Rizky Amelia – After firing three investigators for their alleged close ties to graft suspects, top officials at the nation's antigraft body are…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – In a bizarre move, the House of Representatives Commission VIII overseeing religious and social affairs summoned…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – As many as 1.6 million of Berau's 1.9 million hectares of forest has been damaged,…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – With support from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the United Development…

Ismira Lutfia – The increasing concentration of Indonesian media in the hands of just a dozen holding companies poses a threat to people's right…

Dili, East Timor – More than 1,200 UN forces are ready to intervene in East Timor's presidential election this weekend if there is an outbreak of…

[Joint Press release by TAPOL, the Asian Human Rights Commission, the Faith-Based Network on West Papua, Franciscans International and the West…

Just prior to its Universal Periodic Review before the UN Human Rights Council, Indonesia's commitment to democracy and free speech has been…

Index: ASA 21/011/2012

Indonesian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release five men who have today been sentenced to…

If the Indonesian government wants to make an example out of these people, then it should free them as a symbol of its commitment to free…

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Rights watchdogs say that the Indonesian government used a broker to buy Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia, despite…

Anita Rachman – The media have historically been some of the most tenacious advocates of workers' rights, yet in one of the ironies of an…

Ezra Sihite & Dessy Sagita – A barrage of criticism and scorn continue to assail the president's recent establishment of an anti-pornography…

Ina Parlina and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The split within the leadership of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has worsened in…

Karlis Salna – East Timor's incumbent president, Jose Ramos-Horta, remains nonchalant even though this weekend could mark the beginning of the end…

Ezra Sihite – A photograph of three Cabinet ministers posing with a group of miniskirt-clad caddies at an East Jakarta golf course…

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Public order officers arrested several punks on Tuesday who were deemed to be causing a nuisance to citizens at several…

Dessy Sagita – Most Indonesians may be employed in the agricultural sector, but dwindling investment in the field and lack of government attention…

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Samarinda, East Kalimantan – Land issues and mine permits are threatening to scuttle a government plan to turn East…

Arienta Primanita, Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed a task force to implement the country's…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesia-Singapore bilateral meeting on Tuesday included the signing of agreements at the ministerial level, but…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced the establishment of an antipornography task force on Tuesday, a…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) to…

Jakarta – The government is set to create anti-pornography task forces at provincial and regency levels as an extension to the new anti-porn task…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia could fail its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015,…

Hangga Brata, Klaten, Central Java – Andreas Guntur, the leader of Amanat Keagungan Ilahi, a spiritual group which draws upon certain verses of…

David McKittrick – At the funeral of Francisco Xavier do Amaral the president of East Timor paid handsome tribute to the man he described as "a…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – While the prolonged deliberation of the bill on Yogyakarta's special status (RUUK) at the House of Representatives…

Tri Listiyarini & Tito Summa Siahaan – Commuters will abandon their private cars and public transportation in favor of motorcylces once the…

Jakarta – Dudhie Makmun Murod and Udju Juhaeri, former House members from Commission IX overseeing finance in 1999-2004, testified at Jakarta…

Ismira Lutfia – Official discrimination against women is on the rise, particularly at the local government level, according to a survey released…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers are asking questions over the anti-pornography task force recently established by President Susilo…

Erwida Maulia – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed Indonesia's first anti-pornography task force to oversee the enforcement…

The government's plan to allow foreigners to buy condominiums could help reduce "illegal purchases" of properties by foreigners that have tended…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The nation's poverty rate may spike above the government's 2012 target due to the government's planned subsidized…

Rizky Amelia – A second consecutive witness called by graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has implicated Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum…

Anna Powles, Dili – Timorese voters will go to the polls twice this year to elect the nation's president and parliament for the third time since…

Bayu Marhaenjati – A popular Muslim cleric was questioned by the police on Monday about claims by 11 young men that he molested them years ago.…

Jakarta – Only days after Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum declared that he was ready to suffer capital punishment if he was proven…

Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – In the run-up to the government's planned fuel price hike, the police are intensifying raids against hoarders,…

Trisnadi Marjan, Surabaya, Indonesia – The tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without…

Sukabumi, West Java – More than 70 illegal immigrants attempting to make the 236 mile crossing from Indonesia's seaside village of…

Jakarta – A new government regulation scheduled for implementation in May has promised a legal breakthrough that would allow foreigners to own…

Jakarta – A poll conducted by the Lingkaran Survei Indonesia (LSI) shows that at least 86.6 percent of 440 respondents opposed the…

Timika – The Indonesian subsidiary of US mining giant McMoRan said on Monday it had resumed operations after a two-week suspension caused by…

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) found in its survey that the Golkar Party remained the strongest contender…

Anita Rachman – This week, lawmakers representing the nine political factions in the House of Representatives will begin a series of meetings…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Mataram – The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) warned the government that agrarian conflicts could turn into a…

Michael Bachelard, Dili – When East Timorese voters go to the polls on Saturday to choose their new president, every candidate with a chance of…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The Wirabuana Military Command, which oversees the Gorontalo, Central, North, South, West and Southeast Sulawesi…