stooped to a "new low" if reports its navy paid people-smugglers bound for Australia thousands of dollars to turn back their boat are true, an Indonesian government official sa

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Australia's prime minister on Friday sidestepped charges that officials from his country paid the crew of a boat carrying 65 migrants to return to Indonesian waters, but s

Daniel Hurst, Political correspondent – Tony Abbott has refused to rule out Australian officials paying people smugglers to turn back asylum-seeker vessels, saying the government was determined to

George Roberts, Indonesia – Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has denied claims by Indonesian police that Australian Customs officials paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers to take asylum seeke

Jordan Humphreys – While regional governments responded to Rohingya and Bangladeshi refugees by closing borders, working people showed that there is hope amid the horror.

Jewel Topsfield, James Massola, David Wroe – The Indonesian government has rebuked Australia for refusing to resettle any of the thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers at the centre o

Gianrigo Marletta, Geulumpang – Muchtar Ali began weeping when he saw the desperate, starving Rohingya on the overcrowded boat off the coast of Indonesia.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The word spread via text message.

Langsa, Aceh – From rescuing migrants at sea to donating all they can, residents of Indonesia's Islamic Aceh province are warmly welcoming hundreds of desperate fellow Muslims who have fled their h

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – The first state-facilitated reunions of family members long separated from each other are to begin on Monday in Dili and a few other areas outside Timor Leste's capital.

The Indonesian military (TNI) has prohibited fisherpeople operating in Indonesia's northern most province of Aceh from picking up or bringing back ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea in Indonesian terr

Kate Lamb, Langsa – When Myusup Mansur, a fisherman from the small island village of Pusung, first caught a glimpse of the boat in the distance in waters off North Sumatra, it was dark and impossib

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar, Bali – The first state-facilitated reunions of family members long separated from each other are scheduled to be held this week in Dili and a few other areas outside Timo

Shalailah Medhora – Labor may keep the practice of turning asylum boats around if it wins office at the next election, signalling what could be a major policy backflip.

Michael Bachelard – Twenty adolescent boys and girls cram in one room of a house in West Java, singing and gesturing in delightfully accented English a song made famous by a giant purpl

Sally Whyte – A West Papuan activist has fled to Australia in fear for her safety after giving testimony to an Australian tribunal into the 1998 Biak massacre by Indonesian forces.

Paul Farrell – When the asylum seekers board the Ocean Protector they are stacked four by four.

Ina Parlina, Yuliasri Perdani and Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta/Bali – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's attempt to repair strained bilateral ties with Jakarta is being stymied by a rec

Jakarta – The Indonesian navy has found 19 asylum-seekers who say they were turned around trying to reach Australia in the latest tow-back of a vessel under Canberra's hardline policies

Jakarta/Makassar – Saleem Ali, not his real name, was just 13 when his mother decided that paying strangers to smuggle him through several countries in the hope of reaching Australia wa

Jakarta – Jakarta called on governments on Monday to stop "shifting responsibility" for asylum seekers, in veiled criticism of Australia's hardline policy of towing boatloads of would-b