The assets of four men associated with the Jamaah Islamiyah terrorist group have been frozen by the United States Treasury department and the four have formally been blacklisted.

The Papuan Tribal Council has demanded the establishment of an independent fact finding team to investigate human rights abuses that have taken place in Papua.

The three men on death row for the first Bali terror attacks in 2002 have not sought clemency and neither so far have their families and therefore they will likely soon find out whether Allah rewards mass murderers with 72 virgins in heaven.

Andhara Early, a TV presenter, has made a good career move in her choice to bare not quite all in the first edition of Indonesian Playboy.

Police in Semarang, central Java, went looking for Playboy yesterday. They couldn’t find it and had to make do with a copy of Cleo and the question arose among them – Is Cleo porn?

The Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, have found new meaning in their lives with the publication of an Indonesian version of Playboy magazine.

Police in Hawaii arrested four businessmen, two of them Indonesian, for attempting to purchase weapons to be smuggled into Indonesia.

Police in the east Java ferry port of Banyuwangi briefly detained members of the Falun Gong cult.

While carrying out a “hearts and minds” operation in Papua two Indonesian soldiers were killed after an attack, apparently by the Papuan separatist group, Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM).

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says that corruption is the greatest problem facing Indonesia and that it can be overcome within a generation.