TNI’s Timor show of might a miscalculation
Six navy warships anchored off the coast.
120 armed elite guards to accompany Megawati.
2,000 troops deployed on West Timor border.
It starts off on
Indonesia
Presidential hopes glow for Amien …
IN WAKE OF MEGA-HAMZAH RIFT
The national assembly chairman is wooing Islamic groups as he moves in to fill a leadership vacuum.
Spurred on
Megawati’s party ponders what to do with her V-P
Some in the party want him censured for meeting Laskar Jihad leader, while others urge restraint fearing new turmoil.
President Megawati Sukarnoputri's Indonesian
Jakarta action against militants impeded by V-P
Hamzah Haz is courting the militants to shore up his power base. He even invited them to dinner at his home recently.
Indonesian
Indonesia army wary about US military aid offer
Its generals say Washington is using the proposed lifting of the embargo as a bargaining chip to make Indonesia do what the
Army chief for top TNI post
MEGA'S CHOICE
Gen Endriartono Sutarto, who has proven his loyalty to Megawati, is set to be the next military commander
by month's end.
Army
Politics hold back Jakarta’s crackdown on extremism
The images are horrifying.
The charred remains of churches and mosques in the Maluku islands lie stark against the sky, as if to
Indonesian VP visits detained militant
Mr Hamzah Haz said he saw nothing wrong with his trip to the national police headquarters for the 90-minute meeting with the
US-Indonesia ties face terrorist roadblock
As recent events in the Middle East have shown, defining terrorism can be a difficult proposition.
Nowhere is this truer than in Indonesia
Indonesia unlikely to become Islamic state
Political transitions provide fertile ground for the rise of extremist elements. As recent history has shown, Russia, South Africa and other fledgling
Mob kills 14 people in Ambon
RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE IN INDONESIA
Pre-dawn attack saw mostly Christians stabbed, burned.
A mob stabbed and burned to death 14 people in Indonesia's strife-torn Maluku
Heroes’ welcome for Jakarta terror suspects
The govt's part in freeing the two nabbed in Manila plus its plan to pardon another fuel fear that it is going