Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal, Medan/Jambi – Calls for settlement to land disputes across the county had hardly died down when two groups of…

Rizky Amelia – The fallout from a $2.2 million meeting room renovation project at the House of Representatives continued on Sunday as antigraft…

Cikarang, Bekasi – Labor unions have canceled the massive protest scheduled for today after an agreement was reached late on Sunday…

Bayu Marhaenjati – At night, cleared of smog and congestion, Jakarta's flyovers transform themselves into dating hotspots where young couples can…

Ismira Lutfia & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Labor unions in greater Jakarta will stage a major rally in East Bekasi, Karawang and Cikarang today…

Dwi Atmanta – Thousands of protesters, reportedly from various regions across the archipelago, rallied outside the State Palace on Thursday in…

Armando Siahaan – If law enforcers would go after high-level corruption the same way they handled the kid who stole a pair of sandals from a…

Ade Mardiyati – As a Jakarta resident, I often have the feeling that our public spaces are accident scenes waiting to happen. I never know what to…

Taslim Chaniago, a member of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee, has tendered his resignation from the committee following…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The upcoming gubernatorial elections in Aceh are facing uncertainty following a move by the ruling Aceh Party (PA…

Vento Saudale & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two legislators who joined the beleaguered GKI Yasmin congregation for Sunday services in Bogor got…

Agus Triyono – A survey carried out by nongovernmental organizations between July and September last year showed there is a widespread belief…

Dwi Lusiana, Malang, East Java – A Malang man who says he was attacked by two people in military and police uniforms near a hotel where President…

Tom Allard – On a Thursday morning last year, Sapari, a cemetery caretaker in Bonasari in East Java, made a disturbing discovery.

Underneath…

Jakarta – A survey jointly conducted by the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) and the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) found that torture is…

Jakarta – Army Special Force (Kopassus) Commander Major General Wisnu Bawa Tenaya said the force's presence in Papua was to carry out part of the…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Multa Fidrus, Bandung/Tangerang – A number of regional administrations are insisting on keeping bylaws that ban the…

Anita Rachman – Despite mounting calls for an agrarian reform law, especially after the recent spate of violence over land disputes, the House of…

East Timor will hold its second presidential election as an independent nation on March 17, President Jose Ramos-Horta said, as UN peacekeepers…

Cilacap, Central Java – Judges at the Cilacap District Court sentenced a former warden of Nusakambangan penitentiary on Thursday to 13 years in…

Ronna Nirmala – The Jakarta Police said on Friday that they had questioned three witnesses about an attack on the Home Affairs Ministry by hard-…

Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – Women's rights activists have criticized the action of police officers in Tangerang who scolded two girls for…

Jakarta – Experts have made a dire prediction that unless President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets his act together by becoming more decisive…

Jakarta – The embattled GKI Taman Yasmin church in Bogor, south of Jakarta, claimed on Thursday that its parishioners had experienced escalating…

After days of negotiations, the local administration and police in Sampang, East Java, convinced 300 Shiite Muslim refugees to return…

Jakarta/Mataram – After a series of deadly incidents and demonstrations across the country, which mostly pitted locals against mining and…

Hundreds of demonstrators in Ambon, Maluku, came close to blows with members of the provincial legislature on Thursday.

The demonstrators,…

A Malang man allegedly bashed by two officers in military and police uniforms near a hotel where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono…

East Timor will hold its second presidential election on March 17, as UN peacekeepers prepare to depart.

"Having concluded all the required…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) will begin deliberations over a draft of the national security law despite strong…

Bruce Gale – "I just mixed up all the ingredients at random. I don't know if they have any side effects at all or what they were." This chilling…

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is warning the government that it has a fast-closing…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung, West Java – The Bandung municipal administration has said that it will stick to its alcohol bylaw and continue to carry…

UA: 9/12 Index: ASA 21/002/2012

Hundreds of Indonesian Shi'a Muslims have been living in a temporary shelter after their village was…

Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian government signaled that it may finally act against the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI)…

Agus Triyono, Ronna Nirmala & Ezra Sihite – Relatives of high-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin allegedly threatened to kill key…

Arientha Primanita, Camelia Pasandaran & Carla Isati Octama – Members of Indonesia's hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) stoned the…

Arientha Primanita & Camelia Pasandaran – The government signaled on Thursday that it may finally act against the hard-line Islamic Defenders…

Camelia Pasandaran – In the long-running battle for churches to open houses of worship, some are asking whether a solution will ever come.

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Endy Bayuni – For years now, Indonesia has been basking in its status as the world's third-largest democracy after India and the United States.…

Ronna Nirmala – A former director general at the Social Affairs Ministry was sentenced to 17 months in prison on Thursday for his role…

Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Around 150 university students, activists and farmers grouped under the People's…

Ezra Sihite & Bayu Marhaenjati – A large rally against the abuse of landowners' rights outside the House of Representatives building in…

Bayu Marhaenjati & Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – The Indonesian Association of Employers agreed on Wednesday to meet with protesting workers to try…

Ulma Haryanto – Thousands of workers from a Nike plant in Serang, Banten, are due to receive nearly $1 million for forced overtime without payment…

Anita Rachman – With several rape and sexual assault cases dominating the news recently, a crucial question has so far been given little attention…

Jakarta – The government is expanding its definition of "welfare" in its approach to Papua, and welcomes the assistance of foreign donors in…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo said on Thursday that the potential outflow of foreign assets was among…

Ulma Haryanto – The West Sumatra Commission on Human Rights has found irregularities in the police's account of the deaths of two young brothers…

Kupang – After living for 13 years in shelters with no certain future, 15 people who fled East Timor before it became Timor Leste are…