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February 2, 2011
Radio New Zealand International - February 2, 2011
Agence France Presse - February 2, 2011
Indonesia admitted on Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally in Central Kalimantan, and promised to beef…
February 1, 2011
Jakarta Globe - February 1, 2011
Nurfika Osman – A medical expert has warned that many Indonesian doctors may be putting major pharmaceutical companies ahead of their patients'…
Reuters - February 1, 2011
Nick Chatterjee – A booming economy, falling debt and market-friendly reforms could see Indonesia secure an investment grade credit rating as…
Direct Action - February 2011
Max Lane – In hindsight, there was a great deal of beauty in the scene. There was a kaleidoscope of colours: dark blues and greens, the red and…
Antara News - February 1, 2011
Indonesia Corruption Watch has asked the Corruption Eradication Commission to refuse to attend any hearings at the House of Representatives…
Joint Statement by Kontras and the AHRC - February 1, 2011
AHRC-STM-023-2011 - Joint Statement by the Commission for the Disappeared and Victims of Violence (KontraS) in Indonesia and the Asian Human…
Jakarta Globe - February 1, 2011
State Secretary Sudi Silalahi on Tuesday slammed lawmakers for wrongly interpreting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement about his…
Jakarta Globe - February 1, 2011
Ismira Lutfia – Migrant Care says it has raised almost Rp 100 million ($11,000) in less than a month to help repatriate hundreds of Indonesian…
Jakarta Globe - February 1, 2011
Yuli Krisna & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Few, if any, seem to have been pleased by Monday's verdict that found pop star Nazril "Ariel" Irham…
Jakarta Post - February 1, 2011
Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – South Sulawesi Police used force to evacuate around 40 Ahmadiyah followers from their…
Jakarta Post - February 1, 2011
Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Providing vivid photographic evidence, Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) listed 29 destructive impacts of mining…
Human Rights Watch - February 2011
January 31, 2011
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Dina Indrasafitri/Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Former vice president and Golkar Party elder Jusuf Kalla called on the 19 politicians arrested in a…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Irawaty Wardhany, Jakarta – The city government is defending its environmental record following a report from the central government that named…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Prolonged bad weather in Jakarta and its surrounding areas has increased the threat of poverty for fishermen in Banten…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Jakarta – Thousands of honoree staff of state schools staged a demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Monday…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Al Araf, Jakarta – The Jayapura Military Court sentenced three Army soldiers to between eight and 10 months of imprisonment for their role in the…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists find that the one-stop service for issuing a business license, imposed to prevent red tape, still leaves…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced plans to look into the trial process of former Corruption…
Jakarta Globe - January 31, 2011
Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two state-owned contractors responsible for renovating legislators' homes may have pocketed 80 percent of the project…
Jakarta Post - January 31, 2011
Ridwan Max Sijabat and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Political corruption is reaching alarming new levels, depriving people of better social welfare…
Jakarta Globe - January 31, 2011
Heru Andriyanto & Yuli Krisna – Moments before stepping into the courtroom on Monday, Nazril "Ariel" Irham expressed hope that he would walk…
Jakarta Globe - January 31, 2011
Farouk Arnaz – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said on Monday that they will speed up the investigation of…
Associated Press - January 31, 2011
An Indonesian pop star who rocked the nation when sex tapes he made with celebrity girlfriends appeared online has been sentenced to 3-and-a-half…
January 30, 2011
Jakarta Post - January 30, 2011
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The top antigraft body will not bow to pressure from angry politicians whose colleagues were detained for allegedly…
Jakarta Globe - January 30, 2011
Alex Walls – "Do you sell child pornography?" I ask the bewildered sales girl at the DVD store politely. She looks confused, and I repeat the…
Bangkok Post - January 30, 2011
East Timor is seeking to become the 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations.
The country plans to submit an official letter…
Jakarta Globe - January 30, 2011
Alex Walls – Many Muslim women have suffered in silence through years of repression and discrimination in school, at work and at home.
The…
January 29, 2011
Jakarta Post - January 29, 2011
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A group of Papuan students accused the central government of failing in its drive to grant special autonomy to Papua and…
Jakarta Globe - January 29, 2011
Rahmat, Makassar – Dozens of protesters from the Islamic Defenders Front surrounded an Ahmadiyah center in Makassar on Friday, demanding that the…
Jakarta Post - January 29, 2011
Medan, North Sumatra – Students grouped under the North Sumatra Students Strategic Assessment Institute collected coins amounting to…
Liputan 6 - January 29, 2011
Sleman – The first year and 100 days of the second term of the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice…
The Australian - January 29, 2011
Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor – Julia Gillard's proposal for a regional refugee processing centre in East Timor has been dealt a crippling blow by…
Jakarta Globe - January 29, 2011
Camelia Pasandaran – In a sign that one of the country's most anticipated corruption trials will begin soon, 19 suspects in the Rp 24 billion ($2.…
Jakarta Globe - January 29, 2011
Heru Andriyanto – Artalyta Suryani, the wealthy Indonesian businesswoman convicted of bribing a prosecutor and later busted enjoying spa…
Jakarta Globe - January 29, 2011
Fidelis E. Satriastanti – At least 19 people were killed after a fire broke out aboard a ferry crossing the Sunda Strait from Java to Sumatra…
Jakarta Post - January 29, 2011
Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – Anticorruption activists did the only thing they could on Friday in response to the release of Artalyta "Ayin" Suryani…
January 28, 2011
KRjogja.com - January 28, 2011
Yogyakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held an action in front of the Gajah…
Jakarta Globe - January 28, 2011
Arientha Primanita – Slowly but surely, Malaka Jaya 06 Elementary School in Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, is falling apart.
Situated in a…
Australia West Papua Association (Sydney) Press Release - January 28, 2011
AWPA has written to the PNG Prime Minister asking that the West Papuan people who have been apprehended during Operation Sunset Merona along the…
Jakarta Post - January 28, 2011
The success of the family planning program in Situbondo, East Java, is proof that the role of religious leaders in debunking myths surrounding…
Jakarta Globe - January 28, 2011
Nurfika Osman – Despite mounting criticism, the Ministry of National Education said on Friday that it would not recall a series of books on…
Jakarta Globe - January 28, 2011
Yuli Krisna, Bandung – There is more to running a local government than just one's religious beliefs.
This was the point being rammed home…
Jakarta Post - January 28, 2011
Hasyim Widhiarto – After serving as chairman of the politically wired Association of Islamic Students (HMI) last year, Arip Mustopha had to think…
Jakarta Globe - January 28, 2011
Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists lambasted a military court over its decision to sentence a former district…
Associated Press - January 28, 2011
Adriana Nina Kusuma – Indonesia will scrap import duty on rice until the end of March 2011 as part of the government efforts to ease…
Jakarta Post - January 28, 2011
Jakarta – Greenomics Indonesia, a leading NGO on forestry issues, lambasted Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan for issuing a new decree…
ABC Radio Australia - January 28, 2011
The Indonesian government has come under renewed criticism over alleged torture in West Papua after a military tribunal sentencing three soldiers…
Jakarta Post - January 28, 2011
Vidhyandika D. Perkasa, Jakarta – From a content-analysis perspective, the amount of coverage a particular issue gets in the media often…