Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Hundreds of inmates at the Abepura Penitentiary in Papua rioted on Friday to protest over the shooting of a fellow…

Jakarta – The National Police on Thursday began reconstructing the flow of illicit money going to Gayus Tambunan, in a move that could lead police…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Just weeks ahead of its first anniversary, the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force is facing mounting calls for…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As talk of a possible cabinet shake-up continues, there are now calls from the House of Representatives for…

Jakarta – Thousands of workers in and around an industrial estate in East Jakarta went on a daylong strike on Friday over the new monthly minimum…

Jakarta – In the latest example of religious intolerance in Indonesia, a group of unknown people attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque in South…

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon, West Java – Fishermen and conservationists have expressed outrage at the widespread damage to ecosystems on the northern…

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According to reports received from local activists, two villagers were killed in Bolakme, Papua…

Erwida Maulia and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Jakarta – In the name of democracy, the government is pushing for direct elections of the Yogyakarta governor…

Camelia Pasandaran, Bandung – Many of the nation's governors have agreed that the people shouldn't get the chance to vote them into – or out of –…

Nine Papuans arrested and charged in Jayawijaya in Indonesia's Papua last month on subversion charges are experiencing difficulties in…

Jakarta – Australian Ambassador Greg Moriarty has been ordered to raise his nation's concerns about Indonesia's stalled investigation into the…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar, Bali – An Indonesian tax official who claims he helped some of Indonesia's most powerful companies reduce their tax bills…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A Bandung professor garnered the most votes on Thursday as the House of Representatives selected seven hopefuls, dubbed "…

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government has blamed the increase in HIV/AIDS infections across the country partly on reticence about condom…

Nurdin Hasan & Nivell Rayda, Banda Aceh & Jakarta – Aceh's deputy governor and Shariah Police chief have dismissed a critical report on…

Imung Yuniardi and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Semarang/Bandung - A number of HIV/AIDS activists boycotted on Wednesday the commemoration of the World AIDS…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Analysts and government officials on Thursday accused the environmental group Greenpeace…

Rahmat, Makassar – Dozens of panicked transvestites were sent fleeing for safety after Indonesia's militant Islamic Defenders Front…

Kupang – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers from East Nusa Tenggara have fallen victim to human trafficking practices given the…

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday that although progress had been made in the…

"God will punish us by sending another great earthquake and tsunami if we don't uphold and enforce sharia [Islamic law] in this land," says a…

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's antiterror police detachment is coordinating with its Malaysian counterparts on the recent capture in Johor of…

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch on Thursday chastised the media for propagating misleading news that five soldiers caught on tape…

Nivell Rayda & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – At least one person has been reportedly killed in raids in Papua as the military steps up its search…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – House of Representatives leaders on Wednesday defended what critics said was a half-baked revamp of the body's widely…

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Francezka Nangoy, Jakarta – Businesses gave a thumbs down to the plan to cut fuel subsidies revealed on Thursday,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two years after the Freedom of Information Law was passed, the vast majority of state institutions have still…

These two laws deny people's right to make their own decisions about who they meet and what they wear. The laws, and their selective enforcement,…

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Sex education will be "integrated" into Indonesian classrooms for the first time as the nation faces up to an increasing…

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The task of helping migrant workers who suffered abuse at the hands of their employers does not end after they've been…

Singapore – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday it would be symbolic if his fledgling country gained ASEAN membership next year…

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Female sex workers are often blamed for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but in reality many of them become champions of safe sex…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Scores of Jakarta's youth have adopted a more liberal view of pre-marital sex, confirming findings by the…

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – In their own unique way, the people of Yogyakarta, an ancient Javanese cultural hub, expressed on Tuesday their…

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Press Council on Wednesday said it could not find evidence that bourse journalists had blackmailed Krakatau Steel in…

Rita A. Widiadana – It has been almost 10 years since the Indonesian government imposed Law no. 22/2002 on decentralizing government functions and…

Jakarta – Two local Shariah laws in Indonesia's Aceh province violate rights and are often enforced abusively by public officials and even private…

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Authorities in West Lombok district have formed a special team to supervise and relocate members of the…

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Freed from the threat of volcanic eruptions, Merapi's refugees must now face the ordeal of rebuilding their lives.…

Jakarta – Anyone who wishes to submit information about corruption allegations to Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission can now do it…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While students of Islamic universities in Indonesia are embracing liberalism, their counterparts in science…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – You know things are really bad when the military is called in, and that is exactly what the Jakarta…

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Women are not only more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection, they also face greater risks of violence and discrimination…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A promised shake-up of the House of Representatives' beleaguered Ethics Council was unveiled on Monday, but the only…

Jakarta – A study by the Indonesian Legal Roundtable has found that less than half of the candidates proposed to form the Judicial…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Lawyers for former Peterpan vocalist Nazril "Ariel" Irham have asked the Bandung District Court to drop all the…

Jakarta – Habib Umar Salim, the head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front advisory council defined the criteria for pornography while…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) plans to investigate the disbursements of general and special allocation funds by local…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The social security programs for workers need to be overhauled to provide social protection to the majority of…