An Indonesian mother-of-two has been cleared of defamation charges after emails she wrote about poor treatment at a local hospital appeared on social networking website Facebook.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Amir Tejo – An activist claimed on Wednesday that the majority of Chinese-Indonesians believed Prabowo Subianto, who is currently running for vice preside

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) has found in its latest study that even though the popularity of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is on the decline, h

Nurfika Osman – The increase in the number of women in the House of Representatives for the 2009-14 term to 17.68 percent of all lawmakers does not guarantee that the rights of women wi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Febriamy Hutapea – The campaign team for Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Boediono's presidential ticket demanded on Wednesday that r

Adam Gartrell – Indonesian police routinely bash and torture criminal suspects and demand money and sex in exchange for better treatment, a new report says.

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Pandu Anugrah, Analyst – The term macet, meaning traffic gridlock or deadlock, is synonymous with Jakarta.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has handed down a verdict confirming election fraud did take place in South Sulawesi and ruled in favor of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura).

Jakarta – Fifteen days ahead of the presidential election, millions of voters are still yet to be registered on the electoral roll (DPT), depriving them of their constitutional right to

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran – Despite attempts to spur more lively discussions and avoid a repeat of the snoozer that marked last week's first debate, the first vice president

Amir Tejo & Ismira Lutfia, Surabaya – In a rarely seen community backlash against Muslim radicals, residents in a Surabaya neighborhood took a somewhat vigilante tack, physically ba

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Smoke from forest and land fires has again blanketed most parts of Riau province, disrupting flight schedules and affecting the quality of human health, local

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Dozens of delman (traditional buggies) staged a protest in front of the City Hall on Wednesday, demanding officials remove the ban that forbids them to operat

Jakarta – Indonesians are in a better legal position to file a law suit against state and private institutions if they fail to provide adequate public services, as a result of a newly p

Stephen Coates, Jakarta – Indonesian police commonly beat and torture people in custody and offer better treatment in exchange for money and sex, Amnesty International said in a report

Jakarta – Research into the nation's television viewing habits has revealed most people regard news and talk show programs to be the best in terms of education, but the majority still p

Arientha Primanita – Dozens of Jakarta residents protested in front of City Hall on Tuesday demanding that the city administration pay more attention to the needs of the poor.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's powerful anti-corruption agency has taken new steps to sideline its disgraced former head, with a senior commissioner giving police testimony

Camelia Pasandaran – The number of people watching television news programs and political talk shows has jumped in the past three months, monitoring company AGB Nielsen Media Research s

Katrin Figge – Wati is 23 years old and already a mother of five. She carries her youngest child in her arms, a 5-month-old girl who has a slight fever.

The Indonesian police carry out widespread abuse with impunity against criminal suspects and poor and marginalized communities, according to a new Amnesty International report published

Jakarta – Haze triggered by forest and plantation fires has continued to blanket Pekanbaru, Riau Province's capital, over the past month.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia could expect a significant jump in investment, in particular coming from overseas, as foreign investors have shown more confidence in the country's

Filmmaker Frank Smith travelled with Rageh Omaar across Indonesia to see a struggle between two very different visions of the country's future.

Jakarta – With billions of rupiah up for grabs, the 2009 presidential election has set the stage for a "survey war" among polling institutes as the lucrative business of political consu

Jakarta – While still the front-runner in the presidential race, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has seen his popularity drop days after the official campaign period began, with Vice

Jakarta – Two pulp and paper companies denied allegations human rights violations recently occurred at their forestry concession areas in Riau.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – While the government appears to uphold human rights at the policy making level, it fails to actually implement the laws it makes, a study has found.

Dion Bisara – Legislators and businessmen on Monday criticized the government for the slow disbursement of stimulus funds, and argued that the delay could jeopardize national economic g

Dalih Sembiring – On Friday, at 5 a.m., Nia Dinata temporarily abandoned her role as mentor at a documentary film workshop in Yogyakarta to head east in a rental car.

Jakarta – Three nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have threatened to destroy illegal villas built in the Ciater water catchment areas if the Subang government fails to do so.

Jakarta – residential candidate Jusuf Kalla on Sunday refused to sign a political contract proposed by university students in Central Java.

Jakarta – "Dear Bapak Bambang, I do not like it here, I would rather be at home, pak, I want to go to school again, pak; I miss my parents, I promise I will not do what I did again, pak

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – The Indonesian Workers' Union of East Java is demanding PT Bentoel International Investama explain what will become of its 19,000 workers after

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Anitgraft watchdogs are accusing the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of applying double standards in its handling of the central bank's Indonesian Ban

Salim Osman, Jakarta – It was supposed to be the first face-to-face debate between presidential candidates in Indonesian electoral history.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – It is sarcastically known as a "three-in-one" event – a reference to Jakarta's pointless peak-hour traffic regulation prohibiting cars with fewer than thr

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Most victims of the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, have expressed disappointment that none of the candidates in the presidential e

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Rupiah lending has continued to grow up to the end of April, following a rising trend in the previous two months after slumping in January when the impact of

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Vice presidential candidate Boediono's perceived lack of religious credentials remains a continuing source of attention, even by his coalition allies.

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran – There was little real discussion or argument on Thursday night as candidates for the presidential election spent most of the time agreeing with e

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Scholars attending a conference discussing the 1965 mass killings agreed on Friday that the Indonesian government had done very little to address the devast

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – We now have more and more hospitals to choose from.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Indonesian migrant workers in South Korea, previously laid off due to the global economic downturn, have managed to find new jobs and thus postpone an early retu

Jakarta – The government must take concrete measures to improve the skills of migrant workers in Indonesia and abroad, and put an end to the increasing number of labor abuses, say civil

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – A traditional forest in the western part of Lampung province is threatened by extinction due to the rampant illegal logging of forests in the area, war

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – A legal aid institution advocating the protection of women and children called Thursday for public institutions to pay closer attention to domestic abuse vio

Pontianak – Supporters of presidential aspirant Jusuf Kalla have talked up his talents as a peace broker, saying it makes him fit for the office of president.

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Muslim organizations Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah played a significant role in the Indonesian Armed Forces' execution of alleged communists in the 1965-