Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Regional Representatives Council claims the government was too slow in helping victims of a 7.1-magnitude…

Jakarta – The future of the United Development Party (PPP), once the only channel for political Islam in the country, is in jeopardy with one of…

Nivell Rayda – After months of shocking reports exposing tax scandals, the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights on Friday finally announced plans…

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Fatayat Nadhlatul Ulama, the women's wing of the country's largest Muslim organization, reported that violence, early…

Answer Styannes – Today's UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture offers us a chance to pause and consider the stilted nature of our…

Arti Ekawati – The government on Friday responded to rising international pressure on the country's palm oil producers by implementing a new…

Anita Rachman – The chairman of the country's second-largest Islamic organization has raised the specter of plotting government officials and…

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights has accused police in Mojokerto, East Java, of gross human rights abuses in their…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Justice and Human Rights Ministry plans to take action on reports alleging the torture of Ambonese and Papuan…

Armando Siahaan – A top Golkar Party official has denied that a possible tie-up with a conservative Muslim group was aimed at diversifying the…

Nurdin Hasan, Jantho (Aceh) – Three of 21 men caught gambling on cards last month were caned with seven lashes each in public on Friday in Jantho…

Armando Siahaan – Even supporters of the controversial idea to allow armed forces personnel to vote say that if the right were to be returned,…

Dili – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao on Friday welcomed new Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and thanked ousted…

Dessy Sagita – "Don't even think of trying to make a sex video. Just take a look in a mirror, if you must."

This recent advice issued by…

Jakarta – The marriage age should be increased to 21 for girls and to 25 for boys to curb Indonesia's population growth, a representative of the…

Heru Andriyanto – The tough response from police to the current sex-video scandal, allegedly involving some of the country's top celebrities, has…

Banyuwangi, East Java – A public meeting on free health care services sponsored by the House of Representatives here on Thursday was rudely…

Robin McDowell – Not long ago, Abdullah Sunata was a poster child for Indonesia's efforts to persuade jailed terrorists to give up their violent…

Farouk Arnaz, Antara & Agence France-Presse – The National Police's counterterrorism unit arrested two more suspects following successful…

Police have declared Nazriel "Ariel" Ilham, the front man of the popular Peterpan band, a suspect in a pornography case, and his two alleged sex…

Farouk Arnaz – Antiterror police foiled the country's most-wanted terrorist fugitive, Abdullah Sonata's plot to attack several police offices on…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro says up to this date the Indonesian Military (TNI) has remained neutral in…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A group of legislators and political leaders on Wednesday warned of the dangers of allowing soldiers to vote in…

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – Indonesia's "most wanted" terror suspect was behind bars Thursday after raids which left one officer wounded and…

Indonesian anti-terror squad Detachment 88, which is partially funded by foreign nations, cooperated with prison guards and police to torture…

The Indonesian government has told the global rights watchdog group, Human Rights Watch, that it plans to address the mistreatment of…

An academic in Indonesian politics says the United Nations approval of the referendum which incorporated Papua region into the…

Jakarta – Judicial Mafia Taskforce Secretary Denny Indrayana says the judicial review request filed by activist group Petition 28 against the…

Nivell Rayda – Indonesians are increasingly undecided as to the guilt of Corruption Eradication Commission deputies Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit…

Ismira Lutfia – The frenzied media circus that sprang up around uploaded Internet sex videos that seem to star three local celebrities has…

Kupang – Thousands of fishermen in Kupang's Oesapa area are preparing to migrate to Bangka Belitung in Sumatra to find a new livelihood, a…

Women domestic workers in Indonesia face human rights abuses at work, including economic exploitation, poor working conditions and gender-based…

Matt Chambers – When East Timor President Jose Ramos Horta fronts the National Press Club in Canberra today, the Greater Sunrise gas partners –…

East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta is using a state visit to Australia to try to calm escalating tensions over the development of the Greater…

Kirsty Needham – Bringing an oil pipeline to East Timor would do more to alleviate poverty than Australia's $100 million aid program could achieve…

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's elite anti-terror squad arrested the country's most-wanted man and two of his aides in a series of…

Stephanie Phang – Capital inflows pose a bigger risk to Indonesia than inflation, and may prompt the central bank to introduce more measures to…

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – Shootings, protests and violent attacks are on the rise in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province, home to a low-level…

Dicky Christanto and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Human rights monitor Imparsial says it supports the military members' right to vote as early…

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Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Prosecutors on Tuesday asked the Langsa District Court in Aceh to sentence a member of the province's Wilayatul Hisbah…

Nivell Rayda – The government must release 100 political prisoners in Papua and Maluku if it is to make any headway in its upcoming human-rights…

A Vanuatu member of parliament says he's not worried about reaction from Indonesia to Vanuatu's attempts to get the question of West Papua raised…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Golkar Party secretary general Idrus Marham urges all of his party members not to get involved in the…

Heru Andriyanto & Farouk Arnaz – With legal experts questioning the grounds for any prosecution, police said on Wednesday that the two women…

Jakarta – Based on the latest report on the ongoing national census, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has predicted that Indonesia…

Johannes Nugroho – Indonesia's latest enfant terrible, singer Nazril "Ariel" Irham of the band Peterpan, has been officially detained for his…

Sunanda Creagh – Indonesian jails hold at least 100 political prisoners from the Papua and Moluccas regions, including some who were tortured,…

Papua – Filep Karma has served five years behind bars on a 15-year treason sentence for raising a banned flag in Indonesia's easternmost Papua…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)'s director of law enforcement Ade Rahardja on Tuesday testified at a trial hearing of…