Three teenage Christian girls were beheaded and a fourth was seriously wounded in a savage attack yesterday by unidentified assailants in the Indonesian province of Central Sulawesi.

Rip Hudiono, Jakarta – All ended well for the government's proposed 2006 state budget, with the House of Representatives passing the budget draft into law on Friday.

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Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was criticized on Friday for showing lack of commitment in pushing through the military reform program during his first year

Jakarta – After one year in power, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his economics team have so far failed to live up to expectations, with the economy – both macro and micro – sho

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – The fishing village of Kuala Penet, situated at the estuary of Way Kambas National Park in Lampung, might be just a small dot on the map, but for envir

Jakarta – The number of mentally ill people in Jakarta has risen dramatically over the past month, so much so that four government mental institutions in Jakarta were overwhelmed, Tempo

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Though there has been no singularly mind-boggling achievement in his first year in office, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's bold decision to slash fuel subsidies not on

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Indonesian police say a shadowy sect known as Mahdi is becoming a threat to national security after three officers died in a bloody clash. But others say the sect doesn't exist.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Ministry of Defense says it will ban servicemen from being involved in the management of businesses owned by the Indonesian Military (TNI) in order to achie

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may be leading the nationwide fight against corruption but a survey reveals that more people now perceive his deputy, Jusuf Kalla, plays an

Somewhere in the dark a child cries, someone dies and humanity hides.

Jakarta – A plan to revive a community-based intelligence system run by the Indonesian army as an anti-terrorism measure threatens to harm democracy and lead to human rights abuses, ana

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – House of Representatives lawmakers have warned that the government's plan to revive the military's territorial function in the fight against terrorism woul

Fadli, Batam – Some 90 percent of a total of 221,163 electronics factory workers surveyed in Batam are contract workers; a situation that makes them vulnerable to layoffs.

The government has yet to approve a formal resumption of counter-terrorism training and exercises between Australian troops and Indonesia's controversial special force, Kopassus.

James Balowski, Jakarta – Attending a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Indonesian military (TNI) on October 5, just days after the deadly bombing in Bali, President Susilo B

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The controversial decision to provide a new additional monthly allowance for members of the House of Representatives would not guarantee any improvement in

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – Fallout from the October 1 Bali bombings put a damper on the local Hindu Galungan and Kuningan holidays celebrating the triumph of good over evil in heroic time

Jakarta – A clash between police and machete-wielding members of a shadowy Islamic sect on Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi island has killed four people, three of them police officers, a s

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – If President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's favorite soap opera show is "Judgement Day is Nigh", what is former President Suharto's favorite television show?

Jakarta – Over 70,000 workers have been laid off in Indonesia since the government hiked fuel prices on Oct. 1, local media reported on Tuesday.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Several factions in the House of Representatives have urged the government to review its fuel price hike policy, which they said had created a huge burden

Tomi Soetjipto, Jakarta – It was billed as a way to cushion the blow for Indonesia's poorest of the poor.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives may claim it empathized with people who are facing increased economic hardship as prices for many goods rise, but almost all o

In Indonesia calls for greater government supervision of Islamic schools have been rejected by the country's leading Muslim groups.

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Tension heightened in the Central Java town of Surakarta as hundreds of supporters of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Surakarta Is

Jakarta – The move by the House of Representatives to provide a new monthly allowance of Rp 10 million (about US$1,000) for fellow lawmakers drew strong criticism on Friday.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Democrat Party and the Golkar Party, both main supporters of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Ka

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government's intention of introducing draconian legislation to fight terrorism appears likely to face a long hard slog after politicians and human rights ca

Jakarta – Lawmakers have turned a cold shoulder to the Constitutional Court's ruling that obliges the government to increase the education budget, citing financial constraints as their

Tangerang – Dozens of disadvantaged people in Kronjo subdistrict, Tangerang regency, ran amok on Friday morning, demanding that they too be given the quarterly Rp 300,000 cash handout f

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – After the government raised fuel prices early this month, Bandung textile businessman Satya Natapura could only pray for a miracle for his business to surviv

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – As demand for firewood increases following the 200 percent price hike on kerosene, hundreds of low-income people living in the vicinity of the Gunung Walat resear

Jakarta – Murdered rights campaigner Munir had requested stomach medication from the Garuda crew prior to takeoff at Changi airport, and began to complain about an upset stomach about a

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Blontank Poer, Sukoharjo – Police officers declared the leader of a Muslim militant group a suspect on Thursday, three days after he led a mob attack on restaurants selling alcoholic dr

Fabio Scarpello, Jakarta – Indonesia's renewed "war on terror" in the wake of the latest round of bombings on Bali could pave the way for renewed politicization of the country's militar

Jakarta – Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has said that terrorism must be handled with stern measures.

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Jakarta - The first anniversary of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (SBY-JK) on Thursday October 20 was accompanied by demonstrations in a number of pla

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Jakarta – The United States administration has supported the Indonesian government's plan to establish a tougher antiterror body and counterterrorism legislations, but said it has no in

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Large-scale raids to find those responsible for the latest Bali bombings have caused unease among some sections of the public, and those who feel they have been

Jakarta – Fifteen US senators from the Republican and Democrat Parties have written to Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Fahmi Idris this week, conveying their concerns over child

Jakarta – The economic hardship faced by businesses, in particular due to the recent fuel prices hike, may result in up to 1 million workers losing their jobs by the end of the year, a

Surabaya – Four students suffered light injuries after a clash with the police during the latest protests in Surabaya on Thursday as they were expressing staunch opposition to the gover

Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, will monitor Islamic boarding schools as part of its effort to fight militant violence and suicide bombings, Vice President Jusuf Kal

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite a number of decisions that many consider burdensome to the public during his first year in office, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has managed t