An explosion shook a government building in the main town of Indonesia's restive Poso district on Sulawesi island, but police say no…

Jane Perlez, Denpasar – His fingers clasp a long brush and with the finest of strokes, Nyoman Kantor paints the figures of a Balinese myth onto…

Robert Go, Jakarta – After the private bank that Ms Sri Astuti worked for folded in 1998, she sought a clerical job at other offices. When no…

Indonesia's West Kalimantan province has lost an estimated 300,000 hectares to illegal logging over the past two years and will become…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Indonesia has expressed optimism over the possibility of the United States Congress allowing Indonesian Military…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Pressure is mounting on the police to release 16 people arrested for protesting against the planned reopening of the PT…

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Indonesia's Human Rights Court acquitted three army and police officers yesterday over charges of human rights crimes in…

Jakarta – Thousands of poor people in Banggai and Banggai Islands in Central Sulawesi are reportedly facing famine, following the…

Japanese technology company Sony Corporation will close its audio equipment manufacturing plant in Indonesia due to labour and tax…

State agencies responsible for managing and protecting the environment have come out in favor of a proposal to establish an integrated agency to…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed on Thursday a controversial broadcasting bill despite protests it will curtail press…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The House of Representatives endorsed on Thursday a bill on political parties despite the protest of a number of…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesia's plans to beef up its intelligence network by reviving its regional intelligence posts throughout the country…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Jakarta's East Timor trials were supposed to be the place where Indonesia would prove that its military had reformed…

[In Indonesia, one strand in the complex hunt for the Bali bombers has taken police to the troubled Maluku islands. Amrozi, one of the…

Bill Guerin – Indonesia's once-mighty footwear industry is in danger of collapse if urgent measures are not taken to enable it to reassert itself…

Kafil Yamin, Jakarta – It took Indonesia's House of Representatives more than two years of often-heated debate to pass a controversial…

Jakarta – Due to personal commitments, a South Jakarta District Court judge postponed on Wednesday for the second time the hearing…

Anthony L. Smith – Two Americans and one Indonesian were killed on August 31 at the hands of an unknown assailant near the Freeport mining…

For the second time in their continuing nationwide hunt for the Bali bombers, the police uncovered a cache of arms and ammunition in a house…

John Pilger – "What passing bells for these who die as cattle?", asked the great WWI poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written…

Debbie A. Lubis, Jakarta – Virtually unknown just a decade ago, drug use through injection is now a major source of HIV infection in Indonesia,…

Jakarta – A labor activist vowed on Monday to continue the struggle for the rights of former Shangri-La hotel employees by regularly…

Debbie A. Lubis, Jakarta – Among the most vulnerable to acts of violence, women in Indonesia have nowhere to turn for protection because weak laws…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The situation in the North Sumatra town of Porsea is still tense with hundreds of local people taking refuge following…

Matthew Moore in Jakarta and Cynthia Banham – Security experts fear that Indonesia faces a new wave of terrorist attacks involving kidnappings and…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri warned on Monday against excessive democracy, saying that it would endanger the…

Haidir Anwar Tandjung and Apriadi Gunawan, Medan/Pekanbaru – Tembilahan, a small coastal town in the Riau regency of Indragiri Hilir, has drawn a…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A much-anticipated plan to privatise Indonesia's national television station, TVRI, to save it from bankruptcy has been…

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – City administration agencies are overstaffed, corrupt and mismanaged, resulting in huge numbers of complaints from a…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The nation will soon have a new repressive broadcasting law after the government and the House of Representatives…

Sixteen protestors are under arrest and around 500 have fled a town in the Indonesian province of North Sumatra amid controversial plans to reopen…

Everyone has the right to be rich. But in Indonesia, the source of many people's wealth has become a sensitive issue, especially when it happens…

Tom Allard – Kopassus, the Indonesian special forces unit, which the Government wants to re-engage in the hunt for terrorists, has…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Detained terror suspect Imam Samudra has confessed to masterminding the October 12 deadly attacks on Bali, as well as a…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) once again showed its lack of professionalism to the public on Thursday when its…

Bogor – Nine companies have folded since the start of the year in Bogor, West Java, leading to 5,585 workers losing their jobs, Bogor'…

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – A new initiative to boost prospects for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in eastern Indonesia has been launched by the…

Jakarta – The number of foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia in 2002 is estimated at only 20 percent of its target figure of 4.3…

Matthew Moore in Jakarta and agencies – Indonesian police last night arrested Imam Samudra, alleged mastermind of the Bali bombing which killed…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – An alliance of non-governmental organizations says it will file a judicial review with the Supreme Court against a…

The naming of Special Forces (Kopassus) Commander Maj. Gen. Sriyanto and the alleged involvement of 11 Kopassus soldiers in the ambush which…

Darren Goodsir in Kuta and Wayne Miller in Surabaya – Sumarno, the stepbrother of the confessed Bali bomber, Amrozi, will be quizzed repeatedly in…

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities say they granted the alleged mastermind of the Bali bombings, Imam Samudra, two new identity cards…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – Residents of Lhoksukon and Pasai districts in North Aceh have accused ExxonMobil Indonesia Inc., the Indonesian unit…

Ian Bostock – Few issues continue to dominate Australia's security outlook more than our angst-ridden relationship with Indonesia.

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Jakarta – Two students from the Jakarta Theology School (STT Jakarta) in Central Jakarta who have been on hunger strike since last week were…

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Organisasi Pagar Desa: Founded in the 1950s by A.H. Nasution to help TNI eliminate Darul Islam…

Jakarta – Hundreds of students of Ngruki Islamic boarding school staged a rally on Sunday outside the Surakarta Police in Central Java…

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Intensive crackdowns on beggars and other people living on the street during Ramadhan has done little to…