Paulina Quintao – The National Parliament has approved proposed law no. 26/III/2015 on the prevention and fight against human trafficking. Of the…

Jakarta – Police have continued their investigation into an alleged plot against the government by questioning five more witnesses on Wednesday (…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Criminal law expert of Muhammadiyah University in Jakarta, Chairul Huda, said the blasphemy article as stated…

Josephite nun and human rights advocate Josephite Sister Susan Connelly has urged Australians to maintain pressure on the Federal Government to…

Jakarta – Bali Police are set to summon the spokesman of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, for questioning after reports of alleged…

Jakarta – Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has called for an investigation into the hoisting of a desecrated Indonesian flag in front of the…

Thomas Ora, Dili, Timor Leste – Nothing unusual happened when Aitarak – not his real name – moved from Timor-Leste to Malang in Indonesia's East…

Andreas Harsono – Indonesia's Ministry of Law and Human Rights this week defended the fundamental right to privacy in a Constitutional Court case…

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The government needs to re-evaluate the possible use of chemical castration on those who commit sex crimes against…

Tama Salim, Haeril Halim and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has streamlined procedures for handling asylum seekers, clearing…

Dili (AFP) – East Timor will hold a presidential election on March 20, an official said on Wednesday (Jan 18), and Nobel Peace laureate Jose Ramos…

Bernardo Almeida, Todd Wassel – Voters in Timor-Leste will head to the polls twice this year for presidential elections in March and parliamentary…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – A lawyer defending Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said the governor's legal defense team…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Lawyers of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama concluded that "the trial by mob" against the non-…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The absence of an appropriate mechanism to resolve past human rights abuses has hampered President Joko "Jokowi…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Victims and the families of victims of gross human rights violations gathered at the Judicial Commission…

Recent reports of a suspension of military cooperation between Indonesia and Australia were wildly exaggerated, but they emphasise the importance…

Jakarta – MNC Group tycoon Hary Tanoesodibjo has arrived in Washington DC to attend the inauguration of the 45th US president, Donald Trump, on…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has inaugurated the former Defense Ministry's inspector general, Air Chief Marshal Hadi…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Hundreds of members of mass organization Gerakan Masyarakat Bawah Indonesia (Indonesian General Society Movement,…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said on Wednesday the police were investigating an alleged insult to a state…

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has highlighted the right of social media giant Twitter to suspend accounts…

Fachrul Sidiq, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has revealed that of all institutions, the police were implicated in…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) has slammed the blocking and suspension of three Twitter accounts affiliated with…

Jakarta – Lawyers for Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama reported Islamic Defender's Front, or FPI, secretary general Novel Chaidir…

Willem van der Muur – Three years have already passed since the Indonesian Constitutional Court ruled that indigenous adat forests are not part of…

Grace D. Amianti, Jakarta – Indonesia saw its external debt continue to grow slowly last November as companies reduced foreign loan, Bank…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A cross-sector meeting on border management led by Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo on Tuesday raised again a controversial plan…

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Supporters of Jaringan Masyarakat Peduli Pegunungan Kendeng, a movement that rejects the development of a…

Jakarta – Mahfud M.D., former chairman of the Constitutional Court, said that edicts issued by the Indonesian Ulema Council, or MUI, are not…

Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Tito Karnavian has called on all parties to resist from exploiting edicts issued by the Indonesian Ulema…

Jakarta – Petrus Selestinus, coordinator of a team of lawyers called the Team of Defenders of Indonesian Democracy, or TPDI, has called on…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab has called on the National Police to question ruling Indonesian…

Jakarta – The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) believes the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) has gone too far in disrupting the…

Jakarta – The ruling Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has returned fire at the leader of conservative Muslim group the Islam…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) has called on lawmakers to push the National Police to investigate two of its…

Ratri M. Siniwi, Jakarta – HSBC, one of the biggest banks in the world, has been accused of funding deforestation in Indonesia by environmental…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The majority of resentment toward Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and his running mate Djarot…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Meeting the leader of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Muhammad Rizieq Shihab, and his supporters, has backfired…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The former president's son, Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, and his running mate Sylviana Murni would have won the…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Lawyers of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama refused to continue the sixth hearing of Ahok's…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's blasphemy trial continued on Tuesday with a police officer who received…

Jakarta – Indonesian Chief Minister of Security, Political and Legal affairs Wiranto called upon the public here on Monday not to hold frequent…

Jakarta – Although the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) denied any involvement of its sympathizers in a recent attack on the office of a mass…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The political machines of candidates contesting the Jakarta gubernatorial election will play a crucial role in…

Timor-Leste goes to the polls in 2017 with little in the way of a genuine policy debate. The political scene is dominated by former revolutionary…

Hands up anyone who believes that the Sunrise gas project in the waters that separate Australia from East Timor will be developed in their…

David Hutt – With much of the population living in poverty and oil wealth running dry, Timor-Leste's upcoming elections could be the public's most…

Frank Brennan – Without any media fanfare, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop published a statement on 9 January 2017 announcing that Australia and…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – About 5000 members of the Islam Defenders' Front (FPI) turned up outside Indonesian police…