In another blow to the credibility of the General Elections Commission, the AGO announced on Monday that KPU chief Abdul Hafiz Anshary…

Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono (HB) X and Vice Governor Sri Pakualam IX received…

Jakarta – The People's Liberation Party (PPR) reports that a person was shot dead by security forces during a clash with thousands of PT Freeport…

Indonesian security forces opened fire on striking workers at Freeport-McMoran's gold and copper mine early Monday, killing one and…

Jakarta – A clash between striking workers and police near Freeport Indonesia's copper mine killed one protestor and injured others, complicating…

Rangga Prakoso – With just three months left in the year, the House of Representatives' performance for 2011 is on its way to being worse than…

Kontras, the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence has condemned the shooting of Freeport workers who were seeking negotiations…

Jayapura – With the forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan continually shrinking, Papua's timber fields now face a grave threat, a…

Jakarta – The ruling Democratic Party has proposed that electoral constituents be shrunk and allocated fewer legislative seats so as to decrease…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A watchdog group says the 560 members of the House of Representatives are quick to put the government and state…

Esther Samboh and Nani Afrida, Jakarta – With less than two weeks to go before the President is expected to announce a major reshuffle of his…

The Indonesian authorities must immediately investigate the use of deadly force by police at a mining protest, Amnesty International said today…

Jayapura – About two thousand people intending to attend the Third Papuan People's Congress due to open on 16 October have already arrived in…

Aloysius Unditu & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Massive intervention by Bank Indonesia has cost the country billions of dollars from its foreign…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Amid escalating friction between the two state institutions, the House of Representatives said it would suspend the…

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Police played down the possibility of a terrorist link in the explosion of an automated teller machine (ATM) in…

Indonesia's counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested five people in connection with a suicide bombing of a mosque in April, a spokesman said…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office has no intention of making senior prosecutor Cirus Sinaga a scapegoat to restore its tarnished…

The arrest of a 14-year-old Australian boy in Bali on drug possession charges will test Indonesian-Australian relations, an NGO said.

The…

Jill Jolliffe – East Timorese hotel manager Alice Goncalves has survived many bad moments in the hospitality business.

The worst was as a…

Jakarta – "I'll pray for GKI Yasmin so that [the church] will open again and people can pray there. Keep the spirit! Lord Jesus loves GKI Yasmin…

Jakarta – Noted economist Faisal Basri officially announced Friday that local politician Biem Benjamin would become his running mate in the…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is reportedly now short-listing the names of new ministers for his first Cabinet shake-up during his…

Robert Connolly – In 2009, I took a small film crew to East Timor to make the feature film Balibo, a story depicting the events surrounding the…

Camelia Pasandaran – The Depok municipal administration in West Java said it will close all karaoke businesses in the city, saying local bylaws…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Eight years after its establishment in 2003 as an adhoc agency on the frontline of the nation's…

A religious teacher from a state high school in Madura, East Java, is likely to face sanctions after he was caught having sex with a…

Workers at one of the world's largest gold and copper mine in the remote Indonesian province of Papua vowed on Friday to paralyze production, as…

Workers at the world's largest gold and copper mine in Indonesia have promised to strike indefinitely until their demands are met.

Most of…

Alex Rayfield and Claudia King – Workers at the Freeport McMoRan mine in West Papua resumed strikes on 15 September after more than six weeks of…

Indonesian police have detained ten West Papuan activists in Jayapura on Thursday ahead of a critical meeting for the pro-independence West Papua…

Bruce Gale – Indonesia ranks 61st out of 65 countries when it comes to 15-year-olds' proficiency in mathematics. Their reading skills are a little…

Zakir Hussain – Two recent moves by global tech giants to bypass Indonesia and set up shop in neighboring countries have put a damper on Jakarta's…

Jakarta – Noted international environmental organization Greenpeace has announced its concerns regarding the Indonesian government's…

Jakarta – The Foreign Ministry has agreed to settle the Rp 6.5 billion (US$750,000) parking fine bill incurred since 2002 by…

Jakarta – Up to 67 percent of children below the age of 13 in the East Nusa Tenggara capital of Kupang have accessed porn sites,…

Elisabeth Oktofani & Dessy Sagita – More than 60 percent of Indonesian minors do not have a birth certificate, depriving them of a range of…

Jakarta – Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, West Java and Banten are the three provinces most vulnerable to Islamic radicalism, a recent survey shows.…

Karima Anjani – Union workers at Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc's extended their strike at a massive Indonesian gold and copper mine on…

Antara & Camelia Pasandaran, Bandung – Bandung's factory outlets are open to Miss Universe, but its charity functions are not, according to…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rizky Amelia – Politicians and analysts warned on Thursday that the outcome of an internal inquiry by the…

Karima Anjani – The multimillion-dollar project in Indonesia's remote West Papua province had noble ambitions: resettle migrant workers so they…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-192-2011

Dear friends,

On 2 June 2011, members of the Persiapan Rantau Kopar Sub-district Police…

Bagus BT Saragih and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Once perceived as the nation's most corrupt institution, the House of Representatives has garnered a…

If criticism is analogous to nutrient food that helps democracy mature and grow stronger, the persistent demands from Prosperous Justice Party (…

Jakarta – Members of the Islamic Student Assocation (HMI) clashed with riot police during a rally in front of the Kediri Regional…

Camelia Pasandaran – Outraged at being referred to as "Patrialis Mini" on a Metro TV program, the justice and human rights minister has filed a…

Lisa Siregar – More women in Jakarta are standing up to support one another and condemn sexual assault in the capital.

When Jakarta Governor…

Arientha Primanita, Ezra Sihite & Faisal Baskoro – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told the Indonesian military on its 66th anniversary…

Jakarta – Indonesian teachers are protesting a ministerial decree that requires them to publish academic papers or scientific work to qualify for…