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: The office of Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo was warned before he arrived at Jakarta's airport that he may be delayed due to "US security protocols", according to the US Department of Homeland Affairs.
The US refuses to say why it denied Indonesian military chief Gatot Nurmantyo entry to the US.
Indonesia is demanding an explanation after its military chief Gatot Nurmantyo was refused entry into the United States on Saturday.
Among a trove of chilling declassified documents that reveal the US government's knowledge and support of a campaign of mass murder against Indonesia's Communist Party in the mid-1960s, one "important cable" cites as its source a "reliable Australian journalist".
Suspicion that gay rights is a "Western agenda" aimed at destroying Indonesian culture has helped fuel an unprecedented crackdown on the nation's LGBT community.
The 32-year-old was apprehended at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport on October 8 with an alleged 28 grams of marijuana and 37 pills of diazepam, a prescription-only sedative.
Australian man Joshua James Baker could be jailed for up to 15 years after being named a suspect for allegedly bringing a mixture of marijuana and tobacco and prescription-only drugs into Bali.
The case comes as the spectre of a resurgent red peril has once again inflamed the country.
An Australian man is being detained by Bali police after marijuana mixed with tobacco and the sedative medication Diazepam was allegedly found in his suitcase at Bali's international airport.
Fairfax photojournalist Kate Geraghty has been named a winner in the International Photography Awards for a series of haunting images captured during the last days of the battle to liberate West Mosul from Islamic State fighters.
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