A man was arrested carrying three molotov bombs during a rally in front of the Parliament Building at Jalan Gatot Subroto on Tuesday.

Jon Lamb – Twenty years ago, on December 11, 1989, the Australian and Indonesian governments signed the Timor Gap Treaty (TGT), giving the go-ahead to energy corporations to exploit the

Hendrik Sorandanya, Jayapura – On November 3, a small group of left-wing activists met in Jayapura, capital of Indonesia's Papua province, to form the Papuan Democratic Peoples' Movemen

Roffie Kurniawan – Indonesia's exports rebounded strongly in October, growing on an annual basis for the first time in 12 months, the Central Statistics Agency said on Tuesday.

Camelia Pasandaran – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo is drawing intense criticism from rights activists, experts and even Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi for stopping a scheduled antigr

Armando Siahaan – Indonesia is home to an ever-growing number of film festivals. Some of the best of the past year have been the gay-themed Q!

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Jakarta – Anticorruption activists from the Coalition of Anticorruption Civil Society (Kompak) faced intimidation while demonstrating at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Central Ja

Jakarta – The move by the House of Representatives to establish an inquiry committee to probe the Bank Century scandal could hit a dead end earlier than expected, with parties pursuing

Luh De Suriyani, Bali – A number of patients suffering from HIV/AIDS have called for fair health treatment saying they have no access to the government-tailored national public health i

Jakarta – The latest number of HIV/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) cases in Indonesia has reached 298,000, Indonesian Public Welfare Minister Agung Laksono said here on Monda

Alan Boulton, the International Labor Organization (ILO) representative in Jakarta, will conclude his eight-year assignment in Indonesia on Nov. 30, 2009.

Widespread corruption in the forest industry is the dirty secret no one wants to talk about.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – With terrorism still very much a threat across the archipelago, the government is now preparing to upgrade the existing anti-terror desk to allow it to inves

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Rights activist Fauzi Abdullah died at age 60 on Friday, just before he was to be awarded for his work defending the rights of laborers in Indonesia.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Can anyone end a national culture of merchants and brokers for justice?

Pandaya, Jakarta – Information and Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring's plan to re-regulate wiretapping should be seen as the government's renewed attempt to curtail the Corrupti

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The Financial Transactions Report and Analysis Center (PPATK) has identified 17 recipients of potentially suspicious transfers from Bank Century, which recei

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups says the House of Representatives' committee of inquiry into the Bank Century bailout must not be led by legislators

Camelia Pasandaran & Febriamy Hutapea – Despite a Constitutional Court declaration that the charges against suspended Corruption Eradication Commission deputies Chandra M Hamzah and

Ulma Haryanto – The distribution of qurban or 'sacrificial meat' at the Bhayangkari Field at National Police Headquarters in South Jakarta on Friday was marred by a number of incidents,

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – A proposal for wiretapping to be regulated by the Information and Communications Ministry has been met with mixed reactions, with activists claiming it would

Alfian, Jakarta – Indonesia will need US$4 billion in investment for energy efficiency projects to slash its energy consumption by a quarter, concludes a survey commissioned by the Asia

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has suspended two of its members over their alleged involvement in an apparent conspiracy to undermine the Cor

Jakarta – The Transportation Ministry should be held responsible for the Dumai ferry tragedy that claimed at least 14 lives last Sunday, because according to IMO regulations, fiberglass

Budi Otmansyah, Pekanbaru – Seven foreign Greenpeace activists who chained themselves to a crane at port facilities of PT Indah Kiat Pulp and Paper in Riau were deported on Friday, whil

Padang – Minister of Communication and Information Technology Tifatul Sembiring said on Friday that his office had set the goal of completing the government's draft regulation against p

Jakarta Globe – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD continued his attack on the nation's embattled law enforcement institutions on Friday, stating that the war on the "judicial mafia"

Janeman Latul – In an apparent policy reversal, the new state enterprises minister announced on Thursday that he might drop plans to publicly list several important state companies if "

Ardian Wibisono – A confusing dispute between two government agencies over financial information related to the probe of the PT Bank Century bailout has deepened, while the agency direc

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The military announced on Friday a plan to cooperate with some national universities as part of a drive to become more professional and innovative.

Anita Rachman – Lawmakers on Friday backed a Supreme Court decision urging the Ministry of National Education to improve school facilities and teachers' skills before conducting the nat

Anita Rachman – Parts of a sermon delivered on Friday by Communications and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring linking the recent string of natural disasters to moral dec

Environmental activists shut down four cranes at a port run by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper groups on Indonesia's Sumatra island, but overall operations were not hit, the compan

Camelia Pasandaran – Confirming what most of the public already believed, the Constitutional Court declared on Wednesday that the extortion case against Corruption Eradication Commissio

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Bliss was short-lived for antigraft leaders embroiled in opposing an alleged conspiracy against them as the Constitutional Court ruled in their favor.

Jakarta – Former chief of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), A.M.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Muhammadiyah, one of the country's largest Islamic organizations, celebrated its Islamic calendar centenary on Wednesday in Yogyakarta with a pledge to use the

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Heru Andriyanto – The AGO remained defiant in the face of criticism on Wednesday, with its spokesman playing down calls for urgent internal reform within its ranks, including those from

Nurfika Osman – In an effort to boost the country's campaign against abuse of women, a women's rights watchdog is set to release a compilation of reports on violence against women over

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A battle is already brewing within the House of Representatives to lead a special committee that will investigate the central government

M. Hilaly Basya, Leiden – Based on the Hijriyah (Islamic) calendar, on 8 Dzulhijjah 1430 (Nov. 26, 2009), Muhammadiyah will mark the one hundredth anniversary of its existence.

When Ahmad Dahlan founded Muhammadiyah in 1912, he shocked his compatriots with the "Western" style of his organization.

Dicky Christanto and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The National Police chief turned about face and sacked the detective chief implicated in an alleged conspiracy against the antigraft body,

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Undeterred by their encounter with local police earlier this month, Greenpeace activists once again carried out protests in Riau on Wednesday – and were promptl

Lilian Karunungan – - Coal and palm oil exporters' profit margins may narrow should the rupiah rise another 4 percent to 9,000 per dollar, and the costs of fuel and rice keep climbing,

Reva Sasistiya – Investors have largely ignored the Energy Ministry's tenders for 17 oil and gas blocks offered in June because of the government's plans to amend cost-recovery regulati

Candra Malik, Batang (Central Java) – After the uproar over the case of Minah, a grandmother who received a suspended sentence for stealing three cocoa pods, the sense of justice of mil

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) no longer has any grounds to postpone submitting a judicial review on the release of former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) deputy chief