Indonesian police fired warning shots to break up a mob of hundreds of stone-throwing Roman Catholics angered after a Protestant man refused to eat a communion wafer during Mass today.

A strong earthquake rocked parts of central Indonesia today, damaging several houses and injuring two people.

East Timor’s independence leader Xanana Gusmao travelled to the neighbouring Indonesian province of West Timor today in another effort to persuade about 50,000 remaining refugees to return home.

Amnesty International has denounced Indonesia for executing two convicted murderer, the first executions in the country in six years.