The Indonesian Military (TNI) is reviving the community service program that was popularly known as ABRI Masuk Desa (AMD) during the New Order era…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' commission on defense's deputy chairman Tubagus Hasanuddin said a special team was being established to…

Jakarta – Indonesia concluded the second batch of training program intended to hone up the skill of Timor Leste officials in carrying out…

Paulina Quintao – The Advocacy Manager of the Women's Communication Forum Timor-Leste (FOKUPERS) Honorio Lopes said the language used in the song…

Linda Pressly – About 15% of the world's gold is produced by artisanal and small-scale miners, most of whom use mercury to extract it from the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government has made another promise to the displaced Shia followers from Sampang in Madura, East Java – that they…

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite being ousted as the Democratic Party's chairman over his involvement in a high-profile…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Hundreds of members of an organization notorious for its thuggery attacked the Depok District Court in West Java on Tuesday…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In the midst of a rebellion by rival politicians hoping to foil the presidential bid of Golkar Party chairman Aburizal…

Rebecca Lake – Outraged Miss World organizers and human rights activists have condemned the Indonesian government for its lack of support for the…

Camellia Webb-Gannon – The very unpredictability of politics is the greatest hope for those seeking an independent West Papuan state. Here, some…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Ezra Sihite – Indonesia's traffic-clogged capital needs a comprehensive mass transit system, not cheaper cars, Jakarta…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-123-2013

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

Rendi Witular and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – More than 100 Papuan students, who have been awarded full scholarships to study at top…

Jayapura – The TPN/OPM [National Resistance Army/Papuan Freedom Movement] in Gurangi, Puncak Jaya has written to the Indonesian Red Crescent [PMI…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Heritage society Sjarikat Poesaka Soerabaja has filed a complaint to the Surabaya municipal administration for…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Monday that he was often disturbed by mass rallies that took place in front of…

Michael Taylor – Indonesia's anti-monopolies regulator has begun an investigation into the country's rapidly growing soybean trade, after a recent…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Police has said it will look into its officers' habits of moonlighting following reports that one of its…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House Commission III members came out on Monday in support of National Police chief Timur Pradopo's decision to allow…

Jakarta – The Medan Military High Court has sentenced Lt. Col. Robert Simanjuntak, the former head of the Roesmin Nurjadin airport…

Jayapura – The National Committee of West Papua – KNPB – has claimed that 249 members have been arrested by the police across West Papua because…

Daniel Drageset – The West Papua Freedom Flotilla has arrived back in Gove in the Northern Territory of Australia, describing their attempt to get…

Jakarta – Ricky Avenzora, a forestry expert at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), has hailed Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan's plan to…

Erwida Maulia & Jonathan Vit – Environmental groups accused Indonesia's second-largest pulp and paper company Asia Pacific Resources…

Rendi A. Witular and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Taxation director general Fuad Rahmany has recently found it hard to hide his frustration over…

Jakarta – The police arrested 19 men on Sunday for allegedly abducting and torturing a coffee seller in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, after she…

Jayapura – Dozens of people taking part in peaceful actions organised by the KNPB to mark International Democracy Day were forced to…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – An investigation by the Indonesian Police Watch (IPW) has found that a Papua Police officer paid bribes to 33 police…

Hyginus Hardoyo, Boven Digoel, Papua – In Ogenetan, a tiny village located in Iniyandit, one of the more remote districts of Boven Digoel regency…

Jakarta – Following the official Dutch apology for a series of mass killings carried out by its colonial troops between 1945 and 1949, widows and…

Jakarta – Around 15,000 workers from the Congress Alliance of Indonesian Labor Unions (KASBI) took to the streets across Jakarta on Monday, urging…

Jakarta – The leadership of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has said that it is not perturbed by the growing popularity…

Denpasar, Bali – Several members of the Dvipa Bali Youth Alliance staged a protest outside Bali Police Headquarters here on Monday to denounce the…

Ina Parlina, Dili, Timor Leste – Tito Filipe, 30, started as a reporter in Dili, Timor Leste, when he was 21 just after he finished high school.…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has said that it was not able to investigate graft cases involving the…

Bali, Indonesia – If public graft were a symphony, Djoko Susilo might be its Mozart. On a salary of $1,000 a month, the former head of Indonesia's…

A number of events took place across West Papua today to celebrate the arrival of sacred water and fire from the Freedom Flotilla.

In the…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Democratic Party (PD) has banned its members from joining the Indonesian Movement Association (PPI), a mass…

Ahmad Romadoni, Jakarta – The momentum of Car Free Day along the length of Jl. Sudirman-Thamrin in Central Jakarta on Sunday September 15 was used…

Australia's incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop said Sunday that the new conservative government would work with Indonesia "where we need to"…

Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) chairperson Neta S. Pane said 33 officials of the National Police allegedly received money from Chief Brig…

September 14th 10am.

The Pog, flagship of the Freedom Flotilla has returned to Australian waters, following threats made by the Indonesian…

Drivers of Transjakarta buses serving Corridors IX in Pinang Ranti and X in Cililitan, both in East Jakarta, refused to man their…

Jakarta – A survey conducted by the National Commission on Child Protection (KPAI) has found that at least one in 10 Indonesian children decided…

Jember – Hundreds of members of hard-line group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia in Jember, East Java, on Saturday continued to express their…

Indonesia will hold a pageant exclusively for Muslims, The Muslimah World contest, in rivalry to the Miss World beauty contest.

The Muslimah…

Hundreds of Bali-bound members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) found themselves stuck in Banyuwangi, East Java, on Saturday as…

Aruna Kashyap – Calls for "virginity tests" for high school girls emerge regularly in Indonesia, with education officials, politicians and…

Bekasi – Bekasi District Court handed down a suspended sentence to Abdul Azis, who was found guilty of assaulting members of the Toba Batak…