Fadli, Batam – Batam Police have arrested a 30-year old man on blasphemy charges over a Facebook post.

The detainee, identified only as SP,…

Surabaya – The Surabaya Police escorted Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members on Sunday as they raided shopping malls in the East Java capital to…

Moses Ompusunggu and Fadli, Jakarta/Batam, Riau Islands – The National Police have hit back against allegations that their arrest of a number of…

Bambang Muryanto and Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta and Yogyakarta – More than 300 anthropologists from across the country have asked the government to…

David Hutt – I ask for no outpouring of sympathy, but those of us who spend our days jotting down opinions and making them available for public…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Under pressure from the Bekasi branch of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), the Honda Mitra outlet on Jl. Raya…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – It was a meeting in which everyone involved could score political points. For President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo the…

Six members of the KNPB were arrested in Nabire on Friday the 16 December.

Four members were arrested at the Police station when they went…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Jakarta gubernatorial candidate Anies Baswedan says he will stop the controversial Jakarta Bay reclamation if…

Jakarta – Police have interrogated Permadi, a politician from the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party and a well-known psychic, as a witness…

Duncan Graham – Greig Cunningham wants to know how and why his brother Gary died. The New Zealand news cameraman was killed in 1975 by Indonesian…

Jakarta – Chief Comr. Agus Rohmat, a member of the Jakarta Police's legal team, said Buni Yani, the man who uploaded a heavily edited video of a…

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The latest survey conducted by the Indonesia Survey Institute (LSI) shows that the number of people who think Jakarta…

Jakarta – Hutomo Mandala Putra, the youngest son of former President Soeharto, yesterday denied funding any treason activity as uncovered by the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said Friday that terrorist groups have developed a new trend of…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian defended the police's efforts to counter a bombing attack plot on the…

Jeremy Hance – The construction of a 3km canal in Indonesia has led Greenpeace and WWF to suspend its partnership with one of Indonesia's biggest…

Jakarta – A group that intercepted nine Muslims at El Tari Airport in Kupang last week has said its actions were not a form of "retaliation" for…

Eddie Osifelo – Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare says the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has include Micronesia, Polynesia, and African…

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said the Indonesian Ulema Council edict that declared wearing other religious…

Heather Barr – Lawmakers in Indonesia have decided they need to make their presence felt – in the nation's bedrooms.

In the context of a new…

Fergus Jensen, Jakarta – Chappy Hakim, a retired air force chief who says he knows next to nothing about mining, now heads Indonesia's biggest…

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) has released its latest survey showing that the electability of incumbent candidate…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Supporters of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama have said they will continue to support the…

A conference of indigenous Papuans affected by the forestry, plantation and mining industries was held in Sorong on 2nd and 3rd December 2014, a…

Jakarta – Indonesian ambassador-designate to New Zealand, Tantowi Yahya, has made it his mission to inform the people of the South Pacific nation…

Just five months before Indonesia is set to host UNESCO's 2017 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, its government still has not met a regional…

Jakarta – Recent tensions surrounding religious and ethnic intolerance in Indonesia can place individuals with alternative or liberal views on the…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With more cars cramming major cities across the country, the air quality has worsened over the past year, rising to…

Jakarta – The National Police confirmed on Thursday that its general crime directorate (Bareskrim) had summonsed comedian-turned National Mandate…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo has reiterated that all active personnel should be able…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The government is set to impose tougher regulations for all mass organizations in an effort to discipline groups…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Observers say there should be no reason for distrusting the panel of judges in the ongoing blasphemy trial of Jakarta…

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Buni Yani, the uploader of an edited video of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's allegedly blasphemous…

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Two Indonesian top judicial authorities decided to dismiss a top local religious court judge in Padang Panjang in West…

Fedina S. Sundaryani and Viriya P. Singgih, Jakarta – Despite potential crude price hikes after a nearly two-year slump, the upstream oil and gas…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The state of freedom in the country has fallen to a new low with more rights…

Last weekend at least six thousand West Papuans demonstrated in the town of Wamena to mark Human Rights Day.

It was the latest in a series…

Colette Davidson – When journalist and media activist Victor Mambour wants information from inside Papua, Indonesia, he knows how to get it – he…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The legal team of Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama referred to Ahok's hearing on Tuesday as a "…

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – The much anticipated blasphemy trial of Jakarta's Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has opened amid tight security…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – The Supreme Court has annulled the Industry Ministry's tobacco road map, which aimed to increase cigarette production…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – On December 2, students at a junior high school in Purbalingga, Central Java, were asked this question in their…

Jakarta – Indonesian police said they safely detonated a bomb on the outskirts of the capital after arresting a female would-be suicide bomber and…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said the police had named seven suspects during their…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Amid growing religious tensions countrywide, a commemoration of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday, held by the…

Papua New Guinea's opposition leader says his country and Australia need to play a greater role in responding to human rights abuses in…

About a dozen West Papuan activists were arrested and released twice within two days in the capital of Indonesia's Papua province.

On Friday…

At least 6000 West Papuans are estimated to have demonstrated in the Papuan Highlands town of Wamena to mark Human Rights Day at the weekend.

Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen. Tito Karnavian said he had ordered regional police chiefs to work together with MUI, the Indonesian Ulema…