Rescuers plucked 123 people from the ocean on Wednesday after an asylum-seeker boat sank en route to Australia, barely a week after another vessel went down in the same area, killing up to 90.

The illustrious Australian journalist John Pilger is due to appear at the Ubud literary festival this October.

An Indonesian website listing crooked officials and individuals has joined the war against graft in one of Asia’s most corrupt nations.

Thriving tourism in Bali has pushed up the price of basic necessities, often putting them beyond the reach of the island’s many poor people, Governor I Made Mangku Pastika has said, in what he called a “disaster” for the indigent.

The Bali Police have launched a murder investigation into the death last week of an Australian man holidaying on the island.

Enticing: Visitors were spellbound at the arts centre in Denpasar on Thursday as the captivating joged dance was performed. The traditional Balinese dance is intended to encourage men to join the dancers. The performance was part of the ongoing, month-long Bali Arts Festival, now in its 34th year. Photograph by Juliyusman Sine/The Bali Times

In a country where opposition to Lady Gaga forced the provocative pop star to cancel her show this month, Indonesia’s home-grown stars are also raising the ire of religious authorities. With increasingly lewd lyrics and raunchy dance moves, hugely popular “dangdut” music – an Indonesian fusion of Arabic, Malay, Indian and western pop influences – [...]

Editorial It is ironic that under the dictatorship of late president Suharto, Indonesia operated an open-door visa policy, one that permitted relatively free and easy access to tourists wanting to come visit this vast archipelago in Southeast Asia. Suharto’s fall in 1998 and the subsequent dawning of democracy brought with it a restrictive visa policy, [...]