Bagus BT Saragih and Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Responding to growing public protests against plans to construct a new legislative building,…

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives and the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights agreed on Thursday to introduce drastic rule changes…

Ulma Nurriva – The alleged beating death of a politician, allegedly at the hands of Citibank debt collectors, has sparked a debate on whether the…

Jakarta – The Central Information Commission (KIP) said Wednesday it was high time for state institutions to comply with an information law…

James Balowski, Jakarta – The gruesome murder of three members of the Ahmadiyah religious sect by an Islamist mob has left Indonesia's image of…

Zely Ariane, in Jakarta – International Women's Day is still much less known among Indonesian women than May Day is among Indonesian workers. This…

Omar Pidani, Jakarta – Timber smuggling from Indonesian forests along the Kalimantan-Malaysia border has long become a "pain in the neck" for the…

Muhammad As'ad, Surabaya – Many people, from civil society activists to pedicab drivers, are debating whether it is necessary for the House of the…

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Olivia Rondonuwu – Indonesian militants are using parcel bombs and targeting minorities to try to push an Islamist agenda on the government and…

Officials on Thursday gave mixed reports on whether the Indonesian Government understood that the man arrested in Pakistan was actually suspected…

Ismira Lutfia – The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology on Wednesday assured the public that it would not wiretap…

Sebastian Abbot and Niniek Karmini, Islamabad – The main Indonesian suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people was shot and wounded…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – National Commission on Human Rights chair Ifdal Khasim is urging the Papuan Police to stop accusing protesters in…

Yan Christian Warinussy, the executive director of LP3BH, the Institute of Research, Analysis and Development for Legal Aid, has called on the…

Karlis Salna – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has given his strongest indication yet that he is opposed to the idea of a refugee…

Heavy flooding in eight subdistricts of West Aceh has forced the evacuation of thousands of people, an official said.

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Ulma Haryanto & Eras Poke – As the drama continues over a recent display of supposed arrogance by a lawmaker involved in an argument over an…

Netherlands officials have announced plans to immortalize assassinated Indonesian human rights activist Munir Said Thalib by naming a street in…

Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham – East Timor has reaffirmed its hostility to a refugee processing centre on its territory, even as the Gillard…

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The Indonesia Ahmadiyah Congregation has issued an urgent request to West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan to revoke a recent…

Arya Dipa and Panca Nugraha, Mataram – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan says he wants the police to investigate the attack of a house owned by an…

Semarang, Central Java – Twenty five men implicated in the highly publicized burning of churches in Temanggung, West Java, in early…

Jakarta – Prosecutors at the Semarang District Court are charging Syihabuddin, a defendant in the Temanggung riots case, of provoking people into…

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta – According to the World Bank, the nation's middle class grew by 61.73 percent to 131 million people in 2010, up from 81…

Anita Rachman – Embattled House Speaker Marzuki Alie lashed out at critics on Wednesday, saying opposition to a controversial office tower project…

Jakarta – Should the saga of the country's soccer association be turned into a film, it would be easy to frame the figure of chairman Nurdin Halid…

AWPA is encouraged by the statement from the Chairman of the MSG meeting, Ratu Inoke Kubuabol that "The Melanesia Spearhead Group feels for their…

Karlis Salna – Prime Minister Julia Gillard plans to pursue an agreement with East Timor over her proposal for a regional refugee processing…

Bangkalan, Madura, Bangkalan – Bangkalan Legislative Council in East Java has urged all schools in the regency to oblige their female…

Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Angered by some lawmakers' refusal to give the State Intelligence Agency powers to arrest…

Australian unions have called on the Indonesian Government to respect international labour Conventions and human and trade union rights following…

Brian Padden – Indonesia's unreserved support for East Timor's membership to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations reinforces the growing…

Damien Kingsbury – The government's East Timor asylum seeker solution is dying a death of a thousand cuts. It is a slow and painful process and…

Tan Ee Lyn & Fitri Wulandari – Indonesia wants the private sector to build more hospitals and reserve a quarter of the available beds for the…

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With Tuesday's passage of the House of Representatives' new code of ethics, lawmakers are no longer…

Aubrey Belford – It was a cloak-and-dagger moment in Indonesia's culture war between peddlers of titillation and Islamist conservatives.

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government defended on Monday its planned revisions to the 2001 Anticorruption Law, which critics have said would only…

Jakarta – Farmers from Toili, Banggai, Central Sulawesi, plan to erect a tent and camp in front of the presidential palace on Tuesday…

Dion Bisara & Mohammad Al Azhari – While the government expects the economy to grow 6.6 percent next year, worries about rising oil and food…

Anita Rachman – The government announced on Monday that it was drafting a new bill on juvenile offenders that would offer minors better protection…

Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham – East Timor has dismissed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal for a refugee processing centre on its…

Karlis Salna – East Timor remains open to discussing Australia's plan for a regional refugee processing centre to be built on its territory but…

Vanuatu's opposition leader, Edward Natapei, says the country should reconsider its membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG).

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Jakarta – The government made its boldest move in the drama surrounding the country's soccer association on Monday by denouncing its leaders and…

Jakarta – As our intelligence community is struggling hard to improve itself and provide early and accurate information to the country's top…

Dylan Welch – The veil of secrecy obscuring what Australia knew about Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor will be pulled back a little, after…

Hasyim Widhiarto and Rendi Akhmad Witular, Jakarta – Despite damning allegations voiced by several PKS founders accusing some of the party's key…

Rizal Ramli, Jakarta – Recent revelations from WikiLeaks documents, stating that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his family were involved…

Farouk Arnaz & Anita Rachman – After first having publicly denounced Prosperous Justice Party officials for allegedly embezzling campaign…