Papua has become an example of what happens when a nation's ruling elites fail to give everybody a piece of the economic pie. It also showcases…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia's competitiveness is suffering because, despite improvements, its logistics performance still lags behind…

Kennial Caroline Laia – A 2-year-old girl chews on an areca nut, while a drunken man slumbers by the roadside that morning. A group of children…

Tomi Sujatmiko, Yogya – Demonstrators from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held a protest action at…

Jakarta – The University's of Indonesia's (UI) Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM-UI) has estimated that a legislative…

Jakarta – A legal challenge by lawyer and Crescent Star Party (PBB) head Yusril Ihza Mahendra that threatened to turn Indonesia's presidential…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential candidate, visited the central…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – In spite of calls for him to reconsider his presidential bid following the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (…

Jose Belo, Timor-Leste's celebrated champion of investigative journalism and advocate for a free media, recently vowed he was prepared to go to…

Jakarta – Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) executive director Kuskridho Ambardi says the nomination of Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as a…

Carlos Paath & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – With Governor Joko Widodo the frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election, politicians from…

Jakarta – A candidate vying for a seat in West Lampung Legislative Council (DPRD) has been sentenced to six months in prison for vote…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – A foreign expert on public services has said that water privatization is an obstacle to the government in implementing…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Indonesian Military (TNI) said on Wednesday it was investigating allegations that several soldiers had rented their…

Marian Wilkinson and Peter Cronau – Late last year the office of Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery was raided by agents from ASIO and the Federal…

Jakarta – Indonesia's social media community uttered a collective "LOL" on Tuesday after the country's vehement anti-pornography crusader…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – A mining watchdog group in East Kalimantan says that a number of companies are using conservation areas in…

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The government has reduced the allocation for infrastructure projects by about Rp 48 trillion (US$4.27 billion) in…

Andrew R. C. Marshall, Makassar, Indonesia – Makassar is a scrappy, traffic-choked port city in South Sulawesi where everybody knows your name. If…

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – One of the participants in an attack on a National Democrat Party (NasDem) campaign office in Munyee Kunyet village, North…

Jakarta – A joint police and Indonesian Military (TNI) patrol has killed a suspected separatist and arrested four others in Papua.…

The Free West Papua campaign is calling on ethnic Papuan people to boycott upcoming elections in the disputed Indonesian province.…

Jakarta – World Bank (WB) lead economist Jim Brumby predicts that the Indonesian economy will still face a number of challenges related to the…

Bogor – A prominent Islamic cleric sacked after a videotaped threesome with two school teachers surfaced online was charged on Tuesday with…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The daughter of former president Soeharto, Siti Hardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, on Monday filed a police report against…

Index: ASA 21/007/2014

Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian authorities to implement the recommendations of the UN Special…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will refrain from assessing the…

Jakarta – Prabowo Subianto has accused Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri of violating a 2009…

Pekanbaru – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi says 23 governors and 11 deputy governors have asked for a leave of absence in order to campaign for their…

Peter Cronau – The Australian Government has warned East Timor there will be tough consequences over its decision to launch international…

Abdul Qowi Bastian – "I want to apologize for not having done much in the past five years," legislator Rieke Diah Pitaloka told a crowd of young…

George Roberts in Jakarta and Mark Solomons – Asylum seekers who were forcibly returned to Indonesia by lifeboat have given the first detailed…

Jayapura – The Papua Police are on the hunt for the instigators of the communal clash in Timika that broke out on March 4, resulting in the deaths…

Zubaidah Nazeer, Jakarta – When lawyer Taufik Basari visited constituents in his Jakarta district to distribute leaflets telling them why he…

Port Vila (Radio New Zealand International/Vanuatu Post) – Two leaders of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation have been warned that…

Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – Indonesia's raucous election season kicks off on Sunday with the promise of a fresh style of leadership in the world'…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – It appears that presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto has all the reason to resent the Indonesian Democratic Party of…

Bandar Seri Begawan – Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has said the three-day official visit by Timor-Leste's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao to his…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Indonesia's political darling Joko Widodo touched base with almost every historical political symbol in Jakarta on…

The following statement has been released by independence leader Benny Wenda in response to the upcoming Indonesian elections

The…

Jakarta/Magelang/Surabaya – Indonesian political parties on Sunday kicked off the beginning of the 2014 campaign season with a mixture of mass…

Ina Parlina and Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – With the much-anticipated official nomination by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) of…

Jakarta – The country's main opposition party has tagged Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo as its presidential candidate for the July 9 election, in a…

Jakarta – Gerindra Party chairman Suhardi said his party still believed in its presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto despite the…

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang – A survey in three provinces found that young people's level of understanding of corruption and their willingness to…

It's official – after months of speculation and, undoubtedly, infighting – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has been named by the Indonesian…

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) on Saturday disqualified a group of Regional Legislative Council (DPD) candidates, and in some…

Anastasia Winanti Riesardy – The Golkar Party accounted for the highest number of campaign advertisements in the media from March 1-11, despite…

On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court declared that female legislative candidates would be "prioritized" and not merely considered for…

Winston Tarere – Former Papuan activists Franz Albert Joku and Nicholas Simion Messet are calling on all West Papuans in exile to return home.…