The Sydney Morning Herald logo
Advertisement
Zach Hope

Zach Hope

Zach Hope is South-East Asia correspondent. He is a former reporter at the Brisbane Times.

Generations of Australians have flocked to this beach. Today, it is desolate

The destruction of this former paradise is not from over-tourism, though many will say this has happened too.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa

Latest

Indonesian activist attacked.

The shocking moment an Indonesian activist was allegedly attacked with chemicals in Jakarta

Indonesian authorities have arrested six people, four of them from the military’s intelligence unit, in connection to the incident that has sent a chill through Indonesian human rights activists.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles with Indonesia’s Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin after their meeting in Jakarta.

Australia to turn WWII site on ‘valuable’ Indonesian island into training base

The move to redevelop the site into a joint training facility highlights the Indonesian president’s eagerness to cement regional relationships amid the rise of China and an unpredictable US under Trump.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Grant Schultz has been charged with two counts of people smuggling.

‘Black flight’: Charter flight boss charged over alleged plot to smuggle Australians into Indonesia

Two men – without visas or passports – were allegedly discovered by Indonesian immigration authorities on board a small plane in the province of South Papua.

  • Zach Hope, Jack Gramenz and Karuni Rompies
Mevlut Coskun (left) and Paea I Middlemore Tupou after their sentencing on Monday.

Two Australian gunmen sentenced to 16 years’ jail over Bali villa murder of Melbourne dad

A third man, who was charged with assisting premeditated murder, was sentenced to 12 years’ jail.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Igor Komarov, shortly before he was kidnapped, with his influencer girlfriend Yeva Mishalova.

Snatched in Bali, this Ukrainian pleaded for his ransom. Then police found his head

A foreign enterprise had again sent operatives to Bali, Australia’s most popular overseas holiday destination, to carry out its dirty work.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Advertisement
A giant banner of Khamenei stretched over one of the Islamic Cultural Centre’s windows.

‘World’s thugs’: In Indonesia, resentment about the Iran war is everywhere

Politicians and pundits in Australia tell Muslims it is inappropriate to publicly mourn Iran’s dead supreme leader. There are no such qualms in Jakarta.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Jazmyn Gourdeas, the widow of Zivan Radmanovic, consoling one of their children outside court in Bali after the judges postponed the accused killers’ verdicts.

‘What a joke’: Family of Australian shot dead in Bali told to come back next week

The family of Zivan Radmanovic is furious at travelling all the way to Bali for the court verdicts. Without notice, the judges adjourned.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Australian Robert Trott has been sentenced to 20 years in jail in Timor-Leste.

Australian child predator cops 20 years in a Timor-Leste jail

Despite being found guilty of sex crimes in 2024, the man was free in the community until last month, spending time inside a Dili school.

  • Zach Hope
Alan Roger Jolliffe, 57, and another foreigner appear to argue on a street near the popular Patong Beach. Image supplied.

Australian-British tourist dies after alleged assault in Phuket

Unverified footage appears to show Alan Roger Jolliffe, 57, and another foreigner arguing on a street near the popular Patong Beach before the former is knocked unconscious.

  • Zach Hope and Am Sandford