Indonesia seeks to hose down Zika fears
Indonesia has issued a statement stressing the country is not experiencing active virus transmission.
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Jewel Topsfield
Jewel Topsfield is Fairfax's Indonesia correspondent. She is an award-winning journalist who has been with Fairfax Media for 10 years. Most recently, she was education editor at The Age for five years. Prior to that she was the launch deputy editor of the National Times, Fairfax’s online opinion site. She also spent three years in the Canberra Press Gallery covering immigration, education, the environment and water.
Indonesian president's visit to Natuna Islands sends warning to China
Joko Widodo has held a cabinet meeting on a warship in the Natuna Islands in a defiant gesture to China.
'Their boat can't be fixed': Indonesia asks for help with stranded Tamils
Australia-bound Sri Lankan asylum seekers cannot be towed back to international waters, Indonesia concedes.
Widower of cyanide coffee victim calls for justice
The bereaved widower of an Indonesian woman who was allegedly poisoned with cyanide-laced coffee by a friend from her student days in Australia has called for justice to be served, revealing the couple had planned to start a family by the end of the year.
Liam's legacy: the fight to combat killer cocktails in Indonesia
It was New Year's Eve 2012 and Australian teenager Liam Davies was celebrating with mates on Gili Trawangan, a tourist island off the northwest coast of Lombok.
Australians warned of Zika virus in Indonesia
The Australian government has updated its travel advice to Indonesia to warn the country is experiencing sporadic transmission of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Sailors remember night WW2 cruiser's luck ran out
Cats may have nine lives but Red Lead, the ship's cat on HMAS Perth, seemed to know that hers had come to an end 74 years ago.
Sri Lankans en route to Australia in boat stranded in Indonesia
A boat with 44 Sri Lankans, including a pregnant woman and nine children, who said they were on their way to Australia, have been found off of Aceh, a northern province of Indonesia.
'Nation of coolies' no more? Indonesia calls time on maids working abroad
Indonesia's president has moved to end the exploitation of women working as maids overseas. But talk of a ban has divided activists and the women themselves.
Indonesian minority religion leaders charged with blasphemy and treason
Three former leaders of the disbanded Gafatar movement face life imprisonment after being arrested for blasphemy and treason in a case raising serious concerns about Indonesia's treatment of religious minorities.
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