Jakarta - Police arrested an Indonesian man Tuesday for trying to smuggle three kilograms of heroin estimated to be worth about 270,000 dollars into the country. The Indonesian citizen, identified only as W, was arrested by anti-narcotics police at the parking lot of Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International airport, after he arrived on an AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Brigadier General Harry Montolalu, director of the national police's criminal investigation department, said the man successfully got through the airport's security checkpoints.

Jakarta - Leaders of Indonesia's political parties Monday intensified talks to form alliances for the July presidential election July, as criticism over widespread irregularities in last week's parliamentary polls mounts. The Democratic Party of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the big winner of Thursday's election, is expected to ink a coalition pact with other parties by this weekend.

Final election results are not expected until May, but first counts put the Democrats ahead with about 20 percent of the votes.

Jakarta - The Democratic Party of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won the country's legislative elections, according to unofficial counts Friday, setting the stage for political horse-trading ahead of the July presidential polls. Three survey groups conducting so-called quick counts said the Democratic Party secured 20 per cent of the vote, a day after millions of Indonesians went the polls in the third legislative election since the 1998 downfall of autocratic president Suharto.

Jakarta/Jayapura, Indonesia  - Indonesians went to the polls Thursday for parliamentary elections amid concerns of logistical problems and alleged widespread fraudulent voter lists.

Voting began at 7 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua in the sprawling archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands spanning three time zones.

Hours before polls opened, violence hit Papua, home to a low-level separatist insurgency, leaving one person dead, Papuan police chief Bagus Eko Danto said.

Jakarta - A light airplane crashed Thursday morning in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, and all four of its crew members were feared killed, news reports and officials said.

The Avia Star aircraft was en route from the capital Jayapura to Wamena district, carrying cargo and four crew members. It crashed at about 7 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) on Pike Mountain, said Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto.

Bagus told Elshinta private radio that so far two bodies had been founded and a search was underway for the other two. He said the plane broke into pieces.

Jakarta/Jayapura  - Indonesians begin voting Thursday in parliamentary elections amid concerns of logistical problems and alleged widespread fraudulent voter lists.

Voting began at 7 am (2200 GMT Wednesday) in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province in the sprawling archipelago nation of more than 17,000 islands spanning three different time zones.