Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – In its continuing efforts to boost infrastructure development, the government is offering three projects on Java…

The opposition has called on the federal government to release the details of its proposal for a regional processing centre in East Timor.

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Adhe Bakti, Jakarta – A district court on Monday handed out sentences of between seven and nine years in prison for six men involved in an…

Shari Nijman – As the United Nation's International Year of Biodiversity draws to a close, Indonesia, home to some of the earth's richest…

Nurfika Osman, Jayapura – While Papua has long had a reputation among many Indonesians for being inhospitable to outsiders, a small island there…

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Although the 2014 presidential elections are still a few years away, names of possible candidates were already emerging over…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Budget watchdogs aired their concerns on Sunday over the newly revised Law on Political Parties that has significantly…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The chairman of the Democratic Party said on Sunday that despite competing interests within its ranks, the joint…

Philip Dorling and Nick McKenzie – The Australian government has quietly blacklisted a prominent Indonesian political figure implicated in the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government downplayed a leaked US embassy cable that said Jakarta used the recent state visit by President Barack Obama…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – After a year of political drama and bickering, members of the House of Representatives have proven that their voices…

Jakarta – Alfrets Mirulewan, chief editor of Pelangi Weekly in Maluku, was found dead with bruises on a large part of his body on…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Reports that Jakarta threatened to derail US President Barack Obama's visit to the country unless the ban on…

David Danzig – Among the handful of bombshells one can find in the cables that went back and forth between the US State Department and embassy…

Arlina Arshad, Indonesia – To most people, Ahmad Mustofa Bisri is an influential Muslim cleric and a respected figure from the country's biggest…

Jakarta – Leaked US State Department cables, made available to the Sydney Morning Herald by WikiLeaks, showed that the US was…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government said on Friday that it would begin verifying the eligibility of political parties to contest…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party on Friday eased up on its demand to double the legislative threshold to 5 percent, conceding that…

Philip Dorling and Nick McKenzie – Indonesia threatened to derail a visit to Jakarta by President Barack Obama this year unless he overturned the…

Olivia Rondonuwu & Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia's selection of less aggressive candidates to head antigraft institutions and failure…

Jakarta – The country's prevailing lending growth is still too low to support economic growth targets of 7 percent within the next few years,…

Jayapura – Andi Rahmat Faisal was found dead on Wednesday, bringing to four the total number of shooting victims in the past three…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari – Unlike their US counterparts, Indonesian Military (TNI) members and National Police officers have no official don't-ask-…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari – "Dorian", a 30-year-old brand manager for one of the nation's largest consumer goods companies does not sport the…

As the world's largest Muslim majority nation, Indonesia has long been on the road to embrace tolerance – particularly tolerance of its lesbian,…

Fitri R., West Lombok – Around 700 people from five villages in West Lombok district rallied outside the West Nusa Tenggara governor's office on…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A senior Golkar Party lawmaker said on Wednesday that he would support a proposal to hand the tax mafia case…

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief made clear Wednesday that he would not prosecute two KPK deputies charged with extorting a graft suspect…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti, Jakarta – Environmental groups on Wednesday accused one of Indonesia's largest pulp and paper companies of logging in…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Children's magazine subscriptions and a luxury bag are just a few of the purchases made by Indonesian diplomats…

Christen Broecker – When President Obama went to Indonesia last month, he lauded its embrace of democracy in a speech at the University of…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Legislators lambasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday for stalling the inauguration of the incoming…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Legislators have blamed the lack of prosecution in the Bank Century bailout on the refusal of law-enforcement agencies to…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – A court on Thursday sentenced two foreigners in absentia to 15 years of prison each for having looted Bank Century,…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI) and the Indonesian Bishop's Conference (KWI) said on Wednesday the Islam…

Sydney – The United Nations should cut the number of foreign police in East Timor to encourage one of world's newest countries to manage its own…

Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The World Bank revised down its 2010 growth forecast for Indonesia by 0.1 percentage points to 5.9 percent on Thursday.…

Jakarta – The central government must remove their security forces from Papua and West Papua provinces and communicate better with residents in…

Dili/Brussels – The size of the policing contingent of the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) should be sharply reduced to…

Banyumas, Central Java – Around 1,500 village representatives from 310 villages in Banyumas regency left for Jakarta on Tuesday to…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The construction of two second-hand Chinese power plants in East Timor is an escalating environmental and safety…

Jakarta – Documents reportedly released by WikiLeaks quote a senior Chinese government official as saying that he was "not impressed" with…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Indonesian electoral system should be changed in such a way that qualified candidates, including women,…

Peter Alford, Jakarta – Densus 88, the Indonesian counter-terrorism police, used every day of the four months available to substantiate its…

In a move that would raise the eyebrows of both its critics and supporters, the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a group notorious for…

Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – In a surprise move, the head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front on Tuesday said Christians should…

Indonesia – An Indonesian court on Wednesday sentenced a United States retiree to five months in jail for blasphemy for pulling the plug on a…

Slamet Susanto and Sri Wahyuni, Klaten/Yogyakarta – Protesters demanded on Tuesday that Surakarta's special status be restored – and that the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A budget watchdog has criticized the government for slashing anticorruption funding for law enforcement…

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has failed to deliberate 23 bills on the agenda for this year.

The bills included those…