Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Home Ministry says it will review more than 2,500 bylaws in 2013 following a proposed sharia…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The Catholic Diocese of Surabaya, East Java, is saying that the local office of the Religious Affairs Ministry has…

Lindsay Murdoch – Wailing in grief, Lucia Pina stood over the body of her murdered 17-year-old nephew and threw her hands in the air. "I was in…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government has decided to give ad hoc corruption judges a pay rise in an attempt to make them less vulnerable to…

Brooke Baskin – A Melbourne pensioner charged with planning to travel to West Papua as a mercenary fighting against the Indonesian…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayawijaya, Papua – At least eight people were injured and dozens of vehicles were set on fire after a campaign event in…

Well over 1000 people engaged in a colourful and vibrant demonstration calling for West Papuan independence on Manokwari on January 17, despite…

Kendari, S.E. Sulawesi – A member of the Southeast Sulawesi regional legislative assembly described, alleged butchering of fishermen in Papua by…

Although flooding in the capital city is a regular occurrence every rainy season, many were caught by surprise on Thursday. The capital's current…

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Jose Luis Guterres said Timor-Leste will continue to accept Timorese who sought refugee status in…

According to the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education national schools are still lacking the basic facilities needed to facilitate teaching and…

Andreas D. Arditya and Multa Fidrus, Jakarta/Tangerang – The number of Jakartans forced to leave their flooded homes increased to at least 9,374…

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The displaced Shiite community in East Java continues to face pressure to convert to "true" Islam if they wish to…

Ronna Nirmala – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo on Thursday placed the entire capital under emergency status following the massive flooding that…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As Amnesty International called on the government to guarantee the safe return of members of the Shia community…

Bhimanto Suwastoyo – Activists and experts on Wednesday said that the national government, including its officials and laws, were to blame for…

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – A new report from Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says that the alleged embezzlement of the haj fund overseen by the…

Heavy monsoonal rains triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday, with many government offices and…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A coalition of NGOs has called on the authorities to protect the rights of rape victims, saying that the…

Antonia Timmerman – Women workers in Indonesia continue to face significant cultural, social, economic and religious barriers to equal treatment…

Jakarta – Thousands of workers took to the city's main thoroughfares on Wednesday to protest delays in the increased minimum wage and hikes in…

Jakarta – Aburizal Bakrie is the most-talked about presidential candidate on social media outlets, but he is also considered by netizens as the…

Subkhan, Jakarta – The number Indonesian National Army (TNI) soldiers who commit violence increased throughout 2012. Cases of violence…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Results from a preliminary investigation conducted by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) have…

Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah declined to comment when asked about the bylaw that bans women from straddling motorbikes in Lhokseumawe…

Rape is never a joke": This phrase has spread like wildfire across social media sites since the news broke on a candidate justice joking about…

Hundreds of Indonesian workers joined protests in Jakarta today to urge the government to roll back increases in electricity and gas…

The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry has established a task force to monitor the threat of job dismissals following the implementation of…

A demonstration in front of the National Democratic Party's headquarters in support of a former Metro TV reporter on Wednesday ended in disorder,…

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian government to end its discrimination against the Shiite Muslim minority…

ID/Novy Lumanauw & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for the nation not to ignore the voice of minorities in…

The National Parliament of Timor-Leste rejects the demand that FALINTIL-FDTL Major General Lere Anan Timur apologize to an ordinary Indonesian…

Jakarta – In the run-up to the selection of legislative candidates in April, political parties have started to pick familiar faces that will…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A member of the National Commission on Child Protection wants a judge fired for comments on consensual rape he…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) says judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi, who made headlines on Tuesday after making a controversial…

Batam – Two women who married in Indonesia by disguising themselves as a heterosexual couple were chased away from their village after neighbors…

John Mcbeth – Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold has been scrambling to reassure investors that its controversial diversification into oil and gas…

Jakarta – Blaming bleak global economic prospects, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo has thrown in the towel on the government's ambitious…

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The threatened forced relocation of a Shi'a community living in temporary shelter in East Java is yet more…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has voiced opposition to the National Security bill, saying that if passed into law…

A notorious East Timorese-born gang leader who's believed to have strong links to Indonesia's military, business and criminal communities has…

Rebecca Lake – Indonesia's Nike factories have sought to deny their staff the new minimum wage by pressuring them to sign an agreement forfeiting…

Jakarta – A candidate Supreme Court justice told members of the House of Representatives that some rape cases might involve consensual sex and…

George Roberts, Indonesia – Workers at a Nike shoe factory in Indonesia say the factory paid military personnel to intimidate them into working…

Rebecca Lake – An Indonesian factory that produces apparel for Nike has revoked its application to be exempt from the minimum wage on Tuesday,…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A coalition of children and women's rights groups staged a rally at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Sunday…

Ethan Harfenist – The website for the controversial documentary "The Act of Killing" was offline over the weekend, prompting accusations of…

PFF, Rarotonga, Cook Islands – Killing, beating, abducting and jailing journalists in West Papua remains the most immediate issue in regional…

The group, Pacific Freedom Forum, says the killing, beating, abducting and jailing of journalists in Indonesia's West Papua region…

Ezra Sihite – Ten political parties that qualified to run in the 2014 legislative elections obtained their ballot numbers on Monday.

The…