Jayapura – Three candidate pairs running in the West Papua election walked out during the draw for their candidate ticket numbers in Manokwari on…

Ulma Haryanto – Antigraft heavyweights like money laundering watchdog chief Yunus Hussein and human rights activist Bambang Widjojanto are among…

Kupang – The Indonesian border zone with Timor Leste, which was previously closed to the media, will be opened to journalists, a…

The Democratic Party's deputy secretary general said that the accusations made by the party's former treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin…

The number of new HIV infections continues to rise in a nation with few testing clinics and the continued prevalence of unprotected sex, the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Board for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers (BNP2TKI) should be held responsible…

Nurfika Osman – Last month, Retno Listyarti served as an exam monitor at a senior high school in North Jakarta. She said that what she observed…

Rizky Amelia – Two former United Development Party (PPP) lawmakers on Monday were each sentenced to 15 months in jail for their…

Jakarta – The leading lights of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) say that Indonesia's largest Muslim organization is fragmenting and sliding into irrelevance…

Ulma Haryanto – The Constitutional Court on Monday decided that Busyro Muqoddas would serve a full four-year term as a chairman the…

Anita Rachman – A lawmaker from the House of Representatives' Commission III overseeing legal affairs said on Monday that the…

Jason MacLeod – "You can mess with the police," said the Indonesian soldiers, "but if you try it with us, you're dead."

According to…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Since the enactment of Law No. 21/2001 on Papuan Special Autonomy 10 years ago, the law has been obstructed by…

Antara & Jakarta Globe – The Singaporean government on Sunday deported five Indonesian activists who went to the city-state to search for…

Ulma Haryanto – A leading human rights watchdog is worried the Attorney General's Office could be deliberately stalling the case review of a…

Makassar – Through their leaders, the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and the Pancasila Youth in Makassar signed a peace pact before…

During the past month, Jakarta has hosted a number of regional and global conferences. First there was the Asean leaders' summit and more recently…

Marcel Thee & Tasa Nugraza Barley – The current dearth of Hollywood movies in our theaters has once again cast the spotlight on the Indonesian…

Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa – Indonesia's improving economy has triggered foreign investment inflows. However, concerns are rising that overseas money is…

The Jakarta Administration has expressed concerns about the "alarming" condition of the waterways that crisscross the capital, most…

Armando Siahaan – So far, 2011 has not been a good year for the Democratic Party. Let's just say that, if the 2014 general election was to be held…

A new club in Indonesia that encourages women to be totally obedient to their husbands and focus on keeping them sexually satisfied has generated…

The chairman of Commission A of DPRP. Ruben Magai has warned that the destruction of Papuan resources is being intensified by the activities of a…

AMPTPI, the Association of Students from the Central Highlands, has urged the DPRP to summon the police chief in Papua to ask him about how the…

Makassar – South Sulawesi Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo has approved a proposal to ban Ahmadiyah activities in his province.

A…

Jakarta – After 13 years of the ostensible reform in the National Police, the institution remains one of the most corrupt institutions in the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) says it wants to regain the public's trust by creating smart, clean and honest…

Pekanbaru, Riau – Hot spots have reappeared in Riau province over the last few days with thick haze blanketing Rokan Hilir regency and…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives should accelerate the deliberation of the domestic workers bill and ratify the UN convention on migrant…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – The 15-year jail term handed to convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir this week is sparking debate, with analysts…

Ambon, Maluku – Housewives emerged as the third largest group of HIV/AIDS infected people in Maluku in 2010, presumably because of…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papuan people want only one People's Assembly (MRP) for the entirety of native Papuan land because they fear that…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Recent female figures named corruption suspects have broken the long-established assumption that women are less corrupt…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Abu Bakar Bashir, sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for inciting terrorism, sat slumped in his chair in a South…

The 15-year jail sentence for internationally known Abu Bakar Ba'asyir definitely fails to satisfy both his supporters and those who demanded…

Harison Citrawan, Jakarta – A recent IndoBarometer survey found that 29.7 percent of 1,200 respondents were satisfied with the Yudhoyono…

Human Rights Watch has criticized Indonesian authorities for failing to uncover the people behind February's brutal attack on the Ahmadiyah…

Acts of violence and terror that have been perpetrated against human rights defenders as well as against journalists have led to a sense of deep…

Arientha Primanita – While the prospects for a fledgling party seeking to nominate Sri Mulyani Indrawati as its presidential candidate in 2014…

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives will next week launch an investigation into alleged polling fraud cases that may have granted seats…

Jakarta – A freshly inked two-year forest moratorium was breached on its first day as a plantation company burned carbon-rich…

Yones Douw, a human rights activist in the Indonesian province of Papua, was beaten by military officers on 15 June and has been denied medical…

The jailing of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on terrorism charges will not diminish his influence on militant extremists unless he is…

Dessy Sagita – Indonesians have been urged to report candidates competing for the top post of the country's anti-graft body that have been…

Indonesia's support for an international convention on domestic workers must be followed by the enactment of a domestic workers' law in Indonesia…

Ulma Haryanto – For most of Abu Bakar Bashir's zealous supporters, his conviction on terrorism charges on Thursday were part of an ongoing…

Nivell Rayda – Under the scorching sun, members of Jamaah Anshorut Tauhid struggled to stay awake on Thursday as judges at the South Jakarta…

Nivell Rayda & Ulma Haryanto – It is likely the only common ground they will ever have, but terrorism analysts and supporters of militant…

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Tension is reportedly gripping the Indonesia-Timor Leste border, where hundreds of residents have attempted for the past…

Ulma Haryanto – A court on Wednesday began reviewing the case of a former Garuda Indonesia pilot jailed for killing an activist, with the convict…