Held since early August, Valentine Bourrat and Thomas Dandois are to go on trial next week

After holding French journalists Valentine…

Jayapura – Police have set up a team to investigate gunfire exchanged between members of the 756th infantry battalion and officers of…

Katharina R. Lestari and Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – The arrests on Monday of 49 Papuan protesters represent a deterioration of freedom of expression,…

66 West Papuan activists were arrested by Indonesian Police in Jayapura and Merauke, Papua on Monday, as rallies calling for respect of press…

Sherr Rinn – Around two hundred workers from the Solidarity Alliance for Labour Struggle (GSPB) held an action opposing the recently enacted law…

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – East Lombok Regency in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) has issued a regulation (Perbup) requiring male civil servants to pay Rp…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Less than a week before his inauguration, president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo held a meeting on Tuesday with Golkar Party…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The decision by president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to remain secretive about the…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) cleared president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo of three graft allegations on…

Paulina Quintao – The decision by the government to use Indonesia bottled water at recent international events such as the Community of Portuguese…

Paulina Quintao – Women's advocacy group Alola Foundation has withdrawn funding from five scholarship recipients because they fell pregnant. Alola…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights, known as Komnas HAM, on Wednesday called for the government to abolish the death…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has sided with Islamic hard-liners in requesting the Constitutional Court throw out a challenge to the 1974…

Yeremia Sukoyo & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta/Jayapura – The Indonesian Military and National Police continue to blame each other for last month's…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A survey conducted by a human rights watchdog, the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid increasing calls to disband the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) for its record of violence, the hard-line Islamic group…

Muhammad Muhyiddin, Jakarta – University of Indonesia political communications expert Ade Armando says that Prabowo Subianto's Islamic supporters…

Paulina Quintao – The National Commission to Combat HIV/AIDS – Timor-Leste (CNCS-TL) is working in partnership with the government to establish a…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – For the second time this year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono awarded the Bintang Mahaputera Adipradana medal, the…

Jakarta – Entering the last days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's term in office, rights group the Setara Institute has highlighted his…

Paulina Quintao – Timor-Leste's 2014 non-petroleum sector derived economic growth is projected to hit 8 per cent, according to government…

SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – The city's acting governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has told his security staff that they are to shoot any…

Erwin Sihombing & Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court on Monday began hearing the judicial review on the recently passed…

Paulina Quintao – The Secretariat of State for the Environment (SEMA) has conducted a workshop with stakeholders to review Timor-Leste…

Paulina Quintao – Timor-Leste will create a new institution to regulate media.

Secretary of State for Social CommunicationNelio Isaac…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Poor compliance by companies and local administrations is the major cause of the rampant forest fires in Riau, a…

Jakarta – A coalition of NGOs said on Sunday that outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had failed to formulate pro-people foreign policies…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – A military officer was wounded in a shooting between police officers and soldiers in restive Papua province on…

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian unit can resume open-pit mining at its Grasberg complex, one of the world's biggest copper mines,…

There are reports in the West Papuan media that 29 members of the separatist West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, have been…

Agus Sigit, Yogya – The Papua Student Alliance (AMP) held an action at the zero kilometre point in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on the…

Masrul Fajrin – The Papua Student Alliance (AMP) in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya held a protest action in front of the Surabaya…

Philip Dorling – Five years after opening an investigation into the Indonesian military's killing of five Australian journalists at Balibo in East…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President-elect Joko Widodo has denied reports confirming his coalition has officially accepted the United…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Civil society organizations (CSOs) and activists, who are seeking to challenge the Regional Elections (Pilkada) Law at the…

Jakarta – As thick haze continues to cover large parts of Sumatra, police in Riau say that those responsible for the problem are getting away with…

Kornelius Purba, Opinion – Amid rising concern over the reported plan to block the inauguration of Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Jusuf Kalla as the…

Endy M. Bayuni – When the circus leaves, the whole town would normally be saddened by it. This time around however, we should feel relieved, for…

Michael Bachelard – Every so often, a convicted Australian paedophile – we'll call him "Malcolm" – transfers small amounts of cash via Western…

AWPA has written to Foreign Minister Julie Bishop concerning the banning of rallies in West Papua called for the 13 October (Letter below).

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Satria Sambijantoro, Bali – Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz has warned Indonesia to manage its natural resources carefully, warning…

Jakarta – Deputy Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin denied that Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao made a statement saying that his…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono bestowed the country's highest award, the Adipurna Star, on Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy"…

Yuliasri Perdani, National – National Police chief Gen. Sutarman said on Friday that he supported the disbandment of the hard-line Islam Defenders…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With ambitious growth targets being set for several years into the future, Indonesia must implement a comprehensive…

Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – President-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo responded calmly to the vengeful agenda of Hashim Sujono…

Jakarta – Two mass organizations affiliated with the Golkar Party once again called on Thursday for the party to oust its chairman, Aburizal…

Jakarta – The newly inaugurated speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly, Zulkifli Hassan, has stated that impeaching the president would be…

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to adequately address the population decline of Indonesia's wild animals and…

Jakarta – Despite criticism that their rally was just a way of looking for trouble, the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) insisted on…