Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL) Center said that provincial legislative councillors and private companies were…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Family planning authorities are urging the country's highest Islamic authority to declare…

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – Indonesia's commercial banks booked Rp 15.5 trillion (US$1.68 billion) in net profits in the first two months of this…

Novianti Setuningsih & Rizky Amelia – High-profile graft suspect Nunun Nurbaeti insists she facilitated the meeting between Miranda Goeltom…

The National Police finally announced on Tuesday that former health minister Siti Fadilah Supari had been named a suspect in a…

Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) called on the police and prosecutors to apply the money laundering law as…

Jakarta – Luxury vehicle owners are still mixing subsidized and non-subsidized fuels, like Premium and Pertamax, even though the…

Iman Mahditama, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police said Monday they would question two soldiers who were shot while allegedly as part of a motorcycle…

Ezra Sihite – The government has been criticized for allocating Rp 30.2 billion ($3.3 million) in the state budget for meetings led by…

Michael Bachelard, Dili – A military man recommended by the United Nations for criminal prosecution six years ago seems almost certain to become…

Meagan Weymes – Former guerrilla Taur Matan Ruak has won East Timor's presidential run-off by a wide margin, preliminary results showed Tuesday,…

Gerry Van Klinken – There is bitter irony here. Even for the winning side, this bloody outcome was not optimal. Indonesia was left in physical…

Guido Goulart, Dili, East Timor – Two former guerrilla leaders vied for East Timor's presidency Monday, each hoping to help steer the region's…

Damien Kingsbury – When East Timor's outgoing president, Jose Ramos-Horta, won office in 2007 by a crushing 69 per cent, many outsiders attributed…

Dessy Sagita – The National Commission for Child Protection will file a class-action lawsuit against the cigarette industry and the government for…

Ronna Nirmala – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo sparked comments among Indonesian Twitter users on Monday after a photo of him giving the…

Jakarta – Despite its pledge to uphold transparency, the government has not done enough to promote open and transparent governance, a coalition of…

Michael Victor Sianipar – As the judicial review of the 2011 State Intelligence Law enters its final phase, the government is contending that the…

On last Monday, voters in Aceh went to the polls to elect a governor, a deputy governor and 17 mayors and regents. It was only the second…

Muhammad Nazar, one of a number of candidates running for the Aceh governorship, was surprised when he was informed that he had barely gathered 8…

Meagan Weymes – Former military commander Taur Matan Ruak was ahead in an early count for East Timor's presidential run-off vote on Monday,…

Lutfi Rakhmawati, Jakarta – Parishioners of HKBP Filadelfia in Bekasi, West Java, say that they have been intimidated for too long. On Sunday,…

Farouk Arnaz – A convoy of Freeport Indonesia cars was on Saturday attacked twice on the road linking Tembagapura and the company's Grasberg mine…

Jakarta – The Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) praised the recently endorsed Elections Law, saying that the amended legislation…

Ezra Sihite – Presidential hopeful Aburizal Bakrie's popularity is growing, Golkar Party officials said on Monday, citing the results…

Surabaya – A rally staged by thousands of citizens affected by the Lapindo mudflow in East Java turned violent when protestors clashed with police…

Michael Victor Sianipar – Millions of students across the country have entered what is arguably the most stressful week of their lives so far as…

Jakarta – With the presidential election only two years away, Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie has demonstrated his strong intention to become the…

Rizky Amelia – Activists in the Sumatran province of Riau on Sunday called on the antigraft body to go after corporations that engaged in…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police have arrested two former Free Aceh Movement members for allegedly masterminding a string of armed attacks in…

Ezra Sihite, Agus Triyono, Robertus Wardi & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite more than two years of lobbying and backroom deals, the only…

Michael Bachelard – When pentecostal pastor Danny Nalliah thundered that the 2009 Victorian bushfires were caused by God's wrath at that state's…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) has urged the National Police to look into alleged procedural…

Ezra Sihite – Red tape, it turns out, can stick. House Deputy Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso warned State Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan not to get…

Jakarta – Because the government has failed to fulfill its promise of agrarian reform, the process of rural proletarianisation continues unabated…

Jakarta – Gay activist Dede Oetomo has made it to the latest screening phase for members of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM…

Jakarta – More than 69,000 registered voters in the capital of Aceh province, Banda Aceh, did not cast their votes in the April 9…

Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office is mulling the possibility of stopping an investigation into a high-profile graft case after the…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar Lampung – After having been delayed for six months, the inauguration of Khamanik as new Mesuji regent was held on Friday…

Mataram, Indonesia – Indonesian authorities said Saturday they had found a boat reported missing en route to Australia and that the dozens of…

Zakir Hussain – When The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) opposed cuts to fuel subsidies by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government, fellow…

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Activists on Friday demanded that East Java education office chief Harun revoke his statement that pregnant students would…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The Madurese Shia leader who became a target of arson recently in the wake of mounting suspicion by mainstream…

Victor R Savage – The current presidential election in Timor-Leste has brought international visibility to this rather marginalised state within…

Dili – East Timor's second presidential election as a free nation will see two ex-guerrillas compete in a run-off vote on Monday, after the Nobel…

Unrest has broken out in East Timor, where the campaign office of presidential candidate Taur Matan Ruak has been attacked in the lead-up to the…

Lenny Tristia Tambun – A national business organization has called on the government to reconsider its beef "self-sufficiency" program, which its…

Ezra Sihite & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party appears keen to have two opposition parties join the…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Just a day after the House of Representatives passed the amended election law, calls have been mounting to…

Bayu Marhaenjati – Police disclosed on Friday that members of the Indonesian Navy were allegedly involved in a string of motorcycle gang attacks…