In the space of five days, the Red-and-White Coalition has savored two consolation wins that clearly serve as a warning: that despite its failure…

Jakarta – Dozens of individuals from the volunteer group Bara JP held a rally outside the Presidential Palace on Tuesday, protesting…

Adelia Anjani Putri, Erwida Maulia & Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – If Indonesians thought the abolishment last week of their right to elect…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Fears are growing in Indonesia that the coalition of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto intends to mess…

Just as most Indonesians believe they had entered a new, better era after electing Joko Widodo as their president, they will wake up one of these…

Tri Susanto Setiawan, Febriana Firdaus, Prihandoko, Jakarta – After abolishing the direct election of regional heads by the people, Prabowo…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia's hard-won democracy, which emerged from the bloody reform movement of 1998 that…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Despite President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's public statement of regret that the House of…

Jakarta – In their anger at the decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to allow his Democratic Party lawmakers to walk out of a crucial…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Anger turned into activism as hundreds of concerned citizens took to the streets on Sunday to stage peaceful protests…

Erwida Maulia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Election watchdogs and a lawyer association are among a string of different organizations…

Solo – A document detailing the division of parliamentary leadership positions allegedly agreed to by members of Prabowo Subianto's Red and White…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Gay sex and sex outside marriage in the Indonesian province of Aceh will be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane…

Ina Parlina and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Amid public pressure, the Democratic Party is launching a probe into the decision made by its…

Muhammad Kiblat, Makassar – The leadership crisis plaguing the United Development Party (PPP) broke down further at the weekend after two factions…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Political parties appeared to have secured a lock on regional administrations following the passage of the regional…

Yuliasri Perdani, Bambang Muryanto and Ainur Rohmah, Jakarta/Yogyakarta/Semarang – The House of Representatives' decision to scrap direct…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – France bans it; Australia has occasional attacks of hysteria about it but in Muslim-majority Indonesia, the wearing…

Indonesia's conservative Aceh province passed a law on Saturday making gay sex punishable by 100 lashes of the cane, in a decision described by…

Yuliasri Perdani and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Critics have suggested that the irresolute stance of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic…

Instead of progressing, Indonesian democracy is regressing after the House of Representatives voted early Friday to seize the right to elect…

The ugly process by which the House of Representatives reached a decision in the early hours of Friday to pass a bill that takes away from the…

Rizky Amelia, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday officially named Riau governor Annas Maamun a suspect for allegedly…

Edo Rusyanto, Jakarta – The Blacksteel Group, a property developer, is developing three malls in Sorong regent, West Papua, at a total investment…

Muhammad Muhyiddin, Jakarta – The walkout by 129 members of the Democratic Party faction just prior to the House of Representatives (DPR) vote on…

Jakarta – Lawmakers passed the child protection bill into law after months of deliberation, delivering substantial changes to the previous law on…

Dany Permana, Jakarta – Greater Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) board of patrons chairperson Prabowo Subianto says he is grateful that the…

Nala Edwin, Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto's Red and White Coalition has succeeded in returning the election of regional heads into the hands of…

Sabrina Asril, Jakarta – Democrat Party (DP) politician and lawmaker Ruhut Sitompul claims that they decided to walkout before a vote on a draft…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – It was billed as a scrap that would go down to the wire, a vote to determine Indonesia's democratic credentials. In the…

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Fears have been raised for Indonesia's democracy after its parliament voted to abolish direct election of local leaders, a…

New York – Veteran East Timorese leader Xanana Gusmao said Thursday he's pushing back plans to stand down as the fledgling nation's prime minister…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Amid the public anger and harsh criticism, the Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, defended the House…

The Jakarta Foreign Correspondents Club is calling on the incoming administration of Joko Widodo to immediately lift all restrictions…

Jakarta – Around 100,000 workers will hold demonstrations in several cities across Indonesia on Oct. 2 to demand a 30 percent increase in the…

Vanuatu's West Papua Unification Committee has confirmed its conference in Port Vila will now be held from the 4th of December…

Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – Indonesians took to social media on Friday to channel their anger and disappointment at the House of…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – An internal council within the United Development Party (PPP) has decided to maintain the leadership of party…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The decision of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party to walk away from…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement that he would refuse to sign the law that scraps direct regional…

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch/The Fiji Times) – The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions (NZCTU) has called on Prime Minister John Key to pressure…

Ari Rikin, Bogor – Despite the huge benefit of biological resources for human civilization, awareness and knowledge by the Indonesian…

Persiana Galih, Jakarta – A protest action at the entrance to the House of Representatives (DPR) building in Central Jakarta opposing the Draft…

Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – A seemingly simple mathematical problem has multiplied in proportion over the past few days, becoming a topic of…

Jakarta – Protesters from the People's Movement for Direct Elections (Gerpala) held a long-march from the TVRI building in Central…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) launched threats against minority groups during a rally on Wednesday opposing…

The West Papua conference that was expected to open in Vanuatu next week has been postponed.

The West Papua Reunification…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh provincial administration's plan to impose Shariah on non-Muslims has met a chorus of disapproval from the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Administrative Reforms Ministry announced Wednesday that state bodies had performed slightly better in this year's…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With only two weeks remaining in the five-year term of Democratic Party lawmaker Himmatul Alyah Setiawaty, she admits…