Jakarta – The new interim Attorney General, Darmono, said Monday he had no plan to follow up on police testimonies implicating prosecutors in high…

Heru Andriyanto & Irvan Tisnabudi, Jakarta – Rogue tax official Gayus Tambunan on Tuesday again claimed to have received bribes from companies…

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Undeterred by their arrest on Monday night, some 50 family members of activists who were…

Siti Ruqoyah, Jakarta – Thirty or more people from the Indonesian Association of the Families of Missing Persons (Ikohi) and the Commission for…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has made the widely expected announcement that he will run for president…

Jessica Harkins, Jakarta – More than 100 members of the Islamic Defenders Front launched protests against foreign-run venues participating in…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The House of Representatives speaker, Marzuki Alie from the Democratic Party, says that each faction…

Dili – About 400 protesters shouted anti-Australia slogans on Tuesday asofficials from Canberra held talks with their East Timorese…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government on Tuesday dismissed a provincial lawmaker's proposal to force teenage schoolgirls to undergo virginity tests…

Willy Widianto, Jakarta – Thirty or more demonstrators from the Indonesian Association of the Families of Missing Persons (Ikohi) were arrested by…

Nivell Rayda & Anita Rachman – Five candidates for the Judicial Commission have questionable track records and the House of Representatives…

Jakarta – Critics doubt that Deputy Attorney General Darmono will be able to lead the Attorney General's Office (AGO), now that…

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The House of Representatives on Monday approved Navy Vice Adm. Agus Suhartono as the new head of the…

Jakarta – Newly appointed Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm. Agus Suhartono has positively welcomed a plan to join the newly…

Jayapura – A new detachment of 140 Mobile Brigade personnel from Bogor, West Java, has been dispatched to Puncak Jaya.

The…

Serious concerns have been raised in the United States about the treatment of West Papuans under Indonesian rule. For the first time a US Congress…

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology wants to employ the public as an ally in the battle to…

Jakarta – In addition to traffic woes, Jakarta is under threat of soil degradation and rising sea surface levels, experts say.

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Jakarta – Jakarta Police have predicted that about 12 million motor vehicles will burden the capital's roads by 2011.

"The…

Ulma Haryanto & Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Like the hundreds of thousands of other repeat flood victims in the capital, Andi and Sudarmati…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The antigraft commission is intensifying its investigation into a high-profile bribery scandal surrounding the…

Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission says it has crucial evidence that might confirm that two of its deputy chairmen have been…

Jakarta – The number of cases of violence against children has increased and shows more sadistic modus operandi, reports the National…

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Jakarta – After the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry elected Suryo Bambang Sulisto as its new chairman on…

Jakarta – Indonesia's Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring is adopting a new strategy in his ongoing crusade to…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti, Jakarta – Greenpeace on Monday rejected allegations of using "false and misleading information to attack a company's…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Bureaucrats and activists hailed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decision Friday to uphold a Constitutional Court…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is considering who will replace Hendarman Supandji as the AGO chief. The following are the names of…

Geoffrey Bell – New Zealand needs to follow the "Bougainville solution" and facilitate peaceful dialogue between representatives of Indonesia and…

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – The government has agreed to demands by the House of Representatives to scrap plans to raise electricity rates…

Bernard Lagan – East Timor has declared it does not want to become a mere transit point for boat people picked up in Australian waters.

At a…

Jakarta – Local and international experts say the planned forest moratorium sounds good in theory, but remained skeptical of the actual…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has come under public scrutiny for the second time this week after a budget watchdog…

Fitri, Lombok – Who cares about sex tapes? Not Central Lombok residents, apparently. Suhaili Fadhil Thohir, who starred in a five-minute sex video…

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – As it marks World Contraception Day (WCD), Indonesia has to face the disheartening fact that it is lagging behind in…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Rallies marked National Farmers' Day and the 50th anniversary of the basic agrarian laws on Friday in South Sulawesi…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Firman Soebagyo, the deputy chairman of House Commission IV on agriculture, said on Friday that lawmakers had submitted…

Jayapura – Eleven Mobile Brigade personnel blamed for a recent deadly incident in Manokwari have been handed sanctions.

On Sept…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party spokesman, Ruhut Sitompul, said he suspected…

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Some people have given up on the dream of owning land in Jakarta due to financial constraints, but many more pursue the…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The Environment Ministry may miss a deadline for implementing the 2009 Environmental Law on schedule, activists…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Papuans told the US Congress at a hearing on Wednesday of the struggle to have their rights acknowledged by the…

Nivell Rayda – The Constitutional Court on Friday upheld the 2006 Law on Witness Protection despite fears that it could prevent whistleblowers…

Dessy Sagita & Ismira Lutfia – The Indonesian government would prevent Indonesians from working illegally abroad if it provided them with…

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – A gay film festival hailed as the biggest in Asia and the only one in the Muslim world kicks off in Indonesia on Friday,…

Jakarta – The Bekasi Muslim Congress (KUIB) said it would report the beleaguered HKBP Pondok Timur Indah church to the police for…

Mark Dodd – East Timor wants Julia Gillard's proposal for an asylum-seeker processing centre linked to better co-operation with Canberra on…

Helene Hofman – Human rights advocacy groups for East Timor have urged the US president to overturn the appointment of Indonesia's new ambassador…

Human rights advocacy groups for East Timor are calling on the president of the United States, Barack Obama, to reject the appointment of…

Shaun Tandon, Washington – The United States called Wednesday for Indonesia to move forward on autonomy in its Papua region and insisted it would…