Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Labor unions in Tangerang, Banten, have rejected the remuneration council's decision to set the minimum cost of living in 2010 at Rp 1,170,000 per month.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Tanjung Pinang – Kevin Rudd might have been given another week to solve his Oceanic Viking public relations disaster, but that doesn't mean Indonesia is very happy

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has unexpectedly replaced the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Instead of cooling down the long-running conflict between the Corruption Eradication Commission and the National Police, Thursday evenin

Nivell Rayda, Farouk Arnaz & Heru Andriyanto – Though heads began rolling early on Thursday from the fallout of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) scandal, with the Nationa

Farouk Arnaz – After weeks of insisting they had evidence against Corruption Eradication Commission officials, the National Police late on Thursday night finally outlined its case befor

Ulma Haryanto – Given that more than 900,000 Facebook users have now joined the online group supporting two embattled commissioners of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A discussion warns Friday that people's anger towards injustice holds more hazards to the livelihood of a nation than poverty.

Jakarta – A combination of a presidential order, mounting public pressure and a demand from a team of credible national figures, could only force Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – A recent survey by the AGB Nielsen Media Research has disclosed that the live-airing of the voice recording of an alleged plot to fabricate criminal cases against the leaders

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Jakarta – Indonesia extended by a week on Friday a deadline for an Australian customs ship loaded with 78 protesting Sri Lankan asylum seekers to leave its territory.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Legal experts believe an article in the 2002 Corruption Eradication Commission Law violates the principle of the presumption of innocence and equality before

The tape recordings played publicly by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Tuesday at the order of the Constitutional Court sent a chilling shudder through the spine.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Legislators have seemingly ignored the content of recordings revealing an alleged plot by graft suspects, police and the Attorney General's Office (AGO)

The number of Facebook users supporting antigraft officials Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto reached more than 837,000 people on Thursday.

Nivell Rayda – Despite the release of two antigraft deputy commissioners from police detention, students from various universities persevered with their hunger strikes in support of the

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Nivell Rayda – Indonesia's Witness and Victim Protection Agency is the latest law enforcement agency to be dragged into the Corruption Eradication Commission saga, with a tape recording

Febriamy Hutapea – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's bulky coalition in the House of Representatives was being blamed for the soft stance of political parties in responding to the cu

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Farouk Arnaz, Nivell Rayda & Putri Prameshwari – After two Corruption Eradication Commision (KPK) leaders were released from police custody, public dissatisfaction was on the rise o

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – A large contributor to Indonesia's economy, manufacturing industry, had relatively stagnant growth this year, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) says – but

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The public Tuesday was glued to televisions and radios, listening to a live recording of wiretapped conversations featuring high ranking law enforcers believe

Ismira Lutfia, Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Putri Prameshwari – The public will demand that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono personally take the lead in reforming Indonesia's Nationa

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Eleven years have passed since thousands of people roamed the country's streets while chanting the revolution cry: "revolution, revolution, revolution to the

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Three groups in South Sulawesi staged protests on Tuesday to support the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) following the arrest of its two deputies by

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – About 30 NGO activists, university and high school students in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, staged a rally Tuesday to express their support for the Corruption E

Nivell Rayda, Camelia Pasandaran, April Aswadi, Heru Andrianto & Farouk Arnaz – The live broadcast on Tuesday of incriminating wiretapped conversations in the scandal that has gripp

Candra Malik, Solo – Noordin M Top is dead, but the feared Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist network is not, experts gathered here said on Tuesday.

Bandung – Hundreds of quake victims from Pengalengan, Bandung regency, occupied the regency legislative building on Monday to demand clarification on the reconstruction program for thei

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The battle between the police and the Attorney General's Office on one side against the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on the other side provid

Teguh Prasetyo & Aditya Wikrama – Indonesia's competition regulator on Tuesday ruled that the Indonesian subsidiary of French retail giant Carrefour was guilty of breaching antitrus

Ardian Wibisono – Indonesia's strong domestic fundamentals should allow its economy to remain strong despite the prospects for a more sluggish global recovery than had recently been pre

The arrogance of power is something we did not expect to see in a democratic setting like today's Indonesia.

Arientha Primanita – Hundreds of students of Arastamar Theological College protested in front of the City Hall on Monday demanding the city administration restore water and electricity

Tom Allard, Tanjung Pinang (Indonesia) – The Indonesian Government is deeply unhappy with the notion of an "Indonesian solution" to the asylum seekers trying to come to Australia, calli

Nurfika Osman – Activists on Tuesday called for the government to pay more attention to the health needs of the country's migrant workers, saying most were not properly taken care of by

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Makassar.

Jakarta – Labor rights activists urged the government to be more proactive in protecting Indonesian migrant workers that have fallen victim to abuse.

Anita Rachman – As 90,000 families struggle to rebuild their lives in West Sumatra after a powerful 7.9-magnitude quake rocked the area on Sept.

Anita Rachman – A number of men have formed a group to counter the controversial launch of a local branch of a Malaysia-based "polygamy club" in Bandung.

Once a beacon of integrity in the graft-ridden police force, the actions and involvement of Comr. Gen.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Pro-polygamy groups are now not only facing protest from angry housewives and women's rights activists; a new group of men calling themselves the Men's

Anita Rachman – At least 590,000 contract teachers working in state schools across the nation will not receive any guarantee of being awarded status as permanent employees, even though

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The government has ensured the recommended special body to prevent and combat terrorism will not become a repressive body reminiscent of the New Order era.

More than just a regular criminal case, the arrest of two members of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has evoked a public outcry towards the pervasive culture of impunity and

UA: 292/09 Index: ASA 21/018/2009