Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council condemned Friday state-owned telecommunication services provider PT Telkom for giving the text messaging records of a journalist to law enforcemen

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – Malang regency public order officers have banned sex workers from operating during Ramadhan and are making efforts to secure them jobs in cigarette factor

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – Jreng... jreng.... Dung... dung... dung... Buskers and street children strumming guitars and pounding drums.

Presi Mandari, Bengkulu – Huge aftershocks rumbled across Indonesia's Sumatra island on Thursday but officials said damage from a massive quake that killed 10 people was not as bad as f

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Humans remained the number one cause of disasters in Indonesia in 2006, according to the government's environmental report released Wednesday.

Jakarta – Former President Soeharto is pleased with the Supreme Court's ruling of his lawsuit against Time magazine, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Jakarta – Poor communication by the government with its people and its neighbors has seen the birth of an unfavorable national security agreement and massive protests against a fuel con

Jakarta – Former vice presidential candidate Salahuddin "Gus Solah" Wahid said Wednesday it would be difficult for former president Megawati Soekarnoputri to win the 2009 presidential e

Jakarta – The Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) has urged the Home Ministry not to endorse the new bylaw on public order that bans donating

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to Bandung on Wednesday was marked by two separate protests attended by hundreds of people.

Soeharto repeatedly won condemnation from media organizations around the world for muzzling journalists during much of his time as president.

Andi Saputra, Jakarta – The poor will be the ones who will put up the strongest resistance to the new bylaw on public order.

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – Internal reforms for Indonesia's police force have been put on hold because President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has not officially inaugurated the body respons

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Rising prices and uncertain job prospects are still dampening the confidence of Indonesia's consumers, although there are hopes of clearer skies ahead, the lates

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Despite numerous government poverty-alleviation programs, the number of low-income people continues rising, underlining the difficulty of eradicating povert

Ed Davies and Ahmad Pathoni, Jakarta – Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib, who died in agony of arsenic poisoning on a Garuda flight in 2004, made plenty of enemies in his ca

Jakarta – Indonesia's Press Council described the Supreme Court's decision ordering Time magazine to pay former president Soeharto Rp 1 trillion (US$106 million) as an "evil omen" for l

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The newly endorsed bylaw on public order that bans donating money to beggars, buskers and street children has been called "absurd" and "ridiculous" by academ

Jakarta – A lawyer for Time magazine in Indonesia vowed Tuesday to fight a Supreme Court decision awarding former dictator Suharto 106 million dollars in a defamation suit he filed agai

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The City Council endorsed a new bylaw on public order on Monday, replacing a 19-year-old ordinance and banning donating money to beggars, buskers and street

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Andi Hajramurni, Bandung/Makassar – Despite opposition to the Commercial Court's verdict declaring state-owned aircraft company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) bankr

Palembang, South Sumatra – The Sriwijaya Military District Command in South Sumatra is overseeing a pilot project on the utilization of peat land for agricultural purposes.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Former president Megawati Soekarnoputri has accepted a nomination by her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) to run for the presidential electi

Jakarta – Indonesia's political parties have to do more and talk less to improve their public image, the Reform Institute said.

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Plans to renovate the House of Representatives and its buildings to the sum of more than US$4 million have come under fire from Indonesia's corruption watc

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – With the emergence of new evidence in the murder case of Munir Said Thalib, pressure is mounting for a thorough and rapid investigation of the circumstances su

Jakarta – The government has failed to reach its 2007 forest rehabilitation target due to financial issues and poor coordination, said a senior forestry ministry official.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – In order to face the 2009 legislative elections, minority parties unable to secure at least 3 percent of public support in the parliament should not dissol

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – A group of around 200 protesters blockaded the Pondok Pinang-Serpong turnpike all day Thursday to demand long-delayed land compensation from toll road operator

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – The third anniversary of the assassination of Indonesia's most well-known human rights activist, Munir Said Thalib, has seen the public at home and abro

Anwar Khumaini, Jakarta – Exactly three years since Munir's death, one thousand people from the Solidarity Alliance for Munir and Democracy (Asumsi) gathered at the Proclamation Monumen

Anwar Khumaini, Jakarta – Three years have passed without any progress being made on who murdered human rights activist Munir.

Anwar Khumaini, Jakarta – A bunch of roses and a wreath of flowers symbolising the death of Munir was handed to officials on guard in front of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) off

Sunudyantoro/Rohman Taufiq, Surabaya – Today, three years ago, human rights activist Munir died on a flight from Jakarta via Singapore to Amsterdam.

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Activists in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta commemorated three years since Munir's death by demanding that the National Intelligence Agency (BIN) be d

Jakarta – The government defended its stance Thursday to exclude public access to state enterprises, saying there existed already several regulations around the transparency of state-ow

Fadli, Batam – The central board of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Muslim organization in Indonesia, warned its members Thursday to avoid active involvement in political parties.

Jakarta – There remains a low rate of reform in the Supreme Court and the mafia still exists within its ranks, experts said Thursday.

Bandung – Thousands of students in Bandung city, from elementary to senior high school levels, are at risk of being dropped out of school because they cannot afford to buy textbooks, an

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) announced Thursday a major reshuffle which included the promotion of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's brother-in-law as t

On the third anniversary of the fatal poisoning of leading Indonesian human rights lawyer Munir, Human Rights First called on the Indonesian government to immediately and fully investig

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Kalinga Seneviratne, Singapore – They share the same Malay cultural roots and Islamic faith, but the poor treatment of Indonesian workers in Malaysia has soured relations between the So

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Employees of Bandung-based state aircraft company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) urged to the government Wednesday to intervene in the firm's bankruptcy case

Jakarta – A group of retired Army officers from Makassar, South Sulawesi, has flown to Jakarta to seek legal support from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kon

Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim said Wednesday the commission was committed to continue investigations into the 1989 shooting spree at Talangs

Jakarta – Despite the looming 2009 elections, Golkar turned the age-old script of how to get business backing on its head Wednesday, putting the begging bowl away and instead using a me

Jakarta – Legislators, government officials and political experts continue to clash over whether or not there should be an electoral threshold limiting the establishment of new politica

Mark Forbes – Indonesia will finalise a $1.2 billion defence deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Jakarta tomorrow, to fund the purchase of Russian submarines, tanks and helico