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: Indonesia's foreign ministry says President Joko Widodo hopes to visit Australia in the first three months of this year in an indication the furore over offensive material at an Australian army base has not damaged the wider bilateral relationship.
An internal Indonesian military cable issued last month states the suspension of co-operation between the Australian and Indonesian military only affected activities under one sub-committee, suggesting Indonesia never intended to completely suspend military ties.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo says his country and Australia have agreed to stay out of each other's internal affairs.
Indonesia's hardliner military chief Gatot Nurmantyo has little love for Australia.
Byron Bay woman Sara Connor often thinks about what might have happened had she not tried to intervene in a fight between her boyfriend and a stranger on Kuta beach that fateful August night.
Indonesia's defence minister has sought to play down a suspension of military ties between Australia and Indonesia, stressing it was important to keep a good relationship between the two countries.
2017 is shaping up as a year in which moderates face off against a marked rise in right-wing Islamic political activism as Indonesian society becomes increasingly conservative.
One of the embattled Jakarta governor's rivals in next month's gubernatorial elections has met with an Islamic hardliner group notorious for attacks on minority groups which critics fear will give further legitimacy to political extremists in Indonesia.
It's raining, which is awkward given we are on the way to interview a rain shaman who claims to have metaphysical powers that can prevent downpours on important events.
Twenty-three people have been killed and 17 injured in a ferry accident off the coast of Jakarta.
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