Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Legislative Council is deliberating a special bylaw that will force non-Muslims in the province to follow…

Jakarta – Chairman of the Golkar Party Advisory Council, Akbar Tanjung, denied that the party had considered nominating the daughter…

Ainur Rohmah and Suherdjoko, Semarang – Floods and landslides in most parts of Central Java have caused dozens of casualties, damaged hundreds of…

Helen Davidson – Reports are coming out of Indonesia of a boat arriving at a West Java beach carrying asylum seekers who say they were…

Michael Bachelard – For a man whose words have whipped up a political and media storm in Australia, Yousif Ibrahim Fasher has been remarkably…

Mataram – At least 120 farmers from three villages in Central Lombok regency staged a rally in front of the West Nusa Tenggara…

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-003-2014

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information…

Jakarta – The Air Force is preparing the acquisition of additional jet fighters to establish a new squadron in eastern Indonesia,…

Elaine Pearson – Exactly three years ago, on 6 February 2011, some 1,500 Islamist militants stormed the Ahmadiyah community in Cikeusik village in…

Harriet Conron & Nicole Jade Millane, Jakarta – Businesses are the most trusted institutions in Indonesia ahead of the media, nongovernmental…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A popular Indonesian blogger and minor Twitter celebrity has been sentenced to one…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Ousted Democratic Party (PD) chairman Anas Urbaningrum ramped up his attacks against current party chief President Susilo…

Alina Musta'idah, Jakarta – A legislator has demanded the overhaul of a city-run hospital in Bandarlampung, Lampung province, in the wake of the…

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A witness in the graft trial of former Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) chairman Rudi…

Wilda Asmarini & Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia's mines minister, Jero Wacik, has been on an unusual mission in recent months: finding…

Tom Davies – Imagine a protest. A protest against the actions of a tyrannical, oppressive military administration totally intolerant of dissent.…

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association responds to Peter McCawley's item on Peter Cosgrove's views on Indonesia, a piece which also…

Hayat Indriyatno, Jakarta – A road expert has joined in the chorus of criticism against the Jakarta and central governments for the poor state of…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police have warned that Aceh and Papua could be hot spots for communal conflict during the upcoming…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The prospect of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) winning the 2014…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Police have arrested ten suspects from the Papua shooting incident that claimed an army personnel from 753…

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – Antigraft investigators appeared to have a bumper 2013, arresting the country's top judge, a serving governor…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Officials at Sentani Airport in Jayapura, Papua, arrested a man, identified as KDM, 30, because he was…

Up to 30 activists were arrested during the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) visit to the West Papua provincial capital of Jayapura on 13 January…

Marni Cordell – Villagers in a remote West Papuan town have described being beaten and having guns pointed at their heads during a "terrifying"…

Jakarta – The co-director of the film, "The Act of Killing" denied that it was a foreign effort to tarnish Indonesia's reputation in international…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Cash-strapped carrier Merpati Nusantara Airlines has suspended all flights in early February as falling revenue…

Philip Dorling – Australia's chief intelligence watchdog has been drawn into a legal battle over government claims that Australia's…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Awakening Party, or PKB, insists it is seriously mulling backing former vice president Jusuf Kalla for the…

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Democratic Party officials have played down poll results that indicate none of the 11 men vying for the party's…

The United Development Party (PPP) is unlikely to break from tradition and will nominate its party chairman as its presidential…

Karo, North Sumatra – Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed on Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds…

David Robie – A year after Indonesian troops killed more than 270 peaceful demonstrators at the cemetery of Santa Cruz in the Timor-Leste capital…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The Indonesian security forces killed one member of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) during a firefight in…

Miko Napitupulu – Muslim scholar Dawam Rahardjo was awarded Indonesia's annual Yap Thiam Hien prize for human rights in Jakarta on Thursday.

Ina Parlina and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The leadership of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) on Friday kick-off a two-day meeting to decide…

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A group of civil society organizations, called the Frequency Belongs to the Public (FMP), plans to take the Indonesian…

Jakarta – Alexander Aan, who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in 2012 for publicly declaring himself an atheist on Facebook, was…

Robert Matau – The Melanesian Spearhead Group heads into further talks this month to seek more answers from the MSG mission that failed to meet…

Jakarta – Indonesia's netizens have rebuked Communications and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring for asking them what they would…

Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan announced on Friday that he was resigning from the Indonesian cabinet, saying he wanted to focus on his presidential…

Jakarta – A major faction of the National Awakening Party (PKB) on Thursday declared former Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla as a third…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Honda opened its second car manufacturing factory in Indonesia this month, and Datsun is set to follow suit in…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A survey has revealed that the country will see a higher voter turnout for this year's presidential election if…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – While thousands of people throughout the country have had to flee their homes to escape flooding, the Suku Anak Dalam (SAD)…

Thea Cowie – The Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Canberra has ordered declassification of a number of documents which the federal government…

Jakarta – Indonesian extremists have turned their attentions to the Syrian war, a bloody two-year battle soaked in sectarian division and…

Indah Setiawati and Multa Fidrus, Jakarta – The floods returned on Wednesday after incessant rain hit the capital overnight, forcing hundreds of…

Paulina Quintao – The Disability Working Group (DWG) Timor-Leste President, Joaquin Soares, demands the Government of Timor-Leste ratify the…

Jakarta – Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring has no idea about the benefits of having fast internet…