Anita Rachman – PKS president Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq told journalists on Monday afternoon that there was a "fifty-fifty" chance that Osama bin Laden had actually been killed by US security

Camelia Pasandaran – Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring on Friday said Web sites promoting terrorism would be blocked, but not those that teach bomb-ma

An Islamic extremist was jailed for 10 years by an Indonesian court on Wednesday for being part of an "evil conspiracy" involving militants who were plotting attacks in the country.

Jakarta – Prominent terrorist defendant and firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir may have orchestrated a series of terrorist attacks in several areas in Indonesia recently, Nation

Heru Andriyanto – High-profile terror defendant Abu Bakar Bashir was interrogated by the court on Monday over his role in the training of militants in Aceh.

Farouk Arnaz – Pepi Fernando, the alleged mastermind, financier and bomb-maker behind the Good Friday bomb plot and book-bomb campaign, was a former member of the extremist Indonesian I

Farouk Arnaz – A lucky turn of events appeared to have led police to the timely discovery of the plan to blow up a church and weapons warehouse in Serpong, Tangerang.

Farouk Arnaz – The plotters of a foiled Easter church bombing in Indonesia planned to film the attack and could be behind other atrocities, police said Friday, with the nation on its hi

Niniek Karmini, Cirebon, Indonesia – Muhammad Syarif was by all accounts a hothead: He smashed up shops that sold liquor, argued about religion, kicked people he deemed lazy.

Jakarta – As terrorists in the country shift from forming larger to smaller groups, the police's early terror-plot detection ability becomes more challenging, experts say.

Femi Adi – Indonesia's government must adopt new strategies to target terrorist acts carried out by individuals after authorities dismantled or disrupted larger organizations, the Inter

Camelia Pasandaran, Bogor – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on Tuesday for state an law-enforcement institutions to work together to prevent terrorism, radicalization and inte

Jakarta – Activists on Monday alleged that the Indonesian government let violence and terror reign in the country as it resulted in the disbursement of foreign funds in the name of the

Jakarta – A report released by the International Crisis Group (ICG) on Tuesday stated that the emergence of small terror groups in the country was accompanied by a change in tactics and

An Indonesian court on Monday sentenced an Islamic extremist to eight years in jail for possession of firearms and explosives, but left out a charge of plotting to attack the Danish Emb

The National Police officially confirmed the identity of the man who bombed At-Taqwa mosque in Cirebon Police Headquarters on Friday, killing himself and injuring 30.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) urges the whole nation to condemn the suicide bomb attack that hit a mosque at the Cirebon Police complex during Friday pra

Farouk Arnaz & Elisabeth Oktofani – Condemnation of Friday's suicide bombing in Cirebon, the first such attack inside a mosque in this country, came quickly from all corners of soci

Megawati Wijaya, Jakarta – New legislation before Indonesia's parliament aims to give special powers to intelligence agencies charged with fighting terrorism.

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has called on Indonesian Muslims to refrain from being provoked by Friday's terrorist attack.

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta, Indonesia – A suicide bomber blew himself up as police were praying Friday, wounding 28 people in the first attack on a mosque since extremists started targeti

Heru Andriyanto – The final witness for the prosecution in the trial of cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has corroborated earlier testimony that the paramilitary camp linked to the defendant was

Heru Andriyanto – Firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Wednesday questioned the legitimacy of the Indonesian government during a heated exchange with a prosecution witness at his terror

Femi Adi & Agus Suhana – Pakistan's arrest two days ago of a suspect in the October 2002 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, may shed light on terrorist networks in the region, according t

Officials on Thursday gave mixed reports on whether the Indonesian Government understood that the man arrested in Pakistan was actually suspected terrorist Umar Patek.

Sebastian Abbot and Niniek Karmini, Islamabad – The main Indonesian suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people was shot and wounded by security forces who arrested him in

Olivia Rondonuwu – Indonesian militants are using parcel bombs and targeting minorities to try to push an Islamist agenda on the government and they could launch further small attacks,

Heru Andriyanto – Hard-line cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was a different man during a hearing at the South Jakarta District Court on Thursday.

The Prosperous Justice Party has asked that the current spate of terror attacks in the greater Jakarta region not be associated with Islam.

Heru Andriyanto – Firebrand cleric and terror defendant Abu Bakar Bashir has accused National Police's elite counterterrorism unit, Densus 88, of masterminding recent bomb scares in ord

Farouk Arnaz – Police suspect that the small bomb that exploded in Bogor on Friday is linked to the recent book-bomb threats despite the packaging being different.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The country's liberal Muslims said Wednesday they were not deterred by the renewed threat of terror after a liberal Muslim activist was mailed a bomb disguised in

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Niniek Karmini, Jakarta, Indonesia – A popular singer. A former anti-terror chief. An outspoken critic of Islamic extremism.

Heru Andriyanto – Suspected militants testifying in the trial of Abu Bakar Bashir have described the firebrand cleric as an influential anti-democracy advocate with solid links to the A

A top Indonesian antiterror official said on Wednesday that regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah was behind a series of 'book bombs' in Jakarta, one of which injured four people.

An Indonesian analyst believes Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Jakarta were the work of the United States.

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta, Indonesia – One of three mail bombs sent to Indonesians blamed for "sins against Islam" wounded four people when police detonated it, a new threat coming as re

A bomb exploded at the office of a moderate Islamic group in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Tuesday, injuring four people including a policeman, police and a witness said.

Heru Andriyanto – Controversial cleric Abu Bakar Bashir stormed out of his court hearing after his lawyer on Monday was expelled for contempt of court.

Heru Andriyanto – A militant known as a close aide to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was sentenced to four and a half years in jail on Friday for raising funds to finance paramilitar

Heru Andriyanto – Two men accused of channeling funds to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to set up a paramilitary camp in Aceh firmly maintained their innocence in two separate hearin

Heru Andriyanto – Firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir told a court on Monday that the government's actions against him and the paramilitary training in Aceh were tantamount to banning Isl

Heru Andriyanto – Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir lambasted the United States and its allies for their relentless attempts to convict him of terrorism when he appeared in the South Jaka

Stephen Coates, Jakarta – Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Thursday denied leading an Al-Qaeda-style group that was plotting attacks and assassinations in Indonesia, as his trial r

Heru Andriyanto & Mohd Adhe Bhakti – Prosecutors in the terrorism trial of Abu Bakar Bashir say they are preparing more than 130 witnesses whose testimonies they hope will help to f

An Indonesian court sentenced two Islamic extremists to 10 years in prison on Monday for their involvement in a terror cell known as Al Qaeda in Aceh.

Heru Andriyanto & Mohd Adhe Bhakti – The third criminal trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir paints a portrait of the cleric as a man bent on turning Indonesia into an Islamic s

Karlis Salna, Jakarta – The Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir yesterday denied being the leader of a terrorist network found training in Aceh, and said a string of fresh charges

Terror suspect Abu Bakar Ba'asyir allegedly raised Rp 1 billion (US$112,000) to buy firearms, ammunition and set up a terrorist training camp in Aceh, prosecutors say.