The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) must form an a commission to resolve the abductions of pro-democracy activists in 1997 and 1998…

Don Greenlees – Indonesia's Defence Minister, Juwono Sudarsono, has requested Australian military assistance in meeting the huge humanitarian…

H Dharmastuti/SWA & LM, Jakarta – The fate of 14 people abducted in the dying days of the Suharto regime remains unknown. The majority of…

A July 12 meeting between Indonesia's top four political leaders was indefinitely postponed at the very last minute. The meeting was to have…

Maryadi/FW & LM, Pontianak – Indonesia's most prominent environmental protection group, WALHI, has slammed President Abdurrahman Wahid and the…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid is facing yet another threat to his already shaky presidency with the latest bid by his…

Jakarta – A mass brawl broke out again in the Matraman area of East Jakarta on Thursday as residents of the bickering Palmeriam and Berlan…

L Hakim/SWA & LM, Jakarta – Vice Director of the General Crime Division at the National Police Headquarters, Senior Superintendent Makbul…

Jakarta – Top reform leaders blamed each other on Thursday over last night's aborted meeting between them, boding ill for a speedy resolution to…

Time is running out for Indonesia's first democratically chosen president. The task is vast. Last October Abdurrahman Wahid was given the…

John McBeth, Jakarta – For members of a visiting group of US editors, a mid-afternoon conversation with President Abdurrahman Wahid in late June…

Jakarta – The official number of HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia now stands at 1,283, although health experts predicted the real figure…

John McBeth in South Kalimantan and North Sulawesi – They come equipped with scores of excavators and more than 500 trucks. Their backers have…

John McBeth, Talawaan – An ecological disaster looms over North Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula. Rampant illegal gold mining is pouring hundreds of…

North Sumatra – Looting of plantations has become a major headache in Indonesia, hitting bottom lines in the sector and threatening investment and…

Jakarta – Indonesia's central bank said Thursday it can fully implement a new monetary policy only once economic stability in the country is…

C.A Tanjung/SWA & LM, Jakarta – Thick smoke blanketing Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau Province, Sumatra, since Wednesday has been attributed…

Maryadi/Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – Smog in and around Pontianak, West Kalimantan, caused by slash and burn land clearing has reached hazardous…

Dini Djalal, Jakarta – Husein could do nothing when the mob set his son Dian on fire. "If I had protested, they would have killed me too," he says…

Jakarta – Regional Autonomy Minister Ryaas Rasyid has warned that some local bureaucrats and politicians were using the Indonesian government's…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) yesterday appointed three commission members to revise its rejected report on the…

Jakarta – Security authorities have seized thousands of weapons and explosives in a series of arms sweeping operations in Maluku, which remains…

Jakarta – A recent poll conducted by the Center for Electoral Reform showed the majority of Indonesians supported direct presidential elections.…

Jakarta – The situation in Dumai municipility, 200 kms from the Riau capital of Pekanbaru, remained tense yesterday, as self-titled…

James Balowski – The government of President Abdurrahman Wahid appears to be indulging in a veritable orgy of investigations into human rights…

Pip Hinman – Indonesia's most prominent left-wing political party, the People's Democratic Party (PRD), has filed a 5.5 billion rupiah (US$617,000…

Jakarta – Despite sinister political maneuvers and other efforts to discredit President Abdurrahman Wahid, the one thing in his favor is that…

Jakarta – A defendant in a court trying a 2.1 million-dollar counterfeit money case has testified that Indonesia's army chief had full knowledge…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy said it had captured two boats illegally ferrying weapons to North Maluku. The vessels were heading to Ternate, the…

James Balowski – The sinking of the overloaded Cahaya Bahari ferry on July 6 – which killed at least 481 Christian refugees fleeing the latest…

Bogor – Hundreds of illegal miners working at gold-rich Pongkor Mountain thronged the Bogor Council building on Monday, complaining about violent…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a new bill on the rights of workers to unionize. Minister of Manpower Bomer…

President Abdurrahman Wahid of Indonesia has ordered the military to safeguard mining operations in the country, following a series of…

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung/Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that outlawing gambling does not stop the practice…

Christine T. Tjandraningsih, Jakarta – The Indonesian parliament Tuesday urged the management of PT Sony Electronics Indonesia, a subsidiary of…

Rizal Maslan/Lyndal Meehan, Jakarta – Around 100 members of the Megamendung community of Bogor, West Java, held a noisy demonstration at the…

Jakarta – Pressure has shifted to House of Representatives Speaker Akbar Tandjung in the intensifying conflict among the political elite in the…

Jakarta – A mob attacked a police post in Indonesia's eastern island of Flores, ransacking it and killing two civilians they accused of trying to…

Makassar – At least 124 people were arrested over the weekend for their alleged involvement in communal clashes in the Central Sulawesi town of…

Jakarta – More than 500,000 houses have been destroyed in Indonesia due to riots and natural disasters over the past three months,…

Ambon – In Maluku terms Mrs. Em, a Muslim housewife in this violence-torn city, is lucky. She is alive and so is her husband, although their house…

Jakarta – A senior Indonesian regional military officer has slammed the leaders of the country's political parties, saying their self-…

Ambon – Thousands of terrified residents fled the already ravaged village of Waai on Friday, following a murderous overnight raid by a group of…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The United States has attacked Indonesia for its double standards over access to the riot-torn Malukus, questioning…

Jakarta – Indonesia's defense minister has accused supporters of former dictator Suharto of bombing the attorney general's office and…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesian Defence Minister Juwono Sudarsono has warned of a recurring wave of violence in the country fomented by people…

London – Slowly but surely, and away from the prying of television cameras, Indonesia is starting to fall apart. Doomsayers have been predicting…

Irna Gustia/FW & LM, Jakarta – The Indonesian Legal Aid Institute (YLBHI), claims the recent government-sanctioned sacking of around 1,000…

Jose Manuel Tesoro, Jakarta – The Indonesian presidency may be the toughest job on the planet. But for a few months after his October 20, 1999,…

Jakarta – A Christian crisis group in the beleaguered eastern Indonesian city of Ambon said Friday that troops were withdrawn from a Christian…