An Indonesian Brimob police officer has shot dead an unarmed mentally ill Lani youth in Wamena on Thursday, after the youth allegedly verbally…

Semarang – Some 650 military personnel of Infantry Battalion (Yonif) 410/Aloguro left Tanjung Emas Seaport at Semerang, Central Java,…

Jayapura, Papua – A man was wounded after being shot at when trying to grab a weapon of a patrolling police officer in Timika on…

Forty-two members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) were arrested early Monday morning following a clash with local…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has cut prison terms of 182 graft convicts during this year's celebration of Idul Fitri, a…

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says that most of the 756 people convicted on graft charges in the last three years…

Jakarta – Din Syamsuddin, the chairman of Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, said on Saturday that there should not…

The KNPB (West Papua National Committee) and PNWP (West Papua National Parliament) will march through the streets of West Papua on August 15th on…

Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla warned that forced conversion imposed on members of the Shia community in Sampang…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Labor Institute has announced its estimates that approximately a million newcomers, most of them are…

The Hague – The Dutch government said Thursday that it had compensated 10 women whose husbands were executed by its army between 1946 and 1947 on…

Rochelle Jones – West Papua – officially under Indonesian rule since 1963 – is located in the Western half of the island of New Guinea, 250km…

Simon Roughneen, Rangoon – Confusion remains over the recent refusal by the East Timor government to allow a group of 95 refugees, many of whom…

Shesar Andriawan/FMB, Jakarta – According to Budi Wardoyo, the national secretary of Politics of the People and the Joint Labour Secretariat (…

An independence campaigner in Indonesia's remote Papua province says a deadly shooting last week was the fault of Indonesian soldiers…

Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi rejected accusations centering on the government's alleged ultimatum to the…

Ezra Sihite – The lawyer of gang leader Hercules Rozario Marshal said on Wednesday that he would file a pretrial motion against the chief of the…

Andreas Harsono – This week fresh violence erupted against some of Indonesia's religious minorities. Now the question is whether the government…

SP/Nathasia Christy Wahyuni – The new school curriculum has many abstract and irrelevant benchmarks that students cannot possibly be tested…

Two terror suspects arrested and later released by the Densus 88 Counterterrorism Unit last month are known to be members of Muhammadiyah, the…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Two fuel bombs were hurled into the backyard of St. Fransiskus Assisi Catholic private high school in Tebet, South…

An official with the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) has criticized the Jakarta Police's call to curb the amount of Idul Fitri prayer convoys in…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists from the Indonesia Legal Roundtable (ILR) are planning to challenge the legality of President Susilo Bambang…

Jayapura – Papuan indigenous traders are very worried about the fact that they are not able to compete economically because of the arrival in…

Nadya Natahadibrata and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Indonesia's pluralism, already marred with cases of intolerance against Shia and…

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – A number of political parties, taking advantage of the annual Idul Fitri exodus to gain support ahead of the…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah has criticized the action by security forces to forcefully seize hundreds of flags bearing…

A Senior Indonesia vice-presidential advisor says the government is serious about protecting human rights in West Papua and Papua provinces.

A platoon of the Indonesian Police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob, has been deployed to Mulia, in Papua province's Puncak Jaya regency, in…

Jakarta – Indonesian legislator Muhammad Najib has called upon the Indonesian people to pray for Egypt so that the Arab country could find its way…

The Timor-Leste (East Timor) Central Bank Friday announced a project to develop a strategic plan to expand the country's financial…

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said the perpetrators of Sunday's bombing of Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West…

A graft watchdog criticized the government for spending Rp 2.57 trillion (US$194 million) on procurement of cars, saying that it…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has lashed out at critics he says are interfering with his government's ability to…

Jakarta – A bomb exploded inside the Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West Jakarta late on Sunday, injuring three people and destroying some parts of…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Shariah Police in West Aceh said on Sunday that they have arrested total of 35 food vendors in the district for selling…

Jakarta – Hercules Rozario Marhsal, 55, has been the epitome of Jakarta's seedy underbelly since the 1980s, ushered to the top by a meticulous…

Bumper to bumper traffic jams were reported on several main roadways outside of Jakarta on Sunday, as nearly five million homebound travelers left…

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesia's impressive period of 6-plus percent economic expansion is over, after its economy posted only 5.8…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it would follow up on the fresh allegations leveled by former House…

Wildlife conservation activists in Indonesia marked a somber Global Tiger Day earlier this week with dire warnings about the relentless…

Ina Parlina and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi is claiming that the Aceh administration has opened negotiations to change…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Three environmentalists in North Sumatra are going to give up their awards in protest against the national government,…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – For some graft suspects who lived large before being detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK),…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) declared that the military operation in Aceh, which lasted…

Nurdin Hasan – Dozens of plain-clothes security forces moved through the streets of Aceh's Lhokseumawe city early Friday morning, seizing hundreds…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has revealed that more than 90 percent of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in the country…

Luh De Suriyani – Environmental activists staged protests over the planned reclamation of Benoa Bay in front of the governor's office on Wednesday…

Rizky Amelia & Novianti Setuningsih – Antigraft investigators have received a compact disc that allegedly contains evidence former Youth and…

Jess O'Callaghan – More than decade on from when Timor-Leste gained independence, and six month since troops left the country, Minister of Foreign…