Pekanbaru – Indonesian Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya said on Monday that as many as 23 companies were allegedly responsible for fires…

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A 25-year-old woman died after delivering her only child. We named the woman Kartini, a national hero for emancipation –…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A number of prominent politicians may lose their seats in the House of Representatives after early results based on…

Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said that when collating the country's first ever Happiness Index it had applied different…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – More than 1,000 people attended an anti-Shia declaration on Sunday at the Al Fajr mosque in the West Java capital of Bandung…

Jakarta – The congregation of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin urged recently inaugurated Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto to act on his…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Suspended United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali exacerbated resentment within his party on Sunday…

Bayu Marhaenjati & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – Jakarta/Balikpapan. Celebrations of Easter in Indonesia were marred by the discovery of a…

Jakarta – Jakarta called on governments on Monday to stop "shifting responsibility" for asylum seekers, in veiled criticism of Australia's…

Jakarta/Makassar – Saleem Ali, not his real name, was just 13 when his mother decided that paying strangers to smuggle him through several…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A Pesantren Waria (Islamic boarding school for transgenders) in Yogyakarta has once again opened its doors, and…

Contents

• Introduction
• Human rights agenda

1. Ensure accountability for violations by the security…

Jakarta – The United Development Party's (PPP) national leaders meeting (Rapimnas), which concluded early on Sunday, resulted in the decision to…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Proponents of religious schooling are clamoring for a larger slice of the public education budget, even as…

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – A planned declaration in Bandung to denounce the Shiite community turned into a fiery call for jihad, or holy war, against…

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Shia followers in Bandung, West Java, have filed a protest with local authorities over a planned declaration by…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali pledged his party's…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The April 9 legislative election has brought two surprising results.

First, the Indonesian Democratic Party…

Haeril Halim and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has yet to clearly state its stance over the upcoming declaration…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Attempts to legislate alcoholic beverages to reduce fatalities from alcohol-related poisoning in Malang, East Java,…

SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Forming a coalition of Islam-based parties may be difficult, following a meeting late on…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – A coalition claiming to represent Islamic mass organizations has called on Islamic-based political parties to form an…

Australia will be asked to "share the burden" of asylum seekers with Indonesia, where detention centres are overcrowded with people stymied by the…

Jakarta – For the first time in history, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) issued late on Wednesday a survey that measured the level of…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) called on the government to raise the legal minimum age for…

SP/Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – Indonesia's oldest Islamic party was in turmoil after United Development Party (PPP) chairman and serving Religious…

Jakarta – Climate change experts have said that stronger law enforcement was needed to prevent future disastrous wildfires in susceptible areas…

Bagus BT Saragih, Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) and the United Development Party (PPP), which…

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – With a next round of political campaigning due for the presidential election, experts have called for stricter…

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Upholding the rule of law remains a serious challenge in Indonesia. The Rule of Law Index Report 2014 released by the…

Paul Farrell, Perth – The chief of the Australian navy has sacked a senior commanding officer involved in one of the incursions into Indonesian…

Paulina Quintao – University students have urged the HAK Association to organize a national seminar in Timor-Leste to encourage leaders, including…

Syamsul Huda M.Suhari, Gorontalo – Gorontalo Governor Rusli Habibie has issued a new policy requiring Muslim civil servants to hold mass prayers…

Mr Gusmao met China's top leaders in the first visit by an East Timorese Prime Minister in 11 years.

In a joint statement, the two nations…

Theresia Sufa and Sita W. Dewi, Bogor/Jakarta – The Bogor authorities' plan to apply a zero-immigrant policy in the mountainous resort region of…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A hard-line Sunni Islamic group says it will host an anti-Shiite declaration in Bandung on Sunday, to be attended by…

Jakarta – The Parks and Cemeteries Agency intends to force lovebirds caught in compromising positions in public parks to get married.…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – An armed group in Papua fired on a border post between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, injuring one…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh administration's approval of the Qanun Hukum Acara Jinayat (criminal code procedure) bylaw authorizes…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Governor Joko Widodo has been criticized for losing focus on running Southeast Asia's largest city because the of the…

Jayapura – Operations by the Indonesian military to capture rebels near the border with Papua New Guinea last week scared residents in Vanimo,…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – An association of human rights abuse victims' families said it hoped voters would take presidential hopefuls' background of…

SP/Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's much-hyped presidential candidate convention, underway since September, has ended, following the…

SP/Yoseph Kelen, Kupang – Failure to secure seats in the recent election has begun to impact some legislative candidates who spent exorbitant…

Jakarta – A top graft buster has urged the country's highest court to end the House of Representatives' monopoly on selecting leaders for the…

Jakarta – Islamic-based political parties have remained key players in politics but never as prime movers, as indicated by their ability to garner…

Jakarta – The Eyes on the Forest (EoF) environmental group published their latest investigative report on Tuesday into deforestation in Sumatra,…

Paulina Quintao – The Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality (SEPI), Idelta Maria Rodrigues said SEPI will this year hold a campaign…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The 15 percent of the popular vote garnered by the Golkar Party in the April 9 legislative election quick count…

Paulina Quintao – Catholic priests and nuns are refusing to baptise children born of incest, according to Timor-Leste Women's Communication Forum…