Rendi A. Witular – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched on Feb. 22 a blueprint for the nation's economic development for the next 14 years…

Jakarta – Twenty percent of District III of Kerinci Seblat National Park in Bengkulu and South Sumatra has been destroyed by farming…

Jakarta – Of 524 local administration heads across the country, there are 160 who are undergoing legal processes, an official says.…

Camelia Pasandaran – The central government on Tuesday supported moves by the East Java governor to ban Ahmadiyah in the province.

"It is…

John Magai Yogi who is said to be the commander of the TPN/OPM in the district of Paniai and who has for some time been on the police…

Zoe Kenny – The story of women in Indonesia is inseparable from the development of the Indonesian nation itself. Indonesia was swept up in the…

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police announced on Tuesday that they will set up a new unit to deal with riots and violent clashes.

The…

Nivell Rayda – When Gatot received a call on his cellphone from the hospital where his wife was being treated, he naturally assumed it would be…

Suciwati, the wife of murdered human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, is planning to issue a case review request to the Supreme…

Farouk Arnaz – Police investigating the deadly attack on members of the Ahmadiyah community in Cikeusik, Banten, have made another two…

Banjir Ambarita – Jayapura – Three officers from the Jayapura Police have been jailed for 21 days for repeatedly forcing a female detainee to…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Groups condemned bans issued by local administrations on the followers of Ahmadiyah following a fatal mob attack in…

Nivell Rayda – The roads of Cipacing in West Java are lined with small shops selling air guns. But behind closed doors in Indonesia's "air rifle…

Heru Andriyanto – Less than two weeks after declaring the arrest of a Tangerang prosecutor a clear case of entrapment, the Attorney General's…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – For several days, hundreds of frustrated truck drivers have had to eat and sleep on the road to the port city of Merak,…

The government has targeted $80 billion in foreign and domestic investment in the manufacturing sector in the next five years, Antara…

Taufik Darusman – Didik Setyo Handono, a judge at the South Jakarta District Court, deserves a medal: He is the first judge to apply the legal…

Keith Loveard – The government is finding out the real cost of a free press: Nobody's reputation is safe, particularly if a media owner decides to…

Dear brothers and sisters

We, Papuan Church leaders send you as our partners, our theological statement issued recently as reflection of our…

With four more small parties set to join the Great Indonesia Movement Party and the ruling coalition warming to it, party chairman Prabowo…

Jakarta – The splinter group of the Association of Indonesian Farmers (HKTI) filed on Saturday a report to the Jakarta Police against…

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid the unfortunate recent outbreak of what is now called "mob justice", groups are pushing legislators to issue a new law…

Geradi Yudhistira, Jakarta – The government has responded to the impending food crisis by developing a food estate in the Papua regency of Merauke…

Jakarta – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is calling for Muslims to take part in a long march in Jakarta on March 1 to demand…

Francezka Nangoy – State power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara plans to cut industrial electricity rates for late-night use, it said on Sunday,…

Jakarta – Local administrations are preventing community forestry projects from being enacted and are instead awarding access to forests to…

Hamish McDonald – With popular uprisings turfing out rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and perhaps elsewhere in the Arab world, a lot of analysts have…

Fitri, Eras Poke, Heru Andriyanto & Antara – Regional chiefs in some Indonesian provinces are moving ahead with plans to either ban completely…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Panca Nugraha, Bandung/Mataram – An alliance of Muslim hard-liners once again called for Ahmadiyah disbandment in Bandung on…

Bandar Lampung – A new satellite image shows that about 96 percent of total mangrove forests in Lampung have disappeared, a mangrove…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam's derogatory attacks on religious leaders and media outlets were aimed at diverting the…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The fallout from a proposed tax graft inquiry has triggered a change in the nation's political landscape, with the…

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has declared itself ready to become an inclusive political party and embrace all…

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After its failed push for a special inquiry into corruption in the tax office, the Golkar Party has…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Senior Democratic Party officials on Friday urged their two biggest partners to leave Indonesia's…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The United Nations Security Council has urged East Timor to stop granting impunity for serious crimes as it extended the…

Jakarta – We welcome the plan for a Jakarta-Papua dialogue that is now being pursued by the Indonesian Government. Peaceful dialogue is the only…

A West Papuan student activist says the dialogue over self-determination aspirations is still very much alive among young West Papuans…

Jakarta – The National Police expressed Thursday its joy in welcoming back their former chief detective, who is currently undergoing a…

West Jakarta Mayor Burhanuddin has called for premarital sex between teenagers in big cities to be combated by building more mosques…

Central Jakarta Police late on Thursday night dispersed a group of people protesting the city's plan to build a block of apartments in…

Elaine Pearson – Last July, violence erupted when municipal police and hundreds of people organized by militant Islamist groups tried to break…

Drew Ambrose, Dili – The United Nations has said it will extend its mandate for peacekeepers in East Timor for another year.

Since gaining…

Jakarta – Anti-Ahmadiyah protesters planned to move their demonstration to the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM)…

Vento Saudale & Ulma Haryanto – Ahmad Nuryamin, an Ahmadi accused of wounding a 15-year-old boy, told the Cibinong District Court on Thursday…

Ismira Lutfia – The Press Council is appealing to media companies to better champion the safety of their journalists covering risky beats in the…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Bekasi District Court sentenced the suspended leader of the Bekasi branch of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI…

An academic specialising in Papua affairs says it's unlikely effective popular uprisings like those in the Middle East and North…

Heru Andriyanto – Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir lambasted the United States and its allies for their relentless attempts to convict him of…

Stephen Coates, Jakarta – Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Thursday denied leading an Al-Qaeda-style group that was plotting attacks and…