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.
A former war correspondent arrested in Bali for allegedly possessing hashish has revealed his former employer has agreed to pay for his PTSD treatment when he is released from the notorious Kerobokan jail.
The Australian government is being sued $103 million for allegedly jailing Indonesian juveniles for people smuggling in adult prisons or holding them in immigration detention between 2008 and 2012.
Severe flooding is not unusual in Jakarta, but rarely has it been so politicised as this past week.
Australia is pushing for Australian universities to be permitted to open campuses in Indonesia as part of a free trade deal that both countries hope will be finalised this year.
Byron Bay woman will be sentenced for a group attack that led to police officer's death.
Prosecutors have requested that David Taylor, the boyfriend of Byron Bay woman Sara Connor, be sentenced to eight years' jail for the fatal group assault of a Balinese police officer on Kuta beach last year.
We have spent the past few weeks combing Indonesia for an elusive sighting of the world's most trafficked mammal.
The mother of the Indonesian woman arrested in Malaysia over the death of Kim Jong-nam says her daughter is a "simple country girl".
Malaysian authorities believe four North Korean spies orchestrated the assassination of Kim Jong-nam, the playboy brother of North Korea's leader, and remain in the country.
Jakartans are expected to return to the polls in a showdown between the polarising incumbent and former education minister after neither candidate won a majority.
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