Many domestic workers within Asia and those who have migrated from Asia to the Middle East experience a wide range of abuse, including…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Panca Nugraha, Jayapura/Mataram – The governor of Papua, Lukas Enembe, has strongly rejected the plan to split the province…

Step Vaessen – Everything seems easier in my role as a journalist; I handle the death, pain, danger and even murder I encounter scarily well.…

Ezra Sihite – The Home Affairs Minister attempted on Tuesday to clarify statements on the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) for which he was widely…

Rangga D. Fadillah and Fadli, Jakarta/Batam – Tens of thousands of workers stayed away from their workplaces in a number of cities in a warm-up…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) Chairman, Sofyan Wanandi, said a labor wage increase would not solve labors' problems,…

Camelia Pasandaran – Hundreds of residents of Siwalan village in Sidoarjo, East Java, assaulted a Koran study group on Saturday afternoon,…

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad said on Monday that the National Police's plan to set up a…

Thomas Ora, Dili – Like many of his Timor Leste colleagues, Fernando da Costa, an elementary school teacher in the mountainous district of Aileu,…

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has stressed the importance of providing sex education to young children, following the emergence of a sex video…

Ezequiel Freitas – The Asia Foundation is concerned about the government's decentralization program to be implemented in the districts because the…

Bambang Muryanto and Bagus BT Saragih, Yogyakarta – A rowdy rally on Monday denouncing communism along with death threats – aimed at the heirs of…

Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi, Jakarta – On the congested streets of Indonesia's capital, chained monkeys are a surreal sideshow. Some ride tiny…

Jakarta – With religious minority groups still suffering persecution and systemic corruption plaguing the Religious Affairs Ministry, questions…

Bekasi, West Java – The Indonesian Labor Union Confederation (KSPI) is predicting that three million workers will join a nationwide strike on…

Dessy Sagita – Following the House of Representatives' approval to form 65 new administrative areas, questions have emerged over whether the…

The Jakarta Wage Council has set the 2014 reasonable living cost index (KHL) at Rp 2.2 million ($199), much lower than the Rp 2.7 million that…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A report from the Supreme Audit Agency from July 6 shows that a presidential adviser and several Papuan legislators…

Jakarta – Thousands of workers rallied in front of the manpower office in Batam, Riau Island, causing traffic congestion along Jl.…

Yogyakarta – Dozens of members of the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) disrupted a meeting involving the families of victims of…

Yogyakarta – Freedom of association in the era of reformasi (the reform process beginning in 1998) is, as it turns out, still little more than…

Camelia Pasandaran – The National Commission on Violence Against Women said on Monday that the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) should stop using…

Alison Bevege – The Education Department has come under fire for allowing the Indonesian military to enter schools on a public relations exercise…

Jakarta - Army Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad, Green Berets) commander Lieutenant General Gatot Nurmantyo has expressed doubts about the…

Rizky Amelia & Camelia Pasandaran – The allegations levied against disgraced Constitutional Court chief justice Akil Mochtar continued to…

Venidora Oliveira – A Member of National Parliament strongly criticized the company Estrada Bo'ot Diak for constructing poor quality roads that…

Novianti Setuningsih – An antigraft watchdog has urged Indonesian law enforcement institutions to strengthen their fight against crimes in the…

Three people were injured after a group of people who called themselves the Indonesian Anti-Communist Front attacked the families of victims of…

Venidora Oliveira – The Rural Women's Group in Baucau district have complained about the Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality's…

WE MUST: (minimal) 50% wage increase
Abolish Outsourcing
Social Insurance for all the people
and STOP PRODUCTION (STRIKE) on a National…

Jakarta – Chief patron of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party, Lt. Gen. (ret) Prabowo Subianto, made a pledge on Saturday that if he was…

Veeramalla Anjaiah, Jakarta – More and more women have enjoyed access to education and health care across the globe in 2013, with a new global…

Pito Agustin Rudiana, Sleman – A social gathering by victims of the 1965 tragedy at the Santi Dharma Retreat in Godean sub-district, Sleman…

Wahyu Aji, Jakarta – It seems that not everybody has a negative assessment of Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi's appeal to regional governments…

Rizky Amelia – Antigraft investigators arrested a former Religious Affairs Ministry official on Friday in connection with the corrupt procurement…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government has called on workers to remain peaceful during an upcoming five-day national strike, which is expected to…

National – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) have attacked Golkar Party politician Nurul Arifin for making a statement saying that the hardline…

Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama says the city administration is amenable to working with all community groups, including hard-line…

Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Gorontalo – After naming four rape suspects, the Gorontalo Police have yet to resume examining nine other perpetrators,…

Budi Hernawan, Jayapura – Late in September, Vanuatu broke the silence over human rights abuses in Papua. In light of the humanitarian crisis in…

Ari Susanto, Solo – Opposition to the appointment of Fauzi Bowo, the former Jakarta governor, as Indonesia's ambassador to Germany continues to…

Jakarta – Industry Ministry MS Hidayat expressed his concerns on Friday over the possibility that local manufacturers would lose out in trading…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Apriadi Gunawan, Jayapura/Medan – Despite the results of various academic and government studies that have shown that the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Newly installed National Police Chief Gen. Sutarman made a pledge on Friday that he would crack down on violent mass…

Matthew Pennington, Washington – At home and abroad, Indonesia is highlighting its progress in curbing the environmental destruction that has…

SP/Fana FS Putra – A Koran teacher in East Jakarta has been accused of having sex with his teenage student, resulting in her getting pregnant and…

Charlie Campbell – In East Timor, families have learned to dread the onset of November. It marks the start of "hungry season" – the time when cash…

Tom Benner – There is a free health clinic in Dili, the capital of Asia's newest and poorest country, Timor-Leste, that treats some 400 people a…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesian lawmakers criticized Gamawan Fauzi on Friday after the Home Affairs Minister sought to paint the Islamic…

Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) is optimistic that it can beat the two-week deadline given by the Election Supervisory Body (…