Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – The Golkar Party on Monday said that the recent business saga surrounding companies belonging to the…

Arientha Primanita & Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged developing countries to review restrictions on trade beyond…

The plan by a group of people to commemorate the events that occurred last year at the time of the Third Papuan People's Congress (KRP III) when…

Pekanbaru, Riau – Several journalists were assaulted and intimidated by Air Force officers when covering a jet crash in Riau on Tuesday.

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Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo – A Shiite leader from Sampang, East Java, Tajul Muluk, has been forced to remain incarcerated at Sidoarjo…

Nurdin Hasan & Farouk Arnaz, Banda Aceh – Two men believed to have been behind a grenade attack on the home of the Bireuen district head in…

The family of a Kiwi news cameraman slain during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor is calling on the Government to seek justice.

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Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Shirley Shackleton is the only of the relatives of the Balibo Five who wants the men's grave dug up and their remains…

Stephanie March – East Timor is considering walking away from its treaty with the Australian government and Woodside Petroleum over the…

The family of one of the five journalists killed in East Timor in 1975 is opposed to having his remains returned to Australia.

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Michael Bachelard, Indonesia – Shirley Shackleton refers to it as "my job" – telling journalists the story of her husband, Greg, who died at…

Relatives of two news reporters killed at Balibo in East Timor in 1975 say an attempt to exhume their remains will cause more trauma. The…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA) says that at least 129 teenagers have been sexually assaulted this year to date…

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Deddy Kusdinar, the first suspect in the Youth and Sports Ministry's graft-ridden Hambalang sports complex project,…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police Commission (Kompolnas) has found irregularities behind the controversial police move to prosecute…

Dion Bisara – Indonesia's problems developing infrastructure and reforming the bureaucracy may cost 1 percent to 3 percent of the country's annual…

Jayapura – A group called the Federated State of West Papua, known by its Indonesian initials as the NFRPB plans to mark the first anniversary of…

Jakarta – Two opinion polls have painted a gloomy picture for Islam-based political parties, with none of the existing ones being predicted to…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Antara – A survey released on Monday shows that Indonesian voters are losing faith in the nation's Islamic…

Nick Chesterfield, with Westpapuamedia stringers – Amid an intensification of armed security sweeps against West Papuan clanspeople around Wamena…

Dessy Sagita – A prominent teachers' union has demanded that Education Minister Mohammad Nuh resign for suggesting that a 14-year-old girl who…

Bali – In its desperate attempt to show its commitment to fight corruption, the Democratic Party has come up with the idea of an anti-corruption…

Pitan Daslani – The government is pushing to get a wide-ranging national security bill passed by the House of Representatives, but lawmakers are…

Pitan Daslani – The Legislation Committee of the House of Representatives is currently studying a draft law on national security that covers a…

In its press statement on October 3, the Indonesian Workers and Labourers Assembly (MPBI) stated that 2 million workers mobilized for the national…

The 80-year-old widow of an Australian journalist allegedly shot by Indonesian forces in East Timor in 1975 pleaded Sunday for her husband's…

George Roberts, Indonesia – The widow of one of five journalists killed by Indonesian troops in Timor in 1975 has launched a new campaign to have…

Hamish McDonald – Just over a month ago, popular Darwin identity Vikki Riley was riding her bike on one of her regular visits to asylum seekers at…

Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – Indonesia risks falling into a so-called middle-income trap if it fails to improve infrastructure needed to sustain…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Surabaya – Former president and opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri revealed on Friday that she had to fight against…

Jakarta – A top education official has defended the government's plan to streamline the curriculum for primary education, saying it is customized…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua gubernatorial election process has resumed with the issuance of the Papua General Elections Commission (…

Indonesia has seen a major decline in the number of child brides, but a significant 22 percent of Indonesian women aged 20 to 24 were married…

Rabby Pramudatama and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The trial of Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh for bribery may shed light on new…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III overseeing law and human rights affairs has finally approved the budget allocation to build…

Following news that science and social studies would be largely scrubbed from the nation's elementary school curriculum, the government has…

Rabby Pramudatama and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – After procrastinating for more than four months, Commission III on law and human rights…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives lambasted the government for padding up its human rights records only to improve…

Rizky Amelia – With graft investigators' net widening in late 2010, Angelina Sondakh allegedly threatened to unleash a "tsunami" on the House of…

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has rejected a request to review Law No. 17/2011 on state intelligence, stating that the law provides a clearer…

Zubaidah Nazeer, Solo, Central Java – Even as Indonesia stepped up security throughout the archipelago in the decade since the Bali blasts, a new…

Jakarta – Indonesians support the democratic system but believe that it can harm minority groups and economic development, as well as spark…

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Only two days after President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivered his remarks to end the…

Rizky Amelia – The East Timor Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday visited the headquarters of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission in…

Lauren Turner – Intestinal worms affect up to half of East Timor's children and former president Jose Ramos-Horta is calling on Australians to…

Former East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta has called for help for students wanting to study in Tasmania.

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Margareth S. Aritonang and Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The National Police have defied President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's call not to prosecute…

Jakarta – The death penalty was still necessary within the Indonesian criminal law system, Deputy Law and Human Rights Minister Denny…

Karangasem, Bali – Between rice fields and coconut trees on Indonesia's "paradise" island of Bali, a man lies chained by the ankles to a rotting…

Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden, the Netherlands – Three Dutch institutions – the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and…