Ruslan Sangaji, Palu – Fabianus Tibo, one of three men on death row for their roles in the attacks that killed some 200 Muslims six years ago in Poso, Central Sulawesi, has accused the

Jakarta – Her chores are done and Tina is waiting for her husband to come home to their makeshift shack under Matraman overpass in Central Jakarta. She is not alone.

Damien Kingsbury – The diplomatic row between Australia and Indonesia has highlighted the increasingly critical situation in the already troubled territory of Papua.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and ID Nugroho, Jakarta/Pacitan – Vice President Jusuf Kalla called on workers Thursday to cancel a plan to hold a national May Day strike.

Roy Tupai – World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who served as US ambassador to Indonesia from 1986-89 and more recently as hawkish deputy defense secretary, has been back in town this

Roy Tupai – A human rights group has criticized the US government for inviting the chief of the Indonesian Army's elite Special Forces (Kopassus) to a recent regional military conferenc

Jakarta – More than 25 percent of the natural forests in Papua have been sold in concessions to timber firms exporting to Japan, the US, the European Union and China, said the director

Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States will restore their joint military training programs, especially for elite forces, after they were halted due to the US military embargo imposed

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Barflies and ladies' men of Tangerang regency had best live it up while they can.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The government, in another effort to improve the country's investment climate, has completed a new bill prohibiting regions from arbitrarily imposing local taxes

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Hundreds of workers in Medan are camping out in front of the North Sumatra provincial council building to protest alleged abuses at the furniture company they w

Jakarta – About 5,000 workers from one of the country's largest trade union organizations swarmed the streets Wednesday in Jakarta and Surabaya to reject the government's proposal to re

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The business community and labor unions agreed Tuesday to support the government's plan to insure dismissed workers through state-owned insurance firm PT J

Jakarta – It could have been fueled by an overreaction to fears of authoritarianism making a return, or fanned by eager-to-please businesspeople posturing before political leaders.

Jakarta – About 300 hard-line Indonesian Muslims vandalized a building housing the office of Playboy magazine on Wednesday in a protest against its publication in the world's most popul

B. Herry-Priyono, Jakarta – For a few months in 1981, I was a casual worker at a pharmaceutical factory in Central Java.

After triggering a wave of protests, the government's version of the draft revision of the labour law has been canceled.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – A rift within the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI), which used to be dubbed "locomotive of democracy" has peaked with its chief being fired last week.

Jakarta – The business community warned Monday the government's decision to review proposed changes to the labor law at the urging of workers would jeopardize investment prospects amid

Jakarta – Protesting government policy, around 200 students are planning a hunger strike in front of the State Palace – although they will not be doing anything dramatic like sewing the

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Hundreds of people vandalized and set fire to the Labuapi Police station in West Lombok regency Sunday, injuring two officers.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Blontank Pour, Malang/Surakarta – Thousands of Muslims staged a rally in Malang, East Java, strongly opposing the publication of the Indonesian edition of Playb

Rendi Akhmad Witular, Jakarta – The government has officially postponed its plan to submit the controversial draft of the labor law amendment to the House of Representatives following w

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Welfare-based job security could be a win-win way of settling the current the industrial conflict between workers and employers and repairing the investmen

Ellen Nakashima, Singapore – A Singapore timber trader boasted that the cargo he had sent to India was a hardwood known as merbau, prized for its use in elegant flooring and door and wi

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government is sticking to its guns in the debate over whether the military court should be the only court to try soldiers.

The Australian Government's latest responses to the problems of West Papua and asylum seekers contain an ugly echo of previous times when the underlying causes of human suffering were i

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The many poverty reduction programs the government implemented in 2005 took only a million people out of absolute poverty, a survey reveals.

Hera Diani, Jakarta – In a village in West Kalimantan, a patient's relative threatened a nurse with a traditional sword because she was reluctant to treat him, a discussion heard on Fri

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Eighteen-month-old Citra stares vacantly up at the ceiling of her parents' small house in Dadap village in Serpong, Tangerang.

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Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Pasuruan – A small shop damaged by a passing Navy tank has sparked anger among hundreds of residents of four villages of Grati district in Pasuruan, East Java.The

Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Playboy magazine may no longer rate on the sexual cutting edge in some places, but the first edition in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, cause

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Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The attorney general has questioned police for failing to investigate Maj. Gen.

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu/Jakarta – Representatives of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and the country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama are calling for a stay of execution f

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy is expected to continue slowing down this year, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Thursday, with high inflation and interest rates still

Ridwan Max Sijabat – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Erman Suparno gathered with top aides in a daylong meeting Thursday, amid increasing signs the government may bow to pressure t

Hera Diani, Jakarta/Serang/Chiang Mai – For nearly three decades, Slamet Rahayu, 58, has worked in the fight against tuberculosis by finding and monitoring TB patients in neighborhoods

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Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – Dozens of illegal sawmills around Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park in West Lampung, which had stopped operating during the past several months, are

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) called participation of the commander of Indonesia's Kopassus Special Forces in a US military conference a bad precedent and a setback

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Labor unions pooled their resources Wednesday in stepped-up protests nationwide against planned revisions to the labor law, with worker absenteeism due to

Jakarta – Thousands of workers in the country's main cities took to the streets Wednesday to voice their objection to the proposed revisions to the 2003 Labor Law.

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla adopted a soothing approach Wednesday to a seething labor protest outside his office in Central Jakarta.

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John Birmingham – What was Bill Leak thinking last weekend?

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The recent memo-writing scandal involving Cabinet Secretary Sudi Silalahi shows that a culture of corruption is still deeply rooted in officialdom, despite

Jakarta – The National Police signed a memorandum of understanding Tuesday with Britain to increase police cooperation between the two countries to combat transnational crimes and terro

Cartoonists might make light of it, but the view from Jakarta of separatist unrest in Papua is anything but funny. Papua is many times larger than East Timor and Aceh combined.