Jakarta – Prosecutors at the Attorney General's Office (AGO) are considering halting legal proceedings against two KPK deputy chairmen accused of…

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Indonesia's fight against corruption has hit the wall based on Transparency International's latest global Corruption…

Bekasi – A number of traditional "family" market vendors at Kota Harapan Indah, Bekasi, staged a hunger strike in front of the Bekasi…

Anita Rachman & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Having failed abjectly to meet its initial target of passing 70 bills into law this year, the House…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A lawmaker from the House of Representatives was booed by fellow legislators on Tuesday for calling on the House…

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – At least 23 people are dead and scores missing, including nine Australians, after a powerful earthquake hit…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Indonesia's twitter users were once again shocked by another statement from Information and…

Yanto Soegiarto & Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – Monday night's flooding and subsequent citywide traffic jam was a preview of Jakarta's future…

Arientha Primanita, Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Blame it on the rain? That's what the administration wants to do, but critics say…

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – In what is becoming an increasingly nightmarish routine, Jakarta was once again crippled as a torrential rainstorm…

Cameron Bates, Ulma Haryanto & Kinanti Pinta Karana, Jakarta – Jakarta Globe readers and Facebook and Twitter followers have shared their…

Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia is selling cars faster than it is building roads, increasing gridlock in cities and doing its efforts to…

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Outgoing National Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri took the unusual step of apologizing on Monday for any…

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The on-again, off-again electricity rate hike for next year is officially off, with the House…

Trefor Moss – Southeast Asia's sleeping giant has begun to make some surprisingly wakeful noises. After decades of underinvestment and…

It doesn't get any lower than this. Or does it? The Honorary Board of the House of Representatives has launched an investigation into allegations…

Tarko Sudiarno, Mount Merapi, Indonesia – Indonesia ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi on Monday as it raised the…

Aubrey Belford, Gleno, East Timor – Gastao Salsinha, retired rebel and failed assassin, says it is probably politics that explains why he is free…

Ismira Lutfia, Nurfika Osman & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – Activists expressed hope on Sunday that the advertising restrictions on…

Slamet Susanto, Bantul – Cigarette producer partners (MPS) are earning less than the Rp 1.5 million (US$150) a month they received four years ago…

Made Arya Kencaya, Denpasar – Hundreds of employees of state-owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia rallied on Monday in front of the Bali Regional House…

The Australian Prime Minister will visit Indonesia on the 1 and 2 November to d iscuss ways to further strengthen the bilateral relationship and…

Incidents of church attacks and religious violence are spreading throughout Java, outside of traditional "hot spots" such as Greater Jakarta and…

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Featuring a foreign porn star in a local horror movie was tantamount to "poking fun" at the country's antipornography…

Paul Cleary – East Timor is continuing to entertain plans to drill for oil in waters as deep as 1900m. In one instance, it is using the contractor…

Jakarta – Activists and agrarian experts agreed on Sunday that the government's effort to distribute hundreds of hectares of land to farmers was…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says that former dictator Soeharto deserves to be named a national…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is continuing to ignore the tide of public opinion firmly against taxpayer-funded overseas…

Tim Hannigan – The Jakarta Globe might be Indonesia's newest English language newspaper, but which was its first? Many people assume that it was…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission must look into apparent fraud involved in the renovation of lawmakers'…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Antigraft commissioner Bibit Samad Rianto, facing the threat of a criminal trial for bribery, insists the case against…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – In the six years that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been in power, he has…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As eight lawmakers flew to Greece on Saturday to study ethics, the public is left asking: If overwhelming…

Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has defended his decision to pardon rebels in the tiny nation following criticism by a UN envoy.

Ismira Lutfia & AFP, Jakarta – Some Papuan activists have called on foreign governments to cease cooperation with the Indonesian military as…

Washington – The United States on Friday praised Indonesia as upfront in its investigation of torture of Papuan detainees and said it would not…

Nivell Rayda & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Ignatius Haryanto, the author of a number of books on press freedom, knows that a police investigation…

Jakarta – In an evaluation of the first year's performance of the National Education Ministry, a coalition of activists said it had failed to deal…

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Suharto may be on the verge of being named a national hero, but a survey released on the 1,000th day since his death…

Soekarno-Hatta Airport police dispersed on Saturday dozens of students grouped under the People's Alliance against Legislators'…

Erwida Maulia and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered a "thorough investigation" of a controversial video of…

Jakarta – Member groups of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations expressed their deep concern on Friday over the continued…

Bernard Lagan in New York and Yuko Narushima – East Timor has declared it does not want to become a mere transit point for boat people picked up…

Torture has no place in a modern, civilized society. Period. It is thus distressing to learn that certain members of the military have engaged in…

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Allegations that prosecutors leaked sentencing documents during Gayus Tambunan's first trial indicates that the…

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – The police defended their decision to fire on protesters on Wednesday, saying the demonstration was illegal.

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Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Indonesia's burgeoning class of middlemen, ranging from lowly ticket scalpers to the big-game judicial mafia, has…

The New Zealand-based Indonesia Human Rights Committee is again questioning New Zealand's training of Indonesian police in Papua…

An international lawyers organisation says it hopes Indonesia will identify and punish those responsible for the torture of two Papuan…

Arientha Primanita, Bilhuda Haryanto & Aidi Yursal, Jakarta – Buddhists are the latest minority religious group to feel the heat, being at the…