Timor-Leste (East Timor) within the next three years will have a modern port in Tibar bay, 12 kilometres from the capital, Dili, according to a contract signed this week with Bollore Ports, accordi

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – Deregulation and the improvement of infrastructure across the country should be extended to help the country survive amid the tougher global completion, President Joko "Jo

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Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The government has had to hold its tongue as early tenders it held since August last year to resolve slow budget spending have been unable to rev up the country's infrastr

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The government will give high priority to local products, particularly for infrastructure projects as part of efforts to assist the development of national industries, cre

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Infrastructure companies recorded growth in assets value and profits last year thanks partly to the government's mammoth budget allocation in the sector.

Farida Susanty and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to speed up the development of toll-roads in the country may face further delays as the government is running ou

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Bandung Legislative Council (DPRD) in West Java has expressed its concern over the planned Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway, as the project has yet to receive formal reco

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has criticized ministries for a lack of cooperation in implementing development in the easternmost region, accusing them of only focusing on the

Paulina Quintao – The National Director for Water and Sanitation Services (NDWS) Gustavo da Cruz said currently there some 2000 households connected to the public water grid in the capital Dili are

Venidora Oliveira – The government of Timor-Leste through the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communication (MPWTC) has made the commitment to pay companies who completed urgent projects da

By Max Lane

Executive summary

By Max Lane

Executive summary

Dylan Amirio, National – The administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo must work harder on meeting the targets set by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) program to make up for its d

Gaad Piranid Tabuni grew up in a village in the Papuan highlands of Indonesia too remote for any government – colonial Dutch or Indonesian – to maintain a presence.

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Inequality and poverty and not religion and extremism are the biggest drivers of conflict in fragile countries, East Timor's independence hero warns.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Public Works and Public Housing Ministry is struggling to prepare the tender process for a large number of infrastructure projects to be developed this year, foll

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The government is to issue a revision to a land-procurement regulation to expedite land acquisition, which has proved an obstacle to a number of infrastructure projec

Venidora Oliveira – The 2015 General State will continue to prioritize infrastructure development with the government believing there hasn't been a significant progress in the quality of roads and

Paulina Quintao – More than 100 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) houses are sitting abandoned in Lospalos sub-district in Lautem as the residents they were intended for refuse to live in them due

John M. Pile – The Timorese government recently released its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report for 2014.

The Secretary-General of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation says the West Papuan cause has lost a good leader, following the death of Dr John Otto Ondawame.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has decided to slash a staggering Rp 100 trillion (US$8.7 billion) from the operational budget of his ministries, a mov

Herman Genie – With people marrying younger, a generally low quality of life for women, and poor infrastructure, Indonesia is unlikely to achieve its 2015 Millennium Development Goals,

Jakarta – Independent watchdog on state and local budget, Pattiro, says the implementation of gender responsive budgeting (ARG) will accelerate progress toward achieving the Millennium

Jakarta – The Awaking Papua Forum (Forum Papua Bangkit) said it suspects corruption was the cause of the long delay in the construction of a Trans Irian highway linking the southern and

Venidora Oliveira – A Member of National Parliament strongly criticized the company Estrada Bo'ot Diak for constructing poor quality roads that are damaged a year after being built.

Ashlee Betteridge – The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI) was released last week, and while most countries in the region had demonstrated a marked improvement in hunger levels since the 20

Mary O'Shea – Eleven years after independence, the array of socioeconomic challenges facing Timor-Leste remains significant.

Anushka Shahjahan – Indonesia and the Asian region have made substantial progress toward achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, although gaps in poverty reduction r

More rigorous oversight of development projects is needed to improve aid effectiveness in Timor-Leste, according to the consensus reached following the annual Timor-Leste Development Pa

The European Union plans to donate 20.5 million euros to Timor-Leste (East Timor) to repair and maintain roads in three districts of the country, under the terms of an agreement signed

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Government spending on improving infrastructure and transportation facilities will likely fall significantly in 2014 as legislators have proposed a sizable cut

Jakarta – The Indonesian government received an award from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented to recognize its consistent work in reducing hunger and malnourishm

While Indonesia still lags behind 29 other countries on a worldwide hunger list, the United Nations has announced it will award the country for its efforts in reducing malnutrition.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has pledged to embrace Free Papua Movement (OPM) separatists, expressing his will to build a bridge between the group and the

Development in Papua, Indonesia's most eastern and underdeveloped province, has been hampered by extremely expensive logistics costs caused by the lack of transportation infrastructure.

Rendi A. Witular, Papua – When it comes to realizing a massive road project, nothing could match what governor general Herman Willem Daendels did during the Dutch colonial era.

Ina Parlina, World – Paying more attention to children's voices would help address the inequalities that many of them face, said young participants in a meeting on the Millennium Develo

MI/Rommy Pujianto/ip, Makassar – Student Solidarity Concern for the Papuan People (SMPRP) along with advocacy and human rights groups held a protest action in front of the Mandala Monum

Jakarta – Inequality must be placed at the center of all discussions at the UN High Level Panel for the post-2015 development agenda in Bali next week as unequal progress on human devel

Indonesia's life expectancy has climbed but education levels have fallen in the past year, in aggregate allowing the country to inch forward in the latest United Nations Human Developme

Indonesia's life expectancy has climbed but education levels have fallen in the past year, in aggregate allowing the country to inch forward in the latest United Nations Human Developme

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Indonesian Logistics Association (ALI) has predicted that logistics costs in the country will increase by about 3 percent this year following a rise in port fee

The President of the Republic Taur Matan Ruak has criticized the quality of domestic public works projects that the government contracted private companies to undertake because they are

Jakarta – At Jakarta's infrastructure monitoring nerve center, live TV cameras track traffic flows on port access roads and highways, satellite images show cloud cover, and a Twitter fe

Jakarta – National Development Planning Minister Armida S.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The condition of infrastructure development in Indonesia is currently in a state of emergency and the government must start developing an innovative res

Catherine McGrath & staff – East Timor's Finance Minister wants her country and other post-conflict nations around the world to gain greater control over foreign aid programs.