Tens of thousands of Indonesian protesters took to the streets on Thursday to oppose the US-British bombardment of Iraq.

John McBeth, Jakarta – Controversial new legislation that would give the Indonesian armed forces unilateral authority to deploy troops in the event of an emergency appears to undermine

Several Indonesian Non Government Organisations say they will refuse funds from America, Britain and Australia, in response to those countries involvement in the war on Iraq.

Jakarta – If a Muslim group has its way, moviegoers in the Indonesian city of Bandung will no longer get to watch films such as Daredevil or Chicago.

Jakarta – Environment Minister Nabiel Makarim said here Wednesday the government and the House of Representatives (DPR) had to settle the question of environmental pollution in PT Freep

Jakarta/Bandung/Semarang – Thousands of workers from Jakarta, Bandung in West Java, and Semarang in Central Java staged separate, peaceful rallies to coincide with the new labor bill be

Tokyo – More than 4,000 Indonesians will join a lawsuit against the Japanese government, demanding compensation for a dam funded by aid from Tokyo and which they say has destroyed their

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – A new Bill is set to unravel a dark side of Indonesian history, allowing cases of human-rights violations to be reopened for the sake of national reconciliation

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Thousands of workers from failing factories, formerly run in whole or in part by international companies, in Greater Jakarta are facing a bleak future

Bogor – Dozens of minivan drivers gathered at the council building here to protest against the injustices they face in the course of their work.

Batam – Local religious and community leaders are angry with the authorities for turning a blind eye to the thriving gambling dens on the island which cater to a largely Malaysian and S

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Women activists demanded the executive board of political parties on Tuesday arrange legislative candidates alternately between men and women to give women a g

Yuli Trisuwarni, Bandung – The Ka'bah Youth Movement Muslim organization has threatened all movie theaters in the West Java capital of Bandung to stop showing American and British films

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Twenty-five students began a hunger strike on Monday during a rally in the grounds of the North Sumatra provincial council to demand the permanent closure of pu

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has severed ties with one of its main donors, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in protest against the US-

Indonesia promised to safeguard westerners amid continuing anti-war protests as police said 10 Muslim radicals arrested for allegedly harassing foreigners could face a year in jail.

Bogor – More than 6,100 elementary school students from 30 subdistricts in Bogor regency need financial help because the poor economic condition of their families.

Jakarta – Ten members of a radical Islamic group were arrested in Jakarta yesterday after they tried to force their way into a Sizzler restaurant in a thwarted bid to harass foreigners

Jakarta – Some 100 employees of the state-owned mint, Perum Peruri, staged a demonstration on Monday at its office on Jl.

Stockholm – Swedish companies pride themselves on their high standards of business ethics, but now corporate heavyweights have come in for stinging criticism for their alleged role in t

Jakarta – An Indonesian court on Monday rejected a demand that prosecutors free Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir after lawyers for the alleged head of the militant Jemaah Islamiah group a

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Tertiani ZB Simanjutak, Jakarta – The wave of antiwar rallies continued on Sunday with thousands of protesters taking to the streets across the country to ex

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Jakarta – Indonesia's Vice President Hamzah Haz has rejected US President George W.Bush's request to close down the Iraqi embassy in Jakarta.

Haidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru, Riau – Several major companies in the natural-resource rich province of Riau allegedly pay the local police and Indonesian Military (TN) to ensure the s

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – As the antiwar protests become rowdier, scholars urged the government on Sunday to swiftly move to prevent them turning violent.

Police in Indonesia's second-biggest city Surabaya have reacted angrily to an Australian warning that anti-Western groups may be planning a "terrorist" attack there, saying there were n

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Indonesia's educators and religious leaders have called on Parliament to drop a new education Bill amid fears its controversial content will threaten private sc

Jakarta – Many police officers in the Indonesian capital are involved in organised crime and provide security to top gangsters, said a former police chief.

Jakarta – An Indonesian singer whose erotic dance style has stirred controversy says she will quit and attend religious classes provided she is given one billion rupiah.

Jakarta – President Megawati Soekarnoputri plans to sue Rakyat Merdeka daily for comparing her to Soemanto, a man who confessed to eating parts of dead human bodies.

Jakarta – Hundreds of Muslims activists forced the closure of an American fast-food franchise in Surabaya, East Java, as nationwide rallies to protest the US-led war in Iraq continued o

Dean Yates and Jerry Norton, Jakarta – Demonstrators took to the streets on Friday in 10 cities in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, to protest against US-led attacks

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Gen. Endriartono Sutarto warned anti-war protesters in the country on Thursday to avoid staging anarchic demonstrations.

Both moderate and radical Indonesian Islamic leaders reacted angrily to the start of the US-led war on Iraq as police stepped up security in the world's largest Muslim-populated nation.

Australia's Islamic neighbour Indonesia has fiercely opposed the US-led attack on Iraq calling on the UN to hold an emergency session.

Robert Go, Jakarta – The growing menace of premans or thugs is taking centre stage as the Indonesian public now vent their frustrations openly after the controversial Tempo magazine har

Yulianti, Jakarta – Around 200 people from the Anti-Militarism People's Front (Front Rakyat Anti-Militerisme, FRAM) demonstrated in front the presidential palace and the department of d

John B. Haseman – Indonesia's difficult transition from autocracy to democracy is almost five years old.

Tony Sitathan, Jakarta – This Thursday is a day of reckoning for Iraq, when its 48-hour ultimatum issued by the president of the United States, George W Bush, expires.

The Indonesian Government has signed a new Letter of Intent (LoI) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), together with a memorandum on eonomic and financial policies (MEFP) to IMF

Jerry Norton and Dean Yates, Jakarta – The cabinet of the world's most populous Muslim nation was discussing the US attack on Iraq on Thursday, Indonesia's chief security minister told

About 3,000 Indonesian teachers have flooded the grounds of parliament in protest against a bill on religious teaching in schools.

James Balowski, Jakarta – In response to continuing protests and press criticism, the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri is resorting to the tactics used by the Suharto dicta

An Islamic youth group threatened to force US and allied diplomats to leave Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-populated nation, amid rising condemnation of the planned war against I

Iggy Kim – Dita Sari, head of the Indonesian National Front for Workers' Struggle, was in Baghdad on March 14-18 as part of high-profile Asian peace mission to Iraq.

Palu – A rally by hundreds of students opposing possible US-led military action in Iraq here on Tuesday ended with them illegally barricading an outlet of the US-based Kentucky Fried Ch

Karl Schoenberger, Jakarta – As the United States braces for a terrorist backlash from war, the Indonesian military is exploiting US concern about Islamist militants in Southeast Asia i

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Anticorruption activists urged the prosecutors' office here on Tuesday to investigate provincial councillors and officials connected to a bribery case that led

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.