Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The health sector is "highly vulnerable" to fraudulent practices, with state losses from the 49 cases currently under investigation totaling Rp 128 billion (US$

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – In a move that could end years of bitter rivalry, prominent military figures Prabowo Subianto and Wiranto have hinted at the possibility of joining forces in the

Jakarta – Head of Indonesian Internet Cafe Association's Supervisory Body Judith Monique said Saturday the government should require all internet services users to verify their identity

Aloysius Unditu and Leony Aurora – Indonesia seized control of PT Bank Century eight days after the lender delayed meeting a 5 billion rupiah ($413,000) obligation, as its capital has d

There is no record chief welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie ever contributed to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla's 2004 campaign fund, said Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) corru

Alfian, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) on Thursday unveiled findings of alleged state losses of Rp 21.32 trillion (US$1.7 billion) from unrecorded tax revenue from sales of

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Victory or defeat for the Golkar Party in next year's legislative elections could spell certain doom for Vice President and party chairman Jusuf Kalla, analysts

Astrid Wijaya, Jakarta – Negative campaigning is common practice in elections, and all presidential candidates must be ready to come under fire from rival political parties in the run u

Jakarta – The threat of a wave of dismissals as a consequence of the global crisis is beginning to be concretely felt by the manufacturing sector.

Lima – Indonesia, expecting a slowdown in economic growth to 6 percent in 2008 in the face of a global economic crisis, intends to turn to its large domestic market to maintain growth,

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers staged a rally outside of the Presidential Office in Central Jakarta on Wednesday to protest a joint ministerial decree (SKB) that would take power to set

Mob power has taken over the role that the state once played in our recent past in curtailing our freedoms – from freedom of speech and expression and freedom of thought to freedom of r

Democrats on Capitol Hill are obstructing military ties

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The rupiah's recent heavy falls against the US dollar do not pose a threat yet to the business community, with the fluctuations still within an acceptable ra

Yogyakarta – Dozens of transgender people in Yogyakarta on Wednesday commemorated Transgender Day of Remembrance, which falls every Nov.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Chief welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie is still widely perceived as politically and financially influential in the country, despite huge debts wreaking havoc on

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Artists, journalists and activists from non-governmental groups in Surakarta on Tuesday urged the police to guarantee freedom of expression in relation to art

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – A court has rejected a prosecution request to present as evidence a document they claim links former spy Muchdi Purwopranjono to a military operation that led

Mabsuti Ibnu Marhas, Jakarta – Around one thousand workers in Banten province resonated protests against new regulation on workers pay on Wednesday by protesting at Banten Governor offi

Jakarta – Demanding an end to the minimum-wage talks deadlock between employers and workers, thousands of workers have rallied at the East Java governor's office in Surabaya on Wednesda

At least four villages in Glaharum and West Siring subdistricts in Porong district were inundated when the giant mudflow pond overflew due to heavy rains in Sidoarjo regency on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Indonesia, which has been losing forests at a rapid pace in recent years, plans to plant 100 million trees across the country this year in an effort to limit deforestation, a

John Aglionby, Bali – Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer and emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation, yesterday dealt a blow to hopes it would step up efforts to

Hyginus Hardoyo, Denpasar – Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono on Tuesday defended Indonesia's drive to expand oil palm plantations, despite a demand by environmentalists for a mora

Jakarta – The Marines celebrated their 63rd anniversary here Tuesday, with a military demonstration and parade displaying, among other things, their aging equipment.

Sara Webb, Sekayu – When Indonesia shifted power from the capital, Jakarta, to the regions, investors had to start dealing with a confusing constellation of districts, some business-fri

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The rupiah bounced back from its weakest level in 10 years on Tuesday as demand for the corporate sector to pay off any year-end overseas obligations begins

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Two old rivals are already jostling in Indonesia's biggest political battle, the presidential elections which take place every five years, with the next schedule

Surakarta – Indonesian artists protested here Tuesday after police bowed to pressure from Islamic hardliners and shut down production of a film about the 1965-66 massacres of communists

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Radical groups in Central Java have forced a prominent filmmaker to stop shooting a feature on a past tragedy that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, acc

Jakarta – Military analysts say the Indonesian Military (TNI) must get out of politics and business completely to pave the way for a more professional armed forces.

Buol, Indonesia – Six people were killed and some 10,000 displaced by the powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake which struck Indonesia's Sulawesi island this week, officials said Tuesday.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's third quarter economy grew at the slowest speed in six quarters as slumping commodity prices cut export revenues and the global economic slowdown

Marwaan Macan-Markar, Jakarta – In many crowded neighborhoods of this sprawling city families sat glued to their television sets late into the night of November 8, watching updates on t

Jakarta – Around 100 people held a protest action in front of the United States Embassy in Central Jakarta on November 15 demanding that a G20 ministerial level meeting in Washington be

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Workers and activists in East Java have joined forces with other provinces in opposition to the joint ministerial decree on minimum wages, which they say violates

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – According to estimates, around 5,000 children, most of them girls, in Jakarta are being sexually exploited today, rights activists said over the weekend.

Andra Wisnu, Denpasar – The head of the West Papua Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD) repeated the province's intention to secede from Indonesia if the anti-pornography bill passed i

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Prosperous and Justice Party (PKS) has admitted it deliberately glorified Indonesia's national heroes in a series of TV ads that began airing last week to

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Syofiardi Bachyul, Bandung, Padang – Research by the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency (PVMBG) in Bandung disclosed that during the past 10 years e

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' plan to spend Rp 33.4 billion (US$2.83 million) renovating the offices of its legislators has been criticized for lacking transpare

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Golkar Party leader Jusuf Kalla said Friday he settled his feud with People's Conscience Party (Hanura) head Wiranto, who has dropped his legal complaint again

Sim Leoi Leoi, Putrajaya – Both Malaysia and Indonesia will undertake a review of the memorandum of agreement signed 11 years ago on the terms and service of foreign workers.

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Hundreds of people rallied in the Hindu-majority holiday island of Bali against a tough anti-pornography law branded by critics as a threat to religious freedom.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The banking sector remains solid despite a liquidity squeeze caused by the global financial crisis, the central bank says, dismissing rumors of a deposit run

Jakarta – Families of missing persons reiterated their demand for the President and the government to establish an ad hoc court tasked with resolving the mysterious disappearances of ac

Anthony Deutsch, Surabaya – The men bound the thumbs of dozens of suspected communists behind their backs with banana leaves and drove them to a torch-lit jungle clearing.

Astrid Wijaya, Jakarta – The debate rages over whether excessive media coverage encourages crime, with one woman admitting she was emulating the endeavors of a heavily documented serial

Abdul Khalik, Port Moresby – Papua New Guinea's Inter-Government Relations Minister Job Pomat looked surprised when Home Minister Mardiyanto told him just seconds after they shook hands