When you call my name, it's like a little prayer, sang Madonna, the diva with a Catholic background who later followed the Kaballah faith, which is based on an ancient Jewish belief sys

Amir Tejo – Dozens of villagers demolished an auditorium on Tuesday night that was being used for Koran recital activities by a hardline Islamic group in Mojokerto, East Java.

Police have thwarted an attempt at a protest comeback for a controversial buffalo that offended Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has said that they are very concerned about the content of a new Indonesian horror flick, titled "Hantu Puncak Datang Bulan" ("The Menstruating Puncak

A political analyst from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Syamsudin Haris, has said that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should not have over-reacted to the anti government rall

Erwida Maulia and Dicky Christanto, Cipanas/Jakarta – The ongoing gubernatorial meeting has added an unusual topic to its agenda: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's question on what t

Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Ismira Lutfia – A faction within the United Development Party is considering withdrawing from the ruling coalition in response to the Corruption Eradicatio

Nurfika Osman – In another blow to Indonesia's drive for religious tolerance, a report released on Wednesday said 200 violations against freedom of worship were filed with state agencie

Muhammad Taufik, Jakarta – Hundreds of residents in East Java Regency of Mojokerto joined a protest on Wednesday (3/2) at a local flour factory to demand compensation over environmental

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – Receiving gratuities, kickbacks and bribes has been business as usual for local officials across the country in the past two decades, reveals a study

Camelia Pasandaran, Cipanas (West Java) – The otherwise successful 100-day program were plans to develop the country's first integrated food production zone and bring about improvements

Hery Winarno, Jakarta – As usual, Jakarta will again be marked by protest actions by people wishing to convey their demands.

Hans David Tampobolon, Jakarta – The move to impeach President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken another hit as the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the largest opposit

Rana Akbari Fitriawan, Bandung – Violations of freedom of worship and intolerance among different faiths in West Java remained high last year, according to a study carried out by the In

Nivell Rayda – Corruption was the root cause of the country's rapid pace of deforestation, threatening to hamper the government's effort to cut at least 26 percent of Indonesia's carbon

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – United States President Barack Obama will make a much-anticipated official visit to Indonesia in March, raising speculation of a possible upgrade in bilateral

Angus Thompson – Fed up with protests snarling Jakarta's already chaotic traffic, the authorities in one of the world's most congested cities plan to build a park dedicated to keeping p

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Inflation in January accelerated to a seven-month high with rising commodity and food prices, without provoking worry that the central bank should raise its

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the public to make its protests more polite.

Jakarta – Five hundred contract workers from PT Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) staged a protest on Monday in front of the main gate of Tanjung Priok Port in North Jakar

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's exports were down nearly 15 percent last year as the global economic crisis cast a shadow over the country's major export earners, dampening dema

Irvan Tisnabudi & Ardian Wibisono – Indonesian exports hit an all-time monthly high of $13.3 billion in December as commodity prices rose in line with the global economic recovery,

Amanda Ferdina, Jakarta – Greater Jakarta will be rocked by five protest actions today, which will be held at a number of different locations.

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Sidoarjo, East Java – Five victims of the Sidoarjo mudflow forced the workers from the site to protest against PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya for the lateness in paying their compensation.

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – In some of the Democratic Party's strongest language yet, legislator Ruhut Sitompul on Tuesday urged the Golkar Party and the Prosperous

Candra Malik, Batang (Central Java) – A day after an Indonesian judge warned that frivolous cases should never end up clogging the courts, the Batang District Court sentenced Manisih, 3

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Ministry of Defense on Tuesday said it would work with the Retired Military Soldiers Association to resolve the ongoing eviction dispute with families of

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – A string of murders, mutilations and corpse rapes of Indonesian street children has prompted outrage and led political leaders to question the lack of a s

Ulum, Jakarta – Thousands of workers of the state steel producer Krakatau Steel rallied outside the Cilegon Regional Legislator's office on Tuesday (2/2) to demand immediate completion

Max Lane – Abdurrahman Wahid, the president of Indonesia between 1999 and 2001, died on December 30, aged 69.

Anton Septian, Jakarta – Students continue anti-graft protests in Jakarta on Monday.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, said Sunday it was against the move made by some NGOs and backers of pluralism to request th

Some pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, leaders in Bogor are backing the use of social networking site Facebook to facilitate communication within their school communities, despite

Adisti, Jakarta – Activities at Jakarta main seaport disrupted on Monday as around 400 workers staged a protest at the gate of Tanjung Priok Port to demand settlement of several industr

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Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has called on legislators to halt their investigation into the Bank Century bailout and to hand over their findings to the Constitutional Cour

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – A group of NGOs have lambasted the government for failing to give women more of a voice in politics despite the ratification of the UN's anti-discrimi

The fate of two senior leaders is hanging in the balance pending the findings of the inquiry committee of the House of Representatives on the Bank Century bailout.

Febriamy Hutapea – If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could very well be thanking Surya Paloh. But probably not.

Max Lane – On December 23, the Indonesian Attorney General's Department announced the banning of five books.

Ezki Suyanto – At one point during Aceh's nearly 35-year battle for autonomy, a women approached an officer at a military post in the village of Trio.

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – Infotainment TV audiences have switched to the news to watch live broadcasts of the hearings at the House of Representatives' inquiry team on the Bank

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Nurfika Osman – A new law on gender equality currently being drafted is expected to serve as a legal reference to ensure that all government policies are gender sensitive, State Ministe

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – Responsibility for investigating the Bank Century bailout scandal should be transferred from the unfocused and biased House of Represen

Heru Andriyanto – The absence of executions in 2009 was the result not of an intentional moratorium but because the Supreme Court has failed to provide a specific timeframe within which

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the House of Representatives were urged on Sunday to include the revision of the Military Tribunal Law in the national