Michael Bachelard – West Papua marked its 50-year anniversary under Indonesian rule last week and three events amply reminded us why it is a…

According to the plan of H.E. the President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak, the first meeting on the plan for implementing military conscription…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Jakarta/Bandar Lampung – The arrest of more than a dozen terror suspects in a series of raids conducted by the National Police's…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which prides itself as being an ostensibly antigraft party,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – Indonesia's labor system opens the door to worker exploitation and slavery, as evidenced by a recent…

It was not as heroic as the country's Independence Day of Aug. 17, 1945, nor as dramatic and horrific as the Sept. 30, 1965, abortive coup blamed…

Dessy Sagita – Though Indonesia has made significant progress in saving the lives of newborns over the past two decades, the country has been…

The critically endangered Sumatran tiger could soon be extinct in the province of Jambi because of the rapid loss of its forest habitat,…

Jayapura – Amnesty International has urged Indonesia to probe the deaths of three Papua independence activists who were gunned down as they…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Displaced Shia followers from Karanggayam and Bluuran villages in Sampang, Madura regency, have demanded East Java…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Palm oil planters have denounced a two-year forest-clearing moratorium that ends this month, saying it has…

Jamie Small – A prominent West Papuan journalist and activist has visited New Zealand to gather support for West Papua's inclusion in the…

ID/Aris Cahyadi – Ahmad Fathanah, a suspect in the beef import quota scandal, seems to have been involved with a number of women who were…

In his work Indonesia's Accountability Trap: Party Cartels and Presidential Power after Democratic Transition, Dan Slater, an observer of…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry says it will further reduce the number of schools slated to introduce its new…

Index: ASA 21/013/2013

A woman, Salomina Kalaibin, who died from gunshot wounds on 6 May, is the third person to die simply because…

Makassar – Two journalists have been attacked by a motorcycle gang in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in an incident that is likely to draw further…

Adi Marsiela, Bandung, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit went on a busy 24-hour spree to root out suspected Islamic militants,…

Ali Akhmad, Jakarta – As many as 29 women's community groups from the Indonesian Women's Action Committee (KAPI) commemorated 20 years since the…

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesian media need to work together to ensure that religious extremists don't have a voice in print, the International…

Amahl S. Azwar, Jakarta – Students from Riau University on Tuesday rallied before US-based oil and gas giant Chevron Pacific Indonesia's…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists say that the government must establish a family court system to accommodate the rights of women and children that…

"The government has been less interested in pursuing difficult reforms than in transforming the image of a country known for too long as a place…

Fitri Bintang Timur, Jakarta – The Pew Research Center's research World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society published last month caused…

Sabine Siebold & Gareth Jones, Berlin – The German government confirmed on Wednesday the sale of 104 used Leopard 2 tanks and 50…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Only a small minority of candidates aspiring to run in the 2014 legislative election managed to pass the…

Over the weekend 34 young workers finally regained their freedom, after being forced to work for two years at a factory in Tangerang, Banten.…

Achmad Faizal, Surabaya – Scores of women workers from various different groups in East Java held an action on Wednesday May 8 in the provincial…

Dessy Sagita – The Indonesian Consumer Protection Foundation has demanded an audit into a recent discovery that the memory chips in the new…

Ezra Sihite – A government official says people should refer to a five-year-old joint decree to find solutions to the recent spate of violence…

Indra Harsaputra and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – After a year spent living in a refugee camp, members of the Shia community in Sampang,…

Farouk Arnaz & Vento Saudale – West Java's persecuted Ahmadiyah Muslim sect suffered another blow on Tuesday as Public Order Agency (Satpol PP…

A dispute over a flag in Aceh is testing the limits of autonomy, provoking Indonesia's central government and could pave the way for separatist…

Ina Parlina, National – The two-week deadline has passed but the central government and the Aceh provincial administration are no closer to…

Jakarta – West Papua Students in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and Forum SeTARA criticized the killing of Papuans marking the…

Ezra Sihite & Carlos Paath – Noises of fury over the launching of a Free West Papua Campaign office in Britain continued to emerge from the…

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators have failed in their attempts to confiscate five cars parked at the Prosperous…

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – A study by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) shows that Indonesia, the country with the third largest…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa summoned British Ambassador to Indonesia Mark Canning on…

Tassia Sipahutar and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Declining consumer spending and lower investment have unexpectedly caused a drag on the country's…

Camelia Pasandaran & Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Homosexual men and women living in Indonesia's strictly conservative Aceh province would be…

Arif Nurdiansah & Hindijani Novita – Indonesia is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against…

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has stopped providing security to victims of a mob attack driven by religious intolerance in…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A coalition of victims of religious discrimination and rights groups have urged New York-…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Graft cases in Indonesia follow an all-too-familiar routine: Greying politicians in batik shirts arrive at the front…

Just days after hard-line Islamic group members tore down the homes of an Ahmadiyah community in his province, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan…

Carlos Paath & Rizky Amelia – Activists have welcomed a new regulation that will allow greater scrutiny of the way political parties and…

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The National Police has launched an investigation into the practice of "slavery" at a waste-recycling factory in Tangerang…

Tangerang – In response to the enslaving of workers at a kitchen utensils factory in Sepatan Timur, Tangerang, workers and local…

We, the undersigned urge the Appeal of Conscience Foundation to withdraw its World Statesman Award to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang…