Alfian, Jakarta – Pressured by falling oil production and failure to attract enough investors to develop new oil and gas blocks, the government says it will abandon the recently adopted

Bandung – Police said Monday they had named six people suspects for their role in staging a striptease on New Year's Eve at the Bellair Cafe and Music Lounge Paskal Hyper Square, Bandun

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court has been praised recently for its efforts to curb corruption in the country.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Rape has topped the highest number of cases of violence against women in Central Java, director of the Semarang Legal Resources Center for Gender Justice and Huma

Ulma Haryanto – More than 7,800 Indonesians laid off as a result of the global economic crisis filed complaints with the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute last year, the institute's director

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will announce the results of its final investigation on possible gross violations of human rights against thousands of mud

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Jakarta – Indonesia's forest-based industries remain on the edge of survival after more than a decade of government decentralization that was accompanied by a ser

Paul Maley – Indonesia has rejected a proposal by Tony Abbott to tow seaworthy asylum boats back to Indonesia, saying Australia must deal with boats in its own waters.

Jakarta – Unfair procurement tenders topped the list of cases reported to the anti-monopoly watchdog throughout 2009.

Jakarta – Every Indonesian child has been told the story of their beloved country being the emerald of the equator, with its breathtaking scenery and vast cultural diversity, and how ot

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – What do Robert Tantular and Amir Mahmud have in common? Both of them are convicts.

Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar on Monday said that a special team has been given two weeks to study a number of books that are deemed to potentially pose a threat to

An artist on Monday called for a statue of a labor activist to be erected outside the House of Representatives to remind lawmakers about labor struggles.

Indonesia's inflation held near a nine-year low in December, providing the central bank room to delay raising interest rates.

Jakarta - A existence of a human rights court and ad hoc human rights judges needs to be reexamined.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Calls have mounted for tighter regulations of election campaign funds, with the controversial newly launched book Cikeas Octopus suggesting "illegal" flows of s

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The General Elections Commission was facing growing calls on Monday to order a complete re-audit of presidential campaign donations fo

Heru Andriyanto & Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission hinted on Monday that it would name controversial businessman Anggodo Widjojo a suspect for allegedly conspiri

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Amid strong public demand to name the late former President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid a national hero, the Golkar Party on Sunday called for the same honor to be bestowed on its found

Candra Malik, Solo – With controversy still raging around the bill to extend the special status of Yogyakarta, rival central Javanese city Solo wants to get in on the act.

Muhamad Al Azhari, Irvan Tisnabudi & Dion Bisara – Despite the turbulence in financial markets decimating global commerce and nearly toppling trade-driven economies in February, the

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – After the controversial banning of five books last week, the government has added 20 more titles to its evaluation list, citing suspicion the books potentiall

Dewi Kurniawati, Sekutur Jaya, Jambi – Despite its serenity, complete with smiling, laid-back people, a serious problem is weighing heavily upon this remote village in central Sumatra.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Calls for unity and reconciliation by National Awakening Party chairman Muhaimin Iskandar have been dismissed by members of a splinter group, who claim he is t

Evan A. Laksmana, Jakarta – "To defend everything is to defend nothing." There is a lot of wisdom in this old military axiom.

A cluster of organizations and academics is planning a rally this month to demand President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono resign or be forced out of office over a series of perceived shortco

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – After the hectic string of national and presidential elections, residents in the regions will be at the polls again with local direct elections scheduled for t

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree on Wednesday to establish a special team to eradicate judicial corruption, as part of the administration's

Jakarta – The long-standing poor image of Jakarta Police affected legal practitioners' appraisal of its performance in graft investigations last year, experts say.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – As many as 560 legislators at the House of Representatives took their oath on Oct. 1 and pledged to wholeheartedly serve their constituents.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to, within two weeks, declare Anggodo Widjojo a suspect for attempted b

Nivell Rayda – After several high-profile criminal defamation cases in 2009, analysts said on Friday that the House of Representatives must pass legislation to remove articles on defama

Dessy Sagita & Emmy Fitri – A new year, a new decade. But is the country in for better things ahead, or will 2010 be as scandal-filled as 2009?

Nurfika Osman & Farouk Arnaz – Muhammad Jibriel, who is suspected of having links to the July suicide bombings at Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, claimed in a stateme

The government says that it will seek compensation from Australia for environmental damage in the Timor Sea caused by a leak at the Montara well.

Fidelis E Satriastanti – While the recent Copenhagen climate talks have been criticized for failing to produce a concrete agreement on emissions cuts, local activists are now turning th

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Cases where hospitals reject patients living in poverty because they cannot pay the advance was a common occurrence in Indonesia several years ago.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Breakthroughs are needed in 2010 to successfully fight corruption in the country, director of Gadjah Mada University's School of Law's Center for Anticorruptio

Jakarta – While the police should be at the front of enforcing the law, thousands of officers are involved in abuse of power and criminal acts, hampering the much-needed law enforcement

Abdurrahman Wahid, more affectionately known as Gus Dur, was the most colorful, if not the most illustrious among six presidents Indonesia has had.

Jakarta – Festive preparations to part with 2009 quickly turned into mourning on Wednesday as the nation bid farewell to its cleric of pluralism, Indonesia's fourth president, Abdurrahm

The year 2009 is coming to an end and given the spat of bad news these past 12 months, it is probably better to count our blessings than the missed opportunities, of which there are cer

Madura, East Java – Fifteen activists from the Indonesian Muslim Student Movement (PMII) in Sumenep, Madura, East Java, began a hunger strike Tuesday night, Antara reported Wednesday.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has sent a letter to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) requesting clarification on the latter's decision to ban five books despite mo

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Supreme Court defended Tuesday its widely criticized decision to send more than 70 judges and their staff on a trip to European and Asian countries using st

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – George Junus Aditjondro's controversial Cikeas Octopus book, which suggests a link between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Bank Century bailout, has

Reva Sasistiya – Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest oil producer, has failed to meet its investment target for the oil and gas sector because contractors cut spending as the economic s