Edward Aspinall, Diego Fossati, Burhanuddin Muhtadi & Eve Warburton – Are Indonesia's political parties all alike? Are some more in favour of political reform than others?

David Hutt – The campaign season is now in its second week in Timor-Leste ahead of another general election on May 12.

Bobby Anderson and Adrian Morel – Last year's "hostage stand-off" in Indonesian Papua had hardly ended before more armed clashes began.

Ben Bohane – China, China, China. All the talk is of increasing Chinese influence in our region. But this is to wilfully ignore the elephant in the room.

Daniel Peterson – On 30 March, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, the third daughter of Soekarno, delivered a poem at Indonesian Fashion Week.

Santi Kusumaningrum – Indonesia plans to renew its criminal code to update the 100-year-old law.

Michael Leach – Timor-Leste returns to the polls on 12 May, almost ten months after last July's election failed to produce a sustainable government.

Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir & Andi Rahman Alamsyah – Two decades of democratisation in Indonesia has been marked by the presence of former civil society activists in formal politics.

Euan Moyle – A landmark agreement between Australia and Timor-Leste has finally marked their maritime borders and exclusive economic zones, which have been a sore point in relations bet

James Guild – When Jokowi came to office in 2014, he promised to jump start Indonesia's lagging infrastructure development.

Clive Schofield and Bec Strating – On March 6, 2018, Australia and Timor-Leste signed a landmark treaty that draws permanent maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea.

Viji Menon – Timor-Leste and Australia signed a historic treaty in New York on 6 March 2018, witnessed by the UN Secretary-General, establishing permanent maritime boundaries between th

Nithin Coca – When it comes to global climate issues, attention this past year has focused on the United States' decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, or China and India's rapi

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia will have its next presidential election in April next year, which will also mark the end of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's first term.

Hikmawan Saefullah – The punk movement is notable for its anti-establishment stance and distinct music and fashion style.

Stephen Sherlock – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was recently reported in the media as stating that he would refuse to sign the controversial legislation on Indonesia's legislative ins

Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae – At the weekend, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will meet with President of Indonesia Joko Widodo (Jokowi) on the margins of the Australia-ASEAN Special Sum

John McBeth, Jakarta – If the difficult talks between the Indonesian government and American-owned Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold over the future of Papua's Grasberg mine drag on be

Donald Rothwell – The 2018 Timor Sea Treaty signed in New York between Australia and Timor Leste on 6 March 2018 is a landmark agreement between the two countries and provides a pathway

Ryan Griffiths – West Papuans have it much harder than Scots or Catalans. In West Papua it is illegal to fly the independence flag.

"The Commission instead opted for the easiest way out, which is a shame as in my perception it reveals a lack of impartiality on your behalf!" – Chief East Timorese negotiator, Xanana G

Michael Leach – When Timor-Leste terminated the CMATS treaty with Australia early last year, it overturned its fifty-year moratorium on boundary negotiations.

At long last Australia has done something like the right thing by East Timor in the dispute over the maritime boundary the countries share.

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Clive Schofield – The signing of a treaty between Australia and Timor-Leste marking maritime boundaries in the Timor Sea represents a huge step forward in resolving the two states' long

Damon Evans – Findings from UN-backed Conciliation Commission show development of Greater Sunrise oil and gas in East Timor is unviable, contrary to what East Timor's government claims.

Tom Clarke – East Timor and Australia will sign a maritime boundary agreement at the UN headquarters in New York tomorrow, putting their long-running border dispute to rest.

Frank Brennan – On Tuesday the governments of Timor Leste and Australia will sign a maritime boundary treaty in New York in the presence of Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General of th

Giacomo Tognini – Timor-Leste will go to the polls on May 12 for the second time in less than a year, with the country's politicians calling upon voters to break a stalemate that ended

Fiona Suwana – Google – a company with several data protection issues – recently invested more than US$1 billion in Indonesia's popular ride-hailing app Go-Jek.

Damon Evans – Reports that East Timor is set to bank tens of billions of dollars from the potential development of the Woodside Petroleum-operated Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields tha

John McBeth, Jakarta – Indonesian society would undergo a dramatic and regressive transformation if Parliament goes ahead with proposed amendments to the country's colonial-era Criminal

Erin Cook – Long-running and increasingly controversial reforms of Indonesia's criminal code are threatening to set the tone for elections this year and next, with the country's progres

Phelim Kine – Three undocumented Indonesian immigrants have taken sanctuary in a New Jersey church to avoid deportation from the United States.

Michael Sainsbury – In January, after half a year of political gridlock, Timor-Leste's president Francisco "Lu Olo" Guterres set the date for its 730,000 registered voters to head to th

Alexander R Arifianto – Since the Defending Islam rallies in late 2016 and early 2017, there is a perception of a growing ideological convergence between clerics and activists affiliate

Olivia Tasevski – A new requirement for foreign researchers to obtain a permit to enter museums run by the Indonesian military constitutes an attempt to bolster questionable Suharto-era

Liam Gammon – In the past couple of months, a regular feature of the right wing (for lack of a better term) Indonesian Facebook groups I follow has been "news" of attempted attacks on u

Robertus Robet – While most of Indonesian civil society was up in arms about controversial revisions to the Criminal Code (KUHP) last week, the national legislature quietly went about p

John McBeth, Jakarta – To the consternation of pro-democracy activists and those with grim memories of ex-president Suharto's authoritarian rule, Joko Widodo's government continues to m

Indonesia's growing moral and political panic about sexuality has now produced draft laws that could criminalize sex outside marriage, and same-sex conduct.

"If Jokowi and Prabowo go head to head in 2019, they almost definitely cannot, and should not, repeat the strategies they used in 2014".

Viji Menon – The oil and gas sector is the mainstay of Timor-Leste's economy, with almost 90% of government revenue coming from oil.

Kate Walton – The Indonesian Government is grappling with a measles outbreak in the Papuan district of Asmat, where at least 65 children have died since the epidemic began in October.

Kim McGrath – The UN Compulsory Conciliation between Australia and Timor-Leste, which aims to set a boundary in the Timor Sea, appears to be inching towards resolution, with details eme

Kyle Knight – It may seem preposterous, but some Indonesian politicians are attempting to portray the criminalization of adult consensual same-sex conduct as somehow protecting against

Stanley Widianto – History seems to be repeating itself in Indonesia. Same beats, same choruses, same incendiary statements, same rebuttals.

Tess Newton Cain – The last time the leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) got together was in 2016, for a special leaders summit held in Honiara.

Aisyah Llewellyn – Indonesia is currently gripped by news about plans to revise the country's criminal code (RKUHP).

Devandy Ario Putro – LGBTI people have always existed in Indonesian culture and society – long before the genesis of the nation itself.