Farouk Arnaz – The National Police chief as well as the Ministers for Religious Affairs and Communication and Information Technology on Monday quickly moved to quash public worries that

Jakarta – Strong reasons for their involvement must be provided before the Indonesia Military (TNI) is given a bigger role in fighting terrorism, experts said Sunday.

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – An Islamic group says recent raids on terrorist safe houses and comments by the governor of Jakarta about neighborhood alertness could lead to racial profili

Jakarta – The National Police have decided to drop a widely criticized plan to monitor sermons given at mosques and mass gatherings, after a number of political parties and Islamic orga

Heru Andriyanto – Religious leaders are warning that the National Police's plan to monitor sermons during Ramadan to prevent the spread of extremism will offend and anger Muslims, and b

Jakarta – The proposed involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in the ongoing war on terrorism has to be closely monitored and based on a clear-cut job description with the Nationa

Salim Osman and Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Indonesian police will start clamping down on Islamic clerics who are suspected of having links to militant groups, in a reversal of its past pol

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday hit back at critics of his decision to give the Armed Forces an increased role in fighti

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Defense Ministry said on Thursday that the military had the authority to take action against terror suspects.

Nivell Rayda – Terrorism experts on Friday urged Indonesia to increase its monitoring of convicted terrorists who had been released from jail.

Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian media's over-reporting of terrorism may aid extremists in generating fear in society, observers said on Thursday.

Farouk Arnaz – Terrorism experts defended a police program to fight radicalization on Thursday, dismissing an apparent setback and blemish to its reputation.

[Indonesian defence minister Juwono Sudarsono talks to Clifford Coonan in Jakarta.]

Agus Maryono, Banyumas – The current intensive police hunt for wanted terrorist Noordin M.

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – Ties between Middle East extremists and the terrorist cell thought to be responsible for suicide attacks on two Jakarta hotels have emerged after the weeken

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The country's most wanted terrorist, Noordin M.

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Police in Bekasi will approach "suspicious" people wearing Islamic veils after experts floated the possibility that terror suspect Noordin M Top could be disguisi

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – When freelance advertising copywriter Glenn Marsalim went for his regular jog in Jakarta's Senayan stadium soon after the July 17 terrorist bombings he fe

Indonesians must unite to root out the "poverty and backwardness" that led an 18-year-old to carry out the suicide bombing at a luxury hotel last month that ended a four-year pause in t

Tom Allard, Jakarta – As the frantic chase for Indonesia's most wanted man Noordin Mohammed Top moved into overdrive, Indonesian police came upon two men at a motorcycle repair shop in

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – The radical Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir presided over the funerals yesterday of two men linked to the terrorist cell that bombed the JW Marriott and Rit

Dicky Christanto – Authorities have said the recent hotel bombings and subsequent police raids in Temanggung, Central Java and Jatiasih, Bekasi, were evidence that terrorist groups repr

Camelia Pasandaran – A human rights watcher on Friday criticized police and media for their actions during last weekend's raid on a suspected terrorist hideout.

Anita Rachman & Candra Malik – A hero's burial accorded by hard-line Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for two suspected terrorists shot dead in a recent police raid was dismissed by m

Arientha Primanita – The city administration launched a string of raids against people without valid identification cards on Thursday, as part of efforts to improve security following t

Farouk Arnaz – Indonesia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin M Top, may disguise himself by wearing a women's Islamic headscarf and a burqa, a former head of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) said duri

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – A suspected militant slain during a 16-hour siege with counterterrorism forces last week was not Indonesia's most-wanted militant Noordin Muhammad Top, police

Tom Allard, Barung (West Java) – Dani Dwi Permana was a conscientious, basketball-loving young man, a solid student from a troubled family who, nonetheless, seemed to have a lifetime of

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police were so close to catching fugitive Malaysian terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top that they even managed to photograph him outside a Jakarta s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Military Chief Gen.

Stephen Coates – Asian terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top is probably still at large in Indonesia despite reports of his death, police said Monday, even as the net closed around his ex

Jakarta – The death of Malaysian terror mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top would be a huge blow to his network but would not mean the end of Islamist suicide bombings in Indonesia, analyst

Naila Firdausi and Achmad Sukarsono – The reported deaths of Noordin Mohammad Top, suspected of masterminding a series of bombings in Indonesia, and two of his associates may reduce ris

It appears Noordin Top has eluded capture in a third police raid, Tom Allard writes in Jakarta.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police will today intensify their attempts to determine whether a man who identified himself as the terrorist Noordin Top, and who was killed i

A leading Southeast Asian terrorist suspect reportedly killed Saturday in a gun battle with police at a village hide-out was planning a suicide car bomb attack on Indonesia's president,

Tom Allard and Karuni Rompies in Jakarta – Noordin Mohammed Top, the man suspected of masterminding a series of terrorist attacks across Indonesia, including the Jakarta hotel bombings

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Suspected terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top was believed to have been killed in a Central Java police raid today.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A decision by the Army to deploy personnel to assist police in conducting antiterrorism operations was criticized by a number of nongovernmental organizations

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus J.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Army says it is fully prepared to assist the police in antiterrorism work, particularly in the areas of intelligence gathering, bomb disposal and the depl

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Joe Cochrane – The Attorney General's Office said on Sunday that it was ready to take action against any publication used by terrorists to spread radicali

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A former leading figure in the Jemaah Islamiah who knew Noordin Mohamad Top says he doubts the authenticity of a statement posted on the internet under the name of

April Aswadi, Farouk Arnaz & Ferry Irwanto – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday said the July 17 bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels were setbacks that m

Tom Allard Herald, Jakarta – A message posted on the internet and purporting to be from the fugitive terrorist Noordin Mohammed Top has claimed responsibility for the twin hotel bombing

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities have detained a suspected financier of the terrorist bombings of two Jakarta hotels 10 days ago.

Nurfika Osman, Farouk Arnaz & Candra Malik – Investigations into the July 17 suicide bombings in Jakarta suffered two major setbacks on Sunday.

Farouk Arnaz & Heru Andriyanto – Fugitive terrorist Noordin M.

The recent bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta were an ominous reminder that terrorists still view Indonesia as a prime regional location for launching attack

Stephanie Tangkilisan – The media was criticized on Friday for its coverage of last week's bombings at two Jakarta hotels, including broadcasting graphic images of the victims and repor