Margareth S. Aritonang and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Lawmakers have decided a voting mechanism to select the next speaker of the House of…

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko Widodo, who claims victory in Wednesday's election, says this year's race opens a new chapter for Indonesia…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Aiming to improve mental health services, the government and the House of Representatives approved the Mental…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The Indonesian presidential election result was under dispute just hours after polls closed as both candidates, Joko…

SP/Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has refused to concede defeat in Wednesday's presidential election, claiming…

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Joko Widodo declared himself the winner of Indonesia's presidential election, beating…

Jakarta – The vote count for the Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa (Prabowo-Hatta) presidential ticket at the army's Special Forces (Kopassus)…

Angga Yudha Pratomo – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto seemed furious on Wednesday July 9 after he invited media crews to his residence in…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday appealed for calm from both camps in the presidential election,…

Chris Blake, Berni Moestafa & Jason Scott – In the evenings near Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's cattle farm in the…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Office supplies companies should stop stocking PaperOne copy paper, whose fibres come in part from high conservation…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Two public opinion polls released on Monday suggested that presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo could win…

Michael Bachelard – A credible new poll has injected hope into Jakarta governor Joko Widodo's presidential campaign, showing that he's rebounded…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid encouraging signs that eligible voters are enthusiastic to cast their ballot on July 9, the country's religious…

Prabowo Subianto could end up as Indonesia's president by the end of the week. Crikey intern Paul Millar trawls through diplomatic cables released…

Bagus BT Saragih, Hans Nicholas Jong and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Chaotic Indonesian presidential voting in Hong Kong, which saw hundreds…

Sally Whyte – Tomorrow's Indonesian election will be especially tense in West Papua, where activist groups are calling for a boycott of the poll,…

Makassar – Police in Sulawesi issued a deadly warning on Monday to anyone with plans to disrupt the July 9th presidential election:…

Rebecca Lake, Jakarta – England could hardly be any further from the Indonesian province of West Papua but for the exiled leader of the Free West…

John Garnaut – Australia has removed the name of one of Indonesia's most controversial Suharto-era generals from a visa black list, in case he…

The security forces in West Papua have raised the security level in the territory to "Siaga Satu" (full alert) leading up to the presidential…

Katherine Gregory – Free West Papua protestors have demonstrated outside the Indonesian consulate in Darwin as the Northern Territory's Indonesian…

Jakarta – Scores of demonstrators calling themselves Indonesia without Militarism held another demonstration in front of the General Elections…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy, Jakarta – Hundreds of angry migrant workers in Hong Kong staged a protest against…

Novy Lumanauw, Jakarta – The State Place has denied rumors that Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto…

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The deputy chairman of Prabowo Subianto's Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) party, Fadli Zon, reported a popular online…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Thousands of eligible voters were unable to cast their votes in Hong Kong on Sunday after the local organizer closed down…

Jakarta – A new study has shown that between the years of 2000 and 2012, the country lost 38 percent of its primary forest, with adverse effects…

Jakarta – Joko Widodo's central plan for developing education in Indonesia lies in his conception of a "mental revolution."

Joko has argued…

Jakarta – Regardless of who gets elected on Wednesday, the winner has to realize that there is much that needs to be done to ensure that the rule…

Jayapura – Two months after the fall of the New Order regime in 1998, a massacre occurred over the Papua on the island of Biak, Papua. Many have…

We would agree that the April 9 legislative election was hardly free of violations, which ranged from vote-buying to the denial of the right to…

Jakarta – Exit polls at voting stations abroad are showing the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla presidential ticket is ahead in the overseas vote…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – With just three days left before the presidential election, the Regional Military Command (Kodam) XVII/Cendrawasih…

Jakarta – The extent to which human rights and democracy are upheld in Indonesia is a fine yardstick to measure how far the nation has progressed…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo on Saturday evening spoke like a man who was prepared to lead the nation…

Erwida Maulia & Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Joko Widodo showed more confidence, eloquently explaining his food, energy and environment platforms…

Indonesia's military has come a long way in the 16 years since the collapse of Suharto's New Order regime, undergoing reforms to become a more…

Jabbing his finger repeatedly in the air, presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto shouted to supporters in a packed Jakarta stadium that the corrupt…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Five points. That's the margin in Wednesday's presidential election that the military has determined could be…

Jakarta – Five days before the July 9 presidential election, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) published on Friday what it called Indonesia's…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Hundreds of Muslims from grassroots and marginalized communities joined breaking of the fast events held recently at two…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Indonesian Ahmadi Congregation (JAI) on Friday unsealed Nur Khilafat Mosque in Ciamis, West Java, which was had been…

Sharon Chen & Jason Scott – Sixteen years after the overthrow of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia is turning back toward that regime as his…

The National Committee for West Papua, the KNPB, is saying that another seven of its activists were captured by the Indonesian…

Ina Parlina and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto paid a visit to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his…

Jakarta – Indonesia's army special forces (Kopassus) and the state intelligence agency (BIN) are involved in a covert operation to influence the…

Sita W. Dewi and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta/Bekasi – Former pro-democracy activists who were kidnapped at the tail end of the New Order…

The Papua separatist group, the National Committee for West Papua, or the KNPB, has reported that six of its members were arrested,…

ID/Novy Lumanauw, SP/Hotman Siregar & Vita A.D. Busyra, Bandung/Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko Widodo has lambasted suggestions that he…