'It's not fair': Sara Connor accuses Bali police of fabrication
Byron Bay woman hotly denies evidence put forward by the chief investigator in her murder trial.
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.
Byron Bay woman hotly denies evidence put forward by the chief investigator in her murder trial.
Three suspected terrorists have been killed after police raided a house containing an active bomb about 25 kilometres west of Jakarta.
Prosecutors have accused Jakarta's governor of being "self-righteous" and say it is not enough for him to claim that his intention was not to insult Islam.
Bali police have detonated a backpack containing fireworks after it was found with a sign attached that said "Bomb" in the popular tourist village of Ubud this morning.
Indonesia's police are accused by mainstream Muslim groups of weakening the rule of law by providing security for hardliners at shopping centres.
The embattled governor of Jakarta emotionally told his trial for blasphemy that his own godparents had been Muslims and it would not be possible for him to insult the religion.
The widow of the Bali police officer allegedly murdered on a Kuta beach has said she did not "want a dime" from suspect Sara Connor and in dramatic court scenes called for the Byron Bay woman to receive the maximum punishment.
High school students in Central Java were recently asked this question in a test: "What is the name of the current gubernatorial candidate who insulted the Koran?"
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.
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