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.
Jakarta: Australia will contribute $1 million to assist Indonesia with emergency relief in the wake of the devastating 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Aceh that killed 100 people and displaced almost 23 000.
The spectre of the Boxing Day tsunami haunts scarred communities in Aceh as the number of displaced from Wednesday's earthquake balloons to almost 23,000.
Villager Taufik Hidayat has seen a baby in the claws of an excavator and the corpses of a father and his son, still clinging to each other in death.
The death toll from an earthquake in Indonesia which led to the collapse of shops and houses continues to rise.
A "shocked and scared" Sara Connor and her British DJ boyfriend hired a scooter in Jimbaran after the Byron Bay woman learnt police were looking for her.
One of Indonesia's most senior ministers has called on Australia to help find a solution to the 2009 Montara oil spill which caused lasting negative impacts in one of the country's poorest provinces.
Police have revealed predawn arrests on Friday were aimed at preventing opponents of the president using protests to topple the government.
Thousands gather in Jakarta for the latest rally demanding the city's Chinese Christian governor be jailed for his alleged insult to the Koran.
Bali murder suspect Sara Connor has insisted her British DJ boyfriend is not an aggressive person and said she can't believe what happened the night a Bali police officer died on Kuta beach.
An incendiary fake news report distributed via Australia has added fuel to Indonesian jitters ahead of another huge demonstration on Friday.
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