Informes

Catholic Relief Services continues its dedicated work with different faith groups throughout Indonesia despite increasing religious and social tensions in the country. The agency's peace building efforts with different faith organizations will engage cooperation and collaboration and set the stage…

Week 39 Security: A reduction in militia activity was observed throughout East Timor this past week, although there were militia sightings in Cova Lima and Ainaro. PKF believes that the militia groups sighted within East Timor appear to be ex-filtrating back…

JAKARTA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Indonesia said on Thursday it could end the civil emergency in the troubled spice islands, where a religious war between Christians and Muslims has killed thousands. But possible move comes as five people died in fresh…

By Judy Aita ,Washington File United Nations Correspondent United Nations -- The United States remains deeply concerned about the situation in West Timor refugee camps and the failure to disarm anti-independence militia, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said October 12. Holbrooke, the chief…

"Our programming remains focused in Baucau and the eastern sections of the country," says Tom Garofalo, CRS staff member who just returned from East Timor. "But the immediate priority is to complete an emergency distribution of agricultural tools and seeds…

The coastal village of Suli was attacked for the third time on Tuesday in the latest episode of violence against the Indonesian island's Christian population. A civilian and a policeman were reported killed and three people wounded in early-morning…

JAKARTA (Oct. 11) XINHUA - At least two persons were killed and two others injured by bullets and grenades in fresh communal clash in Ambon, capital of Indonesia's Maluku province, on Tuesday. The clash erupted in Suli village, which is situated…

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian police have arrested four more people for suspected involvement in the killing of three foreign U.N. aid workers in West Timor last month, murders that drove the country's international relations to a fresh low. National police…

Caritas Internationalis is calling on the international community to act immediately to put an end to the violence in the Molucca Islands and to ask the Indonesian government to stop the activities of armed militants entering the Moluccas from…

Week 38 Security While unofficial reports emanating from Atambua advised that the situation remains tense and unstable, militias continued to be sighted in Sector Central and Sector East of East Timor this week. During routine patrols, 13 militia were observed moving…