Arrested Indonesian terror suspects have revealed plots on the parliament building and to attack police in the name of jihad, a senior official said Friday.

Indonesian authorities launched a manhunt and were investigating possible links to terrorism after finding explosive materials at a house in the suburbs of Jakarta, police said Thursday.

Australian planes could be allowed into Indonesian airspace during sea search-and-rescue missions under a proposed plan that would help reduce asylum-seeker deaths, Indonesia's defense minister said Wednesday.

Indonesia's justice minister said Tuesday that his country would extradite human trafficking kingpin Sayed Abbas to Australia next year.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) Sunday called on U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to pressure the Indonesian government to address rising religious intolerance, a day ahead of her visit to the country.

Two suspected militants and a member of an elite Indonesian anti-terrorism squad died in a shootout as police attempted to capture a group responsible for the death of a policeman a day earlier, authorities said Saturday. Another suspect was injured and arrested, they said.

Rescuers have abandoned a search for a boat carrying an estimated 150 asylum seekers reported sinking in Indonesia's Sunda Strait after failing to find the vessel, an official said Wednesday.

An Indian court convicted a former state government minister and 31 other people Wednesday in connection with deadly anti-Muslim riots that shook the western state of Gujarat in 2002.

More than 200 people were bitten by dogs every day last year in India's commercial capital Mumbai, up 50 percent in four years due to a surging population of strays, a report said Monday.

Rescue teams have found the body of an Australian man and three others killed when their small chartered plane crashed in Indonesian Borneo, an official said Monday.