Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) says it is planning a survey for 2014 to collect reliable data on…

Farouk Arnaz – Six mid-ranking police officers have been named suspects in an internal police investigation of the shooting of civilian protesters…

Jakarta – Few ASEAN countries have reliable statistical data on violence against women although the 2004 ASEAN Declaration on the Elimination of…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Labor unions have threatened to stage a nationwide strike next month if the government does not act to end…

Ronna Nirmala – Despite shedding a few tears, "king of dangdut" Rhoma Irama on Monday refused to apologize or express any regret for his religious…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has reprimanded five television stations for broadcasting programs deemed unsuitable for…

Jakarta – In the midst of a global crisis, Indonesia's economic growth recorded a positive result. Economic growth for the second quarter of this…

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – Bogor regency administration issued an order on Monday to seal the St. Johannes Catholic church, due to permit issues.

Rahmat – Hundreds of people in Makassar, South Sulawesi, demonstrated on Monday against the construction of a church at a housing…

Danny Shaw – A tribal leader from an Indonesian province who was granted asylum in Britain has won his battle to be removed from an…

Alex Tinsley – The case of Benny Wenda, leader of the West Papuan independence movement, is a perfect illustration of the need to reform Interpol…

Investigators "strongly suspect" that police officers fired live rounds into crowds of unarmed civilians while containing a land dispute with…

Jakarta – The Golkar Party officially joined the United Development Party (PPP) on Sunday in endorsing incumbent Governor Fauzi Bowo and his…

Jakarta – Members of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin and the Congregation of Batak Protestant Churches (HKBP) Filadelfia stage a…

Ronna Nirmala – A chance encounter during the weekend between the two candidates in Jakarta's increasingly nasty gubernatorial election runoff did…

Sita W. Dewi – As the standoff between the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the National Police continues, the KPK's probe into graft…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Farouk Arnaz, Rizky Amelia & Rangga Prakoso – Antigraft watchdogs attacked a cabinet minister on Sunday for saying…

Rizky Amelia – The Corruption Eradication Commission's decision to name Insp. Gen. Djoko Susilo, the former head of the National Police's traffic…

Joe Leribun, Jakarta – The government of East Timor did not take over any land in the region of the border in the Nusa Tenggara Timor Province. A…

Jakarta – The National Police revealed on Saturday that they had arrested four suspects, including high-level police officials, allegedly linked…

Jakarta – A drunken police officer identified as Brig. Sahidin Jaenudin opened fire on crowds of teenagers and killed 18-year-old Agus…

Indonesian poet Seno Gumira Ajidarma followed in the steps of several intellectuals by refusing to the 2012 Achmad Bakrie Award, which…

Ahmad Najib Burhani – In June, the Fund for Peace issued a failed-states index. Of the 178 countries surveyed in this index, Indonesia was listed…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The National Land Agency (BPN) has been urged to impose Article 19 of Law No. 14/2008 on Public Information…

Margareth S. Aritonang and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Tensions between the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the National Police have…

Rizky Amelia& Markus Junianto Sihaloho – "Let's say you have someone who goes on trial for embezzling Rp 10 billion through corruption," says…

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – Nasaruddin Umar, the deputy minister for religious affairs, says Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali should be…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Working mothers in Indonesia are still facing barriers to exercising their rights to breastfeed their babies, as…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar has asked all employers to pay the Idul Fitri bonus on time…

Jakarta – Something is missing from the city streets during the fasting month of Ramadhan this year.

Seasonal beggars that usually flock to…

Yemris Fointuna – The situation on the border of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province of Indonesia and East Timor remains tense following a clash…

Lenny Tristia Tambun – Ahead of Jakarta's runoff gubernatorial election, election officials on Friday said they had found 75 offensive…

Sri Muwarni, a 57-year-old teacher from Surakarta, Central Java, saved every rupiah left over from her monthly salary in the hope of being able to…

Parties must open the door for alternative figures to run for president in 2014, according to one observer.

"Indonesia needs new…

National Awakening Party (PKB) chairman, Muhaimin Iskandar, wants the government to complete agrarian reform as soon as possible for…

Agus Maryono, Banyumas – The Ramadhan fasting month is a holy month for Muslims, where people are encouraged to do more good deeds and refrain…

An army officer facing charges over one of Indonesia's worst asylum seeker boat disasters has been accused of playing a key part in organising the…

Reportage – Following a series of religious violent incidents in recent years, the Religious Affairs Ministry has been criticized for not doing…

Index: ASA 21/029/2012

Amnesty International urges the Indonesian government to take immediate steps to implement recommendations…

Farouk Arnaz, Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The naming of two police generals as suspects in a corruption case has once again…

Novianti Setuningsih – On Tuesday, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators were locked inside of the National Police compound on…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The National Police are trying limit the damage from the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) investigation…

Earlier this year, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali weathered public criticism when he said that Shia Islam could be considered as…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – In the latest in a series of populist policies launched as his term in office comes to a close, Jakarta Governor…

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia booked a trade deficit for a third consecutive month in June on higher domestic demand for capital goods and…

The drama of the last two days at the National Police Headquarters, involving anti graft officers spending the night and having their pre-dawn…

Jakarta – Analysts and politicians have agreed that the only way that Muslim-based political parties can keep their heads above water in the 2014…

The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) has urged the National Police to keep its distance from agrarian conflicts between local people…

Raju Gopalakrishnan, Singapore – Just over 14 years ago, Prabowo Subianto was one of Indonesia's most reviled men, accused of kidnapping, human…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Farouk Arnaz – When the Corruption Eradication Commission named two active-duty police generals suspects in a graft…