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Timothy Pilgrim says police access to private communications ‘should be proportional to the risk they seek to address’ Katharine Murphy ...

Robert Manne: Long read: While the opponents of the asylum seekers have closed their hearts to suffering, supporters have often closed their minds to the consequences of the policies they have advocated for Robert Manne ...

Region losing 2m hectares of forest and grasslands every year, with area the size of India and Burma together requiring restoration ...

s second-story ballroom. More than 100 relatives of passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished an hour into its Beijing-bound flight from Kuala Lumpur at 1.30am on Saturday , had been waiting in the room for more than 36 hours. The few that ventured into the media scrum outside wore expressions of anxiety and despair. Some huddled in corners in the hotel's atrium, quietly crying....

s Day, UNDP leader and former prime minister of New Zealand Helen Clark picks seven women who are leading positive change all over the world Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairperson, African Union In 2012, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was the first woman to be elected African Union (AU) chairperson since its inception in 1963. In this role, she is driving the AU's decade of the African Woman (2010 to 2020). She...

High court rules that Isti Komariyah died of deliberate starvation in latest case of abuse against Indonesian migrant workers A Malaysian couple have been sentenced to hang for murdering their Indonesian maid by starving her to death, according to reports that said she weighed just 26kg (57lbs) when she died. In the latest case of abuse against Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia, the high court...

Welcome to Cipacing, a small village in Indonesia where gunsmiths make thousands of air rifles every year – mostly in small back room operations. Getty's Ed Wray heads there to stare down the barrels of the guns ...

Iranian foreign minister, visiting Jakarta in wake of death of Reza Barati, says Canberra’s policy will be subject of future talks ...

celebration of killing' to hope that it will help Indonesia address its past • Joshua Oppenheimer: 'You celebrate mass killing so you don't have to look yourself in the mirror' The Act of Killing may have lost out on this year's Oscar for best documentary, but it has instigated a spectacular change within Indonesian society. The documentary, in which director Joshua Oppenheimer encourages the perpetrators...

s largest – and newest democracies. As well as the 800 million eligible to casts their ballot in India from 7 April , another 190 million have the right to vote in Indonesian elections on 9 April. In terms of size of electorate, India and Indonesia are the world's first and third largest democracies. The US is second. Twelve million Afghans are eligible to vote in presidential elections on 5 April,...

s top Islamic clerical body has issued a religious fatwa against the illegal hunting and trade in endangered animals in the country, which the WWF hailed on Wednesday as the world's first. The fatwa by the Indonesian Ulema Council declares such activities "unethical, immoral and sinful", council official Asrorun Ni'am Sholeh told Agence France-Presse (AFP). "All activities resulting in wildlife extinction...

PM says government seeks agreement with Indonesia ‘as quickly as possible’ after Tanya Plibersek raises issue Daniel Hurst ...

Tanya Plibersek: The Abbott government has inherited Howard’s tendency to act unilaterally within our region – and it turns its back on Indonesia at its peril Tanya Plibersek ...

‘There’s a possibility I will revoke Corby’s parole,’ says Indonesian justice minister after sister Mercedes appears on TV Helen Davidson ...

28th annual billionaires' list. Women now make up 10% of the global super-rich. Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, with a personal fortune worth more than $1bn (£600m), becomes one of the highest-profile new entrants to the Forbes list, joining Meg Whitman of Hewlett-Packard as the only other female tech billionaire. Nigeria's first female billionaire, businesswoman Folorunsho Alakija,...

s account of the anti-communist purge in 60s Indonesia was overlooked by the Academy, but the director remains upbeat about a film that has made a genuine difference • Joshua Oppenheimer on The Act of Killing and its impact in the United States On an Oscar night of few surprises, one award that didn't quite go the way pundits may have hoped was way down the bill in the best documentary category. The...

re announced The Act of Killing has lost out in the best documentary category at the 86th Academy Awards to backing-singer study 20 Feet from Stardom. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing is a searing insight into the gruesome anti-communist massacres in 1960s Indonesia, including extensive interviews with and reenactments by the actual perpetrators. Produced by, among others, Werner...

s report into Cambodia rail project contains criticisms of ADB similar to those leveled a decade ago in Indonesia In its efforts to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has placed good governance, civil society, accountability and information disclosure among its key themes . In a recent speech, the bank's president stated that improving "governance in our developing...

Huge swaths of pristine forest of Indonesia, home to the endangered orangutan and red-nose monkey, is threatened by the expansion of palm oil concessions ...

A Brazilian tourist has a holiday snap to remember after a monkey on the Indonesian island of Bali took his GoPro video camera and ran off ...