Allegations raised in this release have been verified independently by WPM.

Six West Papuans have fled across the border to Australia after…

Sidoarjo, East Java – Displaced Shia Muslims from Sampang regency in Madura, East Java, who for months had taken refuge in Sidoarjo, broke down in…

West Papua Media (WPM) stringers have received credible disturbing reports of a major escalation in Indonesian police operations against civilians…

One person is said to have been killed and at least two others injured on Monday when Indonesian riot police opened fire on civilians in Waghete,…

Timika, Papua – The National Air Defence Command (Kohanudnas) held an unidentified aircraft interception simulation with two F 16 combat jets of…

Jonathan Vit – A leading human rights group has called for increased monitoring of Indonesian Military (TNI) surveillance activities after the…

Farouk Arnaz – Weak law enforcement by the police has become one of the main reasons why militant groups, thugs and gangsters have dared to take…

New York – Indonesia has issued a warning against Australia's plan to implement its policy on boat people, which violates Indonesia's sovereignty…

Jakarta – Electricity company PT PLN's outsourced workers, who recently threatened to strike if they were not promoted as permanent employees, are…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has started working on amending Law No. 32/2002 on broadcasting in an effort to…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Islam-based parties have balked at a proposal from a veteran politician urging them to form a coalition modeled after…

Jakarta – The Democratic Party leadership has called on the General Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) to be lenient on the party for…

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) said it had uncovered inaccuracies in it's voter data that would affect more than 65 million…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-124-2013

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

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A Shariah Police officer was arrested Saturday night for allegedly attempting to supply hashish to a prisoner at West…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) expects to boost its eavesdropping capability with the purchase of millions of…

Jerry Omona, Jayapura – Papua Police Chief, Insp. Gen. Tito Karnavian, denied having received money from Adj. First Insp. Labora Sitorus – the…

Dili – East Timor police say there will be zero tolerance against those who continue to practice a local martial art after the government banned…

Camelia Pasandaran – It had taken 23 years for the parishioners of Saint Bernadet to be granted a permit to build a church in Ciledug, South…

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – The government's universal healthcare coverage program is only three months away from its effective implementation…

Novianti Setuningsih – A former owner of Bank Century, Robert Tantular, has suggested the bank was allowed to collapse so that the government…

Arno Maierbrugger, Singapore – A Southeast Asian country quite off the radar of the international community is East Timor.

The former…

Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has said the Papua Police have been unprofessional in their handling of the case concerning Adj. First Insp…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A public transportation driver was fatally fatally shot by an unidentified man in the Tingginambut…

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has reprimanded state-run TV station TVRI for its broadcast of a 2.5-hour meeting of the…

A man – reportedly a civilian – was shot dead while driving in a convoy carrying food in Puncak Jaya district in Papua on Saturday.…

Oecusse, Timor Leste – Timor Leste Home Affairs Minister Jorge da Conceicao Teme has expressed his hope that brotherly relations with…

Anushka Shahjahan – Indonesia and the Asian region have made substantial progress toward achieving the United Nations' Millennium Development…

Tony Abbott has declared he does not want illegal boat arrivals to dominate the Australia-Indonesia relationship and is aiming for the controversy…

Carlos Paath – Any talk of Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo joining another party's presidential ticket in 2014 is groundless because of the hugely…

Anushka Shahjahan – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo's rejection of the so-called low cost green cars has received wide support as analysts…

Jakarta – Indonesia's year-on-year foreign debt growth dropped to 7.3 percent in July 2013 from 8 percent recorded in June 2013, Bank…

William Pesek – Indonesians are taking to the streets to demand the government heed their complaints. Are they livid about corruption? No. Fed up…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – After some inconsistencies, the government made it clear on Thursday that it will not cap minimum wage increase in the…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The release of five men complicit in the murder case at Cebongan Penitentiary, Sleman, has drawn wide criticism due…

Indra Wijaya, Yogyakarta – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro, informed that Indonesia has recently received six Sukhoi SU-27 SKM…

Four West Papuan community leaders were arrested on Wednesday the 18th of September, 2013 after sending a letter to the Biak police station…

Jakarta – The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) said on Thursday that the preparation of national examinations for elementary school, junior high school…

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – For a start, the three Bs of Miss World – brains, beauty and behavior – have been replaced by the three Ss: sholehah…

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – Probes into the ongoing beef import scandal involving former Prosperous Justice Party president Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq and…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Makassar Mayor Ilham Arief Sirajuddin revealed on Thursday that the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) asked him for a…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI)says it will remain vigilant even though a boat carrying pro-West Papua independence…

Jakarta – Former Jakarta governor Fauzi Bowo's future as Indonesian Ambassador to Germany has been secured despite student protests as…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) has once again upheld the controversial blasphemy articles that are often used to prosecute…

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – New shopping malls will continue to open in Jakarta in the future because a planned moratorium does not annul permits for…

Ben Eltham – At what point does the Coalition's obsession with "stopping the boats" collide with Australia's national interest? If you think the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A minister has retracted his claim that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had signed a presidential instruction that…

Jakarta – Pay talks at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit have stalled but a deadline for an end to negotiations has been…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S.Aritonang, Jakarta – Supreme Court justice candidate Sudrajad Dimyati was caught allegedly giving what was believed to…

Washington – The US Treasury on Wednesday placed sanctions on two Indonesian men it said were closely involved with two radical…