Jakarta – Indonesia needs more mainstay products in order to compete in the Asean Economic Community (AEC), Executive Chairman of the Indonesian…

Jakarta – The Draft Law on Regional Elections (RUU Pilkada), which abolishes the direct election of regional heads and was successfully enacted…

Michael Taylor and Dennys Kapa, Jakarta – Workers at Freeport-McMoRan Inc's giant Indonesian copper mine are seeking face-to-face talks with local…

Herdaru Purnomo & Neil Chatterjee – Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo's plan to install a team of experts and professionals at the top of…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Political analysts have attributed the winning streak of the opposition Red-White Coalition in the legislature to the re-…

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The senior leader of the Islamic Defenders Front who allegedly organized last Friday's riot outside the City Council…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The opposition to President-elect Joko Widodo on Wednesday managed to score a narrow…

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – President-elect Joko Widodo confirmed on Thursday the inclusion of the United Development Party (PPP) in his…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – President-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Great Indonesia Coalition has proven that it is an equal match to…

Wellington (Radio New Zealand International/Pacific Media Watch) – A former prime minister, several high profile members of Parliament and…

Kartika Virgianti, Jakarta – One hundred and thirty-two civil society and non-government organisations (NGOs) have expressed their concern over…

Venidora Oliveira – Sexual abuse against minors is a major problem in Timor-Leste, according to research by the Judicial System…

Paulina Quintao – The Secretariat of State for Vocational Training and Employment (SEPFOPE) has validated more than 22,000 former Indonesian…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Five hundred farmers from four subdistricts in Kulon Progo regency, Yogyakarta, staged a rally at the Kepatihan…

Jakarta – Supreme Court Chief Justice Hatta Ali swore in Zulkifli Hasan of the National Mandate Party (PAN) as the speaker of the People's…

Mohammad Zulfan Tadjoeddin, Sydney – The true level of economic inequality is much higher that its official measurement and something must be done…

Randy Fabi, Jakarta – Indonesian opposition lawmakers plan to investigate alleged wrongdoing when President-elect Joko Widodo was governor of the…

Jakarta – Eleven of 14 pro-democracy organizations have rejected invitations to attend and speak at an upcoming global democracy forum in Bali.…

Ina Parlina and Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta/Denpasar – Eleven of 14 civil society groups invited to join the Bali Civil Society Forum (BCSF), a side…

Paulina Quintao – Petroleum and minerals extraction may be seen as an industry dominated by men but Timorese women have shown they too have the…

The press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders and journalists' unions are calling for the release of Thomas Dandois and Valentine Bourrat,…

Ni Komang Erviani and Bagus Saragih, Denpasar – To ensure the success of the seventh Bali Democracy Forum, police announced on Monday that they…

Indonesians have seen enough violence inflicted by the Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, and witnessed their seeming legal impunity.

For…

Yuliasri Perdani and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Surabaya – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has criticized…

Jakarta – Centre for Strategic and International Studies political expert J Kristiadi said that the United Development Party (PPP) should…

Hamish Fitzsimmons – Lateline has been told postgraduate students are providing information to Indonesian intelligence about Australian citizens…

The National Awakening Party's (PKB) central executive board chairman, Abdul Kadir Karding, confirmed on Tuesday that the United Development Party…

Bayu Marhaenjati, Robertus Wardhi & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – Acting Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama says he wants to dissolve the hard…

Ika Krismantari, Melbourne – Sporadic demonstrations have broken out against the success of the Red-and-White Coalition in passing of the law that…

The House of Representatives, or DPR, and People's Consultative Assembly, or MPR, are two state institutions through which the people's will is…

Jakarta – The Red-and-White coalition of Prabowo Subianto is set to gain control of the leadership of the People's Consultative Assembly, or MPR,…

Bhatara Ibnu Reza, Sydney – Amid recent debates on the controversial Regional Elections Law, the House of Representatives passed the Military…

SP/Robert Isidorus, Jayapura, Papua – Nine out of 45 members of the new West Papua legislative council are corruption convicts but nonetheless…

Ross Tapsell – The Australian Senate passed a motion last week, with explicit support from the Foreign Minister's office, expressing concern over…

Marsen S. Naga, Banda Aceh – The passing of Qanun Jinayat, an Islamic criminal code bylaw, by the Aceh legislative council has revived discussion…

There are concerns that the new government will face a period of political instability as soon as president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and vice…

Amid all the fracas of late, it is hard to believe that things could get any worse in Indonesian politics. Lawmakers have shown their clear…

Jakarta – Gerindra Party official Fajar Siddiq regretted the recent Islam Defenders Front (FPI) rally that turned violent, saying that the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – After successfully securing the leadership of the House of Representatives with the political factions of the Red-and-White…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Red-and-White Coalition of the defeated presidential candidate, Prabowo Subianto, is planning to cap foreign…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The appointment of the Golkar Party's Setya Novanto as speaker of the House of Representatives elicited…

Jayapura – After a long standoff, workers at US mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia have agreed to open access to the Grasberg mine in…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The recent power struggle among political elites may have spilled out onto the street on Friday, as a hardline group with…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government regulations in lieu of law (Perppu), which bring back direct elections of…

Jakarta – Ahead of the Indonesian Military's (TNI) 69th anniversary, which falls on Sunday, activists have assessed that President Susilo Bambang…

Michael Bachelard – Twenty adolescent boys and girls cram in one room of a house in West Java, singing and gesturing in delightfully accented…

Jakarta – As investors sell Indonesian stocks and dump the rupiah in response to concerns that the extraordinary power grab in the legislature by…

Jakarta – Opponents of President-elect Joko Widodo have successfully gained control of the House of Representatives' leadership and have begun…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The coalition camp of president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo may be bruised after a string of…

Jakarta – Despite having issued two government regulations in lieu of law (Perppu) to bring back direct elections for regional heads, President…