Sendul in West Java to visit the Indonesia Peace and Security Centre, a new training centre for peacekeepers.

UN: Secretary-General

Australia has called off its rescue operation for survivors of a boat carrying asylum seekers that sank near Indonesia's Java Island.

BBC: Australia calls off search for asylum survivors

The survey will also try to avoid another pitfall: that of paying too much attention to the main island, Java, on which sits Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

ECONOMIST: A Survey of Indonesia

Second, he frequently makes contradictory statements, which may do him no harm in Indonesia's main island of Java, where oblique utterances are the norm, but which infuriate the straight-talking people of Aceh.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia

Similarly, Indonesia under president Suharto moved Muslims from Java to outlying islands such as the Malukus not only to relieve population pressures, but also to integrate the country.

CNN: COMMUNAL FACE-OFF

For nearly a year, parts of Indonesia, especially its most populated island, Java, have been prone to outbreaks of mob violence.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia��s ritual election

Unlike urban middle-class families on the main island of Java, these farmers have benefited from the collapse of Indonesia's currency, since that raised the nominal value of cash crops such as coffee, palm oil and rubber.

ECONOMIST: Winds of fortune on South-East Asia’s farms | The

"We are proud of this new discovery as it has added another endemic species in Indonesia, " said Yoppy Hidayanto, coordinator of Burung Indonesia, a bird conservation group in Bogor, West Java.

NPR: Brown-And-White Whistling Owl ID'd As New Species

Indonesia's artists and musicians traditionally hold a key role as social critics, especially in Java.

CNN: THE SOUNDS OF CONFLICT