Scott Burchill – The Indonesian Government doesn't have an impressive record of investigating its own crimes in East Timor. And the Australian…

On January 31, the investigation by the Indonesian National Commission for Human Rights into atrocities and human rights abuses in East Timor will…

Jakarta – The second Riau People's Congress in the provincial capital Pekanbaru concluded on Tuesday with a poll that resulted in a majority vote…

Jakarta – Indonesia's main aid donors on Wednesday pledged up to 4.7 billion dollars in loans to support the country's 2000 budget but deferred a…

Sydney – Indonesia should be left by the international community to pursue allegations of human rights abuses against its military in East Timor,…

Indonesia lurched further toward democracy during the year, but serious regional conflicts, a weak legal system, and delicate civil-military…

Transport Minister Agum Gumelar, an active three-star general, is one of the Indonesian military's leading intellectuals and a strong candidate…

Budi Sugiharto/Hendra & GB, Surabaya – Around 2,000 thousand demonstrators calling themselves "The Association of Sampang People" from the…

Vaudine England, Jakarta – Food shortages are cutting into daily life in the Maluku Islands, as fighting between communities and religious groups…

Jakarta – The violence and political uncertainty enveloping Indonesia pose serious risks for the economy and investment, but those willing to take…

Reuters in Tokyo – Indonesia's parliament may revise the nation's constitution to abolish a clause under which the vice-president automatically…

Lo Pui-Kwan – Indonesian domestic helpers yesterday formed their own union – the first in Asia – to fight abuse they say they suffer during their…

Ambon – Indonesian's top general in the embattled Muluku islands said today that four soldiers were involved in the massacre of 24 Christian…

Jakarta – Indonesian police Sunday fired warning shots to disperse groups of Muslims who pelted churches in the central Java city of Yogyakarta…

Linawati Sidarto, Amsterdam – Another New Order taboo crumbled last week: Indonesian political exiles could now opt to regain their lost…

Jakarta – The World Bank today gave its seal of approval to the new government of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid for its handling of…

Vaudine England, Jakarta – A leading activist says the plethora of human rights inquiries under way across Indonesia constitute a form of "human…

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – Indonesia's tropical forests are responsible for one of the country's largest export sectors – wood, pulp and paper products…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government faces an uphill task to stay on the road to recovery this year and will need loans of between 4.2 billion…

Sangwon Suh and Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – Would the person who is really in charge of Indonesia please stand up? With rumors of a military coup…

Jakarta – Hundreds of students staged a noisy protest outside the office of the Caltex oil company in Riau, one of the country's…

Vaudine England, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid has found a way to secure the retirement from the military of generals he appointed to his…

Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid and Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri on Thursday called on supporters of her party to work to assure…

Karen Polglaze, Jakarta – New Indonesian laws could prevent the trial of military officers accused of orchestrating violence in East Timor that…

Indonesia's militant trade union, the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI), on January 20 condemned the minister of finance…

Jakarta – Indonesia's illegal logging industry is backed by high-level corruption, an international environmental group charged here on Wednesday…

Max Lane – The commander-in-chief of the Indonesian armed forces (TNI), Admiral Widodo, has met President Abdurrahman Wahid to assure him that the…

Slobodan Lekic, Sabang – Indonesia's president on Tuesday accused disgruntled army generals and radical Muslims of provoking violence that…

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – In a significant thawing of the relationship with Indonesia, President Abdurrahman Wahid yesterday withdrew his travel boycott…

Nisid Hajari – No one would mistake the calm of Ambon for peace. The capital of Maluku province – epicenter of a yearlong orgy of religious…

Jason Tedjasukmana, Ambon – A twisted pile of scrap metal from buildings gutted during a year of armed conflict lies near one of the many "borders…

Louise Williams, Mataram – The lobby of Lombok's expansive Senggigi Beach Hotel is bristling with machine guns. The verdant tropical gardens…

Jakarta – Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said here Monday that Jakarta and Canberra have agreed to look to the future and start…

Cameron W. Barr, Ambon – On the morning of December 23, a group of Muslims murdered scores of Christians, including women and children, at a…

Singapore – Thirteen people were injured when Indonesian police and military joined forces early on Sunday to disperse demonstrators…

Jakarta – Two environmentalists, including a British activist, were attacked and beaten by loggers in a national park in central…

Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Soeharto, facing accusations of corruption and self-enrichment on a vast scale, can expect to be amnestied…

Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid has nominated reform of the legal and regulatory system as central to Indonesia's economic recovery and…

Richard Galpin, Jakarta – Police in the Indonesian capital Jakarta have detained more than 100 men, some of them armed, as they tried to enter the…

Tim Dodd, Jakarta – President Abdurrahman Wahid expects his first Budget, which tries to meet a multitude of conflicting economic challenges, to…

Associated Pressm, Washington – The United States gave Indonesia's fledgling democracy a vote of confidence on Thursday by substantially…

By Dewi Loveard, Jakarta – A local conflict rooted in long- simmering religious enmity. That is how Jakarta views the Muslim-Christian fighting in…

Jakarta – Indonesia's new Government unveiled its first Budget yesterday with pledges to reform the bankrupt banking sector. But it shied from…

Vaudine England in Jakarta and Agencies in Mataram – Sporadic looting and attacks on ethnic Chinese and Christians continued for a fourth day on…

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Indonesia's Government fears that provocateurs linked to elements of the military and the regime of the corrupt former…

John Aglionby, Jakarta – The foreign office minister John Battle yesterday defended the resumption of British arms sales to Indonesia in spite of…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government on Thursday asked parliament to approve a 10.5 percent rise in overall defence and security expenditure, but a…

Margot Cohen, Jakarta – It was a gut-wrenching evening for the Defenders of Islam. Packed into Jakarta's Al Ashlah mosque on January 9, hundreds…

Singapore – About 100 armed protestors have withdrawn from a power plant they illegally occupied at a Singapore-managed industrial park on…

Since the coming to power of Indonesia's brutal New Order regime in 1965, discussion and dissemination of Marxist ideas has been banned in…