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Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – The East Java Police have issued a shoot-on-sight order against anybody trying to disrupt activities of the National Mudflow Mitigation Team at the disaster

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – An ammonia gas leak Saturday at state fertilizer company PT Pusri in Palembang, South Sumatra, made residents living near the factory sick, an environmental g

Jakarta – Major labor organizations are protesting what they call rampant violations of the law on social security programs by employers, as well as alleged dismissals of unionists for

Indonesia is investigating a possible cluster of bird flu cases after a man died and his brother and sister were hospitalised, one of them testing positive for bird flu, a doctor said y

Yemris Fointuna, Maumere – The National Police denied Tuesday accusations that one of three Catholic convicts, Dominggus da Silva, was tortured before being executed last week.

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives once again engaged in heated debate Tuesday over whether to deliberate a bill on state secrecy.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla is under fire for his statement that democracy is less important than political stability and security in attracting foreign inv

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Residents of Saritem, the oldest red-light district in Bandung, West Java, were enraged Tuesday when public order officers began closing brothels as part of

Max Lane – Several prominent Indonesian historians have come under criminal investigation for writing an official history textbook in 2004 in which they no longer insisted that the Comm

Jakarta – Dozens of students protested at the South Jakarta District Court on Monday, demanding the release of a fellow student being tried for defaming President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyo

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Muslims in Medan are blaming state power company PLN for recurring power cuts, which they say are disrupting special activities during the fasting month of Rama

Jakarta – A political activist arrested for defaming President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono filed a request Monday for the Constitutional Court to review the defamation article of the Crimi

Tito Sianipar, Jakarta – Munir's widow, Suciwati, has filed a lawsuit against PT Garuda Indonesia Airlines for 13 billion rupiah.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The management of state-owned insurance company PT Jamsostek has transferred two leaders of the Jamsostek Workers Union (SPJ) to far-flung branch offices a

A trial last week at the South Jakarta District Court passed largely unnoticed, although the court's decision indicated a seismic shift in the Indonesian judiciary.

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Three state agencies charged with combating corruption and money laundering signed agreements Monday to improve their coordination in the fight against white-col

Education Minister Bambang Sudibyo admitted Monday that irregularities occurred in the disbursement of this year's operational support fund for schools due to poor student registration

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Jakarta – The government is initiating a program to send some 800,000 street children to school.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Parks Agency plans to relocate 34 banyan trees and cut down mahogany trees along one of the city's main thoroughfares to make room for an additional fast lane for

Bandung – Fires in West Java have decimated at least 3,000 hectares of protected forested land during the first nine months of this year, the head of West Java Forestry Office says.

Jakarta – Environmental activists are demanding the government do more to end the intimidation and violence against people who report illegal logging.

Ramdhan Muhaimin, Jakarta – Although the 2009 general elections are still three years away, 27 seven new political parties have already registered with the department of Justice and Hum

Jakarta – Politicians from different political parties are supporting a move to allow Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel to exercise their voting rights in the 2009 legislative and pre

Tangerang – Criticizing the poor performance of its civil administration and family planning agency, the Tangerang Municipal Council decided last week to cut the budget allocated for th

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – The West Sumatra chapter of the Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) plans to appeal the Padang District Court's decision refusing to hear its law

Jakarta – Hundreds of mourners in the Central Sulawesi capital of Palu prayed Saturday for three Catholic men executed the day earlier for leading a Christian militia that killed Muslim

Indonesian army elements are reportedly behind a plan to attack a PNG office in retaliation for the killing of an Indonesian fisherman.

Jakarta – A nine-year-old boy has been confirmed as Indonesia's 51st human bird flu fatality, a health ministry official said.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Major and minor parties are at loggerheads over whether an electoral threshold should be set for parties running in the legislative and presidential races

Thousands mourned, while hundreds of other ran amok in East Nusa Tenggara on Friday over the execution of the three men convicted of leading attacks on Muslims during the 2000 sectarian

Jakarta – Groups of Christians, angered by the overnight executions of three Catholic convicts, torched cars and government buildings in East Nusa Tenggara cities Friday.

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being accused of putting off long-awaited reforms of the powerful Indonesian Military (TNI).

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Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Hundreds of residents of the mainly Muslim Rawa Buntu village and Kencana Loka housing complex in Serpong staged a rally Friday to protest the construction of

Jakarta – An 11-year-old boy who died this week has been confirmed as Indonesia's 50th human bird flu fatality.

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A political analyst has accused the government of ensuring impunity for the military by refusing to let soldiers stand trial in a public court.

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the recent developments in the assassination case of Indonesia's most prominent and internationally r

Irwan Firdaus, Palu – Christian mobs torched cars, blockaded roads and looted Muslim-owned shops in violence touched off by Friday's executions of three Roman Catholics convicted of ins

Aguslia Hidayah, Jakarta – The Freedom of Information Coalition comprising elements including the SET Foundation, Institute for the Studies on the Free Flow of Information (ISAI), Insti

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The government should create jobs by building infrastructure facilities at the provincial, regency and village level that can give work to local unemployed peopl

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – Lack of commitment from the government and private sector to end child labor has made Jakarta a hotbed for the exploitation of minors as prostitutes and dome

Hera Diani, Jakarta – Justice and Human Rights Minister Hamid Awaluddin said Wednesday that a ministerial decree would be issued this weekend to effect the implementation of the Citizen

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The World Bank and IMF should review their financial aid to Indonesia to show a serious commitment to fighting corruption and poverty; otherwise they must

Makassar – Militant Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir sees erotic shows on TV as "more dangerous than the Bali bombs".

Suryani Ika Sari, Sofian, Jakarta – The high rate of corruption has been the cause for the low economic growth in Indonesia compared to other developing countries.

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Jakarta – The government admitted Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of Indonesians still work illegally in the more affluent neighboring country of Malaysia, despite campaigns to sto