Dion Bisara – The government plans to conduct a nationwide census that could boost the number of tax-paying residents by more than 25 percent by…

Jakarta – Prominent Muslim preacher Zainuddin Muhammad Zein (Zainuddin MZ) passed away on Tuesday morning at the Pertamina Hospital in…

Jayapura – Some 300 indigenous Papuans from all regions in Papua and West Papua provinces are expected to join a peace conference from…

Jakarta – Thousands of workers of PT Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US giant mining corporation Freeport McMoran Copper &…

Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the surprise announcement on Tuesday that contrary to statements from Indonesian…

The graft case linking errant Democrat lawmaker Muhammad Nazaruddin to corruption surrounding the construction of the athletes' village in…

Elly Burhaini Faizal and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Although the Foreign Ministry received a letter from the Saudi Arabian government halting…

Jakarta – A number of politicians who failed to win seats at the House of Representatives in the 2009 polls claimed they were victims of a…

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives declined during Tuesday's plenary to name three disgraced lawmakers that are facing…

Camelia Pasandaran & Dion Bisara – With recently released government data showing that the number of poor people in Indonesia is declining,…

Vento Saulade, Bogor – Community leaders in West Bogor subdistrict warned on Sunday of anarchy if the GKI Yasmin congregation continued to hold…

Jakarta – An accountability report delivered by United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma at a party plenary session at…

Nurfika Osman – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said provincial police across the country were preparing for vigilante…

Dessy Sagita – Human rights group Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace on Monday lambasted Islamic vigilante's plans to raid entertainment…

Anita Rachman – An alliance of nongovernmental organizations urged the Regional Representatives Council on Monday to drop its plan to…

The capital recorded its highest number of cases of violence against women in the first quarter of 2011, according to the National…

Camelia Pasandaran & Dion Bisara – As Indonesia struggles to address poverty and an overburdened health sector, a recent survey has found that…

Jayapura – According to the police, the arrest of five activists who were attending the commemoration of 1 July, OPM Day, was because…

Samuel Wanda, Timika, Papua – About 8,000 workers at Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc's Indonesian unit kicked off a seven-day strike on…

Jakarta – A human rights watchdog Imparsial says the national security bill currently being deliberated at the House of…

Zaky Pawas & Dessy Sagita – The Jakarta Police have defended the now-controversial arrest of two men selling iPads, saying the pair was…

Muhamad Al Azhari – Consumer confidence rose to the highest level in years, as Indonesians report feeling secure about stable food prices and the…

Alvin Soedarjo – Jakarta's traffic chaos costs Indonesia billions of dollars a year in a depressing reminder of the gap between the country's…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Amid the growing political turmoil within the ruling Democratic Party, front man Anas Urbaningrum continues to remain…

Jakarta – At least four out of Indonesia's 40 primate species are in danger of extinction, in large part because they are hunted for their meat,…

Teluk Gelam, South Sumatra – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has turned to an unlikely source to help the nation deal with a number…

Tom Allard – One of Australia's richest men, Clive Palmer, is buying nickel laterite ore for his Yabulu refinery from an Indonesian company that…

Zaky Pawas & Elisabeth Oktofani – Three-in-one. Truck bans. Electronic road pricing. With the capital's traffic woes continuing unabated, the…

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The number of low-income people in the country continues to slide this year but the reduction is slowing in an irony…

Jakarta – The Health Ministry says that its regulation on female circumcision does not oblige girls to undergo circumcision but merely…

Makassar – The hard-line vigilante group Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) visited nightclubs in the South Sulawesi capital of Makassar…

Camelia Pasandaran, Farouk Arnaz, Ulma Haryanto & Amir Tejo – High-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin is not convinced he will get a…

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – Indonesia's monthly exports reached a new record in May, easing four months of pressure on the nation's trade surplus…

Ulma Haryanto, Agus Triyono & Made Arya Kencana – Less than a month after a judge was allegedly caught red-handed receiving a bribe, antigraft…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has appointed several noted figures to sit on a special taskforce on migrant…

Tom Allard – About once a month, a ship from Townsville makes the long journey to Raja Ampat, a seascape of astonishing beauty and diversity.

Fien Jarangga & Galuh Wandita – Papuan women have been suffering terrible violence both outside and inside their homes for the past 40 years,…

Jakarta – Security was heightened in the town of Kwamki Baru, Timika, on Friday after two groups of local residents were caught in…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Following a lawsuit filed against Lion Air over its alleged discrimination against disabled people, experts said on…

Indonesia needs to watch its debts made by the government or private parties that have continued to increase although comparative ratios are…

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has named Democratic Party politician Muhammad Nazaruddin a suspect over allegations of accepting…

Democracy in South-East Asia is currently under attack. After the Thai Embassy in Jakarta was the target of a demonstration on June 27 because the…

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – The Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta has been 'attacked en masse' by scores of labour and youth activists condemning the arrest…

Jakarta – Activists from several local NGOs have urged the Malaysian government to release Malaysian activists from the Socialist…

Farouk Arnaz, Banda Aceh – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has singled out religious-based conflict and violence in his latest call for a…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Industrial and domestic waste originating from the outskirts of Bandarlampung are strongly believed to have…

Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The newly installed Army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Pramono Edhie Wibowo, on Thursday said he…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono installed his brother-in-law Lt. Gen Pramono Edhie Wibowo as Army Chief of Staff on…

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Activists warn that the national security bill, currently being deliberated at the House of Representatives, has…

Ulma Haryanto – The Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation will hold a fundraiser Thursday night in an effort to shore up budget shortfalls.

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