Singapore – Indonesia on Wednesday signed a $325 million contract with Airbus Military for nine C-295 transport planes to be used for defense, logistical and humanitarian purposes.

Zubaidah Nazeer – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono weighed in on Thursday on ongoing opposition to planned arms purchases, saying it lagged behind its neighbors in military equipment

Pontianak, West Kalimantan – Officials in Pontianak have vowed to thoroughly investigate the alleged assault of a gasoline vendor by two soldiers on Saturday.

Samuel Rubenfeld – Businesses owned by militaries around the world pose unique corruption risks to the sectors in which they operate, a new report found.

Ezra Sihite – The Armed Forces chief said on Tuesday that a final decision had not been made on a widely panned $600 million plan to buy secondhand tanks from the Netherlands.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After ripping into the Defense Ministry over a plan to buy secondhand combat tanks, the House of Representatives now finds itself fending off criticism that i

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reprimanded on Friday nongovernmental organizations that often criticized how the Indonesian Military (TNI) handles security in Papua, sayin

Jakarta – National Defense Forces (TNI) Commander Admiral Agus Suhartono said Indonesia's military remains constantly aware of the possibility of a military embargo being imposed on the

Novan Iman Santosa and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Indonesia will start modernizing its military hardware after a decade of internal reform riding on the back of an improving economy, Defens

Jakarta – Army Special Force (Kopassus) Commander Major General Wisnu Bawa Tenaya said the force's presence in Papua was to carry out part of the Army's main tasks in safeguarding and u

Jakarta – Commander of the Indonesian Defense Forces (TNI) Admiral Agus Suhartono said TNI will focus on the implementation of civic mission activities by launching a "Military Enters V

Hasyim Widhiarto, Bandung/Surabaya/Malang – Three state-owned companies in the defense industry are running low on manpower as budget constraints have hampered their ability to hire new

Gorontalo – The Indonesian Military says it will shift strategy and deploy troops from Java to areas near the nation's borders as part of a defense rethink.

Peter Alford, Jakarta – After months of delay during which the Papuan situation has sharply deteriorated, the Yudhoyono administration's last shot at bridging the chasm between Jakarta

Brigid Andersen – Reports from West Papua claim Indonesian anti-terrorist police have torched a remote village in the Papuan highlands amid clashes with guerrilla rebels in the region.

Nethy Dharma Somba and Nani Afrida, Jayapura/Jakarta – The Jayapura Police have questioned four Papuan people in connection with the separatist flag-raising ceremony during the "West Pa

Elin Yunita Kristanti and Luqman Rimadi – Around 80 people calling themselves the Jakarta-Bali Papuan Society and Students held a protest action in Central Jakarta today demanding that

Sara Everingham – East Timor says it is interested in taking part in joint military training with the Australian and US defence forces in Darwin.

Nethy Dharma Somba and Bambang Muryanto, Jayapura/Yogyakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI), lawmakers and experts all agree that Jakarta must directly talk with Papuans who have separ

Jayapura, Papua – Chief of Staff of the Cendrawasih Military Command Brigadier General Indra Hidayat said National Defense Forces (TNI) personnel were in Papua for peaceful purposes.

Jakarta – A member of the House of Representatives accused the government of conducting illegal military operations in poverty-stricken Papua, which has seen a spike in violence involvi

Honolulu, Hawaii – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday voiced alarm about human rights conditions in Indonesia's Papua and called for dialog to meet the aspirations of the

Jakarta – National Resilience Institute (Lemhanas) chief Budi Susilo Supandji has urged the government to avoid using a military approach to managing Papua, suggesting that monitoring t

Banjir Ambarita – The separatist group that claimed responsibility for the shooting death of a subdistrict police chief in Papua has been identified by authorities as "Kodap X," a group

Agus Triyono & Banjir Ambarita – Rights activists announced on Friday that an investigation has led them to believe that police have involved themselves too deeply in labor disputes

Depok, West Java – Australian Ambassador to Indonesia Greg Moriarty is of the opinion that the conflict in Papua is a bid challenge for the Government of Indonesia in overcoming it.

Komnas HAM, the National Commission for Human Rights, has urged the police in Papua to respect the rights of the six persons who were arrested following the Third Papuan People's Congre

Banjir Ambarita, Farouk Arnaz & Ronna Nirmala, Jayapura & Jakarta – The National Police are on the highest alert in Papua after the latest shooting in a spate of increased viole

Jakarta – In contrast to its comparative silence over to the recent fatal shooting of several Papuan workers and demonstrators, the National Police has deployed three teams of detective

Jayapura – A member of the Provincial Legislative Assembly of Papua, the DPRP, had called for the Chief of Police in Papua and Commander of the Cenderawasih Military Command to be held

AWPA is calling on the CHOGM leaders (who will meet in Perth) to condemn the brutal crackdown on the West Papuan people.

Nani Afrida and Hasyim Widhiarto – Around 50 top military brass, arms vendors and officials from several ministries gathered at the Defense Ministry in mid-September to hammer out decis

Arientha Primanita, Ezra Sihite & Faisal Baskoro – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told the Indonesian military on its 66th anniversary that the government will continue to raise

Nani Afrida and Hasyim Widhiarto – The seemingly bohemian appearance of Soeryo Guritno, 68, is not the well-dressed and cunning arms dealer as played by actor Nicholas Cage in the film

Nani Afrida and Hasyim Widhiarto – Indonesia may be Southeast Asia's biggest economy. But the nation's status as a regional military power has dissipated.

The Indonesian Military (TNI) celebrates its 66th anniversary today amid a glimmer of hope that an expected revivial of the country's long-neglected defense industry will allow it to bo

Ronna Nirmala – As the world's biggest archipelago, Indonesia is being urged to expand its maritime defense capacity.

Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhyono has asked the Indonesian military to cooperate with National Police, in efforts to fight terrorism.

Ronna Nirmala – Human rights lawyers are using the occasion of the Indonesian Military's 66th anniversary today to highlight what they say is the need to reform the institution's "untou

John McBeth – Indonesian Air Force officers will soon be shopping in the Arizona desert, picking out two squadrons of mothballed F-16C/D fighter jets from America's aircraft 'boneyard',

Jakarta – An activist says military courts should not revue human rights abuse allegations levied against Indonesian Military (TNI) members in dozens of unresolved torture cases involvi

Kartika Candra, Jakarta – The Indonesian military are still involved in cases of abuse, the Commission for Missing Persons & Victims of Violence (Kontras) announced before the Indon

John McBeth – About a week before East Timor's 1999 referendum, an Indonesian general asked me how I thought the United Nations-administered ballot would turn out.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The fall of Soeharto may have been seen as the end of the era of military involvement in politics, but more than a decade after the reform movement, the face

Mark Dodd – East Timor's small army will be supplied with Indonesian weapons after the signing of a ground-breaking agreement between the two countries that were once deadly enemies.

Jakarta – State-owned train operator PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) says many officers from the Indonesian Military (TNI) and police did not pay their train fares while travelling home f

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) on Sunday questioned the validity of documents cited in Australian media reports on its sprawling military presence in Papua, sayin

Three soldiers tried in the killing of a Papuan man were sentenced by a military tribunal to up to 15 months in jail for insubordination, an officer said on Friday.

Arientha Primanita – Constructive dialogue and demilitarization are the best ways to prevent human rights violations in Papua, a rights watchdog said on Tuesday.

Jakarta – The Indonesian army said here on Thursday that it had launched no military action in reaction to recent attacks and ambushes by alleged separatist OPM members.