Ulma Haryanto – What is the real agenda of the Islamic Defenders Front and have its members been allowed to get away with their strong-arm tactics…

Jakarta – Indonesia has yet not overturned many laws allowing torture – which the country must do as part of a UN agreement signed almost 25 years…

Jakarta – The National Police said it is planning to file lawsuits over Tempo magazine's latest edition, which featured a cover story…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Indonesia's failure to slow illegal logging stems from weaknesses in the 1999 Law on Forestry, which focuses on…

Most urban swells seem prone to it – gang violence, mob culture and a general abandonment of the law and order. Some excuse it as street justice,…

Arientha Primanita – A protest on Wednesday by about 200 angry contract teachers in front of City Hall turned ugly after they claimed they were…

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Some prefer the last option, reportedly including market operator PD Pasar Jaya, said to be running a dirty business…

Jakarta – It is time to spend money on lifestyle and long vacations, Indonesians say, amid a positive sentiment toward the economy and a declining…

Rana Akbari Fitriawan and Panca Nugraha, Bandung/Mataram – Hundreds of workers took to the streets in Bandung, West Java, on Tuesday to reject the…

Anita Rachman – The youth leader of the country's second-largest Islamic organization has called on the group to choose a new chief at the weekend…

Dicky Christanto and Hasyim Widiarto, Jakarta – "If we support one movement advocating religious-based policies, others will want them too,"…

Hans David Tampubolon and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The police are reluctant to get tough with the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) group…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Farouk Arnaz – The National Commission for Human Rights said on Monday that it would establish a special team to…

Farouk Arnaz& Ulma Haryanto – The National Police have denied allegations that they were lame ducks when it came to dealing with hard-line…

Stephen Fitzpatrick – Indonesia warned yesterday that Jakarta would not allow itself to become a refugee processing centre for Australia.

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Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says that there is no need to ban the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) despite…

Armando Siahaan – Though the idea is practically dead in the House of Representatives, the Regional Representatives Council on Tuesday revived a…

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – On a recent Saturday night in Jakarta, sultry songstress Julia Perez shook her cleavage before an enamored crowd of…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Political parties are cozying up and consolidating as they seek ways to bulk up ahead of the 2014 general elections, an…

Putri Prameshwari – Labor activists have denounced the opposition by the Indonesian delegation to an International Labor Organization meeting this…

Bagus BT Saragih and Hans David Tampubolon – Legislators and activists have called for the banning of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hard-line…

People who committed war crimes in East Timor during Indonesia's 1975-1999 occupation are going unpunished because of a loophole in the country's…

AI Index: PRE 01/206/2010

Amnesty International is urging Timor-Leste to close a legal loophole that is allowing war crimes and…

Farouk Arnaz, Nurfika Osman & Nivell Rayda – The case of the disappearing magazines led police on Tuesday to accuse Tempo of making up the…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – It was still 2:30 a.m. when a group of 10 men arrived at a major magazine and newspaper distribution outlet in Harmoni…

Jakarta Globe – The news magazine that police allegedly did not want people to see hit newsstands in Jakarta on Tuesday, a day after mystery men…

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A series of alleged human rights abuses by police officers across Indonesia are a result of a corrupt system…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Farouk Arnaz – Dozens of cases of abuse of power by police officers over the past two years is proof that the…

Bonnie Malkin, Sydney – Anthony Corbyn, who holds dual British and Australian nationality, was attempting to sail from Australia to the…

Ulma Haryanto – A new move by hard-line Islamic groups in Bekasi to push for the creation of Islamic militant units to fight the "Christianization…

Farouk Arnaz – Lawmakers from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, filed complaints with police on Monday after a meeting…

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – As the government institution perceived to be the most corrupt, according to a survey, the police apparently have no…

Jakarta Globe – One of the daughters of deceased dictator Suharto claims to have reclaimed ownership of Indonesian television station Televisi…

Alie Usman, Jakarta – Scores of demonstrators from the group Solidarity for Papua (SUP) that had gathered at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in…

Nivell Rayda – About half of all accepted applicants for the next leader of the powerful Corruption Eradication Commission survived the first…

Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission on Sunday pledged to investigate two suspicious bank accounts containing Rp 95 billion ($10.…

Toto Suryaningtyas – Efforts by certain politicians to pull the military back into the political arena has tended to receive little public…

Nurfika Osman – Tens of thousands of copies of the latest edition of Tempo magazine were purchased by mystery buyers early on Monday…

Armando Siahaan – The Golkar Party's road to power could be waylaid by a feud brewing well before the 2014 general elections, one that could wrest…

Jakarta – The United Development Party (PPP) said Saturday it would never change its Islamic ideology as had the Prosperous Justice…

Jakarta Globe – Two groups with two distinct messages are currently protesting outside National Police headquarters as celebrity Luna…

Indonesia's human rights record has improved over the past decade, but reforms have been slow or nonexistent in several critical…

Eras Poke, Kupang – Residents from fishing communities along the eastern seaboard of East Nusa Tenggara have called on the central government to…

Hasyim Widhiarto, Bekasi, West Java – A group of several Islamic organizations in Bekasi is planning to establish a joint center in…

Ulma Haryanto – Several religious organizations in Bekasi have recommended that every Mosque in Bakasi on the outskirts of Jakarta form militia…

Anita Rachman & Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle lawmakers on Friday demanded the president take action against hard-…

In 2010, the AHRC continued to receive information on several cases of torture in Indonesia. Twelve years after the ratification of the Convention…

Ulma Haryanto & Arientha Primanita – Jakarta is no city for buskers, beggars, roadside sex workers, the homeless, delinquents and the mentally…

Jakarta – Civil society groups and 10 regional administrations agreed to implement joint initiatives in at-risk provinces to reduce high maternal…