Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The government must rethink its relationship with Papua as soon as possible if it wants to avoid further civil violence…

Jakarta – The mass organizations Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and Barisan Muda Betawi conducted 107…

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission had laid a second charge against an official from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The search for the next head of the Corruption Eradication Commission has taken a distinctly partisan turn even before…

Peter Alford – Australia remains East Timor's key strategic partner, says its Foreign Minister, Zacarias da Costa.

Mr da Costa said…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The ruling Democratic Party on Monday criticized an attempt by lawmakers to tie the selection of an antigraft…

Anita Rachman& Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – A lawmaker from the main opposition party has made the radical suggestion of having two…

Jakarta – Anticorruption activists are throwing their support behind Bambang Widjojanto and Busyro Muqoddas as nominees for a key post at the…

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – A volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years Sunday, spewing a vast cloud of…

Jakarta – Islamic hard-liners have launched a full-scale campaign in cyberspace seeking the release of Indonesia's best-known radical cleric. They…

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – A flurry of recent controversies that rocked the Democratic Party will not dent the party's voter base during regional…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar, Bali – Six years ago, academic Greg Barton understood why Indonesian moderates were reluctant to clash with the country's…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Ronna Nirmala & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Indonesian officials have denounced an anti-Malaysia campaign by the…

Jakarta – Indonesia's exponential annual growth rate of 1.49 percent will overload and over-stretch the country's limited resources, potentially…

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Lawmakers should settle their differences and reach a consensus on the draft of a revision of the 2007 Law on Election…

Putri Prameshwari& Arientha Primanita – FPI flexing its muscle again. The Brown Shirts in Nazi Germany did that too – and no one stood up to…

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As the government on Friday announced the two final candidates for the vacant chairmanship…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)'s appealed for evidence from those alleging that House legislators accepted a Rp…

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Lawmakers on Thursday defended their opposition to granting the Financial Transaction Reports Analysis Center expanded…

Robert M Cutler, Montreal – Jakarta's principal stock market index has more than doubled since President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won the July…

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – Once Indonesia's public enemy number one, Mochammad Achwan, 62, has devoted the remainder of his life to consistently…

Irvan Tisnabudi, Jakarta – As the economy gains steam, banks are growing more aggressive in marketing credit cards to increasingly wealthy…

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Around 20 members of the Islamic Defenders' Front gathered in front of the Jakarta Prosecutor's Office…

Jakarta – The leader of a fringe group that has managed to put a serious dent in relations between Malaysia and Indonesia after hurling human…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A court ruling against the former chief editor of Playboy Indonesia, Erwin Arnada, sets a bad precedent,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Lawmakers drafting an amendment to the 2003 Money Laundering Law say they agree with the government about…

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Lawyer and academic Bambang Widjojanto and Judicial Commission chairman Busyro Muqoddas have been named as the final two…

Jakarta – The acquittal of graft suspect Gayus Tambunan by the Tangerang District Court in March was engineered by a prosecutor, a police…

Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – The head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front says he has ordered his members to find Erwin Arnada, the former…

Telly Nathalia & Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Islamic militants based in Indonesia's Aceh province worked with a fugitive suspected of planning…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan's move to spend more than Rp 1 billion (US$111,420) from the local budget on…

Sara Webb, Jonggol, Indonesia – A mere pinprick on the map of Java, Jonggol's cluster of tiny red-roofed houses set among banana groves and…

Pandaya, Jakarta – The generous presidential pardon and remissions granted to graft convicts has strengthened Indonesia's status as a haven for…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The country's big political parties should provide proof that their push for an increased legislative…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) launched Wednesday a whistle-blower system allowing civil servants to report gratuities to…

Jakarta – Religious radicalism in schools lives, despite efforts by the government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to reverse the trend…

Eny Wulandari, Jakarta – The value of major manufactured exports jumped dramatically in the first half of the year, and the full-year totals could…

Jakarta – Around one hundred people rallied in front of the Malaysian Embassy at Jalan Rasuna Said on Thursday.

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AI Index: ASA 21/018/2010

As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announces plans to restructure the Indonesian National Police,…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The South Jakarta Prosecutors' Office said Wednesday it would immediately detain the former chief editor of the now-…

Jakarta – Indonesia has made significant strides to empower women recently – but activists say progress is hampered by weak enforcement and…

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie visited a number of Islamic boarding schools in East Java on Thursday and played down…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle hopes to tap into the country's substantial and often politically…

Jakarta – Indonesian Lawmakers have been forced to deny rumors reported by a number of media organizations that legislators have been paid a total…

Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is urging the government to provide better protection to people living with mental…

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – When Wina decided to shed her jilbab, the headscarf symbolizing, for most people, a woman's commitment to Islam, her…

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) slammed lawmakers on Wednesday for refusing an article in the money laundering bill aimed…

Indonesia is the worst country in Asia when it comes to protecting intellectual property rights, according to a survey of expatriate businessmen…

Jakarta – A survey jointly conducted by the National Nuclear Agency (Batan) and the University of Indonesia's School of Social and…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java is among the provinces that worries critics regarding several religiously related regulations – but concerns…