John Pomfret, Washington – As Barack Obama prepares to travel to Indonesia, his administration is seeking to reverse a 12-year-old ban on training an elite unit of the Indonesian milita

Ismira Lutfia – The Aceh office of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission has proposed a draft of the province's broadcasting qanun, or bylaw, that will be used as a standard to censor

Ismira Lutfia – The Jakarta chapter of the Alliance of Independent Journalists on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the Indonesian Censorship Institute for its decision to ban the film

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's ruling coalition has been rocked by a split on party lines at the climax of an investigation into last yea

Jakarta – Around 150 vendors from various traditional markets across the city rallied Tuesday at the City Council to protest the planned relocation of abattoirs.

Student demonstrations were still ongoing at a number of universities in Makassar, South Sulawesi, on Thursday, with students also damaging and blocking public roads.

Now that the House of Representatives has ruled the 2008 bailout of Bank Century was unjustified, the nation next has to brace for the inevitable political fallout.

Anita Rachman, Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A divided House of Representatives late on Wednesday declared that the bailout of Bank Century in 2008 violated laws and

Jakarta – Around 5,000 of people gathered outside the East Java legislative council in Surabaya on Thursday in a show of support for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice Presiden

Thanks for the political backing, but it will not influence our investigations.

Wasti Atmodjo, Denpasar – Around 70 million Indonesian people have no access to sanitation facilities, an official confirmed.

While rallies have caused traffic chaos in the capital over the past two days as the House of Representatives deliberated over its investigation into the Bank Century bailout, for some

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia's Parliament erupted in wild scenes yesterday after its speaker shut down debate on the controversial bailout of Bank Century.

At least two factions in the House of Representatives were booed and labeled as "banci," or transvestites, for not delivering a firm decision in the final plenary hearing into the Bank

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Anti-graft watchdog NGO Indonesia Corruption Watch says it is not necessary for the House of Representatives to elect the chairman of the Corruption Eradicat

In the wake of another case of allegedly "misguided" Islamic teachings that contravene the nation's blasphemy law, the Ministry of Religious Affairs on Tuesday said there were about 70

Jakarta – Hundreds of demonstrators rallied Monday outside the Public Works Ministry in South Jakarta to demand that corrupt officials be prosecuted for the loss of Rp 92 billion in sta

Putri Prameshwari, Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas – Teenager or housewife, anybody can get money and a free meal for joining a rally in Jakarta, to either yell, dance, sing or all of th

Putri Prameshwari & Ulma Haryanto – Fears of tear gas, water cannons and baton-wielding riot police weren't enough to stop determined protesters from drawing attention to their caus

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A solidarity group for the murdered activist Munir has given the President a list of legal options to unravel the mystery behind the murder after the l

Farouk Arnaz, Putri Prameshwari & Ulma Haryanto – With the controversial Bank Century bailout inquiry serving as backdrop, police went head to head with demonstrators as a confronta

Febriamy Hutapea and Anita Rachman – An Indonesian House plenary meeting on the Bank Century scandal fell apart in spectacular fashion on Tuesday when members erupted in anger over Hous

Jakarta – Police fired tear gas after hundreds of protesters pelted them with stones on Tuesday outside Indonesia's parliament as a demonstration over a controversial bank bail-out turn

Arti Ekawati & Fidelis E Satriastanti – Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan on Tuesday defended a presidential decision to open protected forests to development, saying only undergroun

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's exports in January slowed 13 percent from December, despite booking a year-on-year increase of 59 percent due to a low base in January last year,

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A fight is brewing over a new environmental law that business interests warn will harm much-needed investment in the country.

Camelia Pasandaran – A drawn-out battle between the Election Supervisory Board and the General Election Commission on Tuesday finally entered another phase as the board filed a request

Camelia Pasandaran – The president on Monday mounted a startling 11th-hour defense of Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, blamed by political parties for

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – With the marathon hearings of a judicial review request of the blasphemy law still going on, activists have questioned whether the Constitutional Court

Ulma Haryanto – Traffic in front of the Parliament Building on Jalan Gatot Subroto was paralyzed on Tuesday when demonstrators stole police barbed wire and used it to block the street.

Jakarta – Whether the late former president Soeharto deserves to be named a national hero should be left to the public to decide, says his youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Sanjeev "Alex" Kuhendrarajah, who gained fame as spokesman for 254 Sir Lankan asylum seekers who refused to leave their boat after being intercepted on their way t

Jakarta – Jakarta Police said Monday they would no longer tolerate people bringing animals to demonstrations and using them to "make a mockery of state officials".

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a decree to allow mining, power plants and other projects deemed strategically important to take place in protected forests.

Sri Lankan refugees inside an Indonesian detention centre have entered the second week of a hunger strike aimed at winning them a resettlement deal like that given to the Sri Lankans in

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Officials have said the US plan to fully resume its military and counterterrorism cooperation with Indonesia showed that the world's biggest economy appreciated

Jakarta – The National Family Planning Coordinating Agency (BKKBN) insists the involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in its national campaigns is not to coerce people into partic

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Illegal conversion of conservation areas into oil palm plantations remains rampant in the Tesso Nilo National Park, Riau, allegedly involving high military fi

Febriamy Hutapea – The People's Consultative Assembly on Monday enacted detailed procedures to impeach a vice president but claimed that the move had nothing to do with Vice President B

Camelia Pasandaran – Following a tumultuous weekend in which aides to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and a lawmaker from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) traded allegations of cor

Camelia Pasandaran – By instructing his own staff members to put the Humpty Dumpty governing coalition of parties back together again, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono seems to be sho

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Three political parties are in a war of words with the Palace after Presidential aides reported attempts to lobby the president, allegedly to clear party member

Nivell Rayda – Liberal religious and human rights activists on Monday called on the government to overturn the 1965 law on blasphemy and replace it with one that better protected freedo

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda – The political marriage between the Democratic Party and the Prosperous Justice Party seems to be heading toward a messy divorce.

Aloysius Unditu and Novrida Manurung – Indonesia's inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in nine months amid rising commodity and food prices, putting pressure on the central bank t

Sam King – An Australian company has a significant but little-known role in the creation of the world's largest mud volcano, located in the densely populated Sidoarjo district of Indone

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Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Local and international rights advocates will detail the government's lack of progress in protecting human rights at the UN Human Rights Council's pl

Putri Prameshwari & Antara – The search for victims of the landslide at the Dewata tea plantation near Bandung will be halted at noon today, even though a dozen people are still mis

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Tension is building three days before the parliament's plenary session on the Bank Century bailout inquiry, with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's aides b