Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Thousands of workers descended on City Hall to protest a gubernatorial decree that raises the 2014 minimum wage by 11…

Edzan Raharjo, Yogyakarta – An action in solidarity with the national strike was held by scores of students from the Student Struggle…

Damien Kingsbury – With much of the recent discussion about countries spying on each other, the only startling thing is that anyone would bother…

Tom Benner, Dili, East Timor – The 2014 budget unveiled last week by tiny East Timor is a $1.5 billion spending plan funded almost exclusively –…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Some 15,000 women who embrace traditional faiths sought help from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle on…

Yogya – Scores of students from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held an action in solidarity with the October 31-…

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – Employers called Thursday's workers' strike "counter-productive". Instead of bringing workers closer to higher pay, the…

Fadli and Andi Hajramurni, Batam/Makassar – A widespread labor strike on Thursday paralyzed activities at some 1,000 foreign investment companies…

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta/Bekasi – Activities at industrial estates in Pulogadung and Cakung in Jakarta and surrounding areas were suspended as…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Remuneration Council gave Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo two provincial minimum wage options for 2014 despite…

A senior Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician said on Tuesday that the party was waiting for the right time to…

Rizky Amelia – Tri Dianto, a supporter of former Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum, alleged that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and…

SP/Fana FS Putra – Cases of sexual assault and harassment of students at the hands of their teachers continue to come to light, with school…

While they are keenly awaiting the decision on their membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), West Papua activists are travelling the…

An historic congress of Timor-Leste journalists held in Dili recently voted for their first code of ethics and a seven-member press council.

John Aglionby – Florindo Araujo is certain that Sander Thoenes was still alive when he last saw the Financial Times journalist. The motorcycle…

As the Jakarta wage council sat down today to set the regional minimum wage for 2014, a two-day strike began across the country and workers took…

Camelia Pasandaran – A brawl between striking workers and paramilitary youth organization Pemuda Pancasila left eight people injured…

Papua Governor Lukas Enembe has set the province's 2014 monthly minimum wage at Rp 1.9 million (US$169.10), up from the current…

Jakarta – Deputy Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro says that an increase in the provincial minimum wage will not affect inflation…

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – A decree by Jambi Governor Hasan Basri Agus, which sets the province's 2014 minimum wage at Rp 1,502,230 (US$133.7) has drawn…

Erul, Makassar – On Thursday October 31, several different organisations from the group Social Solidarity Action for the Indonesian…

Petrus K. Farneubun – While waiting for approval from government upon the decision of House of Representative to form new administrative areas and…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Foreign Ministry has officially summoned the top American diplomat in Jakarta, Charge d…

The government said Thursday it was summoning the Australian ambassador after a report that his embassy in Jakarta was being used for surveillance…

The Semarang District Court has handed down four-month prison terms on Thursday to two members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) over a violent…

The Indonesian prison system is a fertile recruiting ground for terrorist organizations to find new recruits, a former jihadist said…

Margie Mason, Bandung, Indonesia – Chimoy flicks a lighter and draws a long drag until her cheeks collapse on the skinny Dunhill Mild, exhaling a…

SP/Carlos Paath – A senior member of the Indonesian Democracy Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said on Thursday that the party held no…

Sandy Adam Mahaputra, Syahrul Ansyari – The president of the Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI), Said Iqbal, is demanding that three…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Theresia Sufa, Depok – Workers in Bogor and Depok held rallies at several locations, resulting in traffic…

Agita Sukma Listyanti, Surabaya – Protesting workers are threatening to occupy the East Java governor's office in the provincial capital of…

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of workers went on strike across Indonesia Thursday, in the latest industrial action to hit Southeast…

Jakarta – A clash between striking workers and members of the Pemuda Pancasila (PP) youth organization has broken out in front of the…

Fadli, Batam – Approximately 1,000 foreign investment companies across 26 industrial estates in Batam shut down almost all their operations on…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – A meeting of the Jakarta Wage Council scheduled for Wednesday to negotiate a minimum wage increase for 2014 was canceled…

Rangga Fadilah, Cikarang – Factories on the MM2100 industrial estate in West Cikarang, Bekasi, had their production severely disrupted…

Andi Hajramurni and Fadli, Makassar – Ahead of the two-day nationwide strike on Thursday, dozens of workers in Makassar, South Sulawesi visited…

Deborah Snow – Two recent accounts by former Australian defence force personnel who worked in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (now West…

Jakarta – The National Family Planning and Population Board (BKKBN) has said the maternal mortality rate in Papua Province remains…

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Yogyakarta Police on Tuesday denied that relatives of the victims of the 1965 anti-communist…

Jakarta – Inadequate sanitation services diminish Indonesia's economic growth potential, says the World Bank's latest report on the country's…

Jakarta – Despite the Indonesian government's strong commitment to improve the investment climate and simplify licensing procedures, the country…

Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry said on Tuesday that it still needed more money to manage the thousands of religious-based schools across…

Rizky Amelia – A controversial proposed revision to the Criminal Code that bans wiretapping will not weaken or slow down the antigraft body's…

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia will offer to step up naval patrols in the ocean between Java and Australia in an attempt to combat people smuggling…

John Vidal – Just 30 years ago, Samarinda was a sleepy village surrounded by deep equatorial forest and known mostly for its traditionally woven…

Semarang – Hundreds for workers from the Indonesian Metal Trade Workers Federation (FSPMI) in the Central Java provincial capital of Semarang have…

Jakarta – Former labour activist Dita Indah Sari says that a mature labour movement must strengthen its "negotiating muscles" or capacity to…

Fadli, Batam – The Riau branch of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Riau says the two-day provincewide strike resulted in a…