Jakarta – Indonesia on Thursday will begin trying suspects over human rights abuses in East Timor in 1999, when the territory voted to break from…

Dean Yates, Jakarta – Indonesia will begin trials on Thursday over violence that swept East Timor in 1999, putting Jakarta under international…

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Medan – The parents of dozens of students killed in several incidents that took place in 1998…

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Students on a hunger strike in the province of East Nusa Tenggara threatened on Monday to encourage locals not to pay…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) in North Sumatra province is facing further degradation, as illegal logging and…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – In a bitter power struggle, young Golkar hardliners are fighting a move by the more senior members to expel detained…

Jakarta – In a show of force to oppose the sale of Bank Central Asia (BCA) to foreign investors, thousands of employees of the country's largest…

Dean Yates, Jakarta – Indonesia's former ruling Golkar party said it would not withdraw its ministers from the coalition government despite the…

[Corruption investigations into the speaker of Indonesia's parliament have taken a bizarre turn. House speaker Akbar Tanjung is under arrest…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – The sudden return of 32.5 billion rupiah (S$5.8 million) in missing funds by an associate of detained parliamentary…

Jakarta – Nearly 39,000 weapons have been surrendered following a peace agreement in December between warring Christian and Muslim…

Octavianus Pinontoan, Ambon – Peace remains elusive in Maluku province as a number of militant groups continue to oppose the Malino peace accord,…

Catharine Munro, Jakarta – Indonesia's military said it has provided legal assistance to militia leaders accused of human rights abuses in East…

A court rejected a request by prosecutors to resume the corruption trial of former Indonesian dictator Suharto, saying he is still too ill.

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Robert Go, Jakarta – The Indonesian government yesterday threw out a controversial plan to allow some of its biggest debtors more time to repay…

Dadan Wijaksana, Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) found last year 1,076 cases of irregularities in the state budget, which potentially…

Indonesian prosecutors said they would detain Indonesia's parliament speaker Akbar Tanjung after questioning him for seven hours at the attorney-…

Richel Langit, Jakarta – Barring the unexpected, Indonesia's long-awaited human-rights trials will kick off next Thursday, with military and…

Jakarta – The youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto was formally charged yesterday with ordering the murder of a judge,…

Jakarta – Fire has ravaged 11,569 hectares of plantations and commercial forests in Riau province over the past month, a local…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Residents of Jakarta have been feeling increasingly insecure these days, with the specter of crime seemingly hanging…

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – The Australian Government yesterday announced its first specific moves to rebuild ties with Indonesia's military since 1999's…

Don Greenlees, Jakarta – Australia is playing down differences with Indonesia over terrorism and human rights as it moves cautiously to rebuild a…

Vaudine England, Jakarta – The newly installed public face of the Indonesian armed forces, Major-General Sjafrie Sjamsuddin, took office this week…

Jakarta – Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri shocked employees at the palace complex in central Jakarta with a snap…

Kurniawan Hari and Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is employing a strategy of intimidation and threats to block a plan on…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – After several delays, the Public Servants' Wealth Audit Commission (KPKPN) announced on Wednesday the names of…

Jakarta – Hundreds of supporters of Indonesia's former ruling party Golkar staged a show of strength outside parliament Thursday as…

Jakarta – Striking workers at state-owned aircraft industry PT Dirgantara Indonesia are likely to return to work on Thursday following the…

Joanne Collins, Jakarta – Sportswear giants Nike Inc and Adidas-Salomon have taken steps to shed their sweatshop image in Indonesia but employees…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Dozens of members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) rallied in front of City Hall…

John McBeth/Jakarta and Murray Hiebert/Washington – Two-and-a-half years after Indonesian troops and local militias went on the rampage against…

Jakarta – Australia and Indonesia are considering resuming joint military exercises, which Jakarta suspended in 1999 over Canberra's role in East…

New York – Athletic shoe giant Nike Inc. on Thursday welcomed an aid agency report alleging its workers in Indonesia are overworked and underpaid…

Max Lane – On February 26, Australian defence minister Robert Hill told reporters at the Asian Aerospace 2002 conference in Singapore that…

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – Of more than 1,270 companies employing a total of 95,000 workers in the West Java regencies of Cirebon, Indramayu,…

At least 52 people have died of various diseases following floods that inundated much of the Indonesian capital Jakarta last month, an official…

Jakarta – The rupiah broke through on Tuesday the Rp 10,000 level against the U.S. dollar for the first time in five months, on what dealers…

Jakarta – Around 100 PDI Perjuangan members from Surabaya, East Java, demonstrated at the party's headquarters on Jl. Pecenongan in…

John McBeth and Murray Hiebert – As the nation with the world's biggest Muslim population, Indonesia is high on Washington's list as a potential…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Complications have thwarted progress in the labor disputes at state-owned aircraft manufacturing industry PT…

Jakarta – Indonesia made progress in some areas last year in its transition to democracy but the government's human rights record remains poor,…

Jakarta – The government has decided to look the other way and write-off the expenditure incurred on 46 legislators who allegedly used their…

Jakarta – The government confirmed on Monday plans to sell its stakes in five firms to meet the privatization target of Rp 3.5 trillion (some US$…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Controversy continued to dog the selection of Maj. Gen. Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin as the new Indonesian Military (TNI)…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – A labor strike involving more than 8,000 workers again affected the country's only state-owned aircraft manufacturer…

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – The territorial function the Indonesian Military (TNI) has adopted for the past four decades is no longer relevant and…

Indonesian police allowed a small group of Falungong practitioners to hold a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Jakarta after banning a march…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Gourmet snacks and wine, not stiff seats and long queues, await well-heeled patrons at Indonesia's first luxury cinema,…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Slimming product advertisements that have been bombarding people, especially women, have turned out to provide…