Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Mine operators across the country are failing to make amends for the environmental destruction that they wreak,…

Franz Magnis-Suseno, Jakarta - June 1 is Pancasila Day in Indonesia. On that day 66 years ago, young engineer Sukarno succeeded in uniting two…

Brian Padden – The United Nations says that plans to end the East Timor peacekeeping mission in 2012 are on track. The UN took over the functions…

Camelia Pasandaran – Human rights activists have called on legislators to ensure that a bill on intelligence includes adequate provisions holding…

Dina Indirasafitri, Jakarta – The Defense Ministry is planning to request Rp 80 trillion (US$8.5 billion) in its budget for 2012, a…

1. Introduction

For nearly fifty years the resistance to Indonesian occupation has taken various forms - including armed opposition,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – National Mandate Party (PAN) Lawmaker Waode Nurhayati on Tuesday said she would not publicly apologize to…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Former president Megawati Soekarnoputri on Tuesday expressed her disappointment at the Indonesian media for…

Stephen Schaber – The Indonesian government is facilitating the destruction of protected forests, according to a cable news report aired on…

Anita Rachman & Camelia Pasandaran – The imminent passage of amendments to the 2003 Law on the Constitutional Court could see key changes in…

Over 100 demonstrators protesting the issuance of mining permits vandalized the gate of the Aceh governor's office on Monday after…

Canberra – Australia suspended live cattle exports to 11 Indonesian abattoirs on Tuesday and announced a review into the A$320 million ($342…

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives' Ethic Council has finally dismissed three lawmakers found guilty of various corruption…

Jakarta – Recent graft scandals implicating women have challenged the notion that women are less corrupt than men, but women's role in corruption…

Rangga D. Fadillah and Esther Samboh, Jakarta – Downstream oil and gas regulator BPH Migas reported Monday that between 10 and 15 percent of the…

Anita Rachman – Allying itself with the ruling coalition seems to be hurting the Golkar Party more than it is benefiting it, party members and…

Joe Cochrane & SK Zainuddin – Fortune has favored Indonesia's business barons and captains of industry these past 12 months. Rising commodity…

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday angrily denounced the media and users of social networking Web sites for spreading false…

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police have a new plan to restrict the use of case brokers in attempts to crack down on pervasive…

Dessy Sagita – As countries mark World No Tobacco Day today, Indonesia is still struggling to end the deadly addiction among its citizens despite…

S.K. Zainuddin – Plantation king Eka Tjipta Widjaja, the patriarch of the Sinar Mas Group, has replaced Budi Hartono as the richest man in the…

Peter Alford, Jakarta – It was a bleak anniversary for Muhammad Budi and Sarwi, marked as every other day for the past five years by Lusi's…

Amir Tejo, Sidoarjo, East Java – Five years since a torrent of hot mud engulfed thousands of homes in Sidoarjo, East Java, villagers are still…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Just days after officials said there was nothing wrong with controversial politician Muhammad Nazaruddin's trip to…

Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should not have bothered to comment on a mystery text message containing allegations of…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party remains the most popular in the country, according to a new survey, but an analyst warns it still…

Camelia Pasandaran & Farouk Arnaz – Things are going from bad to worse for the beleaguered ruling party with the House of Representatives to…

Anita Rachman – With a recent survey indicating that Golkar Party's popularity has fallen below its two main rivals, a top Golkar…

Indonesian movie lovers are being starved of the latest Hollywood blockbusters by a drawn-out tax dispute which has led United States studios to…

H. Drake, Honolulu, Hawaii – This Sunday May 29, 2011, marks the fifth anniversary of the eruption of the Lapindo mudflow. While recent reports by…

Jakarta – Hundreds of mudflow victims in the East Java town of Sidoarjo staged rallies on Sunday as part of the 5th anniversary of the…

Jakarta – The number of floating voters is tending to increase. This can be seen not just from the decline in participation levels in elections…

Elisabeth Oktofani – For Indonesian transgenders, practicing religion in public is not an easy thing, but that doesn't stop some from trying.

Dion Bisara & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – The government on Friday outlined its blueprint for the country's development over the next 14 years,…

Elisabeth Oktofani& Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office indicated on Friday that it would continue pursuing a teenager accused of…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – As the House's debate on the general elections bill heats up, two parties want the electoral threshold be upped to 5…

Anita Rachman – The Golkar Party will not get its way on the contentious legislative threshold, officials from smaller political parties have…

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – After two meetings in as many days, parties backing both sides of Jakarta's ban on trucks on sections of the inner-city…

Ronna Nirmala, Zaky Pawas & Arientha Primanita – They may have fought bigger battles when they were in uniform helping Indonesia gain…

Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) advisory council member Permadi has alleged that the Democratic Party has kept Rp 47…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Aceh has decided to hold its provincial, district and mayoral elections on Nov. 14, but the absence of supervisory…

Sidoarjo – The Sidoarjo Transportation Agency in East Java has ordered truck owners to remove all erotic paintings and provocative…

Indonesia's claim to having the second-largest number of Facebook users in the world – 30 million accounts as of this year – may not be all it's…

Dessy Sagita – Two years into drafting the 2009 Health Law's implementing regulations, the Health Ministry announced on Friday that the expected…

The Democratic Party's House of Representatives faction leader explained on Friday that the party gave embattled lawmaker Muhammad…

Bagus B. T. Saragih, Jakarta – London-based human rights group Amnesty International is urging the government to resolve the shootings, allegedly…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Eighteen men and one woman were caned in the eastern Aceh town of Langsa on Thursday, less than a week after Amnesty…

An Indonesian human rights group on Friday condemned the use of caning in staunchly Islamic Aceh province, saying the punishment violated the…

Anita Rachman – The Golkar Party lashed out on Monday against a decision by the House of Representatives to propose raising the legislative…

Farouk Arnaz – The specter of an active Islamic terror campaign in Indonesia resurfaced on Thursday as police revealed that two suspects seized…