Andreas Harsono – I've spent the last two days in a Jakarta hotel listening to more than 20 hours of recollections of Indonesia's most sensitive, taboo topic: the state-orchestrated 1965-66 massacr

Papang Hidayat – She was the only woman on the stage. On either side stood uniformed men, their stern gaze bearing down on her.

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Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge, Jakarta – A recent three-day visit by Coordinating Security, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan to Papua, Indonesia's easternmost region, was n

John Martinkus – In 1995, as I squatted for days in a hole in the jungle of East Timor with 12 men hiding from Indonesian troops patrolling nearby, the whispered conversations between the Falintil

Ary Hermawan – The sinister circumstances surrounding the death of suspected terrorist Siyono and the blatant cover-up attempts by the police are no trifles.

Jakarta – Today we will be addressing what to do about the 1965 killings. Why do these still matter and how can we properly address them?

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge – Recently, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security, Luhut Panjaitan, made a three-day visit to Papua.

Edio Jose Maria Guterres – Movimentu Kontra Okupasaun Tasi Timor (MKOTT or the movement against occupation in the Timor Sea) organised a two-day peaceful protest on 22 and 23 March in what turned o

David Webster – In the 1990s, the Liberal government maintained close ties with the Indonesian regime that occupied East Timor.

Tom Clarke – This week over 10,000 people descended on Australia's embassy in Dili, Timor-Leste, to demand that the Australian government enter negotiations to finally establish permanent and fair

Ann Wigglesworth – An estimated ten thousand Timorese protesters besieged the Australian embassy in Dili on 22 March 2016 to protest Australia's refusal to negotiate with East Timor on a permanent

Cayla Dengate – Every day, more people lend their faces to a viral campaign against Australia.

Frank Brennan – When Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister six months ago, our Timorese neighbours thought there might be an opportunity to draw a line on the past and to kick start the negotiatio

Andreas Harsono – Johan Teterisa went from school teacher to political prisoner on June 29, 2007.

In a series of recent posts on The Interpreter, Stephen Grenville has suggested that if Australia agreed to enter into maritime boundary negotiations with Timor-Leste and, if necessary, allow an in

There are a couple of issues from the The Interpreter discussion of the maritime border with Timor Leste that merit more exploration.

The ghost of New Order has haunted this nation ever since pro-democracy movements made a mark back in 1998.

John Pilger – Out of a population of almost a million, up to a third were extinguished.

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Jokowi may look good in batik, but he's not cut-out for office, writes Duncan Graham.

Daniel Flitton – Not one senior Australian politician has visited East Timor since the Coalition won power in 2013, a dramatic illustration of just how tense the stand-off between the two countries

As a nation based on Pancasila including faith in one God, there is no place for sinful sexual deviants.

Tanya Plibersek – Australia regularly calls on other countries to abide by international laws and norms to settle disputes.

Herlambang P. Wiratraman, Surabaya – There have been several threats to academic freedom in the last five years.

Tanya Plibersek's announcement committing a future Labor government to good faith negotiations over a maritime boundary with Timor-Leste, with international dispute settlement in reserve, represent

The shift in Labor's position in regard to Australia's long running maritime border dispute with East Timor will likely appeal to diplomatic conventions and notions of equity but, of greater signif

Labor shadow foreign minister Tanya Plibersek has committed a future Labor government to negotiations with the Timor Leste government to reach a permanent maritime border between our two countries,

Nivell Rayda – There is something about the mysterious death of 27-year-old Wayan Mirna Salihin that captures people's imagination so much that when the Jakarta Police announced that they finally h

One of the most startling cases of a government using the fig leaf of national security to protect its own interests is happening right before our eyes – and it should have Australians up in arms.

Kyle Knight – Last week in Jakarta, I met leaders of the Support Group and Resource Center on Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Indonesia, who were brimming with confidence about th

William Mackey – It had been years since Indonesia had experienced an attention-grabbing terrorist attack. That changed on January 14.

Andi Rahman Alamsyah, Jakarta (The Conversation/Pacific Media Watch – People were commenting on social media within moments of the terrorist bombings and shooting in Jakarta last Thursday by attack

Ken Westmoreland – Jordan Peterson's piece "Should Timor-Leste Turn to Portugal?" has had the unintended effect of asking a question to which virtually everyone in the country, irrespective of gene

Vannessa Hearman – It has been a strange year for human rights under the Joko Widodo, or Jokowi, administration.

Ken Setiawan – Hopes were high when Joko Widodo or Jokowi, was elected.

Gustidha Budiartie and Eve Warburton – Competing factions of politico-business elites are fighting a war over a lucrative mine contract and President Jokowi is caught in the middle.

Ririn Sefsani and Timo Duile, Jakarta/Bonn – A specter is haunting Indonesia, the specter of communism.

World Bank, Jakarta – A small number of Indonesians are benefitting from financial and physical assets – sometimes acquired through corrupt means – that, in turn, drive higher wealth co

Ivo Mateus Goncalves – Forty years has come and gone since East Timor was invaded by Indonesia's military.

The latest World Bank report on Indonesia warns of the rising risk of social tension and conflict as inequalities of income and asset ownership widen, recommending a more vigorous colle

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – Should the sanctity of an investment contract always be honored and should business contracts be held sacred? Not always, assert Louis T.

Thanks to the House of Representatives ethics council members who voted for an open hearing of a misconduct case implicating House Speaker Setya Novanto, the people have seen for themse

Shane Rosenthal – The impending launch of the Asean Economic Community was marked last month at a summit in Kuala Lumpur.

Political tension over the 2021 Freeport Indonesia contract extension brokerage scandal involving House of Representatives Speaker Setya Novanto continues to build up with rival politic

To imagine Indonesia without the Association of Islamic Students (HMI) is next to impossible, given the numerous national figures the country's largest student group has helped groom, m

In desperate moments we discover our true friends in those who stand up for us, and House Speaker Setya Novanto may feel assured he does have a few of them around.

John Mohammad, Jakarta – The 1999 law on freedom of opinion must be revised.

The nation has been spectator to an extremely shrewd political game in the past week; the political showdown was preceded by a revelation of devious business deals in relation to a prop

The country's failure to secure its rice-import target of 1.5 million tons from its traditional suppliers – Thailand and Vietnam – to beef up its stocks shows just how high a politicall