Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives and the Indonesian government have endorsed on Thursday two…

Paul Toohey – Three months before Indonesia invaded East Timor in December 1975, Gough Whitlam dismissed an Indonesian proposal to send a joint…

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – As the 11 members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) accused of brutally killing four men…

The Army has officially announced that 11 commandos from the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Group 2 based in Kartasura, Central Java, were the…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A new survey showed that the country's courts remain mired in corruption, in spite of efforts to improve the welfare of its…

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – The Central Java Police have started intensifying raids on preman (local term for thugs), through all the police…

Linda Yulisman and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Vice President Boediono has promised that the government will work extra hard to maintain…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A deadlock between political factions at the House of Representatives over a plan to amend Law No. 42/2008 on…

Five years ago, property agent Daisul Akhyar took 20 minutes to drive to work in Pekanbaru, capital of Indonesia's Riau province. Now, he can…

Efforts to protect children in Indonesia from abuse are obstructed by barriers to crime reporting, which may worsen with the threatened closure of…

The National Director for Social Assistance said the government doesn't have plans to build more shelter homes for victims of gender based…

Nurdin Hasan – A plan to draft a bylaw on how Islamic men and women in Aceh's Bireuen District should dress as Muslims is a wasteful effort that…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Sixty-one residents of Samenage hamlet in Helenga district, Yahukimo, Papua, are reported to have died between…

Robert Isidorus, Jayapura – Sixty-one people have reportedly died in the past three months in the Samenage district of Yahukimo, Papua, due to the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A report released on Wednesday brings to light secret documents claimed to be evidence that some of the country's…

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – A top general removed from his post after commenting on the Sleman prison massacre says that he respects the…

East Timor is the second of only two countries in Asia that in 2013 and 2014 are expected to post economic growth of two figures, with…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-060-2013

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Paul Toohey – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was anxious to assure Jakarta that the matter of East Timor was closed as far as Australia was…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Adm. Agus Suhartono had a tough choice on Tuesday: attend the Air Force's 67th…

Palu, Central Sulawesi – No pregnant students are allowed to sit for national examination even though they have been registered, a…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers plan to bring a bill on mass organizations before a plenary session this week, despite concerns from…

The chief patron of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Taufiq Kiemas, said there was a possibility that his party…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Bayu Marhaenjati – Thousands of workers on Wednesday marched together in Jakarta to protest against low…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – As if recovering from rape or molestation was not enough, teenage survivors of sexual abuse in Jakarta are saying that…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Bireuen Legislative Council in Aceh are preparing a draft bylaw on how Islamic men and women in the district should…

Nicky Hager – Owners of corporations registered in tax havens include some linked to regime of the late dictator, Suharto.

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Oei Eng Goan – When law enforcement agencies fail to guarantee public safety and security and the judicial process does not work accordingly, it…

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The Bogor chapter of the Indonesian Council of Ulema voiced its opposition on Tuesday to the planned holding of…

Sandra Siagian & Rebecca Lake – So often the victims of intolerance in Indonesia, Christians, Ahmadiyah and Shia Muslims on Monday marched…

Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi has called Indonesia's family planning program a failure for its inability to control the country's fertility rate.…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is expected to endorse the bill on combating deforestation later this week despite…

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Around 200 clerics in Greater Jakarta took to the street on Monday to vent their…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who ends his second term in October 2014, said that Indonesia needed a leader…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – There is a reason the Presidential Palace remains clean, tidy and grand-looking, especially during the visits of state…

The National Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday said that 85 percent of Indonesia's houses of worship do not have building permits, with most…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives is set to send another delegation off on an overseas study trip, this time to the United…

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Jakarta – Cleric Hasan Ja'far Assegaf's molestation case might have escaped the national and local media spotlight, but…

Jakarta – Rights group the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has filed a report with the Indonesian…

Ezra Sihite & Nurdin Hasan, Jakarta/Banda Aceh – Military chief of staff Adm. Agus Suhartono has urged the people of Aceh to refrain from…

Human rights activists have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to issue a special regulation allowing 11 members of the Army to be tried…

Yogyakarta – The murder of four prisoners at the Cebongan prison in Sleman, Yogyakarta, could potentially be used for political image building.…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm. Agus Suhartono said that soldiers responsible for the recent killing of four…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo was not a highly decorated officer when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono…

Nurdin Hasan – A teacher at an Islamic boarding school in Aceh sustained serious injuries after being beaten by the parents of a student he…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anastasia Wienanti Resardhy – A lack of transparency and scrutiny over last month's attack on Cebongan Prison in…

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The low-ranking soldiers alleged to be responsible for an attack on four detainees of the Cebongan Prison in Sleman,…

Rizky Amelia – The current furor over a decision by authorities in Aceh to adopt the flag of a defunct separatist group as the provincial standard…

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Healthy economic growth has allowed for the logistics industry to enjoy a 14.5 percent growth to Rp 1,634 trillion (US$…

Ikhwanul Habibi, Jakarta – The Cebongan Prison case in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta involving 11 members of the army's elite Special forces…