Jakarta – The city administration is having trouble providing jobs for some 40,000 government employees whose ministries were closed down by the…

Jakarta – An angry mob has killed a man in Central Java for sleeping at his fiancee's house, while another man was stabbed to death…

DSB, DS & TS/GB, Jakarta – The increase in fuel prices, effective today Sunday 1 October 2000, have sparked demonstrations across Indonesia…

Jakarta – The government on Saturday raised fuel prices by an average of 12 percent to help offset soaring oil prices in international markets.…

Jakarta – A Jakarta court has ordered investigators to drop an inquiry into corruption allegations against two Indonesian supreme…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Student activists, angered by a Jakarta district court's rejection of former President Suharto's corruption charges, have…

Jakarta – Police warned students on Friday against conducting more violent protests following the ugly clashes which erupted on Thursday after the…

Derwin Pereira, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid, attempting to contain the political fallout from the collapse of the multi-million-dollar…

The dismissal of former President Suharto's graft case has provoked widespread dismay in Indonesia, with newspapers attacking President…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – On many of Jakarta's balmy evenings, the plush suburb of Menteng looks like a battlefield as protesters fight police…

Susan Sim, Jakarta – It is not an equation that the angry young demonstrators give two hoots about, but the donor countries probably care more…

Jakarta – In stunning TV footage, an Indonesian police officer aimed his grenade launcher into the face of a cowering protester and fired point-…

Marianne Kearney Jakarta – Malam Minggu or Saturday night is always busy in the glass and granite shopping centres that serve as Jakarta's social…

Jakarta – Some 30 people were wounded in the capital on Thursday in clashes between anti-Soeharto and pro-Soeharto protesters and the police…

Jakarta – Five people were shot dead by police who were attempting to fend off a mob attacking a police station in the East Java town of Bondowoso…

Jakarta – City authorities say they are fully prepared for violent protests, strikes and shortages when fuel prices are raised on Sunday.

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Jakarta – Despite widespread public disproval, the city administration has apparently bowed to councillors demands and allocated them Rp 40.43…

Jakarta – The South Jakarta District Court dropped on Thursday multimillion-dollar graft charges against former president Soeharto after hearing…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – An Indonesian court yesterday dismissed corruption charges against former president Soeharto as the Government…

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The South Jakarta Court's decision yesterday to close the fraud case against former president Suharto poses one of the…

Jakarta – The economic crisis is still gripping the country, with the number of poor families rising from 6.9 million last year to 7.7 families…

Jakarta – Security authorities confiscated hundreds of rounds of ammunition, explosive materials and several M-16 rifles from a ship…

Jakarta – Six young Christians said Thursday they spent a sleepless night in the grounds of the Swiss embassy after jumping into the mission to…

Padang – As many as 127 families from Aceh, who had to leave the restive town for security reasons, are facing uncertainty in West Sumatra. The…

Jakarta – At least 32 Christians were killed in a day-long attack by Muslims on an outlying village in Ambon, the capital of Indonesia…

Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Tragedy is routine for Munir, Indonesia's foremost human-rights advocate. But the early September day when he learned of…

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Prosecutors were deciding yesterday whether to arrest the youngest son of former president Suharto after a surprise…

Jakarta – The leader of a youth group linked to the Indonesian military has been detained for allegedly instigating and funding an…

Jakarta – Two activists testified in a pre-trial hearing on Tuesday that they saw the police using force to expel four of their colleagues, who…

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta – A bomb exploded outside the office of a prominent Indonesian human rights group Wednesday, just hours…

Agencies in Jakarta – Two soldiers among 28 suspects arrested over a spate of bombings in the capital planted the explosives at the Jakarta Stock…

Preparing the draft 2001 state budget that will be unveiled to the House of Representatives next week should be one of the most daunting jobs for…

Budi Sugiharto/FW, Surabaya – Thousands farmers from all over East Javanese regional districts poured on to the streets in Surabaya, capital city…

MMI Ahyani/GB, Bandung – Thousands of peasants have descended on the provincial parliament in Bandung, the capital of West Java. They joined…

Ambon – A fresh community clash broke out in Ambon Island on Monday morning when residents from Tial and Tulehu villages attacked nearby Suli…

Jakarta – At least nine people were killed and 15 others injured in an attack by Muslims Tuesday on a Christian village in Ambon, the capital of…

Makassar – Around 200 students took to the streets here on Monday protesting the fuel price hike, effective next month. The students, from the…

Khairul Ikhwan D/BI & GB, Jakarta – The notorious 'Petrus' killings of the 1980s, when possibly thousands of underworld figures were…

Lukmanul Hakim/Hendra, Jakarta – On 24 September 1999, five students were shot dead in the Semanggi district of the Indonesian capital Jakarta by…

Terry Mccarthy, Jakarta – Saludin, a newly hired driver for Coca-Cola in Jakarta, was waiting in his car in the underground parking lot of Jakarta…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – As wary residents brace themselves for more surprise attacks after the bombing of the Jakarta Stock Exchange building,…

Jakarta – A full-scale brawl, involving more than a thousand students from the Christian University of Indonesia (UKI) and the University of Bung…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Parliament plans to investigate allegations of a 189-billion-rupiah (S$38 million) corruption scandal at a foundation run…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman said the country's legal system is in desperate need of a complete overhaul in order to…

Jakarta – Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid said yesterday he had sacked the national police chief because the latter had refused to arrest a…

Jakarta – Two elderly Indonesian ex-servicemen have been jailed for printing 2.2 million dollars worth of fake bills, despite pleading the army…

Penny Crisp and Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – It was, said President Abdurrahman Wahid, an incident designed to embarrass him. But leaving aside motives…

Ambon – At least 10 people were killed when fighting between Muslims and Christians erupted Friday in the eastern Indonesian island of Saparua, a…

Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world and a cornerstone of security and economic development in Southeast Asia, is a continuing…

John McBeth, Jakarta and Michael Vatikiotis, Washington – It was a humiliating moment for Abdurrahman Wahid. At the United Nations' Millennium…