Maire Leadbeater – Something remarkable happened this year at the United Nations General Assembly.

Twelve years ago the prominent human rights defender Munir Said Thalib was assassinated aboard his flight to the Netherlands, with investigators blaming juice laced with arsenic.

I met Eka (not her real name) in 2014. After traveling for hours on pothole-filled road, I finally reached her village in Cianjur, in West Java.

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – Indonesia's stance on Papua at the UN General Assembly in New York last month recalled its firm denials of human rights abuses in East Timor in the late 1990s.

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) is celebrating its 71st anniversary on Wednesday in a modest but solemn manner. TNI commander Gen.

Bhatara Ibnu Reza, Sydney – For the past two months the Indonesian Military (TNI) has promoted a number of officers who were involved in past crimes to key positions in strategic state institutions

Mungo MacCallum – It may sound unpatriotic, but I could not help cheering when the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague brought down its decision last week against Australia.

Taufiq Hanafi, Leiden, The Netherlands – In the preface to the textbook Sejarah Nasional Indonesia (Indonesian National History, 1990), historian and former education minister Nugroho Notosusanto d

Hao Duy Phan – On April 11, 2016, Timor-Leste initiated compulsory non-binding conciliation proceedings against Australia under Annex V of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLO

Budi Hernawan, Jakarta – In an unprecedented move, seven UN member states from the Pacific raised their concerted voices on Papua during the prestigious 71st session of the UN General Assembly in N

Hamish McDonald, Gleno, East Timor – As we drive along a potholed road leading out of this little town into the cool highlands of East Timor, Peter Dougan stops to look at coffee berries laid out t

Australia must meet Timor-Leste halfway over their disputed sea border and the lucrative oil and gas reserves that lie beneath, writes Ines de Almeida.

Development of the Greater Sunrise gas field is the key to the economic future of Timor-Leste, but an almost two-decade-long maritime territorial dispute with Australia could see ordinary Timorese

The government, House of Representatives and General Elections Commission (KPU) are testing the conscience of voters who will elect their leaders in the simultaneous regional elections scheduled fo

Wang Hui – The disputes between Australia and its smaller neighbor East Timor over maritime boundaries could serve as a useful lens for others to see through the double standard of some Western cou

Wu Qiang, Beijing – The still fledgling Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste has taken Australia to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague over their maritime boundary dispute.

Christian Donny Putranto – The Indonesian Military (TNI) recently promoted four officials to the rank of brigadier general, at the same time as they were granted senior positions in the Ministry of

Callum Smith – Commenting on a certain international maritime dispute, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said, "this is an important decision, it is one that has been made in accordance wi

Su Hao and Wang Zheng – The South China Sea disputes should be resolved between China and other claimants, but countries from outside have intervened, making the regional situation more sophisticat

Stephen Grenville – Senator Wong urges the Australian government to commit to an international process of dispute resolution to settle the maritime border between Australia and Timor Leste.

Australia and East Timor are at loggerheads over drawing a maritime boundary to finally and permanently resolve the division of undersea oil and gas resources.

Victoria Fanggidae, Jakarta – Improving productivity and competitiveness is at the heart of Nawacita, the nine-point development agenda of the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo government.

Penny Wong – The Turnbull's government rejection of an international commission's jurisdiction over the maritime boundary dispute with Timor-Leste is a deeply disappointing development.

Donald K.

Although East Timor is doing much better than it was, it is still very fragile. And the Timor Sea dispute could undo much of the progress that has been made.

Timor-Leste once agreed to let the maritime boundary question rest for 50 years. What changed?

This week's conciliation talks in The Hague give Australia a new chance to do the right thing by East Timor to help it secure its future

Australia has injected last-minute intrigue into the opening of compulsory conciliation proceedings over the unsettled maritime border with Timor-Leste.

Daniel Peterson – Presidential Spokesman Johan Budi recently announced that the Joko Widodo government was not interested in protecting the rights of Indonesia's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen

Irine Hiraswari Gayatri, Jakarta – Two years after the latest direct presidential election we are still hearing an outcry, despite having a "man of the people" in power.

Ah Maftuchan, Jakarta – The acceleration of infrastructure development is the key program of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Vice President Jusuf Kalla.

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – In July, Indonesian President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo courted controversy by appointing a former New Order general who has been accused of human rights abuses, Wir

Phelim Kine – Here's the glaring omission in Australian Attorney-General George Brandis' list of issues raised with Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo in Jakarta this month: human rights.

Raynov Gultom, Jakarta – Recently, the Attorney General's Office (AGO) held another round of executions and, similar to last year's executions, all those executed were drug offenders.

The former general juggled the interests of reformers and hardliners during a turbulent time for Indonesia. But this important legacy is being overlooked, writes Terry Russell.

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge, Jakarta – Trust is the most crucial factor for a state dealing with regional dissatisfactions that turn to conflict.

Faiza Mardzoeki, Jakarta – Indonesia has now been independent for 71 years. What has been achieved, especially for women?

Ken Setiawan – After the latest round of executions, and with the death penalty seen as a justified response to drug-related crimes, is there any hope for human rights reform in Jokowi's Indonesia?

Independence day speeches need clear signal on human rights

Attorney-General George Brandis went to the Indonesian province of Papua last week, boasting his trip was a first by an Australian minister.

Lindsay Murdoch – Try to picture this: almost every man, women and child forced from their homes, often at gunpoint, usually because of the sheer terror of staying.

On the eve of Bali's terror summit, Justice Minister Michael Keenan said he'd "welcome" convicted war criminal Wiranto to Australia effectively closing the Turnbull Government's book on the East Ti

One of the reasons corruption is difficult to uproot in the country, despite the hard work of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), is the risk of prosecution that is intended to kill the me

Jokowi's second reshuffle is a win for the president's loyalists and financiers.

Saskia E. Wieringa, Amsterdam – To this day victims and survivors of the mass killings and other crimes against humanity committed by the military and the militias associated with them after Oct.

Nicholas Koumjian, Phnom Penh – The Jakarta Post reported last Friday that Gen.

Until recently we rarely had kissing scenes on screen, and when we did blurred images have been used as a desperate attempt to protect public morality, which critics worry is currently heading for

Indonesia and the Melanesian Spearhead Group need the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

Why Jakarta must let the Melanesian Spearhead Group decide who is in and who is out, and what matters for Melanesian people.

Damien Kingsbury – Indonesia President Joko Widodo's recent announcement of his new cabinet line-up aroused two responses.