Noble mothers, wives and workers, with no troublesome demands – this is what Soeharto's New Order wanted of its female citizens. And every Dec. 22…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women revealed on Thursday that this year saw more than 105,000 cases of…

Farouk Arnaz, Ezra Sihite & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – The National Police released a video on Wednesday that they said proved villagers were…

Indonesian youths are nationalistic, a survey conducted by Genta Pemuda Indonesia Foundation says.

The survey measured youths' nationalism…

Nana Rukmana and Apriadi Gunawan, Cirebon/Medan – The Ansor Youth Movement (GP Ansor), a youth wing of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), has prepared 2.6…

Rizky Amelia – A former lawmaker involved in two different corruption cases said on Thursday that he did not deserve to be punished because his…

The Australian government has confirmed that it is investigating reports that an Australian-owned mining company was involved in ongoing…

Timika – Workers at Papua's giant Grasberg mine operated by US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan have not returned to work, police in the Indonesian…

Alex Rayfield – Human rights defenders in Paniai report that searches were recently carried out in the Badauwo, Geko and Kinouv area of East…

Ardi Mandiri, Bogor – A group of people in Parung, Bogor, asked the local government on Thursday to close down a church built in a residential…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Graft defendant and former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin made further allegations against his former…

Jakarta – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar said that an amendment to the Labor Law would give more protection to…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – A rights watchdog revealed on Tuesday that violations against workers' rights were still prevalent in Jakarta in…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Population pressure is taking its toll on Indonesia's already heavily stressed environment, with land degradation and…

Jakarta – The General Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) has received 1,718 reports of poll violations in 92 local elections in 2011…

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Despite an improvement in female participation in the public sector, more effort is needed to fully end discrimination…

The Hague – Widows of Indonesian men killed by the Dutch colonial army in 1946 and 1947 on Sulawesi island are planning to seek justice before a…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The ruling Democratic Party is expected to struggle over the next few years in "grooming" some of its members as…

Farouk Arnaz – An unidentified group of people set the Angkaisera police office in Yapen Waropen district Papua on fire and raised the…

Agus Triyono – The government is guilty of flouting dozens of its own laws throughout 2011, a leading legal watchdog said on Tuesday.

In its…

Alex Rayfield – Human Rights Defenders in West Papua accuse the Australian Government and an Australian-owned mining company, Paniai Gold, of…

Graft defendant and former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin has accused Democratic chairman Anas Urbaningrum of…

Ronna Nirmala – Former director of state power company Perusahaan Listrik Negara, Eddie Widiono, was sentenced to serve five years in…

Arientha Primanita & Camelia Pasandaran – The Bogor church at the center of a major dispute that has highlighted growing…

Ambon – Officials say a passenger ferry with more than 150 people on board sank off the Maluku Islands in eastern Indonesia. At least…

Ulma Haryanto, East Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan – When the Constitutional Court dropped two articles from the 2004 Plantations Law back in…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra – Residents of Mesuji district, in Ogan Komering Ilir, South Sumatra, have difficulty moving…

Jakarta – Migrant Care, a non-governmental organization (NGO) promoting rights of Indonesian migrant workers abroad, said that 32 migrant workers…

Rizky Amelia, Anita Rachman & Ezra Sihite – In their first official day on the job, the new leaders of Indonesia's antigraft agency have…

Jakarta – Antigraft advocates demanded on Monday that the Supreme Court accept an appeal request from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Wafid Muharam, 51, the secretary to the Youth and Sports Minister was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison for…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – More than five months after the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, announced she wanted to send asylum seekers to East Timor…

Jakarta – A survey by human rights watchdog Setara Institute has found that West Java was the least tolerant province in 2011, registering the…

Arientha Primanita – Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf said on Tuesday that police actions to re-educate punks did not violate human rights and instead…

Pekanbaru – Hundreds of cleaning staff subcontracted to Chevron Pacific Indonesia rallied outside the company's premises in Pekanbaru…

Fakhrurradzie Gade, Seulawah, Indonesia – Mohawks buzzed and noses free of piercings, dozens of youths march in military-style for hours beneath…

Oei Eng Goan – This isn't the 1959 courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Murder." It was a real life tragedy that befell farmers in the Mesuji area in…

Jakarta – Residents living along Jl. Rawa Lele in Kalideres, West Jakarta, staged a protest on Monday against the local administration…

Jakarta – The National Police announced on Monday that more than 500 personnel were discharged from the force annually.

National…

Anita Rachman, Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Retired Indonesian General Saurip Kadi has said he is outraged by allegations…

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – About 20 people staged a protest in front of the Indonesian Consulate General in San Francisco, the United…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Mesuji, Lampung – As their land dispute with a local plantation company remains unresolved, residents from Mesuji regency,…

Lampung – Police on Tuesday said they sanctioned two police officers who shot directly at a crowd of people during a clash in Mesuji, Bandar…

Ezra Sihite – Another ten islanders from Riau province have sewn their mouths shut during an ongoing hunger strike against Riau…

Ina Parlina and Oyos Saroso, Jakarta/Ogan Komering Ilir – A special team dispatched by the House of Representatives has confirmed that nine people…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Home to millions of domestic workers and transferring many of them overseas, Indonesia remains backward in…

Agus Triyono – Several organizations calling their coalition the Action Committee for Household Workers called on the government on Sunday to…

Alan Howe – Legendary reporter Hugh Lunn, then an Asia correspondent for Reuters, witnessed the cruel farce of the Act of Free Choice in 1969.…

Timika, Papua – A joint investigation conducted by the Papua police and the Mimika police named five Papuans from Timika on Monday as…

Farouk Arnaz – The arrest of 64 punks in Banda Aceh for the alleged crime of being "punk" spurred a group of punks under the name of…