Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a new promise from the home affairs minister to send a long-delayed bill on village…

Banyumas – Around 400 hawkers protested the decision of railway company PT KAI to ban them from operating inside trains, saying that…

Ezra Sihite – The newly selected leadership of the national antigraft commission was approved at a plenary session of the House of Representatives…

Camelia Pasandaran – A Prosperous Justice Party board member said that party lawmaker, Adang Daradjatun, has the right to keep his…

Jakarta – The nation's money laundering watchdog has revealed that dozens of civil servants – still in their 20s or 30s – are thought to have…

Jakarta – The East Nusa Tenggara provincial government has set the minimum regional wage for 2012 at Rp 925,000 (about US$102) a month…

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo says that he has placed his hopes on religious preachers to help reduce the vast spread of HIV/…

Farouk Arnaz – Police officer Ridwan Napitupulu died on Monday morning, nearly four days after he was wounded during an attack in Jayapura, the…

Ulma Haryanto – The year 2011 has been yet another period of abject failure by the government to protect human rights, according to the results of…

Index: ASA 21/037/2011

In a meeting held today in Jakarta with Djoko Suyanto, the Coordinating Minister for Law, Politics and…

Last week thousands of Papuans rallied to mark the 50th anniversary of the first raising of the Morning Star flag. Alex Rayfield reports on a…

Jakarta – A police officer who was assaulted by villagers in Papua died after being treated in hospital, the police said Monday, two days after…

Dessy Sagita – Thirteen-year-old Sefritania Salsabilla cringes and looks away every time she sees people kissing and hugging on television.

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia says it has ratified a global treaty banning nuclear test explosions.

Negotiated in the 1990s,…

Jakarta – At least four groups of House of Representatives (DPR) members are traveling abroad this month for what they claim are "comparative…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono and his Democratic Party will face an ugly battle in the lead up…

Fitri, Mataram – Hundreds of villagers in East Lombok have attacked and set alight a hut used by a small group deemed to be a deviant sect,…

Dion Bisara – Indonesia is one step closer to slashing a number of zeros from the rupiah after the government on Tuesday said it would…

Joni Nunas Lestari, 31-years-old, was sentenced to two years in jail on Tuesday after disguising herself as a man and tricking another…

Medan – Hundreds of drivers of motor-powered tricycles, locally known as becak motor, staged a rally at the municipal office against…

Half a century ago, the Dutch encouraged the people of Western New Guinea, now generally known as Papuans or West Papuans, to look forward to…

Theresia Sufa, Jakarta – President of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Soritua A.E Nababan was barred from entering the beleaguered GKI…

Bayu Marhaenjati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stressed on Sunday the importance of preserving religious harmony in Indonesia and condemned…

Vento Saudale – The continued blockade of the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor by the local administration and hard-line Muslims has drawn the ire of…

Brigid Andersen – Reports from West Papua claim Indonesian anti-terrorist police have torched a remote village in the Papuan highlands amid…

Nurdin Hasan – Three people died and five were injured during a shooting in Lhokseumawe, Aceh on Sunday.

"On Sunday at 11:30 p.m. at Satya…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Michelle Natalie – Thousands of village chiefs protesting at the House of Representatives say they won't leave for…

Jakarta – The regent of Puncak Jaya wants to know who is supplying civilian groups with bullets in the wake of the fatal shootings of two police…

A member of the Jayapura police who was attacked by an unidentified group in Jayapura, Papua, died on Monday morning.

Second…

Jakarta – In spite of the continuous government program against HIV/AIDS, for many of Jakarta's poor the program remains elusive, with many…

Dessy Sagita – A school that earned the ire of the nation for rejecting, on World AIDS Day last week, a 6-year-old student because her father was…

Banjir Ambarita & Ulma Haryanto – The temperature in the restive province of Papua rose again after an armed attack over the weekend left two…

Leaders of various worker's unions and movements say they will group together into a more organized front, and establish a joint…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – During the 32-year rule of military strongman Soeharto, the Golkar Party prospered on the back of military power.

Mike Corder, The Hague – The Dutch government will pay compensation and apologize to relatives of men killed by Dutch troops in a notorious 1947…

Banjir Ambarita & Ulma Haryanto – Fighting in the violence-wracked district of Puncak Papua resulted in three deaths on Saturday, bringing the…

Adelaide – A media academic specialising in Asia-Pacific affairs condemned New Zealand news coverage on West Papua and other Melanesian issues at…

Dewi Kurniawati – It has been seven years since Suciwati, a petite, soft-spoken yet bravely determined woman, lost her activist husband to a…

Jayapura – Security forces say they are hunting separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive Papua province after two police were killed…

Denpasar, Bali – Indonesia Sunday released a 14-year-old Australian boy convicted of drug possession on the resort island of Bali after two months…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Political tensions in Aceh have begun to rise again with a grenade blast on Jl. Daud Beureueh, Lampriet, Banda…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Police officers were forced to deploy to Central Jakarta on Friday in response to an unusual public order issue…

After months of interviews and auditions, which included a tug-of-war within the House of Representatives over trivial procedural technicalities,…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has elected the next four leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), prompting angry cries…

Ulma Haryanto – More than a few eyebrows were raised when a relatively unknown young legal activist and lawyer from Makassar, South Sulawesi,…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Nani Afrida, Jayapura/Jakarta – The Jayapura Police have questioned four Papuan people in connection with the separatist…

Laura Jones – Freedom campaigner Benny Wenda raised the West Papua flag with Lord Mayor of Oxford Elise Benjamin to call for independence.

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Two Indonesian policemen were shot dead on Saturday in the latest deadly attack in eastern Indonesia's restive Papua province, police…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The man anointed as the leader of an independent West Papua, Forkorus Yaboisembut, says democratic countries that espouse…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has officially lifted the two year moratorium on sending migrant workers to Malaysia.

"The…