Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is set to pass the bill on mass organizations that will allow the state apparatus…

SP/Erwin Sihombing – The South Jakarta Prosecutors Office have finally arrested spiritual guru Anand Krishna, after the convicted sexual harasser…

Farouk Arnaz – Police said on Thursday that Papua was calm and peaceful a day after the local electoral commission named Lukas Enembe and Klemen…

Jakarta – Indonesia wants to buy a number of combat helicopters from the United States for the army, Defenses Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said.…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A special committee of the House of Representatives said they would prefer to justify Indonesia's bill on mass…

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Neither the scorching heat nor angry bosses could stop over 300 people from attending the One Billion Rising Indonesia…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Yet again the streets of Papua were left bloody after another violent incident occurred at Kampung Pugo…

Yuliasri Perdani and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) investigation into the graft case involving…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The resignation of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second son, Edhie Baskoro "Ibas"…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Domestic workers and activists staged a protest in the center of Yogyakarta City, on Friday, urging the House of…

A group of United Nations independent experts has warned that Indonesia's bill on mass organizations threatens to curtail rights to freedom of…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Camelia Pasandaran – A protest by members of a religious forum that has called on the government to shut down a…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Indonesia's women legislators are aiming to get more involved in international forums in their bid to become the best…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-021-2013

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Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Three churches in Makassar, South Sulawesi, became on Thursday the latest targets of violent attacks, which were…

Bambang Muryanto and Ainur Rohmah, Semarang/Yogyakarta – Women's activists, university students and housewives in Yogyakarta and Semarang, Central…

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Nearly 500 elementary school students in Surakarta, Central Java, joined a march to the city's Manahan Stadium…

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Industry Minister MS Hidayat warned on Wednesday of massive layoffs in April if relevant authorities failed to postpone…

Farouk Arnaz – Police in Makassar, South Sulawesi, are standing guard outside churches after would-be arsonists hit two more churches in a second…

Moch. Andriansyah – Hundreds of young people from the One Billion Rising (OBR) community held huge street dance at the Bungku Park in the East…

Zubaidah Nazeer & Ashleigh Stewart – When Indonesia slashed quotas on beef imports in 2011, the goal was to boost domestic production. But the…

In collaboration with the Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP), the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has found that…

Hans Nicholas Jong and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A rift within the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) leadership has widened with…

Rebecca Lake, Sandra Siagian & Abdul Qowi Bastian – The wife of a church minister who was jailed two weeks ago for allegedly conducting a…

Puji Utami, Semarang – Scores of activists from the Legal Resources Center for Gender Justice and Human Rights (LRC-KJHAM) along with a number of…

Couples across Indonesia had their pre-Valentine's Day plans interrupted on Wednesday as police and public order officers raided parks, hotel…

Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday strongly criticized Lapindo Brantas, the oil and gas company that some scientists…

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia's beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect suffered another blow on Thursday as Bekasi's mayor announced plans to shutdown a…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court upheld on Wednesday the 2011 Land Acquisition Law, which is seen as crucial to removing hurdles…

The House of Representatives is pushing for an amendment to the 43-year-old Agrarian Law, saying that the regulation is no longer relevant and has…

Bagus BT Saragih and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has set up a team to investigate the leaking of a…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As a Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) politician joined the leadership of the House of…

Hayat Indriyatno – Spatial zoning proposals for Aceh indicate that the province's governor is seeking to open up more than 52,000 hectares of…

Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – One Billion Rising (OBR) rising activist in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta (Yogya) will hold a dance action as a…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The dazzling rise of Edhie "Ibas" Baskoro, 32, to power and wealth has focused the public eye on the enigmatic…

Hans Nicholas Jong and Dicky Christanto Wulandaru, Jakarta – The deputy head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Adnan Pandu Praja,…

Jakarta – Indonesia's current account deficit in 2012 was 2.7 percent of gross domestic product, wider than the initial target of 2.4…

Amahl S. Azwar, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to build more oil refineries to ensure its future energy security. However, the government has yet to…

Jakarta – Presidential Instruction Number 2/2013 on The Handling of Domestic Security Disturbances is easily subject to misuse by regional heads…

SP/Lawrence Dami – The deputy mayor of Depok has called on residents, especially younger people, to not celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday, as…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – After getting away with skipping House of Representatives' sessions, Democratic Party…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists and legal analysts grouped under the Civil Society Coalition for a Professional Judiciary filed a judicial review…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won praise from worldwide leaders of the Seventh Day Adventist church who thanked…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After declaring an alliance with the Ulema National Awakening Party, the United Development Party said it was now…

Damien Kingsbury – Woodside and the East Timorese government have just 10 days to strike a deal on a lucrative gas project – or the controversial…

Indonesia's Child Protection Commissioner has accused Australia of human rights abuses. Commissioner Apong Herlina is also publicly backing claims…

Farouk Arnaz – The attempted firebombing of two Makassar churches was likely part of an attempt to spark religious tensions in South Sulawesi, the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia tightened its grip on financial transactions on Tuesday as the nation introduced its first law aimed at…

SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Rizky Amelia – Pork and rat meat were the focus of a discussion between former Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)…

Twenty-three Indonesian youths plan to sue Australia for illegal detention after being jailed in adult prisons for people-smuggling when they were…