More than half of Indonesia's provinces have been affected by the dengue fever outbreak which has killed nearly 200 people, Department of Health data showed.

Lee Kim Chew – Indonesia's National Assembly Speaker Amien Rais is riding on a reformist platform in his bid to clinch the country's top job.

Jakarta – The National Awakening Party (PKB), at a national working meeting here, nominated Abdurrahman Wahid – popularly known as Gus Dur – as its main presidential candidate, PKB chai

Rusman, Samarinda – Defying protests from locals, the Samarinda government and municipality council agreed to pay a severance bonus for councillors of Rp 25 million each, a councillor c

Surabaya – The government is processing the dismissals of some 700 civil servants for joining political parties, a Cabinet minister says.

Jakarta – He is the President's man.

Jakarta – Golkar chief Akbar Tandjung has said he would want to be president if his party posts a strong win in the forthcoming election.

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Members of the movement to ban contemptible candidates are planning to publish the names of politicians with rotten records by March 11 at the latest to help v

Jakarta – Arriving in two Metromini busses at around 11.30am, scores of demonstrators calling themselves the Alliance Against Rotten Non-Government Organisations demonstrated at the off

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – Non-governmental organization activists criticized local administrations across the country, including in Jakarta, for handing out unofficial "severance pac

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – Amid increasing attacks on the press roughly coinciding with the moment President Megawati Soekarnoputri was handed power, the Press Council is now ur

Tiarma Siboro and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The government has completed the revised draft of much-criticized Antiterrorism Law No.

Haidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru – Kampar regent Jefri Noer is facing widespread opposition in the regency as calls increase for his ouster.

Shawn Donnan, Jakarta – Investors handed a vote of confidence to Indonesia's banking sector on Friday, taking minority stakes in four leading banks off the government's hands for $184 m

Jakarta – Despite widespread public criticism and opposition to the water resource bill, legislators went ahead with the endorsement of the controversial draft on Thursday.

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) conducted a major reshuffle with the appointment of Vice Marshall Wartoyo as chief of TNI general affairs, the first-ever promotio

Jakarta – Publicly-listed retailer PT Hero Supermarket said on Friday its net profit had plunged by 93 percent last year, due to the cost of repositioning its business activities amid t

Malang – All government institutions, including state forestry company Perhutani, should observe a five-to-10-year moratorium on logging, while intensifying their reforestation activiti

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Despite the World Bank's recent official criticism of counter-trade policies, last week Indonesian Trade and Industry Minister Rini M Soewandi promised that Jakar

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is going ahead with plans to build the country's first nuclear power plant in densely populated, earthquake-prone Central Java, officials said Friday

Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of former Indonesian president Suharto who is currently in prison for murder, testified in court that he gave bribe money to associates of former preside

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, Jakarta – Clarity of functions between the central and local governments, and the yawning disparity between poor and rich regencies have posed a real threat to re

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Jakarta - Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS) Decree Number XXV/1966 cannot in any way be the basis for Article 60 sub-section (g) of Law Number 12/2003 on the general ele

Achmad Sukarsono, Jakarta – An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim militant from Malaysia to 12 years in jail on Thursday for planting a bomb in a Jakarta church that killed one person

Ambon – The commander of the XVI/Pattimura Territorial Military Command (Kodam), Major General Syarifudin Summah, has threatened to shoot on sight anybody to tries to disrupt the electi

Jakarta – The head of Indonesia's Supreme Court has defended its recent decision to clear parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung of corruption.

Makassar – Hundreds of students clashed with police on Wednesday during a protest condemning the Supreme Court's unequivocal acquittal of Akbar Tandjung of graft.

Haidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru – A special team of Kampar regency councillors on Wednesday recommended the dismissal of Regent Jefri Noer and his deputy, Zakir, following massive prote

Local officials, supposedly the frontline of the Jakarta administration's community fix for flooded areas, have done little to help inundated residents, often not even bothering to show

Jakarta – City Police spokesman Sr. Comr.

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – A study has found that, despite entrenched corruption in Indonesia's legal system, the country's poor are having some success in fighting corruption through the

Suherdjoko and Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Semarang/Jakarta – Despite mounting public opposition, the House of Representatives is set to endorse the controversial water resources bill when

Jayapura – Dozens of civil servants at the Justice and Human Rights office here have protested for three consecutive days, demanding that the government cancel the appointment of Sukarn

Max Lane – On February 12, the Indonesian Supreme Court voted, with one dissenting voice, to overturn a guilty verdict for corruption from two lower courts against parliamentary speaker

Jakarta – The death toll from a dengue fever outbreak hitting Indonesia's sprawling archipelago has climbed to 161, said health ministry data on Wednesday.

Anton Aliabbas, Jakarta – Hundreds of students from a number of different organisations demonstrated today in front of the People's Representative Assembly (DPR).

William Hardiker – In considering what constitutes an act of terrorism, one must first determine if terrorists were in fact those responsible.

The impact of the financial crisis which devastated the economy is still being felt by taxpayers.

Aras Napal – The European Union's Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom ended a visit to a huge EU-funded conservation project, expressing alarm that a planned road network could sp

Juli Hantoro, Edy Can, Multazam – A Jakarta court has ordered the Jakarta local government to postpone its plan to hike drinking water rates. A victory for the residents?

Matthew Moore, Jakarta – A week ago every one of the 50 waterfront rooms in Lombok's swish Oberoi Hotel was empty.

Malang - The visit by President Megawati Sukarnoputri to the city of Malang in East Java on Saturday February 14, was greeted with a demonstration by students from the University of Bra

Jakarta – Students nationwide again took to the streets on Friday, rejecting the Supreme Court's decision that acquitted Akbar Tandjung of graft charges.

Evi Mariani and Dewi Santoso, Jakarta – The Jakarta police chief has revealed that his officers charged into and severely beat dozens of protesting students in front of the Supreme Cour

Robert Go, Jakarta – Flowers and congratulatory notes yesterday flooded the Jakarta house of Indonesian parliament Speaker Akbar Tandjung, whose corruption conviction was overturned by

Jakarta – As the Golkar Party fraction celebrated following the release of Golkar Party general chairperson Akbar Tanjung [from corruption charges], Yudi, a student from the Jakarta Sta

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Palembang – Student activists, non-government organisations and academics held a silent protest in front of the Monument to the Mandate of the People's Suffering in Palembang, South Sum

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – The Supreme Court decision overturning the conviction of House Speaker Akbar Tanjung landed with the thud of a police baton on the future of reform in Indonesia