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.
In the early 1990s Arahmaiani Feisal​, one of Indonesia's most iconic contemporary artists, fled to Perth after receiving death threats from Islamic hardliners following a solo exhibition in Jakarta.
Ahmad Zia Alizadah allegedly charged $US5000 to $US6000 per person to smuggle people from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan since 2008.
A re-enactment of a Bali jail escape has revealed Australian Shaun Davidson was the first out of a filthy waste tunnel at 2.30am on June 19.
Chief Security Minister Wiranto denied the act was aimed at curbing freedom of expression, as rights activists said it recalled measures from the Suharto era.
For years Murdah had no desire to own a cow. His father-in-law owned them and they stank. "Back then they kept them next to the house," says Murdah, a motorcycle taxi driver from the village of Genggelang in North Lombok. "You couldn't even have visitors because of the smell. It was not healthy, my family got sick, the cows died and for what?"
Almost 100 child sex offenders from Australia have tried to enter Indonesia this year, which child advocates say underscores the need for laws cancelling passports.
Bali's police chief says he believes a crime syndicate helped four foreign prisoners including Australian Shaun Davidson stage a brazen escape from Bali's Kerobokan jail.
Ramadan's annual homecoming tradition - known here as Mudik - is the most joyous time of the year for millions of Indonesians. But it can also be deadly.
East Timorese police do not believe Kerobokan jail escapee Shaun Davidson is in their country, after two of his fellow escapees were arrested in Dili on Thursday.
Two of the prisoners who escaped from Bali's Kerobokan jail on Monday have been arrested in Dili, the capital of East Timor.
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