Agus Maryono, Cilacap – Local policies related to the authority over forestry management on the island of Nusakambangan have been blamed for…

Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – Indonesia Corruption Watch has urged the House of Representatives to drop plans to amend the Corruption…

Jakarta – Conflicts between the Indonesian military (TNI) and the people shows that internal reform within military as an institution is not fully…

Arientha Primanita – The government has completed its revisions to a law that Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi says will detail new…

Farouk Arnaz – Pepi Fernando, the alleged mastermind, financier and bomb-maker behind the Good Friday bomb plot and book-bomb campaign…

Vice president Boediono said Indonesia should not depend on the low cost of labor to attract investment.

"Relying on low wages…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The intense criticism over lawmakers' overseas study trips is not a message that people want the jaunts stopped, but…

Heru Andriyanto – The Supreme Court has questioned a female judge for allegedly instigating a protest movement on Facebook to demand a pay rise…

Hendra A Setyawan, Jakarta – The discourse on the simplification of political parties such as by increasing the parliamentary threshold (the…

Nivell Rayda – Ever since Muchdi Purwoprandjono announced in February that he was abandoning the nationalist Great Indonesia Movement Party he…

Farouk Arnaz – A lucky turn of events appeared to have led police to the timely discovery of the plan to blow up a church and weapons warehouse in…

Jakarta – To commemorate Kartini Day this year, a coalition of women's rights activists under the Indonesian Women Front demanded the government…

Khairul Saleh and Oyos Saroso H.N., Palembang/Lampung – A clash between employees of a plantation firm and local residents in South Sumatra left…

Malang, East Java – Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairman Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq has said recent problems that have hit his party were…

Jakarta – Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, son of the late president Soeharto, has cofounded the National Republic mass organization, or…

The son of the late President Suharto was not physically present at Friday's debut of the party, but a photograph of him in sunglasses and a…

Jakarta – A series of amendments to the Constitution have expanded the authority of the legislative body while undermining the prominence of other…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia's grand experiment with participatory government is stumbling badly amid rampant corruption. The problem, critics…

Medan – The backing of gambling by military and police personnel has been increasing over the years, according to a police officer.…

Farouk Arnaz – The plotters of a foiled Easter church bombing in Indonesia planned to film the attack and could be behind other atrocities, police…

Olivia Rondonuwu – For anyone interested in the state of democracy in Indonesia, a look at recent headlines is instructive: a lawmaker caught…

Niniek Karmini, Cirebon, Indonesia – Muhammad Syarif was by all accounts a hothead: He smashed up shops that sold liquor, argued about religion,…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Over a hundred members of the recently banned Millata Abraham Muslim sect on Friday underwent a mass conversion to…

Fitri R., Mataram – Hundreds of vendors and fishermen destroyed stalls and storage boxes at a market in Mataram, Lombok, on Friday to protest an…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Activists have called for the Army to pull out hundreds of soldiers who are guarding a disputed plot of…

Medan – National exams held at senior high schools in Medan have been marred by cheating involving the schools and students, an NGO…

Jakarta – An independent legal system and strong mass organizations could prevent Indonesia's oligarchy from dominating politics, an American…

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – The suicide bombing in a mosque last week was only the latest terrorist attack in West Java, where minority sects and…

Amid growing radicalism in Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has reportedly supported the People's Consultative Assembly's call to…

Johannes Nugroho – Today marks the 132nd anniversary of the birth of Raden Ajeng Kartini, Indonesia's most celebrated feminist. Kartini's ideas…

Jakarta – Female activists from the Indonesia Women's Front plan to march for women's rights on Kartini Day in Jakarta on Thursday.…

Hans David Tampubolon and Nani Afrida – Amid irregularities in the police investigation of the death of a Citibank client while talking to bank…

Ulma Haryanto – It's all a matter of politics, corruption watchdogs say, when figuring out why efforts to eradicate corruption over the past…

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – First we had Ariel "Peterporn", then something even better. Yep, "politico-porn", courtesy of Arifinto, former member…

Jakarta – As terrorists in the country shift from forming larger to smaller groups, the police's early terror-plot detection ability becomes more…

Femi Adi – Indonesia's government must adopt new strategies to target terrorist acts carried out by individuals after authorities dismantled or…

Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry has called on regions to adopt an official standardized exam for Islamic studies in schools.

The…

Dessy Sagita – The Health Ministry said on Wednesday that it was preparing programs to fight increasing cases of overnutrition among Indonesian…

Brian Knowlton, Washington – A frank evaluation by the World Bank's internal auditors of a decade of efforts to help East Timor underscores the…

Candra Malik & Antara – The country's leading rights body said on Wednesday that it had sent investigators to Central Java to probe a bloody…

Ulma Haryanto – A watchdog on agrarian-related conflict has said it had recorded 106 land disputes across the nation in the whole of last year.…

Hans David Tampubolon and Nani Afrida – It has been more than three weeks since the death of National Unity Party (PBB) secretary-general Irzen…

The inhabitants of Sanggase kampung, district of Okaba, district of Merauke, have submitted a demand for compensation of sixty-five…

Jakarta – A spokesman for the Indonesian Military (TNI) confirmed on Wednesday that three TNI members were involved in the alleged torture and…

Fitri – Hundreds of residents marched toward the Batu Layar subdistrict office in West Nusa Tenggara on Wednesday to demand that officials…

Woodside Petroleum Ltd says East Timor's government has ignored requests for talks on the stalled Sunrise development and that competitors had…

In the aftermath of the bloody tragedy that began on April 13 2011, the people of Dogiyai Regency have fled their homes. On April 13 and 14, TNI (…

Ismira Lutfia – A US report has labeled Indonesia's Internet as "partly free," citing concerns about the possibility of emerging government…

Loro Horta – After 400 years of inept Portuguese colonial rule and 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation, Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor)…

Francezka Nangoy – Amid a bumper day of positive economic news for the country, the Investment Coordinating Board announced that foreign direct…