Looks like i should read CNN news, and stop watching Discoveries this week on the science channel. I cant believe i missed this news on the 11th. link
LOTR has a lot to answer for. Ooh, look, it's Frodo and his pals with a Man! Present-day pygmy tribes are found in both South America and Africa, so finding remains in Indonesia doesn't seem a big deal IMHO.
We get these all the time. Hundreds of human/ape like skeletons have been dug up that still need fitting to some sort of family tree of human ancestors (which gets more diverse with each find). The field is messy and heavily influenced by individual interpretations of the archeologists concerned. It's no biggy.