A witness in a bribery case implicating two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairmen testified in the bribery trial of Anggodo…

Agus Maryono, Cilacap – More than 90 percent of the country's 15.5 million fishermen are living below the poverty line due to an underdeveloped…

Jakarta – Eight under-performing state firms face liquidation under a state enterprises consolidation program, State-Owned Enterprises…

Baudoin Koening – As a French journalist, I came to Indonesia to draw the portrait of the greatest emerging power of the G20 members and largest…

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said Wednesday that it had yet to find any indications of corruption after…

Nurfika Osman – Activists and nutritionists have urged the government to adopt an international code that bans the unethical promotion of breast-…

Ismira Lutfia – While more cities and towns were honored with the central government's annual Adipura clean-city awards this year in recognition…

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office has found itself ensnared in complications arising from a legal case involving two antigraft…

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The rivalry between a leading taxi operator and a local taxi association on Bali turned ugly on Monday, with…

Anita Rachman – House of Representative's Speaker Marzuki Alie, a member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, has labeled a…

Pork barrel politics is as commonly practiced and proved effective in its country of origin the United States as in other countries like the…

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – More than 80 Ahmadiyah members who have taken refuge in the Wisma Transito shelter, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB),…

Irvan Tisnabudi – The newly appointed finance minister held out an olive branch to lawmakers on Monday, telling them he needed their "trust" and…

Jakarta – Lawmakers have acknowledged there are numerous problematic articles in the intelligence bill that require further deliberation.

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Golkar Party proposal to allocate Rp 15 billion (US$1.64 million) from 2011 state funds for each legislator as "…

Nivell Rayda – The National Police on Monday maintained that there was so far no evidence that businesses linked to Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal…

Titania Veda – "My parents told me to stay here until the baby was born," says Diana, not her real name. "I wanted an abortion, but when I found…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Two 43-metre Chinese-made navy patrol boats mounted with 30-millimetre cannon, initially to be crewed by Chinese sailors…

A military parade and blessing ceremony is planned in East Timor later this week to formally mark the arrival of two patrol boats purchased from…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's "pork barrel" spending proposal will likely prove far less beneficial to underdeveloped regions…

Jakarta – Due to a misunderstanding, a group of people in Nabire regency, Papua, vandalized Topo police headquarters on Monday. Papua…

Papua's Forestry Office says the forested areas in the Indonesian province are shrinking even further.

Marthen Kayoi told the…

Relations between Indonesia and the United States are probably at their historic best, and the planned visit of President Barack Obama to…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police have moved to treat all asylum-seekers passing through the country on their way to Australia as…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) alleges that land grabs by large-scale plantation companies are leading to rapid…

Elaine Pearson, Jakarta – As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized in a speech last year, Indonesia has now "embraced democracy."

Nurfika Osman – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry has set up a task force to curb the number of migrant workers heading to Malaysia in…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran – Following a series of bruising defeats in local elections, Golkar leaders have exhorted local…

A number of senior police officers were reported for conducting suspicious financial transactions. Originating from unclear sources, tens of…

Putri Prameshwari – Life for Uni is a little different than most kids her age; at 16 years old she already frequently visits a gynecologist. "A…

Jakarta – The Golkar Party said on Sunday it would continue to fight for higher parliamentary threshold of 5 percent to reduce the…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle faction at the House of Representatives said Sunday that the party would support…

Farouk Arnaz & Irvan Tisnabudi – In an about-face on Friday, the National Police said they had no plans to investigate claims that Bakrie…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Hardline Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir had a direct line to al-Qa'ida around the time of the September 11,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The ruling coalition's controversial joint secretariat has backed a divisive proposal to grant each House of…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor has accused Woodside of "grandstanding" over its plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas platform…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III on law and human rights has proposed a revision of a law that will…

Jon Gorvett – Hopes for a change in Indonesia's restrictive rules on foreign ownership of property were dashed when a major conference of real…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The joint administration of the pro-government parties has agreed on the disbursement of the so-…

Jakarta – The selection committee for the new leader of the KPK will seek advice from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono about prolonging the…

Armando Siahaan – Lawmakers pledged on Thursday to support revisions of the 2006 Law on the Protection of Witnesses and Victims in the wake of a…

Fresh allegations that companies linked to Indonesian tycoon and politician Aburizal Bakrie bribed an official to avoid paying millions of dollars…

Ulma Haryanto – The chief of an open learning center for the poor and a city councilor have joined critics who say that international-standard…

Fidelis E Satriastanti & Ismira Lutfia – Ineffective law enforcement and heavy-handed tactics by logging companies are the main causes of the…

Farouk Arnaz & Nivell Rayda – The National Police plan to summon a number of companies owned by business tycoon and political heavyweight…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Every three months at least 500 Indonesians travel to Malaysia and start work illegally, despite Indonesia's ban on…

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-079-2010

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The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that an…

Nivell Rayda, Heru Andriyanto & Farouk Arnaz – The Attorney General's Office said on Friday that it had three possible responses to the High…

The Supreme Court on Friday joined the chorus of legal experts fingering the Attorney General's Office as the primary reason antigraft deputies…

Matt Chambers – Woodside Petroleum expects development of the Greater Sunrise gasfields through a floating liquefied natural gas platform to cost…