Jakarta – Coordinating Minister for Defense and Security Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono rejected on Monday rumors of two generals being involved in the bomb blasts in the tourist destination

Devi Asmarani, Solo – An Osama bin Laden picture adorns the wall calendar at the infirmary of the Al-Mukmin Pesantren, the Islamic boarding school which has acquired a reputation for be

Tiarma Siboro and I Wayan Juniartha, Denpasar – The tedious investigation into the bomb attack on Bali has resulted in another bizarre twist following reports that linked the blast with

Sidney Jones – In the aftermath of the 12 October bombing in Bali, Indonesians are convinced they have terrorists in their midst. They're just not sure who they are.

Darren Goodsir, Kuta – Investigators hunting the Bali bombers have unearthed credible links between the Kuta explosions, the closure last month of the Australian embassy in East Timor i

[A group of Indonesian journalist today said the Australian Government is incorrect in thinking Abu Bakar Bashir was the man responsible for the Kuta Beach bombings.

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John Pilger – What passing bells for these who die as cattle?" wrote the great First World War poet Wilfred Owen.

Kuta – Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz yesterday paid his first visit to the scene of the devastating Bali bombing and said the attackers aimed to break up the country and wreck it

Max Lane, Jakarta – As of October 18, the Indonesian police investigating the terrorist bombing of the Sari night club on October 12 – which killed nearly 200 foreign tourists and Indon

James Balowski – The brutal murder of nearly 200 people in Indonesia's tourist resort of Kuta on the island of Bali on October 12 occurred as the US is attempting to pressure Jakarta in

Robert Go, Jakarta – Jakarta is now armed with tougher anti-terror decrees, but the question remains whether it can aim and pull the trigger at the right targets as it tries to prevent

Lindsay Murdoch – For three months Omar al-Faruq refused to talk.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta and Brendan Nicholson – Indonesia was last night bracing for demonstrations after police detained the radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for questioning over

On October 12, the world was shocked by the explosion at the Sari Club on Legian road in Kuta, Bali.

Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri has signed two emergency decrees to combat terrorism following the devastating Bali bombing, Justice Minister Yusril Ihza Mahendra said today.

The bombing in Legian, Bali, which killed 183 people and wounded hundreds of others has already impacted on a number of groups.

Hamish McDonald – Although the Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, has dismissed the line of suspicion as "silly", some officials in his entourage must have wondered as they did the rou

John Aglionby, Kuta – Indonesia's most violent radical Islamist group, blamed for the deaths of thousands of Christians in eastern islands during four years of communal conflict, dissol

[One of Indonesia's largest and most militant militias, the Laskar Jihad, has been publicly disbanded in a surprise development which took place just hours before the Bali bombings.

Robert Go, Jakarta – Indonesia's most violent Muslim extremist group, Laskar Jihad, has been disbanded.

Mark Riley and Tom Allard – The Central Intelligence Agency issued an intelligence report listing Bali among possible targets of a pending terrorist attack just two weeks before the wee

Kathy Marks, Bali – Sesca Rompas climbed on to a plastic stool and peered through a dirty window at her brother, Aldo Kansil, lying motionless on a bed below.

Max Lane – On October 14, in the Australian parliament Prime Minister John Howard seized on the terrorist incident in Bali last weekend to justify a further strengthening of repressive

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – For Indonesia the pretense is well and truly over.

ASAP condemns outright the barbaric bombing that took place in Bali on October 13 and that took the lives of at least 200 people from Bali, Indonesia, Australia and around the world.

Greg Barton – The long hand of the military may have left its prints on the Kuta bomb. The shocking news from Bali probably couldn't get much worse.

It's hardly surprising that rabid Muslim clerics and shortsighted nationalist professors are blaming the US for the horrendous Bali nightclub bombing.

Louise Williams – Radical Islam has long played a bit part on the fringes of Indonesia's murky domestic political scene.

Port Moresby - The Papua Council Presidium (PCP), on behalf of the people of West Papua, wishes to convey its sincere condolences and deepest sympathy to the families and relativ

David Jenkins – In 1980, five Indonesian members of a so-called Komando Jihad (Holy War Command) hijacked a Garuda jet and forced it to fly to Bangkok.

Irwan Firdaus – A car bomb destroyed a crowded nightclub on the tourist island of Bali Saturday, sparking a devastating inferno that killed at least 182 people and wounded 300 – many of

Dean Yates, Bali – Bombs ripped through a packed nightspot on Indonesia's traditionally tranquil tourist island of Bali overnight, killing at least 182 people, many of them foreigners.

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Robert Go, Jakarta – The newly-proposed National Security Council (DKN) provides President Megawati Sukarnoputri's government with a layer of protection from possible Islamic and nation

Jakarta – Indonesia is increasingly serious about confronting apparent efforts by Al-Qaeda to establish a terrorist beachhead in the world's most populous Muslim nation, the US ambassad

Denise Leith – On 31 August, 2002 fourteen employees of the Freeport mining company were shot on the road leading to the company town of Tembagapura high in the mountainous interior of

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The Indonesian government should probe reports that a Singaporean extremist helped fund a plot to assassinate President Megawati Sukarnoputri, said lawmakers an

A Muslim radical from Singapore allegedly helped finance a plot to assassinate Indonesian leader Megawati Sukarnoputri before she became president.

Robert Go, Jakarta – Going along with Washington's anti-terror campaign – including pushing the government to enact its own anti-terror law – brings Indonesia's armed forces (TNI) one s

Jakarta – A day after disclosing that Jakarta would work with Washington to probe into Al-Qaeda's alleged links here, security czar Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono backtracked in an apparent m

Jakarta – A group of 22 youths from the Democratic Socialist Coalition staged a sit down protest outside the US embassy here on Tuesday to begin a one-day hunger strike against possible

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – The seemingly forgotten issue of enacting an anti-terror law resurfaced in Indonesia after several prominent figures, including the military chief and the head

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – Legal experts and human rights activists have warned of extensive human rights abuses and political suppression should a new bill on terrorism being drafted by

Ellen Nakashima and Alan Sipress, Jakarta – Indonesia's decision to detain and interrogate Seyam Reda, a German citizen suspected of links to al Qaeda, marks a significant shift for Ind

Simon Elegant, Jakarta – George W.

Dean Yates, Jakarta – Foreign countries must stop giving the impression Indonesia is home to a terrorist network, otherwise this could incite popular anger in the world's largest Muslim

Jakarta – Religious radicalism has no place in the world's most populous Muslim country due to the fact that the sociocultural diversity of the people here would discourage such extremi

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – For a fleeting moment on Monday it looked as if Indonesians might be getting closer to the truth about the Bush Administration's contentious claim that their co