Emmy Fitri – Some media pundits had predicted that Thursday's rallies marking the end of the first 100 days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second term would be as powerful and

Ika Ningtyas, Banyuwangi – A protest action commemorating the first 100 days of the Yudhoyono administration was also held by scores of students from the Banyuwangi Student Association

Bekasi – The Bekasi branch of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) announced Tuesday it had received reports from 15 companies about their plans to lay off a total of 30,000 em

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The first 100 days of the Yudhoyono administration have seen it flagging in the fight against endemic corruption and falling short in strengthening law enfor

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Remember Johnny Castle?

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Wednesday vowed to present a friendlier face to the public, including abandoning terminology associated with the military.

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The North Sumatra Pro-Democracy Movement says that the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono, as well as the rotten political elite, hav

Jakarta – While it is an unspoken truism that most penitentiaries in the country face the enduring problem of overcapacity and lack of funding, the arrival of certain inmates is having

Bernard Lane – Max Lane is multiplying. There was a young Australian diplomat by that name, posted to Jakarta in 1980.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The source of conflicts in the country has shifted from ethnic, racial and religious issues to those concerning politics, natural resources and corruption, a

Ismira Lutfia – After five years of deliberation, media practitioners on Tuesday agreed to endorse journalists' competence standards as guidelines to improve professionalism in the indu

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Recruited protesters are paid to shout, crowd public minibuses and carry banners defaming figures related to the Bank Century saga, all for a tidy sum of Rp 2

As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prepares to go into overdrive to trumpet the successes of his first 100 days in office, political observers are not viewing the government's allege

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Students held a demonstration against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Makassar on Wednesday, criticizing him for not delivering his cam

Maire Leadbeater – My introduction to West Papua was flying for many kilometres over the vast grey tailings deposition area created by the infamous Freeport McMoran gold and copper mine

Dessy Sagita – Religious leaders on Tuesday criticized the Ministry of Religious Affairs for being against acknowledging religions and faiths other than the six major religions currentl

Anita Rachman – Police are forever the friends of industry, and never of labor organizations, much less any single laborer, representatives of the nation's unions told National Police C

Febriamy Hutapea – The Corruption Eradication Commission on Monday contradicted earlier statements by several government officials over the source of the Rp 6.7 trillion ($710 million)

Jakarta – The coordinator of the politics, law and human rights division of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Edwin Partogi, said Kontras was questio

We bet most people are not happy about the burning of churches in North Sumatra on Friday night. As a Muslim-majority nation, we are a proud democracy.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – As the administration approaches its 100th day in office, yet another polling body has given the President a middling approval rating amid a slew of controversy.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Zaky Pawas – Amid rising tension, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday issued a strong defense of the controversial Bank Century bailou

Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian Corruption Watch has found that some hospitals still discriminate against poor families who are entitled to free medical treatment, the watchdog group's publi

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The House of Representatives' investigation of the Bank Century bailout was unlikely to result in the impeachment of Vice President Boediono, political analyst

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Some 300 residents of Eks Yon Angkub Military Housing Complex in Cililitan Besar, East Jakarta protested against a planned eviction on Monday.

Camelia Pasandaran – A number of former ministers – including a few controversial ones – found themselves back in the government's inner circle on Monday as members of the newly appoint

The much-respected Constitutional Court on Monday received an award from the Malang-based Brawijaya University for being the most transparent judicial institution in the country.

Muhammad Taufik, Jakarta – About eight hundred workers of a textile company in East Java went on strike on Monday (25/1) to demand better annual rise on their wage this year, and threat

Nurfika Osman – At least 7.6 million Indonesian children under the age of 5 – or one out of every three – suffer from stunted growth, a primary manifestation of malnutrition in early ch

Sepudin Zuhri, Jakarta – The Indonesian People's Opposition Front (FOR Indonesia) is calling on the government to immediately stop trade liberalisation and pull out of all existing free

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Questions are being raised over President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's timing in addressing the controversial PT Bank Century bail

Palu – The Central Sulawesi Indonesian People's Opposition Front (FOR Indonesia) was officially declared at 10am at the Gor Palu Park.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A national survey released on Sunday shows the public squarely identifying Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as behind the dec

Heru Andriyanto – Graft suspects might prefer to have their cases prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office, where there is always a good chance their cases will be dropped, activists

Febriamy Hutapea – The House of Representatives special committee is today expected to deliver tentative recommendations based on its investigation into the PT Bank Century bailout and

Kompas – The families of the victims of forced disappearances in 1997-1998 are hoping that the government will soon form a team to search for the 13 people still missing.

A new alliance or united front organization was formed in January in Indonesia to fight the current neo-liberal policies of the Indonesian government.

Jakarta – Almost none of the administrative regions that will hold elections this year have approved budgets proposed by local polling commissions, putting the scheduled political agend

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – The pace of deforestation in Java from 2007 to 2010 has reached 10,000 hectares and has become a serious threat to people and protected wildlife on the is

Anita Rachman – Angry that controversial national exams have been given the green light, a group of students and parents want to force compliance with a 2009 court ruling mandating impr

A family friend came to the rescue to mediate, helping end the 30-hour military police's siege of a general's residence smoothly without a single bullet being fired.

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Bogor – In a surprise move seen as an attempt to shore up his authority, Indonesia's president on Thursday warned his detractors agains

Heru Andriyanto – The death sentence being sought for former antigraft czar and murder suspect Antasari Azhar has reignited debate over capital punishment in a country with more than 10

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should reshuffle his cabinet as 10 ministers of his Cabinet were graded with poor performance in the first 100-days of his

Dessy Sagita – The head of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization admitted on Friday that a report stating that Christians were the most frequent victims of religious freedom violation

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Pluralism and freedom in Indonesia has faced challenges since the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict against secularism, pluralism and liberalism

Nurfika Osman – After years of being accustomed to public attention for his penchant for flamboyance, Brig. Gen.

Jakarta – Thousands of workers took to the streets in Surabaya, East Java, and Semarang, Central Java, on Thursday to protest the implementation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Agreement

Medan – Around 100 people staged a rally Wednesday outside the North Sumatra legislative council in Medan in support of the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) investigation of a