Camelia Pasandaran – Labour relations problems are holding back the growth of Indonesian industry, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said on Friday.

Irawaty Wardany and Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A mass rally to mark World Anti-Corruption Day lacked clear focus but ended peacefully Wednesday, dispelling fears that riots would resul

Anita Rachman, Camelia Pasandaran & Farouk Arnaz – In the end, the street rallies against corruption in Jakarta on Wednesday were somewhat of an anticlimax.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Antigraft activists say the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is the true hero in the fight against corruption and that President Susilo Bambang Y

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Hundreds of asylum seekers have escaped Indonesian immigration detention centres and boarded boats to Australia this year amid widespread bribe-taking by guards an

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2009

What was supposed to be a key environmental speech from West Kalimantan Governor Cornelis in the increasingly deforested district of Kubu Raya, turned to embarrassment on Thursday when

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has accused Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie of trying to discredit her in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

Agustina Wayansari, Melbourne – The director of Balibo, Robert Connolly, is excited with Indonesians' enthusiasm toward his movie despite its banning by the Film Censorship Board (LSF).

Febriamy Hutapea – Political parties are lining up to remove Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati from their much sought-after positions and replace them w

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Abuse of power continues to be a problem during police raids, the National Commission on Human Rights said on Wednesday.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women urged the government to review a number of sharia-based bylaws deemed discriminative against women as part of

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Commission on Human Rights declared on Wednesday that the 2006 mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java, had been caused by a human error and anno

Camelia Pasandaran – Thousands of human rights activists converged in Central Jakarta and the State Palace on Thursday to mark International Human Rights Day and lambasted President Sus

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has renewed its call for the government to compensate the thousands of people affected by the East Java mudflow disaster, which has cla

Censoring a film is a step backward for the Indonesian democratic progress.

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's political troubles are being compounded by a street movement led by several of the democracy-promoting n

While President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has pledged to root out persistent case brokers undermining law enforcement by the police force, the Attorney General's Office (AGO), and the ju

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Jakarta hopes to bring historic people-smuggling legislation before parliament as soon as next year, with penalties of up to 10 years' jail for those conv

Indonesia added some local spice to International Anti-Corruption Day on Wednesday, chanting "Hang the corruptors!" in Banda Aceh, attacking a KFC restaurant in South Sulawesi and burni

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-171-2009

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Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – So at what point did the public decide that enough was enough?

Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian public needs real action on corruption instead of "heavenly" promises, a political analyst said on Wednesday, following President Susilo Bambang Yudh

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Underpaid female workers are turning to prostitution to make ends meet, union activists say.

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – The country's justice system has once again found itself uncomfortably in the spotlight, this time over the arrest and jailing of a Yogyakarta grandfather for

Heru Andriyanto – Activists on Tuesday held a rally outside the Attorney General's Office in South Jakarta, demanding that prosecutors challenge the acquittal of the former intelligence

Dessy Sagita, Heru Andriyanto & Febriamy Hutapea – A week after losing her appeal in a controversial defamation suit, Prita Mulyasari now has more than enough money to pay off the R

Jakarta – Forget about competing with China – Indonesia lags behind Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia in terms of trade and investment relations with EU member countries, an EU study revea

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's top security officials said on Monday that they were preparing for possible riots in Central Jakarta and that military troops would be on standb

Nivell Rayda – A number of activists on Tuesday refuted the government's claims that rallies to mark World Anti-Corruption Day were designed to overthrow President Susilo Bambang Yudhoy

Camelia Pasandaran – Demonstrators on Monday burned photographs of President Susilio Bambang Yudhoyono's son Edi Baskoro, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa and others a

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Residents of Rengas subdistrict, Ogan Ilir regency, reported Monday the regency police's Mobile Brigade Unit's (Brimob) Friday attack to the South Sumatra pro

The US Department of State in October published the latest in its series of "Background Notes" regarding Indonesia.

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Amid the high spread of HIV and AIDS through sexual contact in Indonesia, youths are still finding it hard to discuss sexuality and safe sex with their paren

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – Balibo is just one shameful chapter in our Indonesia's past, but it could be viewed as a symbol for so many human wrongs, for so many shameful things, t

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The government's plan to issue a regulation on lawful wiretaps has been deemed by antigraft activists as repressive and just another way to undermine the Corr

Ulma Haryanto – The days of demonstrators converging on the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle are numbered.

Simon Montlake Bangkok – A movie that depicts Indonesian war crimes in East Timor has become a lightning rod for free-speech activists in Indonesia, who have defied a government ban on

Riyadi Suparno, Jakarta – An alliance of mysterious forces is aligning its power to unseat Vice President Boediono and/or Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

Among other bad practices, the anti money-laundering agency listed that corruption has so far this year become the main source of activity leading to the crime of money laundering, as s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Amid rising political tension over the Bank Century scandal, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party on Saturday replaced secretary general Marz

Farouk Arnaz & Nurfika Osman – Despite President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono saying they were politically motivated, anticorruption and rights activists confirmed plans to hold demonst

Arwa Damon – Driving through Indonesia's central Sumatra, it appears that all life on earth has been obliterated, like a scene from some apocalyptic movie.

Camelia Pasandaran – Political analysts on Sunday said it was wrong for the new government to claim it had performed satisfactorily during its first 30 days in office because the criter

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – In response to questions about Governor Fauzi Bowo's statement about limiting the use of the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic circle, the city administration expl

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Eleven residents in Renggas village, Payaraman district, Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra, were wounded when members of the local police Mobile Brigade Unit a

Camelia Pasandaran & April Aswadi – Under growing pressure over the PT Bank Century fiasco, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono alleged on Friday that opposition political forces wer

Nivell Rayda & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Just two days after she lost an appeal in the Banten High Court over a civil defamation suit brought against her by Omni hospital, Prita Mulyas

Emmy Fitri – As Golkar's Idrus Marham, a friend of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, was being voted in on Friday to chair the House of Representatives special committee to investigat

Febriamy Hutapea – Howls of protest immediately followed the appointment on Friday of Golkar Party lawmaker Idrus Marham as chairman of the House of Representatives special committee in