As most Americans were winding down their Thanksgiving festivities, feeling fully satiated from a day of football and turkey, Indonesians were waking to perform their own sacrificial feast, or Idul Adha, an Islamic holiday that commemorates the Prophet Ibrahim's commitment to kill his only son in obedience to God.

Indonesians...

I'm a reporter who likes to run. And I believe it's best done in more chaotic, infrastructurally insufficient cities, where the sound of one's feet hitting crumbled pavement mixes with cacophony - the noise of traffic, construction, the cries of food vendors - and becomes hypnotizing.

Each time I arrive...

JAKARTA - Police dealt a blow to Indonesia's main terrorism network on Thursday after confirming the death of top-ranked Islamic militant Noordin Mohammed Top following a raid on a home in Central Java.

The raid was carried out by Detachment 88, the anti-terror arm of the national police force which...

Indonesia has every reason to be optimistic. In its quarterly report released Monday the World Bank raised its growth forecast for the country's economy from 3.5 percent to 4.3 percent, higher than even the IMF expected. Although the global economy is showing signs of recovery, Indonesia has weathered the...

With elections in Afghanistan just one month away, the United States has ramped up its commitment to securing the country in the hope that a stronger military presence will reduce Taliban threats and increase voter turnout in villages subject to intimidation from insurgents.

About 57,000 of the...