Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A major change is expected to transpire at the House of Representatives as the Golkar Party, the second-largest…

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – With no apparent resolution in sight, the prolonged rifts plaguing two major political parties could cause them to miss…

Woodside Petroleum is looking at options to develop the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project but says the East Timorese and Australian…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In a bid to curb extravagant political campaigns, the General Elections Commission (KPU) is set to put a cap on…

Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry and state-owned housing developer PT Perumnas will team up to start working on a program to build…

Peter Klinger – The Timor-Leste Government has floated the prospect of buying Woodside Petroleum out of the giant Sunrise gas project, as the…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police will continue its probe into Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel…

Carlos Roy Fajarta Barus, Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy's military police, or Pomal, arrested a naval officer last week after he was found with…

A former senior Fiji military figure, Jone Baledrokadroka, says there is much that the Royal Fiji Military Forces can learn from Indonesia's army…

I do not know what the prospects are that President Widodo will stop the current implementation of the death sentence for people convicted of drug…

Farouk Arnaz & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The top two officials in the Indonesian police force continue to contradict each other over their stance…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The NGO behind the filing of a police report against Tempo weekly for its coverage of Comr. Gen. Budi Gunawan's bank…

Bastiaan Scherpen, Jakarta – The Dutch state has to compensate not only widows, but also the children of men murdered during a bloody crackdown on…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Sleman Police are hunting a student in Yogyakarta alleged to be behind the Wednesday's screening of Joshua…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With rifts having developed within political parties following last year's presidential election, a new law on…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Carlos Paath Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council launched a formal investigation against Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) says the Supreme Court (MA) was wrong for denouncing a plan from the Corruption Eradication…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The opposition Red-and-White Coalition appears to have lost the Golkar Party, the second-largest faction at the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government, the House of Representatives and the National Police defended on Tuesday the House's authority to assess…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it will not seek a case review against a South Jakarta District Court pretrial ruling…

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta – Islamic radical groups in Yogyakarta attempted to storm a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film "Senyap" ("…

Jayapura, Jubi – The Independent Student Forum (FIM) urged the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to immediately form an inquiry…

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says it has found at least 454 irregularities in the 2014 budget for the Jakarta…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Amid accusations that Indonesia has used faulty data to justify its executions of drug convicts on death row, the…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Police on Monday continued its crackdown on dissident voices by filing libel lawsuits with the Jakarta Police…

Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – Former Constitutional Court Chief Justice Jimly Ashiddiqie slammed Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Tuesday for…

Simon Roughneen, Dili – Just three weeks into his new job, Rui Araujo, East Timor's new prime minister, faces the daunting task of filling the…

Suherdjoko, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing a proxy war in which a third party is being used to attack Indonesia in any way, Army chief of staff Gen…

The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has criticised the Indonesian government's breakup of demonstrations in West Papua last year,…

Estevao Nuno – National Member of Parliament MP Virgilio da Costa Hornai, President of Commission F (for health, education, culture, sports,…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Newly elected National Mandate Party (PAN) chairman Zulkifli Hasan is being challenged to keep his party united…

Jakarta – Activists on Tuesday criticized Home Affairs Minister Tjahjo Kumolo's proposal to give $75.8 million to each political party, saying…

Jakarta – Indonesian demonstrators on Tuesday delivered bags of coins to the Australian embassy, saying they were handing back tsunami aid money…

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesia could release 10,000 asylum seekers to Australia if Canberra continues to antagonise the republic over the execution…

Dewanti A. Wardhani, Jakarta – Following a recent incident in which a Transjakarta bus caught fire, city-owned bus operator PT Transjakarta has…

The West Papuan representative body applying for membership in the Melanesian Spearhead Group says it always expected Indonesia's government to…

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Political analysts have said that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo may be overcompensating for his indecisiveness in…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The chairman of the independent team tasked to resolve tensions between the National Police and the Corruption Eradication…

The Solomon Islands Foreign Minister says the Melanesian Spearhead Group as a collective supports the right of West Papuans to self-determination…

Katharina Lestari & Abby Seiff, Banda Aceh – On a recent Friday, three stragglers sat sipping the dregs of their coffee as the city of Banda…

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri has reportedly told the current president not to grant clemency to…

The Australia West Papua Association in Sydney condemns the intimidation of the staff of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) Merauke's office…

Tom Allard, Cilacap – Indonesia's president Joko Widodo says he is open to abolishing the death penalty, but not for a "long time" and only if the…

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakin Saifuddin has said that capital punishment does not violate human rights.

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Khaerur Reza, Yogya – Because of the great many government policies that fail to side with women, women are still treated second-class citizens…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Malinau, North Kalimantan – The recent death of a farmer in Sumatra's Jambi province has highlighted the need to address…

Jakarta – Legislators, historians and human rights activists have hailed a local military commander's move to have his soldiers in Semarang,…

Jakarta – International Women's Day (IWD) was commemorated by various different elements of society who held a demonstration in the vicinity of…

Jakarta – Commemorating International Women's Day (IWD), scores of workers from the International Women's Day United Struggle Committee (KPPIWD)…

Hamim Thohari, Yogya – In commemorating International Women's Day (IWD), students from the Student Alliance for Women held a peaceful action at…