Andrea Booth – Australia's failure to consult Indonesia about an asylum processing centre in East Timor is likely to exacerbate tensions between…

About one hundred lawyers from the Indonesian Advocate Association, or KAI, held a demonstration at the Supreme Court building on…

The national congress of the Indonesian Farmers Association on Tuesday night reelected incumbent chairman Prabowo Subianto by…

Armando Siahaan – The Golkar Party has protested key points in a money-laundering bill that would have granted unprecedented powers to the agency…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Golkar stalwart Priyo Budi Santoso's call for a cabinet reshuffle was rebuffed by other lawmakers from the ruling…

Putri Prameshwari – The number of Indonesians working illegally in Malaysia could spiral out of control after a long-awaited agreement on workers…

Pontianak, West Kalimantan – The number of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang, has…

Dessy Sagita – The country's highest Islamic authority is refusing to take the blame for issuing an incorrect edict in March, which stipulated…

Nivell Rayda – A report published by an Australian university this month warns that massacres such as those alleged to have occurred in East Timor…

Usman Hamid, a coordinator from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, and activists from other non-…

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police should no longer tolerate religious hard-liners such as the Islamic Defenders Front, which are using violence…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A blockade of the giant Arun liquefied natural gas plant in northern Aceh by more than 500 villagers demanding the…

Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto – In the latest attack on the rights of minority religions, hundreds of public order officers in Bogor on Monday…

Talek Harris, Sydney – Australia said on Tuesday it remained in talks with East Timor over a regional asylum seeker center despite a rejection by…

Nivell Rayda – Muchtar Pakpahan, who as a union organizer was jailed by former strongman Suharto's regime, has won the most public support for his…

Embattled Minister of Justice and Human Rights Patrialis Akbar has jumped to the defense of his colleagues pictured nodding off during a briefing…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Young revelers weren't the only ones struggling to drag themselves out of bed the morning after the late-night World…

Nivell Rayda – The Anti-Corruption Court on Tuesday ordered the National Police to disclose wiretapped recordings between a Corruption Eradication…

Farouk Arnaz & Ismira Lutfia – Under mounting public pressure to quickly solve the violent attack on an antigraft activist last week, the…

Arti Ekawati – Manufacturers are up in arms over the recent electricity rate hikes, with some saying their rates have doubled and accusing the…

Johannes Nugroho – The government is moving steadily toward a sizeable reduction in fuel subsidies, arguing that budgetary discipline mandates it…

Camelia Pasandaran & Banjir Ambarita – If the broad autonomy accorded to Papua had not raised the region's prosperity it was the local…

Dear MSG leaders,

The Australia West Papua Association (Sydney), is writing to you concerning the issue of West Papua. The human rights…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A group of men relaxes in a coffee shop in Lamkabeu village, Aceh Besar, chatting about the breaking news of…

Jakarta – According to the National Commission for AIDS (Komnas-AIDS), "good" housewives make up 59.9 percent of women living with HIV…

Ulma Haryanto & Made Arya Kencana – The recent cases of low-income women selling their babies in order to pay for their medical bills…

Gerhard Hoffstaedter – Indonesia has recently been in the thrall of its first celebrity sex-tape scandal. The now-notorious sex tapes allegedly…

Nivell Rayda – Badly beaten antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun on Sunday highlighted inconsistencies in the sudden reappearance of a key…

Armando Siahaan, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Antara – Long forgotten as a political vehicle until it resurfaced behind Prabowo Sugianto in his…

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The usually sedate national congress of the Indonesian Farmers Association has suddenly become a who's who of…

Adianto P. Simamora – The government initiative to entail a five-year moratorium on peatland conversion is a half-hearted policy if the country…

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Residents of Sebalang village, Lampung, have urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to immediately…

Nelson da Cruz, Dili – Timor's parliament voted Monday to reject an Australian proposal for the impoverished country to become a regional refugee…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Several correctional officers were injured when dozens of prisoners at Abepura Penitentiary rioted on Sunday in…

Jakarta – A government spokesman said Sunday he had never heard of a grave at Tanah Kusir cemetery in Jakarta, believed to be the final resting…

Rheza Andhika Pamungkas, Jakarta – Around 80 workers from the Indonesian Labour Movement Union (PPBI) held a demonstration today…

Indonesian statesman and Muslim cleric Dr. Idham Chalid passed away on Sunday at his home at the Darul Ma'arif education complex in Cipete, South…

Constitutional Court Chairman Mahfud MD says the attack on Indonesian Corruption Watch activist Tama Satya Langkun was the manifestation of…

Australian officials will travel to East Timor this week to continue discussing plans for a regional asylum processing centre.

Foreign…

Ulma Haryanto – A law allowing road tolls to rise every two years is unfair, transportation activists said on Sunday as the government raised the…

Jakarta – Several regions have objected to proposals that public order officers be allowed to carry guns, even if they only contain blank rounds…

One of the daughters of deceased dictator Suharto, Siti Hediati Hariyadi, says she is running for the leadership of the Association of Indonesian…

Jayapura – Tolikara district on Saturday afternoon succeeded in ending a tribal war that erupted in the small hour of the morning.

Papua…

Jakarta – Most political prisoners in Papua refused to ask for a pardon from the President as they claimed not guilty for their…

Indonesian police have been praised for showing restraint in their handling of a massive demonstration in the capital of Papua…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The police have been challenged to prove their claim that its officers were not involved in Thursday's assault on an…

Karishma Vaswani – Hundreds of protesters in West Papua have continued their demonstrations rejecting the province's special autonomy…

Jakarta – Zulfika Rochmah stood shyly in front of the crowd, trying to explain why school was so important to her.

"I want to be a doctor…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – More than three decades have passed since Shirley Shackleton heard the devastating news that her husband, a…

The widow of one of the Balibo Five has paid her first visit to his grave, 35 years after the death of the five newsmen in East Timor.

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