Jakarta – Two hundred demonstrators from the Women's Struggle Committee of the People (KPPR) held a march to commemorate International Women's Day…

Anton Hermansyah – The Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG) plans to offer asset swaps to local communities using peatland for plantation purposes in…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has identified rampant violations by broadcasting companies, particularly television…

Prima Wirayani, Jakarta – The country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth will stay at 4.7 percent this year amid sluggish industrial activity,…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – With coal prices continuing to decline, Indonesia will struggle to provide the coal needed to fire up its power…

Jakarta – Rainwater causing overflow at the Ciliwung, the longest river in the capital, early on Tuesday has led to flooding in at least five…

On 8 March 2016, Timor-Leste celebrates International Women's Day. This is an important day where we acknowledge the contribution of Timorese…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-017-2016

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Women's Coalition (KPI) said on Sunday that the country had at least seven laws that should be amended for failing to…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) just held its extraordinary summit in Jakarta from 6 to 7 March, with the theme "Independence is the…

Jakarta – LGBT rights organization Arus Pelangi questioned on Sunday the government's plan to ban websites containing education and information…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – The government has had to hold its tongue as early tenders it held since August last year to resolve slow budget…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The Defense Ministry is developing an intelligence body, aiming to obtain information to build strategic policy.

The…

Fana Suparman & Erwin C Sihombing, Jakarta – A former police officer turned convict who escaped from West Papua's Sorong Prison last week…

Bekasi – Around a thousand protesters calling themselves the Bekasi Islamic Forum converged on the Bekasi city government offices west of Jakarta…

Erika Anindita Dewi, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has slammed the decision by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to drop the charges…

Viriya Paramita Singgih, Jakarta – The People's Conscience Party (Hanura) has called for a specific law against members of the lesbian, gay,…

Jakarta – Apparently under pressure to take preventive measures against the spread of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) propaganda…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Apparently exploiting loopholes in monitoring mechanisms, a former high-ranking Defense Ministry official is alleged to…

Stefani Ribka, Jakarta – The government has been urged to accelerate the resolution of past human rights abuses that have lain dormant for decades…

Benny Mawel, Jayapura, Indonesia – Dozens of young Catholics in West Papua protested in the provincial capital Manokwari March 2, demanding that…

Jakarta – More politicians have spoken out against the spread of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement, but have warned…

Jakarta – Attorney General M. Prasetyo has dropped the cases of former leaders of antigraft commission, Abraham Samad and Bambang Widjajanto as a…

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – The government will continue to hand out the death sentence to big players in drug trafficking world despite criticism…

Tama Salim and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Opposition to a revision of the Terrorism Law is mounting, with rights activists lambasting the…

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – Jakarta's police chief has revealed the key role the Australian embassy bomber played behind bars in…

Farida Susanty, Jakarta – Players in the country's logistics industry are predicting that the sector will still grow by a healthy margin this year…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said homosexuality was an illness and therefore Islamic…

Kanupriya Kapoor & Gayatri Suroyo, Padang/Jakarta – All 22 of the early-warning buoys Indonesia deployed after the 2004 tsunami disaster were…

Australia took advantage of East Timor's weakness and is now dodging its international obligations over the disputed marine border, a Timorese MP…

Safrin La Batu and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – A police officer from the East Jakarta Police was shot in the thigh on Tuesday night after he and three…

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Hefty capital streaming into Indonesia may become a double-edged sword that triggers another episode of massive…

The Australian Governor-General, Peter Cosgrove, has turned down a request by a Timor Sea civil society group to meet during his short tour of…

To mark the anniversary of Australian Government's unscrupulous decision to withdraw its recognition of the maritime boundary jurisdiction of the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Sorong – Indigenous communities in Klamono district, Sorong regency, West Papua, have called for the formulation of a regency…

There are a couple of issues from the The Interpreter discussion of the maritime border with Timor Leste that merit more exploration. First, the…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The struggle of Jakarta's residents who oppose water privatization is back to square one after the Jakarta High Court…

Jakarta – The chief of Jakarta Police has blamed a Tuesday night gunfight between a navy officer and four police officers in East Jakarta was…

Jakarta – The House Of Representatives is set to allow former convicts to run in local elections through an amendment to the Regional Elections (…

Sadachika Watanabe, Jakarta – Satisfying your craving for Western-style fast food is getting easier in East Timor.

U.S. chain Burger King…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Timor Lorosa'e Journalists' Association (AJTL) in strongly criticizing the…

Australia has closed the door on reopening talks with East Timor about a maritime boundary dispute and a carve-up of oil and gas reserves.

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The ghost of New Order has haunted this nation ever since pro-democracy movements made a mark back in 1998. Slowly but surely, anti-democratic…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papua Governor Lukas Enembe called on residents on Tuesday to maintain tolerance and respect following a demand…

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Observers say that an internal Cabinet rift involving two ministers over the fate of an important gas block has…

Jakarta – After being evicted from the Kalijodo red-light district in North Jakarta, sex workers have started to move to the Dadap Cheng In red-…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Efforts to combat chronic and widespread malnutrition have started to bear fruit as the percentage of children under…

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya, Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has been criticized for issuing a circular to broadcasting…

Jakarta – The Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence, known as KontraS, on Wednesday (02/03) urged President Joko Widodo to form a…

Jakarta – A lawmaker from the House of Representatives' Commission I overseeing defense and foreign affairs, Tubagus Hasanuddin, said the…