East Timor's National Police Commissioner, Longuinhos Monteiro, says he is confident his force will be able to maintain law and order…

United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor have handed full responsibility for policing to Asia's youngest nation, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has…

Sara Everingham and staff – The United Nations has handed over full control of policing operations to the East Timorese National Police Force (…

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – When officers from Bengkulu and Jakarta Police attempted to arrest the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)…

South Tapanuli – Batang Toru district office in South Tapanuli, North Sumatra, was closed on Wednesday following a violent protest by…

Oyos Saroso H.N. and Bagus BT Saragih, Bandar Lampung/Jakarta – The National Police have dispatched reinforcements to South Lampung regency where…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – At least 10 companies are considering closing their businesses in Indonesia and relocating to other countries unless…

In spite of the General Election Commission's (KPU) decision to disqualify them from the next stage of verification, minor political parties…

Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left for Britain on Tuesday for a state visit, packing two…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie said his party remained solid despite heated debate from party cadres…

Ezra Sihite – A senior Golkar Party figure has claimed that the political bloc's chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, has settled all outstanding claims…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry is preparing a new decree that will make it difficult for companies to…

Ronna Nirmala, Rangga Prakoso & Vento Saudale – The Bekasi Workers' Association has slammed recent attacks launched by a group of people on…

Jakarta – "Indonesian maids now on sale" advertisement leaflets found by migrant care executive director Anis Hidayat in Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur,…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Hundreds of Golkar Party members from across the country gathered at the party's national leadership meeting in…

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) said that some documents seized by the Corruption Eradication…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua Police have launched an overhaul of their institution in the provinces of Papua and West Papua by…

Debnath Guharoy, Roy Morgan – That is no rhetorical question. In Indonesia, it is a very real prospect.

Everybody knows that the early years…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – During his three-day visit to the United Kingdom, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is set to be bestowed with a…

President's visit prompts fresh concerns about arms sales and training of anti-terror police.

British-funded training of Indonesia's…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the public to remain vigilant with regard to "suspicious…

Nani Afrida and Rabby Pramudatama – The Harakah Sunni for Indonesian Society (Hasmi) group was a relatively unknown quantity until officers from…

Surabaya – The East Java branch of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization has reported Tempo Magazine to the Indonesia Press Council after the…

Ronna Nirmala – The country's highest Islamic authority has slammed a hard-line group for attacking an Ahmadiyah mosque in Bandung on the eve of…

KontraS, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence has drawn the conclusion that from January to October this year,…

Ronna Nirmala/Ratna Nuraini – Unidentified individuals have attacked at least 10 labour coordination posts. Workers wearing organisational…

Tungadewa Mattangkilang, Penajam Paser Utara – Two married couples have been forced from their village in East Kalimantan after information…

Jakarta – A group of alms agencies have filed a judicial review to challenge the 2011 Law on management of zakat (Alms), which they feel…

Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) announced on Sunday that 18 political parties had failed the administrative verification process…

Ronna Nirmala – Antigraft activists have urged the Jakarta administration to continue overhauling the city's 2013 budget to prioritize pro-poor…

Jakarta – Jakarta will have a new police chief on Tuesday, but doubts linger over whether the incoming chief is capable of making the…

A Jakarta-based pollster has found in a survey that the majority of voters want strong leadership for the country.

The National…

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Thousands of young people marked the 84th anniversary of Youth Pledge Day in Jakarta and other big cities across the…

A number of investors in the shoe-making sector backed out of their plans involving Indonesia, following the recent wave of labor demonstrations…

Arientha Primanita – Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will grant a medal of knighthood to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during his…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Bandung Police have arrested M. Asep Abdurahman, aka Utep, an Islam Defenders Front (FPI) member, and named him a suspect of…

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and Vice Governor Basuki…

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Indonesian police have arrested 11 suspected terrorists who they say planned to detonate a number of bombs, including…

Matthew Bigg, Jakarta – Indonesia's arrest of 11 suspected Islamic militants it said planned to attack the US embassy and a plaza near Australia's…

SP/Carlos Paath – Youth of all religions and ethnicities gathered in Manado on Saturday ahead of Youth Pledge Day, which marks its 84th…

Jakarta – The Harakah Sunni for Indonesia (Hasmi) group has denied a statement made by the National Police saying that 11 of the suspected…

AWPA has called on the Minister for Foreign Affairs Bob Carr to urgently raise concerns about the crackdown on peaceful activists in West Papua.…

Michael Bachelard – In August a 69-year-old prisoner died of natural causes in an Indonesian hospital. This was not meant to happen.

Bahar…

Non-student protesters should stop using the Cenderawasih University (Uncen) campus in Jayapura, Papua, as a place to hide if they are being…

Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Speculation is mounting that the national polling body is deliberately delaying the…

Rizky Amelia – The House of Representatives is being urged to scrap proposed legislation on mass organizations by civil society groups that fear…

Dessy Sagita – The rise of new Islamic sects is playing a role in rising intolerance in the country, but police indifference is the main cause, a…

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Idul Adha celebrations in Bandung, West Java, were tarnished by an attack launched by members of hard-line group the Islam…

Dessy Sagita – A labor union official has welcomed Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's promise to negotiate a higher minimum wage,…

Jakarta – Millions of Muslims across the country observed the Islamic Day of Sacrifice, or Idul Adha, on Friday, performing prayers and sacrifices…