Muslim AR, Jakarta – Former Army Strategic Reserves Command (green berets) Chief of Staff Major General Kivlan Zen made a surprising statement…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A reconciliation effort aimed at settling past rights abuses in the country is at a crossroads after anti-…

Jakarta – Attempts at formal reconciliation and settlement for victims of the 1965 political conflict and violence would only reopen old wounds,…

Ina Parlina, Nurul Fitri Ramadhani and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The pronouncement of June 1 as a national holiday to commemorate the…

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – At least 10,000 people representing various hard-line and civil society groups marched to the State Palace on Friday…

Jakarta – Several mass organizations have protested against the use of their logos without permission during a recent anti-communist symposium.…

Grace Phan – The words spoken by President Barack Obama in Hanoi, Vietnam in May resonated loudly with the people of Timor-Leste. The president…

Paulina Quintao – The Secretariat of State for Vocational Training Policy and Employment (SEPFOPE) is currently working together with the Timor-…

Paulina Quintao – The Indonesian Government has agreed to pay about 3,000 former Timorese civil servants who worked during the occupation and are…

Venidora Oliveira – Many MPs routinely break the parliamentary regulations by coming late, failing to sign in and not attending plenary sessions,…

Jakarta – In the wake of a public outcry to resolve past human rights abuse cases, retired Army general Kiki Syahnakri has said Indonesians must…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Being gay in a religious neighborhood in Indonesia is certainly tough, but Hendro Yudistira faces even tougher odds. He…

Over the past few days, around 600 West Papuan people have been reportedly arrested simply for peacefully demonstrating to call upon the Africa…

Saskia Wieringa – The gang rape and gruesome murder of Yuyun, a 14-year-old schoolgirl in Bengkulu, Sumatera made international headlines. However…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – National Resilience Institute (Lemhanas) governor Let. Gen. (ret) Agus Widjojo smiled when a fellow soldier,…

Jakarta – Hard-line Islamic groups and a number of retired army generals plan to hold a rally in front of the State Palace on Friday to protest…

Jakarta – The alleged leader of a Papuan armed separatist group has been arrested after sustaining a shot to the leg, a police spokesman said on…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – A number of religious leaders proposed on Wednesday that lawmakers include a deradicalization strategy in the…

Jakarta – The Jakarta administration will establish two new parks that Jakartans can use to voice their aspirations, Governor Basuki "Ahok"…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – A former president of Indonesia has publicly revealed he opposes the death penalty as the country…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – With the launch of a new defense strategy on Tuesday, expectations are high that the Defense Ministry will build…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With few commitments to curb cigarette consumption, Indonesia is poised to have the largest population of smokers in…

Suherdjoko and Andi Hajramurni, Semarang/Makassar – The government's hard-line approach to sexual violence against children has failed to…

Jakarta – Former vice president Try Sutrisno called on Wednesday for an addendum in the 1945 Constitution to ensure that communism, Leninism and…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The leader of the hardline Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Muhammad Rizieq Shihab, has threatened to attempt to…

Rina Atriana, Jakarta – Retired Major General Kivlan Zen says that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) has already been revived and has formed an…

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – Medical coverage for victims of terrorist attacks must be included in revised articles of the 2003 Terrorism Law…

Victims of terror attacks have expressed disappointment toward the amendment to the Terrorism Law as the amended law does not contain…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Anira, a fishmonger from Muara Angke in North Jakarta, could not hold back her emotions when the Jakarta State…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Twenty percent of the previous administration's mega power plant projects have failed to come online, a bad…

The government's talk of declaring Pancasila Day on June 1 a national holiday seems to reveal a yawning gap between the past and today's regime in…

Edo Karensa, Jakarta – The son of Indonesia's second president Suharto, Hutomo Mandala Putra, better known as Tommy Suharto, is among the…

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The National Police and the Indonesian Military (TNI) want more authority to launch preventive measures against…

Jakarta – Ideological tensions may heat up as some retired Army generals have organized an anti-communist symposium for Wednesday in response to…

Jakarta – Several NGOs visited the Constitutional Court on Monday to demand the implementation of a court decree that recognized the rights of…

Victor Mambor, Jayapura – After officers broke up demonstrations and detained scores of protesters, police in eastern Indonesia's Papua and West…

Jakarta – Indonesian police briefly detained hundreds of pro-independence demonstrators in Papua on Tuesday, the latest round-up of protesters in…

There have been more demonstrations in Indonesia's Papua region today, in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua.

Over a…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government says it will draft a recommendation on the settlement of the 1965 communist purge, combining…

Indonesian police have arrested scores of West Papua National Committee (Komite Nasional Papua Barat) members around Papua on May 30, as Papuan…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The controversial alcohol prohibition bill may have been seldom heard about lately, but the political will remains…

The secretary-general of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua says he was given no explanation why he was barred from entering Papua New…

Safrin La Batu and Corry Elyda, Jakarta – In 2012, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Gerindra Party, eager to burnish…

A prominent West Papua independence activist is calling on Papua New Guinea's prime minister to extend his invitation to all West Papuans to him…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – Bad loans and weak demand are hurting the outlook for Indonesian banks' loan growth amid financial authorities pushing…

Jakarta – The government's response to rampant sexual violence against children has been given a mixed reception by activists as well as by…

Jakarta – Activists and religious leaders demanded on Sunday that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo end the division among his aides over the events…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Rights activists have slammed the government's regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on sexual violence against…

Jayapura – The blockading of the campus of Cenderawasih University in Waena, Abepura Jayapura, Papua, from Monday to Thursday by its students has…

Dozens of members of the West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, have been arrested by Indonesian police in Papua province.

Up to 51 KNPB…