Jakarta – Analysts and politicians have called for President Joko Widodo to break away from his political patron, Megawati Soekarnoputri, after a…
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January 28, 2015
Jakarta Globe - January 28, 2015
January 27, 2015
vice - January 27, 2015
Paul Gregoire – Earlier this month, Indonesian forces reportedly burned down villages and conducted mass arrests across the province of West Papua…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has protested the government's approval of giant miner PT Freeport Indonesia's…
Jakarta Globe - January 27, 2015
Jakarta – President Joko Widodo's popularity was plunging sharply on the eve of his 100th day in office, which is today, while analysts scrutinize…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto tendered his resignation to the KPK collective…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's order that the National Police cooperate in the fight against graft, some high-…
Jakarta Globe - January 27, 2015
Jakarta – A lawyer for corruption suspect Budi Gunawan claims to have access to "stacks" of evidence indicating wrongdoing by graft busters,…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Defense Ministry is pushing for the endorsement of the national security (Kamnas) bill, the deliberation of…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Andi Hajramurni, Makasar – The Makassar City Police are investigating processions held by the South Sulawesi chapter of the Islam Defenders Front…
Radio New Zealand International - January 27, 2015
The West Papua National Liberation Front will submit its application for West Papua to become a full member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group by…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Jakarta – The Papua Police intensively interrogated on Saturday two members of the Puron Wenda-led armed group arrested in Wamena, Papua.
…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The new one-stop integrated service (PTSP) launched by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Monday is expected to simplify…
Jakarta Post - January 27, 2015
Batam, Riau Islands – Workers of PT Yee Woo, a garment company producing Adidas brand clothing operating in the Tunas Industrial Zone, Batam, Riau…
January 26, 2015
Radio New Zealand International - January 26, 2015
The Indonesia researcher for Amnesty International says there is little sign of progress being made in the investigation into five students who…
Jakarta Globe - January 26, 2015
Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Activists have filed a complaint with the police against the chief security minister, Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno, over remarks…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2015
Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Muhammadiyah-affiliated universities from across Indonesia, together with elements of…
Jakarta Globe - January 26, 2015
Jakarta – Protests are mounting against what some observers increasingly believe now to be systematic efforts to incapacitate the Corruption…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2015
Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The public's rising anger toward the police and a growing impatience with President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo have been partly…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2015
Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The Culture and Elementary and Secondary Education Ministry is currently brewing up the details for a new…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2015
Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Researchers are pushing for more evidence-based policies from the current government, arguing that the quality of…
Dili Weekly - January 26, 2015
Venidora Oliveira – The 2015 General State will continue to prioritize infrastructure development with the government believing there hasn't been…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2015
Sita W. Dewi and Sumnima Dewan, Jakarta – Rostiana, 46, lost everything when the city administration demolished her house last December.
She…
Jakarta Post - January 26, 2015
Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The plunge in the global oil price presents risks to the country's state budget as income from the sector could fall…
January 25, 2015
Jakarta Globe - January 25, 2015
Jakarta – A second antigraft deputy facing a criminal probe under suspicious circumstances has denied the allegations against him, calling them an…
Jakarta Post - January 25, 2015
Fedina S. Sundaryani and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – While resisting attacks from the National Police on its commissioners, the Corruption…
Jakarta Globe - January 25, 2015
Jakarta – Indonesia's antigraft commission has called on President Joko Widodo to issue an emergency measure granting immunity from prosecution…
Jakarta Globe - January 25, 2015
Jakarta – Activists have lashed out at chief security minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno after he accused the national antigraft commission of…
Detik.com - January 25, 2015
Elvan Dany Sutrisno, Jakarta – At a time when the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is in a precarious position with hundreds of pro-KPK…
Jakarta Globe - January 25, 2015
Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Police in Jakarta rounded up more than 300 people over the weekend in their latest wave of enforcement against street…
January 24, 2015
Jakarta Post Editorial - January 24, 2015
We cannot help recounting the one-sided clash between the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) back in 2009 – later…
Dili Weekly - January 24, 2015
Paulina Quintao – Health Ministry Department of Non-infectious Diseases chief Dr Herculano Seixas dos Santos says consultation on draft tobacco…
Dili Weekly - January 24, 2015
Paulina Quintao – Breast and cervical cancer sufferers are forced to travel overseas for treatment due to a lack of facilities in Timor-Leste.…
The Diplomat - January 24, 2015
Sally Andrews – As one of his first official actions as Indonesia's president-elect, Joko Widodo announced his intention to build a presidential…
Jakarta Post - January 24, 2015
Haeril Halim and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) declared the arrest of its commissioner, Bambang…
Jakarta Post - January 24, 2015
Jakarta – After Bambang Widjojanto, another deputy chairman of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Adnan Pandu Praja, was reported by a…
Dili Weekly - January 24, 2015
Paulina Quintao – Students have come forward concerned about the quality of teaching in schools across Timor because of teachers who abandon…
Dili Weekly - January 24, 2015
Paulina Quintao – The results of an assessment conducted by the National Commission for the Rights of the Child (KNDL) in Timor-Leste show that…
Jakarta Post - January 24, 2015
Linda Yulisman and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta, Surabaya – Dyan Asthira, 32, has never missed serving beer when she gathers with her friends. She…
Dili Weekly - January 24, 2015
Paulina Quintao – More than 100 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) houses are sitting abandoned in Lospalos sub-district in Lautem as the residents…
Dili Weekly - January 24, 2015
Venidora Oliveira – Timor-Leste is unlikely to be admitted to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2015.
Foreign Affairs…
Jakarta Globe - January 24, 2015
Jakarta – The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) will form a local branch in Belu district, East Nusa Tenggara on the border of Indonesia and Timor…
January 23, 2015
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2015
Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Contrary to a previous commitment to set up an ad hoc human rights court to hear cases of past human rights…
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2015
Arya Dipa, Bandung – Questioning the government's outlook and policies during the first 100 days of the administration, activists in Bandung, West…
Jakarta Globe - January 23, 2015
Jakarta – President Joko Widodo and his Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle could lose public support in the next election for not standing…
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2015
Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A senior high school in Sabang, Aceh, expelled an 11th grade student last month after she got married, saying it…
Jakarta Globe - January 23, 2015
Retno Ayuningtyas, Rangga Prakoso & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Freeport Indonesia, a unit of the US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan, has…
Investor Daily - January 23, 2015
Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – Papua disapproves of mining giant Freeport Indonesia's plan to build a smelter facility outside Papua, calling the move…
Jakarta Post Editorial - January 23, 2015
Our elected representatives can pat themselves on the back after they endorsed a regulation that restores direct election as the method by which…
Jakarta Globe - January 23, 2015
Jakarta – The National Police arrested Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chief Bambang Widjojanto on Friday, citing an election-…
Jakarta Post - January 23, 2015
Hans Nicholas Jong and Ina Parlina, Jakarta, Bogor – In a move perceived by many as a cavalier counterattack against the Corruption Eradication…