Jakarta – The Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI) has called on the next government to step up efforts to safeguard religious freedom through…

Jakarta – The Nurjaman Center for Indonesian Democracy (NCID) has said that according to surveys done by Survey Focus Indonesia (FSI), Survey and…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The government bears responsibility for the rise of religious intolerance across the archipelago over the past few…

Gabrielle Dunlevy – Indonesia's government has added its weight to a new push to make Canberra and the Thai company behind the Montara oil…

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Do you like comedy? I love it. Not so much The Three Stooges slapstick type, but more farcical drama such as…

Jakarta – Hundreds of women and children fled their homes when two officers from the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) fired shots on Tuesday in…

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto said on Tuesday that the antigraft body had the…

A Joint Oral Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC), Franciscans International (FI), International Coalition for Papua (ICP),…

Harry Pearl & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia has axed a multimillion dollar police training program in West Papua because police…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A joint group of soldiers and police officers shot Rudi Orerei, the alleged leader of an armed group in…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Tuesday it would kick off a preliminary investigation into alleged…

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reportedly revealed that former president Soeharto ordered him to kidnap pro-democracy activists…

SP/Hotman Siregar & Abdul Qowi Bastian, Jakarta – Indonesia should not be burdened by its dark history, it should be able to close the gloomy…

Kuala Lumpur – Global Komited Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Weststar Group of Companies, has signed a RM2.2 million contract for the supply…

Kristio Wahyono, Yogyakarta – When it was a non-self governing territory under the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (…

Duncan Graham – Kiwis have a marvellously grotesque way of describing the acceptance of unpalatable policy changes: Swallowing dead rats.

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Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – In the run-up to last night's presidential candidate debate, the conventional wisdom among constituents was…

Sri Wahyuni and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Muslim leaders and activists in Yogyakarta have expressed regret over the preaching of cleric Ja'…

Rights activists have slammed the national election organizing body for not including human rights as one of the topics to be tabled in a series…

A graphic novel advocating West Papuan independence has been released online, as part of efforts to provide an alternative version of…

Jakarta – Satellites on Sunday detected 227 hotspots across Sumatra – the highest number in three months, after a relative lull –…

Sita W. Dewi and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla ticket swept all five segments of the live TV debate against the…

Jakarta – The education system needs a drastic shake-up following the transition of government, according to experts in the field.

The…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The calm and collected start by former Army general Prabowo Subianto turned into a high-pitched, hoarse speech toward the…

Satria Sambijantoro and Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The outgoing administration will not ink an extension deal with PT Freeport Indonesia…

Admin MS, Jayapura – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) spokesperson Basoka Logo is calling on all Papuan people to boycott the 2014…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) said Sunday that it had taken disciplinary action against two officers allegedly involved in…

Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has clearly given the military strong hope that it might regain the political…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has pledged to make past human rights abuse cases his priority if he is…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) said on Sunday it had sent reports to the Elections…

Jakarta – A leaked document circulating on the Internet detailing the reasons behind the dismissal of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto from…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – For more than half a decade now the issue has been debated and dissected ad nauseam, only to be swept under the…

Jakarta – A spokesman for the campaign team of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has denied welcoming the endorsement of a hard-line Islamic…

Bambang Muryanto and Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Preacher Ja'far Umar Thalib whose followers have been linked to alleged religion-based conflict,…

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The investigation held by the army into allegations that a soldier encouraged residents of a Central Jakarta neigborhood…

Bambang Dwi Marwoto, Karanganyar, Central Java – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto on Sunday visited former president Soehartos…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The campaign team of presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has demanded that the Indonesian Military (TNI) suspend…

Mataram – Dozens of farmers from Central Lombok, staged a protest on Friday at the Public Works Agency office in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB…

The new media law in Timor-Leste should be vetoed by the country's President, agrees the Pacific Freedom Forum.

PFF is backing the veto call…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) is preparing a summons letter for Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen.…

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Hashim Djojohadikusumo, the younger brother and economic adviser to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, says that…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – An official from the coalition backing the presidential ticket of Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa has denied…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday criticized the lack of integrated anticorruption values in the…

Jakarta – In spite of the news that the legislative election attracted more people to exercise their right to vote this year, observers are…

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is due to visit the tomb of former president Soeharto at Astana Giribangun in Karanganyar…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Indonesia's upcoming presidential election is becoming a new battleground for retired military generals amassing their…

Miftahul Khoer, Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) has disclosed that there are at least 35 retired generals supporting the Joko…

Jakarta – A neighborhood in Central Jakarta where 90 percent of the population are of Chinese descent and Christians was visited by a sergeant…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The second day of the General Elections Commission (KPU)-sanctioned campaign period saw…

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has said that village supervisory non-commissioned officers (Babinsa) must remain neutral…