Farouk Arnaz – Feeling the heat following a public campaign to collect 1,000 pairs of sandals to mock a policeman who took a juvenile to court for…

Zaky Pawas – Police have arrested 18 men following a fresh clash between two organizations with a long history of hostility, the Betawi Rempug…

Anita Rachman – Far from hurting Golkar chief Aburizal Bakrie's potential chances in the 2014 presidential election, the Lapindo…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A senior lawmaker from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lambasted the government failing to…

Jakarta – Djubaidah had to charter a public minivan to help her carry a sack of 80 pairs of rubber sandals that she collected to the National…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Despite the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) finding nothing major in its audit of the government's bailout of Bank Century…

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Dozens of employees laid off by PT Riau Airlines rallied at the Riau Manpower and Transmigration Agency in Pekanbaru on…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – As an Indonesian citizen who happens to be a Shiite Muslim, Ahmad Jamali says he does not know why the police are…

Rahmat – A 17-year-old boy at the center of a legal and public relations storm was found guilty on Wednesday of stealing a pair of sandals from a…

Farouk Arnaz – Two more officers were named as suspects on Monday for beating protesters in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, last month, but no one has…

Alex Munro – A Chadstone resident has been leading a team of volunteers spreading light throughout some of the most remote parts of…

Ulma Haryanto – More than two weeks after shocking allegations from the district of Mesuji in Lampung came to light, the government's fact-finding…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights says that any police officers found guilty in a recent Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, clash deserve…

Ivan Thomas Brecelic – The full moon is overhead as we arrive in Banyuwangi, East Java, at 3 a.m. The trees cast shadows across the road in the…

Ronna Nirmala – The National Commission on Human Rights concluded on Tuesday that police violated their own procedures in the violent…

Anita Rachman – Disappointment greeted the preliminary conclusions of the government's fact-finding mission on the killings in Mesuji, with…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – First Brig. Simson Jones Sipayung is paying a high price for beating a 15-year-old boy who allegedly stole a fellow police…

A mob has looted the home and shop of a Shiite family in Sampang, East Java, after an attack on a nearby Shia Muslim boarding school a day earlier…

Jakarta – Despite disruptions to labor agreements last year, Indonesians working abroad managed to send home US$6.1 billion in 2011. Some argue…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) warned the government that social unrest may arise from natural resource conflicts in…

Jakarta – Police have named 56 Bima residents and five West Nusa Tenggara Police officers suspects in a clash that took place between protesters…

Greg Ansley – Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's new Labor Government abandoned the party's tough stand on the annexation of East Timor…

Farouk Arnaz – An internal investigation by the National Police has led to three officers being named suspects in the violence in Bima, West Nusa…

Ezra Sihite – Thirteen days into their protest against paper firm Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper outside the House of Representatives, demonstrators…

Jakarta – From issues such as Timor Leste's struggle for independence to Papua, Australian Cabinet papers have revealed that Australian policies…

Jakarta – Bureaucratic dysfunction – and sometimes greed – human errors and a lack of capabilities have hampered disaster risk management…

Anita Rachman – With 2011 now behind us, pundits looking ahead to 2012 see a year of intense political battles and legal struggles ahead for…

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The atmosphere heated up again around the GKI Taman Yasmin church in Bogor, West Java, when a group of people tried to…

Vento Saudale, Bogor – A bumper sticker prompted members of the hard-line Islamic Reform Movement to attack several members of the GKI Yasmin…

Dessy Sagita – The Indonesian Council of Ulema on Monday said that the legal process against a teenager accused of stealing a pair of sandals is…

Dozens of women in the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, collected hundreds of pairs of sandals, which they presented to the local…

The head of Freeport Indonesia's workers' union has said there will be no further strikes despite growing concern over the issue in Timika, Papua…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing significant social changes, as is demonstrated by the trend of marriages among young people as…

Ahmad Pathoni, Banda Aceh – Four people were killed in two separate armed attacks on New Year's Eve in Indonesia's Aceh province,…

East Timor's first feature film revisits the tiny nation's tortured struggle for independence, writes Natalie Craig.

The people of Kasai are…

Three decades, you're entitled to think, is a long time in politics. But cabinet papers revealed to the public for the first time today are a…

Nurhayat Indriyatno – The past year offered up a bounty of prime headline fodder, with plenty of people stepping into the glare of the public…

Nurkholis Hidayat – The current state of Indonesian law prompts me to question once again whether the rulers (the investors, political oligarchy,…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) acknowledged on Friday that it had failed to take the lead in the country's bureaucratic reform and…

Rahmat & Agus Triyono – Sandals of all colors and sizes are rapidly accumulating as part of a nation-wide protest against a police officer who…

This is the second of two reports on a deadly conflict between farmers and plantation companies allegedly backed by the police in the Mesuji area…

Hasyim Widhiarto – The disturbing images of the aftermath of a deadly brawl in plantation company PT Sumber Wangi Alam's (SWA) campsite still…

Hasyim Widhiarto – Maj. Gen. (ret.) Saurip Kadi made headlines in the past couple of weeks after screening video footage of a mass killing in…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – In the wake of the brutal arson attack against a Shiite Islamic boarding school in Sampang, Madura, East…

Arientha Primanita, Ezra Sihite & Antara – Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Djoko Suyanto said the Religious…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government has vowed to seek a peaceful solution to a protracted dispute over the existence of a church in Bogor…

Rangga Prakoso – During 2011, the Attorney General's Office dropped prosecution of three major corruption cases: that of state coal miner Tambang…

Nivell Rayda – For the families of the fallen students who 13 years ago were killed in a series of demonstrations that led to the ousting of…

Ezra Sihite – The general elections are two years away, but political parties are already courting public figures they think will help bring them…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant workers say they have seen no major changes in the way labor export works in the country, despite recent…