Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The families of students and activists who disappeared during the 1997-98 political unrest stepped up pressure on…

Jakarta – Indonesia will issue a government decree aimed at clarifying what oil and gas contractors can claim under a scheme to reimburse their…

The government, under pressure from the House of Representatives, has asked the state electricity company (PLN) to postpone the implementation of…

Ulma Haryanto – An Islamic scholar and lecturer from Jakarta's Paramadina University was jeered by members of a hard-line Islamic group at the…

Febriamy Hutapea – In what could be the beginning of the end of the politically charged Bank Century probe, lawmakers have conceded that there is…

Camelia Pasandaran – The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Tuesday said it would stand by its proposed draft bill on marriage, which includes…

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Saraswati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party expressed guarded optimism on Wednesday that…

Ismira Lutfia – News media, bloggers and other members of the online community were united on Wednesday in voicing objections to a Ministry of…

Hans David Tampobolon, Jakarta – A seeming reluctance by three parties initially pushing to investigate the Bank Century bailout may be down to…

Never one to take baby steps, media magnate Surya Paloh said on Wednesday that neither he nor his recently formed social organization was the type…

Ismira Lutfia & Febriamy Hutapea – Local Web site managers have joined the chorus of objections to the Indonesian Ministry of Communication…

Caution is essential in Indonesia's program to sell stakes in state firms because of its politically sensitive nature, the state enterprises…

Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday asked the government to regulate public officials receiving multiple incomes in…

Marcel Thee – Bombers are decorating Jakarta. Not with explosives, but with cans of spray paint. And lots of it.

"Bombers" refers to the…

Putri Prameshwari – Employees who were recently laid off by several companies without prior discussion must be taken back, Minister of Manpower…

Nivell Rayda – Analysts are predicting rising political tensions when the House of Representatives special committee investigating the Bank…

As an organization that works for human rights, HAK Association is concerned with the situation in Bobonaro and Covalima Districts, especially the…

Pandaya, Jakarta – The 2007 Coastal and Islet Management Law is yet to be functional, but an alliance of activists are already seeking to shoot it…

Batam – Muslim legal arbiters in this Riau Islands city on Tuesday rejected a recently floated idea to levy a tax on prostitution to increase the…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to have clear-legislation to curb collusion and conflicts of interest among its leaders, which…

Jono van Hest – With strictly limited international media access to West Papua, Australian filmmaker Jono van Hest decided that he wanted to help…

Ulma Haryanto – Alleged police indifference to violence targeting religious minorities was questioned on Tuesday during a public discussion in…

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Days after news broke that the Communications and Information Technology Ministry was mulling a regulation to…

Febriamy Hutapea – Just two weeks before the House of Representatives is scheduled to wrap up the ongoing probe into the Rp 6.7 trillion ($710…

Ismira Lutfia – The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is facing growing objections to its plan to create a monitoring team with…

Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over an alleged plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new evidence has come…

Anita Rachman & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court chief on Sunday threw his weight behind a forthcoming bill to fine or jail…

Sara Everingham – Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over an alleged plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new…

Jakarta – Democracy activists have accused a group affiliated with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party of attacking the office…

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – The percentage of female legislators at the parliament has reached its highest level in history, but many…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government has promised to provide more attention on reviving manufacturing, service sectors, among the hardest…

A statue depicting US President Barack Obama as a boy was Sunday removed from a park in Indonesia's capital, officials said.

The two-metre…

Jakarta – The Supreme Court has selected ad hoc justice candidates with questionable competence, a member of the Court Monitoring…

Hundreds of supporters of 16 Islamic social organizations in Bekasi, West Java, threatened to forcibly close Galileo Church, located in Taman…

The Alliance of Independent Journalists has slammed the Communication and Information Ministry's draft regulation on multimedia content, stating…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists' (AJI) has called for the reopening of the murder case…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Participants were met with applause, but also taunts when they stepped on the catwalk during a Miss Transvestite…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Commemorating what they called domestic worker national day, which falls on Feb. 15, activists and domestic workers in…

Police are investigating whether separatists are responsible for the fatal shooting on Monday of a policeman who was guarding a gas…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – In their best Acehese costumes, kitsch jewelry and towering hair buns, 40 transsexuals sashayed down a stage on…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's prayers of late have likely been dominated by wishes that the PT Bank Century…

Febriamy Hutapea, Ardian Wibisono, Amir Tejo & Made Arya Kencana – Despite their own great expectations, four groups of legislators probing…

Febriamy Hutapea – An analyst has criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's use of implied "political threats" against his coalition…

Camelia Pasandaran – The country's courts top the list of at least 268 public complaints received by the presidentially-appointed judicial mafia…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The former head of Indonesia's anti-corruption watchdog, Antasari Azhar, has been found guilty of masterminding the murder…

Anita Rachman – At least four million of 58.8 million children across the nation are in employment, and of those at least 1.7 million are…

Jupernalis Samosir, Jakarta – A coalition of mainly environmental groups in Riau province staged a protest on Friday outside the…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government remains optimistic economic growth will accelerate to 5.5 percent this year but warns of downside risks…

Jakarta – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD told prosecutors to kick their habit of extorting money from defendants for…

Emmy Fitri & Ismira Lutfia – Nine years ago Bambang Suryono rediscovered his passion for journalism when he began working for a Chinese-…