Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has aired suspicions that an "import mafia", or group of cartels, was responsible for making…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Sixteen years after being deposed in disgrace, the family of former president Suharto is making a political comeback…

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – Canberra should prepare to deal with a less accommodating northern neighbour, analysts have warned, as Indonesia awaits the…

Paul Keys – Apple Corporation contractor Foxconn, infamous for its deplorable working conditions in China, now appears to be undermining civil…

Kanupriya Kapoor and Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – When one of Indonesia's most powerful politicians wanted to be part of a new government, he did…

Jakarta – Rival vice-presidential candidates Jusuf Kalla and Hatta Rajasa covered science and technology, a topic rarely discussed on the campaign…

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia is destroying its tropical rainforests faster than Brazil, and the rate is soaring despite a five-year moratorium on…

Max Lane – According to most Indonesian polls, former provincial businessman, mayor of Solo and governor of Jakarta Joko Widodo has lost a…

Vita A.D. Busyra, Jakarta – When pop singer Ahmad Dhani ponced around as Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi war criminal and mass murderer, in a music…

Jakarta – The National Police replaced on Friday Yogyakarta Police chief Brig. Gen. Haka Astana Mantika Widya with Brig. Gen. Oerip Soebagyo, due…

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders say they want to take a more proactive approach alongside Indonesia to help address the development needs of…

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie said on Saturday that he was behind a letter sent to teachers asking them to support…

Ina Parlina and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta/Malang – As the country readies for the holy month of Ramadhan with the election just two weeks away,…

Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama executive council (PBNU) chair, Slamet Effendi Yusuf, said that the NU would remain neutral in the upcoming…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Yeni remembers the day in 2011 when police stormed her home and arrested her brother on trumped-up charges. "It…

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesians must brace for an even weaker rupiah if Prabowo Subianto wins the presidential race, global investment…

Eko Priliawito – A protest action by hundreds of PT Super Steel Indah workers in the West Cakung area of East Jakarta was forcibly broken up by…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Ten people were injured on Wednesday in a clash between hundreds of farmers and thousands of police officers south…

The closure of an Ahmadiyya place of worship by local authorities in West Java is a disturbing and arbitrary move, and just the latest example of…

The Free West Papua Campaign says Dutch New Guinea veterans are angry they have been stopped from carrying the West Papuan Morning…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police said that two firearms, some traditional weapons and a thousand rounds of ammunition seized in a Jayapura raid…

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders meeting in Port Moresby have indicated that the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation's bid to join the…

Benedict Rogers – A nation "at the crossroads" is a well-worn and overused phrase, but it is one that befits Indonesia today.

On 9 July, the…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is holding on to his strong lead in the race to become Indonesia's next president though it is…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Ciamis regency administration in West Java banned members of the Ahmadiyah community from undertaking religious…

Jakarta – Despite apologizing earlier this week for dressing up like a mass-murdering Nazi war criminal for a Prabowo Subianto campaign video,…

Eveline Danubrata and Heru Asprihanto, Jakarta – To attract Indonesia's army of young voters, one presidential candidate is hoping a "Two Finger…

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Delays in a number of gas field development projects may result in imports being the only answer to growing need, a…

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders meeting this week in the Papua New Guinea capital are expected to formulate a decision on a West…

Port Moresby, PNG – The Free West Papua Campaign PNG chapter is appealing to the members of Parliament for the West Papua's membership in the…

Erwida Maulia & Made Arya Kencana, Jakarta/Denpasar – The US ambassador to Indonesia has come under fire after calling for a probe into…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Amid mounting pressure on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to resolve the alleged human rights…

Jakarta – A 10-year old boy, Markus Yernirkolaus, suddenly appeared in the middle of a Kamisan (Thursday Action) and gave a speech about human…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The camp of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto was said to be outraged by one US news media report on…

Hotman Siregar & Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – Indonesia's electoral supervision body said on Wednesday that former army chief of staff General…

Benjamin Soloway, Jakarta – American investigative journalist Allan Nairn, who made a name for himself covering the Indonesian military's killing…

The campaign team behind Indonesian Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has asked supporters to pull-down a video which uses Nazi-…

Laurencius Simanjuntak – Experienced US journalist Allan Nairn has spoken up over accusations by the Prabowo Subianto camp that the Indonesian…

Andrea Wijaya, Jakarta – The controversy surrounding American award-winning journalist Allan Nairn and his 2001 off-the-record interview with…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite logistical problems and reported cases of vote manipulation, voters consider the General Elections…

General Prabowo's campaign said today that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) are ready to capture me, and claimed that I am part of a US…

Margie Mason, Jakarta – Tobacco companies on Tuesday largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs…

Siteri Sauvakacolo – The Indonesian embassy in Fiji says no one has the right to interfere in matters relating to West Papua.

Responding to…

Venidora Oliveira – NGO Belun's Early Attention and Response Program identified 17 members of the national police force PNTL and of…

Jakarta – International coverage of Indonesia's presidential election campaign took a worrying turn on Wednesday after the German weekly Der…

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – A teachers association reported presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to the Election Supervisory Body, or Bawaslu,…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In a move to convince presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto of his party's unified support for…

Yenni Kwok – As the candidate who it was made for, Prabowo Subianto, once said, "Do I have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator…

Jakarta – The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), a regional network of anti-tobacco advocates, says it fully supports the…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Two weeks before the July 9 presidential election, the two opposing camps of Prabowo…