Syamsul Hadi and Marcus Suprihadi, Jember – The second year of the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President…

Syahrul Hidayat, Palembang – Student activists from the Indonesian Muslim Students Action Front (KAMMI) held an action to commemorate…

Banjir Ambarita & Camelia Pasandaran, Jayapura – Dozens of people have been injured after Indonesian security forces pistol whipped or beat…

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Hong Kong, Jayapura – About 100 TNI soldiers and several members of the mobile brigade of the police (BRIMOB) are…

The Cabinet

Ina Parlina and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Near absolute loyalty to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may have been what saved at least three…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has grabbed more power and control of state assets by appointing his close aides to…

Arientha Primanita, Anita Rachman & Camelia Pasandaran – A chorus of disappointed sighs greeted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's…

The latest Cabinet shake-up announced by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the eve of the third year of his second and last term in office has…

Public Housing Minister Djan Faridz

Birthplace/date: Jakarta/Aug. 5, 1950
Education: Bachelor's degree in architecture; Tarumanegara…

Jakarta – A recent research by the Judicial Commission and university researchers has found that many judges both at district and high…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court revived its authority on Tuesday after annulling the latest additions in the newly revised law…

Jakarta – The newly-installed National Intelligence Agency (BIN) director, Army Lt. Gen. Marciano Norman, has promised that the agency…

Declaration – Forming Federal State of West Papua

On this day Wednesday, 19 October 2011 at the Third National Papua Congress, the…

Andri Yudhistira, Jakarta – A number of people in the name of "Occupy Jakarta" protested in front of the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) on Jl.…

Jayapura – Scenes of jubilation and free expression have erupted in Jayapura, West Papua as over 20,000 delegates took part in the historic Third…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Indonesia's wealthy population surged by almost a fifth year-on-year in August, a rate three times the projected economic…

Participants of the Papuan Congress in the provincial capital of Jayapura were shocked at being greeted at the venue by five armored vehicles and…

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Hong Kong – At around 3pm today the security forces surrounding the Third Papuan People's Congress in Indonesia…

Jayapura – Papua interim governor Syamsul Arif Rivai said that the third Papua people's congress, held from Oct. 17 to 19, was a form of democracy…

Olivia Rondonuwu and Neil Chatterjee – When Freeport renewed its contract for one of the world's biggest copper and gold mines, some of Indonesia'…

Jakarta – Scores of people attended the "Occupy Jakarta" protest action on the grounds of the Jakarta Stock Exchange (JSX) building on Wednesday…

Warning shots fired by Indonesian soldiers were prompted by the reading of a declaration of independence by high-profile Papuan…

A local journalist at the scene of the "chaos" at the Papuan Peoples' Congress in Jayapura on Wednesday said shots from a nearby hill…

Jakarta – In concert with the Occupy Wall Street movement that is calling for reforms to the United States' economic policies, a…

E Mei Amelia R and Ari Saputra, Jakarta - Two demonstrators from the University of Indonesia (UI) Student Action Front (FAM) were assaulted during…

Rendi A. Witular and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – Outgoing Fisheries and Maritime Affairs Minister Fadel Muhammad was apparently a persona non grata…

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is considering reducing its commitment to the government coalition in response to…

Anita Rachman – It's official. Today marked the kick off of the Indonesian version of Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Jakarta.

A small number of…

Greenpeace has lashed out at allegations made by a legislator that one of its top British activists managed to skirt an entry ban into Indonesia…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Antigraft Society (MAKI) and legislators have questioned the recent acquittal by the Buntok District…

Abepura – Indonesian Brimob Riot Police have forcibly broken up attempts to hold a memorial commemoration at the graveside of slain independence…

Dili – A new bill allowing more diversified investments by Timor-Leste's multi-billion dollar oil and natural gas sovereign fund, which…

Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever has resumed palm oil purchases from Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology (SMART) after the planter…

Jakarta – Bowing to pressure from the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body (BRTI), 10 cellular service providers, all members of the…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed in Jakarta on Monday three of his close aides to strategic ministerial posts,…

Jakarta – The chairman of the human rights watchdog Setara Institute, Hendardi, has criticized the results of the Cabinet reshuffle,…

Ali Kutarumalos, Jakarta – Thousands of striking workers blockaded roads leading to Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc.'s mine in easternmost…

Around 5,000 people on Monday swarmed Zhakeus Field in Padangbulan, Jayapura, Papua, to attend the opening of the 3rd Papuan People's Congress,…

Banjir Ambarita & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jayapura – The Indonesian unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan announced on Monday that it was…

The Prosperous Justice Party has repeated its threat to quit the coalition government if President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reduces the party's…

Jakarta – Indonesian Women's Coalition secretary-general Dian Kartika Sari says that religion and tradition are used to prevent women in villages…

Jakarta – The immigration office claimed on Monday that it did not issue a warrant to deport Greenpeace campaigner Andrew Ross Tait, prompting…

Anita Rachman – An Indonesian version of the Occupy Wall Street movement that went global over the weekend might gain supporters, activists and…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A new bill drafted to boost religious tolerance in the country may serve as a tool for the government to inhibit…

Jakarta – A member of the presidential Judicial Corruption Task Force is questioning government efforts to ban two Greenpeace activists from…

Jakarta – The Golkar Party is the strongest party in the country, according to recent surveys, which also show that the Democratic Party's…

Jakarta – Copper and gold mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia has been forced to halt production following a deteriorating security situation around…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Another worker at giant copper mining company PT Freeport Indonesia (PTFI), who was wounded in a clash with…

Jayapura – The Third Papuan People's Congress opened in Jayapura today and took place in a field in the open air, after failing to get permission…