Daniel Cooney, Jakarta – A rally meant to bolster flagging fortunes of Indonesia's beleaguered head of state fell flat Saturday when his vice…

Jakarta – The Association of Labor Exporting Companies (Apjati) and 18 labor unions signed on Friday an unprecedented memorandum of understanding…

Vaudine England, Jayapura – A protest in the Irian Jayan port city of Sorong yesterday left six people dead, highlighting the spread of problems…

Jakarta – People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Amien Rais has given President Abdurrahman Wahid up to three months after the August…

Jakarta – Almost 20.1-million ha, or about half the 40-million ha of forests in Indonesia, have been damaged by fires and farming,…

Jakarta – The government's announcement that it is ready to file corruption charges against former president Soeharto was greeted on Thursday with…

Yogyakarta – First Lady Sinta Nuriyah Abdurrahman Wahid bemoaned on Thursday the continuing violence against women, saying that no religion…

Susan Sim and Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid is taking a leaf from former President Suharto's manual for regime maintenance…

Jakarta – One overriding theme, namely the bringing of former president Soeharto to justice, marked the fourth anniversary of the July 27 violent…

Chris McCall, Jakarta – Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Jakarta yesterday to demand a speedy trial for former president Suharto as…

Jakarta – Office buildings of the former ruling party Golkar in the capital city and in a number of Java's major cities were guarded yesterday, as…

Muchus Budi Rahayu/BI, Surakarta – Four hundreds supporters of Muslim Youth Front (FPI-S), from Surakarta, Central Java, staged a protest, Friday…

Marianne Kearney, Pekanbaru – Indonesian police, forestry employees and plantation companies are failing to fight the fires which have been…

Aulia Andri/FM & AH, Medan – The Indonesian Forum For the Environment (WALHI) is scornful of a plan from PT Inti Indorayon Utama (IIU) pulp…

Jakarta – The United States could seize Indonesian assets if Jakarta fails to settle a US$290-million claim by the US government's Overseas…

R Maslan/SWA & AH, Jakarta – Today, exactly four years after the attack on the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) office, hundreds of…

Rizal Maslan/BS & AH, Jakarta – A march to commemorate the brutal occupation of Megawati's political offices (the Indonesian Democratic Party…

Jakarta – Coal mining company PT Kaltim Prima Coal (KPC) might lose some of its customers following the closure of its coal mine in the Sanggata…

Jakarta – More than 30 companies are under investigation for their alleged roles in the recent forest fires in Riau, a provincial administration…

James Balowski – Four years ago on July 27, television images of the Indonesian military bashing and kicking helpless protesters exposed the world…

Pip Hinman – As two of its warships docked in the east Javanese port of Surabaya on July 20, the administration of US President Bill Clinton made…

Slobodan Lekic, Asem Bagus – Dozens of elderly villagers wearing checkered sarongs wait patiently on cots while a US Navy corpsman prepares them…

BK & LH/BI & LM, Jakarta – Hundreds of students gathered together in the Indonesian Youth Struggle Front (FPPI) have staged protests today…

A Andri/FW & LM, Jakarta – For the umpteenth time, hundreds of representatives of the Batak Toba tribe went to the North Sumatra Provincial…

Max Lane – On July 20, huge banners, which dwarfed the activists who daringly scaled the walls of Indonesia's parliament building in Jakarta to…

At least one protester was killed, more than 100 were injured and 57 were arrested when Indonesian security forces attacked an 800-strong protest…

Jakarta – Environmentalists on Wednesday slammed the Indonesian government for its failure to stop illegal logging at a national park in central…

D.S Buana/SWA & LM, Jakarta – The appearance of a "confidential" document outlining a plot to topple President Abdurrahman Wahid has met…

I Triono/ SWA & LM, Jakarta – Fabianus Tibo (55), leader of the "Red" group as well as the alleged mastermind of massacres which claimed…

Jakarta – A trial witness has implicated Indonesia's defence ministry in a forgery ring which churned out 2.1 million dollars worth of fake local…

Pip Hinman – A group of unions has demanded President Abdurrahman Wahid disallow a new labour rights bill, which was unanimously passed by the…

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung/BI & LM, Pekanbaru – A public transport strike in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, northwest Sumatra, has…

Bangkok – Asean foreign ministers yesterday backed Indonesia against its rebellious provinces of Aceh and Irian Jaya, saying that the…

Dharmastuti/SWA & LM, Jakarta – The thick palls of smoke choking North Sumatra and Riau Provinces has compelled the Ministry of Forestry and…

Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has approved income tax cuts that halve the burden on low income earners, as well as a radical new amendment that…

Mark Riley, New York – A United Nations Security Council member has rejected claims by the Indonesian President, Mr Abdurrahman Wahid, that the…

Tangerang – Thousands of members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) burned and destroyed 82 kiosks on the Tahang riverbank in Salembaran Jati…

Jakarta – An Indonesian mob rounded up three men and beat them to death after accusing one of them of murdering his wife with black…

Jakarta – Indonesian security forces seized more than 1,000 sticks of explosives from an inter-island ferry as it arrived in the riot-…

Bagus Kurniawan/BI & LM, Jakarta – Approximately 80 students from Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta under the auspices of…

Bagus Kurniawan/BI & LM, Yogyakarta – A spokesman for PT Pagilaran, embroiled in a land dispute with the University of Gadjah Mada and local…

D. Sangga Buana/FW & AH, Jakarta – Nearly 1500 laborers staged a rally at the Jakarta Special Province Local Administration Office today to…

Jose Ramos-Horta, Bangkok – Who is behind the wave of sectarian violence in Ambon and other parts of the Moluccan Islands that has cost hundreds…

Jakarta – Indonesian prosecutors plan to bring four of the country's most controversial figures to court next month, including former president…

Jakarta – Call it hubris, denial or sheer pragmatism. But among President Abdurrahman Wahid's inner circles, the burning question of the moment is…

On July 20, 800 farm workers from villages in South Sumatra demonstrated outside the District Administration Offices in the area of Muara Enim,…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Some of those politicians who angrily rebuked President Abdurrahman Wahid in parliament this week represent Golkar, the…

Jakarta – Minister of Mines and Energy Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has blamed the involvement of an "international movement" on growing protests…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Golkar party said it would be ready to be in the opposition and hinted that there would be a shake-up of its executive board…

Jakarta – The Indonesian press yesterday slammed President Abdurrahman Wahid's refusal to explain to parliament his decision to fire two ministers…