The Indonesian government is planning to transfer the authority of issuing mining, forestry and plantation concessions from municipalities and…

Gerry van Klinken – The most extraordinary achievement of the New Order might have been the tenacity of its ideology. Fifteen years after Suharto…

John Roosa – At times one comes close to feeling sorry for Pak Wanandi. So little in his life worked out as planned. The book, unlike so many je…

Ezra Sihite, Nurdin Hasan & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sent a government minister to Aceh to dissuade local…

Ronnie Hatley – A campaign of mass assassination, torture, rape, imprisonment and other atrocities against people accused of being 'communists'…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Made Arya Kencana – An election watchdog has slammed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his domination over the…

SP/Erwin Sihombing – In the first three months of this year, a total of 13 police officers fell victim to violence, the Indonesia Police Watch…

Robert Cribb – Filmed over several years in the North Sumatra capital, Medan, The Act of Killing is a sprawling work that encompasses three…

Michael Buehler – After the decentralisation of political and fiscal power in 2001, local government heads have become some of the most powerful…

Camelia Pasandaran – There will be no indoor Easter service this year for three embattled congregations in West Java still fighting to worship in…

SP/Robertus Wardi – A parliamentary watchdog has called on the House of Representatives' Ethics Council to take action against lawmakers who…

Yohannie Linggasari – Rights activists have blasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his failure to order a human rights tribunal set up to…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Organizers of One Billion Rising Indonesia have finally secured a public space to hold the Women's Festival at Taman…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The police may have failed to foresee the recent attack on four inmates at Cebongan Penitentiary in Sleman,…

Erwin Cristianson – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pramono Edhie Wibowo has conceded there are good reasons to suspect military officers undertook an…

Bagus BT Saragih, Sanur, Bali – The Democratic Party's extraordinary congress has appointed Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as the new party…

Jakarta – Members of a number of churches in Greater Jakarta will hold their Easter mass in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on…

Angela Dewan – The elite police unit on the front line of Indonesia's lauded terrorism clampdown faces fresh allegations of torture and unlawful…

Made Arya Kencana – Most Indonesians do not approve the idea for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to be elected as the new Democratic Party…

Farouk Arnaz, Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Robertus Wardi – More indications have emerged that point to a rogue military unit as the heavily…

The Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday jailed two men who were involved in several shootings in the Aceh province in the lead-up to the…

Yeremia Sukoyo – Criticism continues to pour in against a controversial bill that would tighten the regulation of mass organizations, ahead of its…

Jakarta – Fresh on the heels of the demolition of a Bekasi church, the local administration banned congregants from conducting services at their…

Jakarta – Graft convict and former chief detective Comr. Gen. (ret.) Susno Duadji says he has joined the Muslim-based Crescent Star…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As the Democratic Party readies to elect a new chairman, chief patron President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is…

Papua continues to be plagued by violence. Last month gunmen shot at an army helicopter, as the military was to evacuate victims of an ambush…

Prodita Sabarini, Reportage – For Papuans, their graves are a reminder of the grief that besieges their land.

In front of the Justice and…

Yohanes Sulaiman – The proposed criminal law that is currently being discussed in the parliament is, to put it bluntly, a disaster in the making…

Prodita Sabarini – Papuans have been allowed to reject secrecy as one of the principles of general elections. The open-ballot system is permitted…

The Archipelago – The Papua Police reportedly has identified the gunmen who attacked a missionaries' helicopter in Puncak Senyum,…

Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Chairwoman of the National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Siti Noor Laila…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Activists are renewing calls for the government and the House of Representatives to push for more reform of the…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A police station commander in Simalungun, Sumatera Utara, has been beaten to death by a mob during a vice…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-051-2013

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Carlos Paath – Rights activists are demanding immediate changes to the 1997 Law on Military Tribunals, in the wake of a deadly attack on police…

Jakarta – Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq, the former chairman of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) who arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (…

The Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party wants to revise the Criminal Code (KUHP) to reinstate an article to punish those who…

If the story of East Timor is one of success, of a small country claiming its independence over the incredibly stacked odds of an oppressive…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have deadlocked on plans to amend Law No. 42/2008 on presidential…

Jakarta – The National Police on Tuesday revealed a major reshuffle involving two regional police chiefs who have been in the hot seat over the…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is being asked to revise the 2002 Children Protection Law this year in response to the…

Police in Aceh have arrested two men for allegedly raping and strangling a six-year-old girl to death.

Adj. Comr. Erlin Tangjaya, the head…

Prodita Sabarini, Wamena, Jayawijaya – A mama walks barefoot under the skin-burning sun in a hamlet in Piramid district, Jayawijaya regency. With…

Returning to the land may be one way to improve food security and welfare in Papua. The Jakarta Post's Prodita Sabarini was recently among a group…

Operation Astute was launched in May 2006 in response to a request from the East Timor government following violence fanned by an…

Rendi A. Witular, Papua – The stakes are high when it comes to infrastructure development work in Papua.

Aside from the pervasive threat of…

Development in Papua, Indonesia's most eastern and underdeveloped province, has been hampered by extremely expensive logistics costs caused by the…

Rendi A. Witular, Papua – When it comes to realizing a massive road project, nothing could match what governor general Herman Willem Daendels did…

Ina Parlina, World – Paying more attention to children's voices would help address the inequalities that many of them face, said young…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The city administration will cooperate with a number of institutions to set up child protection task forces (Satgas PA…