Jewel Topsfield, James Massola, David Wroe – The Indonesian government has rebuked Australia for refusing to resettle any of the thousands of Rohingya and Bangladeshi asylum seekers at the centre o

Gianrigo Marletta, Geulumpang – Muchtar Ali began weeping when he saw the desperate, starving Rohingya on the overcrowded boat off the coast of Indonesia.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – The word spread via text message.

Langsa, Aceh – From rescuing migrants at sea to donating all they can, residents of Indonesia's Islamic Aceh province are warmly welcoming hundreds of desperate fellow Muslims who have fled their h

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar – The first state-facilitated reunions of family members long separated from each other are to begin on Monday in Dili and a few other areas outside Timor Leste's capital.

Luh De Suriyani, Denpasar, Bali – The first state-facilitated reunions of family members long separated from each other are scheduled to be held this week in Dili and a few other areas outside Timo

Kate Lamb, Langsa – When Myusup Mansur, a fisherman from the small island village of Pusung, first caught a glimpse of the boat in the distance in waters off North Sumatra, it was dark and impossib

The Indonesian military (TNI) has prohibited fisherpeople operating in Indonesia's northern most province of Aceh from picking up or bringing back ethnic Rohingya stranded at sea in Indonesian terr

Shalailah Medhora – Labor may keep the practice of turning asylum boats around if it wins office at the next election, signalling what could be a major policy backflip.

Michael Bachelard – Twenty adolescent boys and girls cram in one room of a house in West Java, singing and gesturing in delightfully accented English a song made famous by a giant purpl

Sally Whyte – A West Papuan activist has fled to Australia in fear for her safety after giving testimony to an Australian tribunal into the 1998 Biak massacre by Indonesian forces.

Ina Parlina, Yuliasri Perdani and Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta/Bali – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's attempt to repair strained bilateral ties with Jakarta is being stymied by a rec

Paul Farrell – When the asylum seekers board the Ocean Protector they are stacked four by four.

Jakarta – The Indonesian navy has found 19 asylum-seekers who say they were turned around trying to reach Australia in the latest tow-back of a vessel under Canberra's hardline policies

Jakarta/Makassar – Saleem Ali, not his real name, was just 13 when his mother decided that paying strangers to smuggle him through several countries in the hope of reaching Australia wa

Jakarta – Jakarta called on governments on Monday to stop "shifting responsibility" for asylum seekers, in veiled criticism of Australia's hardline policy of towing boatloads of would-b

Australia will be asked to "share the burden" of asylum seekers with Indonesia, where detention centres are overcrowded with people stymied by the Abbott government's hardline border po

Theresia Sufa and Sita W.

Jakarta/Makassar – Australia's military-led operation to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from reaching its shores has been hailed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a success, with

Yuliasri Perdani, Kupang – It has been seven months since Farzaneh Ansari, 22, and her husband were picked up by personnel of the East Nusa Tenggara Police in the waters off Sumba Islan

Kim Doyle – In 2009, 254 refugees staged a courageous six-month sit-in on a small boat moored at the port of Merak, Indonesia.

Sharna Jade Bremner – On 30 August 1999 an overwhelming majority of East Timorese voters rejected a continuation of Indonesian rule, with nearly 80 per cent choosing independence.

Mark Solomons and George Roberts, Jakarta – An asylum seeker whose boat was turned back to Indonesia by Australia has given the ABC a detailed first-person account of being deliberately

George Roberts in Jakarta and Mark Solomons – Asylum seekers who were forcibly returned to Indonesia by lifeboat have given the first detailed account of their ordeal, and a unique insi

Cilacap, Central Java – Asylum-seekers who washed ashore in Indonesia have claimed the Australian navy blew up their vessel after forcing the would-be refugees into a lifeboat and turni

Yoseph Kellen – The Kupang immigration office in East Nusa Tenggara has prepared 5,000 square meters of land on the island of Sumba as a temporary shelter to house asylum seekers denied

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has reiterated its demand for Australia to stop its border operation crackdown on boat people, following Canberra's revelation that

Harriet Conron & Kennial Caroline Laia – Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa reiterated on Thursday that Australia's "Operation Sovereign Borders" policy, under which asylum-seeker bo

Kate Lamb in Jakarta and Oliver Laughland in Sydney – Australian naval ships entered Indonesian territorial waters often and with ease before the incursions sparked a diplomatic inciden

Kate Davidson & Poppy Saker-Norrish, Jakarta – One young man wakes up each day in Jakarta wondering if his family members in Quetta, Pakistan, have been murdered because they belong

Aubrey Belford, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – On New Year's day, 45 asylum seekers in a ramshackle wooden boat slid ashore on a small island off the Australian city of Darwin.

Helen Davidson – Reports are coming out of Indonesia of a boat arriving at a West Java beach carrying asylum seekers who say they were transferred from their vessel into a lifeboat and

Michael Bachelard – For a man whose words have whipped up a political and media storm in Australia, Yousif Ibrahim Fasher has been remarkably untroubled by visits from journalists.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's statement saying that Australia would continue to stop the boats carrying asylum seekers was a defiant stance against

Bridie Jabour and Katharine Murphy – The Australian navy has been accused of burning asylum seekers during a towback to Indonesia.

Australia on Saturday vowed there would be no further intrusions into Indonesian waters during its military-led crackdown on people-smuggling boats, after Jakarta demanded operations be

Indonesia has condemned Australian naval incursions into its waters as a "violation of its sovereignty".

A group of asylum seekers say they were given a boat by Australian authorities in which they were forced to return to Indonesia under their own steam after their own vessel's engine fai

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen.

Government officials have provided conflicting statements regarding Indonesia's stance on Australia's "turn back the boats" policy after the Indonesian Military (TNI) chief said that su

Daniel Hurst, Lenore Taylor and Helen Davidson – A government plan to send asylum seekers heading to Australia back towards Indonesia in supplied lifeboats has the potential to exacerba

Two men who claim they were on asylum seeker boats towed back to Indonesia by the Australian Navy have told the ABC they were mistreated before being abandoned at sea.

George Roberts, Indonesia – Indonesian police have told the ABC that a second boat carrying asylum seekers has been forced back to Indonesian waters by the Australian Navy.

Keerom – Refugees who have returned to Indonesia's Papua province from exile in neighbouring Papua New Guinea (PNG) are disillusioned with their new lives.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government rebuffed on Tuesday Australia's claim that Indonesia was responsible for the fate of a group of asylum seekers at the center of a maritime standoff

Fadli, Batam – The Maritime Security Coordinating Board (Bakorkamla) says it rejects being dictated to by Australia in deciding the way it handles boat people wanting to enter the count

A boatload of asylum seekers at the centre of a standoff between Australia and Indonesia will be taken to Christmas Island.

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia will offer to step up naval patrols in the ocean between Java and Australia in an attempt to combat people smuggling, a government spokesman has said.

Marni Cordell – Experts in refugee law have warned that Australia cannot pass off to Papua New Guinea its responsibility to process the claims of seven West Papuan asylum seekers.

Six of the West Papuans who sought asylum in Australia after being persecuted for their involvement in a ceremonial handover of sacred water and ashes as part of the Freedom Flotilla, w