Indra Wijaya, Jakarta – Commandant General of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Major General Agus Sutomo said he was formulating…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) should be given a greater role in the war against terror to back up the National Police's Densus 88…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Tuesday former National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) chief Insp. Gen.…

Hanoi (Xinhua) – Vietnam and Timor-Leste pledged to further strengthen cooperation in fields of politic, economics, trade and investment,…

National – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has decided not to allow legislative candidates to use billboards in their political…

Fikri Zaki Muhanmadi and Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Around 3,000 workers on Tuesday took to the streets, besieging City Hall in Central Jakarta, in a…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Parents in Aceh were demanding answers from education officials on Wednesday after it emerged that children as young as…

Carlos Paath – The Great Indonesia Movement Party says it hopes to get the support of the country's main opposition party as it waits for the…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Thousands of workers staged a demonstration in front of City Hall to demand a monthly minimum wage…

[Text of notes used for talk delivered at Conference: "After The Act of Killing: Historical Justice and the 1965-66 Mass Killings in Indonesia…

The Archipelago – Dozens of activists of the Domestic Workers Protection Network (JPPRT) staged a rally in front of the Yogyakarta…

Phelim Kine – My preparation for a news conference in February launching a Human Rights Watch report on Indonesia's rising religious intolerance…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers marched through the streets of Hong Kong on Monday in protest at the Indonesian…

Palmerah – The number of farming households over the last 10 years has declined by 5.04 million. Over the same period, the number of…

Farouk Arnaz & Made Arya Kencana – Islamic hard-liners intensified their protests against this year's Miss World beauty pageant on Tuesday as…

Yeremia Sukoyo – The new chief of staff of the Indonesian Army has made a strong commitment to ensure a smooth and peaceful national election next…

[Shirley Shackleton was on board the Lusitania when it sailed to East Timor in 1992 to protest the Indonesian occupation. She offers words of…

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court sentenced Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo to 10 years in prison and confiscated most of the…

Novianti Setuningsih & Carla Isati Octama – By making proactive use of money laundering and anti-corruption laws, Indonesia's graftbusters are…

AI Index: ASA 21/031/2013

Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian authorities to drop the charges against four Papuan activists…

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Following the disclosure that a close friend of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, identified as…

The Timorese government is creating protected areas in the waters of the Coral Triangle, called "no-take zones," where fishing is prohibited.

Mark Colvin: East Timor's government has made a new bid to resolve a dispute over the stalled Greater Sunrise gas project in the Timor Sea. It's…

Margareth S. Aritonang – The government's ambitious plan to deploy the Indonesian Military (TNI) to build 1,500 kilometer-long roads connecting…

Dessy Sagita – Despite the government's commitment to allocate one-fifth of the state budget to the education sector, there is still a long way to…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Carlos Paath – The country's main opposition party has given its strongest indication yet that it may nominate…

Raras Cahyafitri and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Several manufacturers are considering delaying the importing of their raw materials while others…

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Despite mounting calls by state officials and mass organizations for the upcoming Miss World beauty pageant to be…

Carlos Paath – Election fever has gripped the political establishment as parties busy themselves with finding presidential candidates – but the…

Jakarta – Recent research conducted by The Habibie Center has revealed that violence has occurred during direct regional administrative elections…

Bali's mystically beautiful rice fields, watered by an intricate, centuries-old subak irrigation system, are near collapse as farmers sell their…

Satria Sambijantoro and Amahl S. Azwar, Jakarta/Cianjur, West Java – Indonesia has not come up with "good policies" quickly enough as its current…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The country's more assertive role in the regional and global arena, on top of its rich natural resources, have turned…

Jakarta – A lawmaker has blasted a proposal to change the name of one of the capital city's main thoroughfares, Jl. Medan Merdeka…

Worshipers from displaced church congregations took their anger to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's door on Sunday, calling for him to take a…

The former Prime Minister of East-Timor, Mari Alkatiri, has visited Macau in the hope of attracting investment for the special zones project under…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Calls are mounting for antigraft investigators not to cease in expanding their probe into a corruption scandal that a…

Banjir Ambarita & Farouk Arnaz, Jayapura/Jakarta – A clash between security personnel and armed separatists in Papua on Saturday led to the…

As the flag of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste was hoisted at 5:00am on the 20th of August in a ceremony in Betano, the official state…

Made Arya Kencana – Several academics, doctors and nongovernmental organization activists gathered in Bali on Sunday to petition the government to…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A Palembang businessman who is said to have played a key role in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's political…

Paulina Quintao – The participants of the fourth National Women's Congress identified nine priority issues for the government to work on.

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Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Workers Forum on Friday urged the central government to cancel the presidential instruction (Inpres)…

The number of cases involving teachers resorting to violence when punishing errant students indicates a lack of awareness of the impact of such…

Jakarta – Jama'ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) has become the latest hard-line Islamic organization to condemn the 2013 Miss World pageant,…

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Bali Police, with support from the military and pecalang (Balinese traditional security guards), said it would…

Jakarta – In a move that has surprised many, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has named the Indonesian Military (TNI) as press enemy…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The fight against corruption has come up against yet another hurdle with the Supreme Court admitting it struggles to…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is being called on to ratify the International Convention on Enforced Disappearance of Persons. At the United…

Jakarta – The long fight to uncover and moreover reconcile the 1965-66 affair is slowly starting to show results. Still needed of course is hard…