Hans David Tampobolon, Jakarta – The move to impeach President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has taken another hit as the Indonesian Democratic Party…

Hery Winarno, Jakarta – As usual, Jakarta will again be marked by protest actions by people wishing to convey their demands. Once again, the…

Sidoarjo, East Java – Five victims of the Sidoarjo mudflow forced the workers from the site to protest against PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya…

Jakarta – Five hundred contract workers from PT Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT) staged a protest on Monday in front of…

Angus Thompson – Fed up with protests snarling Jakarta's already chaotic traffic, the authorities in one of the world's most congested cities plan…

Amanda Ferdina, Jakarta – Greater Jakarta will be rocked by five protest actions today, which will be held at a number of different…

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on the public to make its protests more polite.

The president said he had…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – A string of murders, mutilations and corpse rapes of Indonesian street children has prompted outrage and led…

Hans David Tampobolon and Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – A number of prominent figures in Indonesian politics declared the birth of a mass…

Ulum, Jakarta – Thousands of workers of the state steel producer Krakatau Steel rallied outside the Cilegon Regional Legislator's…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Ministry of Defense on Tuesday said it would work with the Retired Military Soldiers Association to resolve the…

Candra Malik, Batang (Central Java) – A day after an Indonesian judge warned that frivolous cases should never end up clogging the courts, the…

Irvan Tisnabudi & Ardian Wibisono – Indonesian exports hit an all-time monthly high of $13.3 billion in December as commodity prices rose in…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's exports were down nearly 15 percent last year as the global economic crisis cast a shadow over the country…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Inflation in January accelerated to a seven-month high with rising commodity and food prices, without provoking worry…

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – In some of the Democratic Party's strongest language yet, legislator Ruhut Sitompul on Tuesday…

2 February 2010

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Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and the Golkar Party have stressed that they would not bow to a coalition deal…

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has called on legislators to halt their investigation into the Bank Century bailout and to hand over…

Dili – The brutal beating of a demonstrator by East Timorese police in front of UN officers raises serious questions about the world body's…

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – A group of NGOs have lambasted the government for failing to give women more of a voice in politics despite the…

Some pesantren, or Islamic boarding school, leaders in Bogor are backing the use of social networking site Facebook to facilitate communication…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, said Sunday it was against the move made by some NGOs…

Nurdin Hasan – Aceh still remembers Tjut Nya Dien, one in a long tradition of heroes who tirelessly fought against the Dutch. But since…

Camelia Pasandaran – A controversial nationalist organization got its way on Monday when the Constitutional Court approved part of its judicial…

Febriamy Hutapea – If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono could very well be thanking…

Adisti, Jakarta – Activities at Jakarta main seaport disrupted on Monday as around 400 workers staged a protest at the gate of Tanjung…

Max Lane – On December 23, the Indonesian Attorney General's Department announced the banning of five books. Soon afterwards, it became known that…

Anton Septian, Jakarta – Students continue anti-graft protests in Jakarta on Monday. About 100 students staged a rally outside the…

Ezki Suyanto – At one point during Aceh's nearly 35-year battle for autonomy, a women approached an officer at a military post in the village of…

Max Lane – Abdurrahman Wahid, the president of Indonesia between 1999 and 2001, died on December 30, aged 69. His death was met by a wave of…

The fate of two senior leaders is hanging in the balance pending the findings of the inquiry committee of the House of Representatives on the Bank…

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Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Residents in Mirring village in West Sulawesi's Polewali Mandar regency forcibly closed an alleged heretical place of…

Eras Poke & Fidelis E. Satriastanti, Kupang – Months after thousands of barrels of crude oil spilled into the Timor Sea, Indonesia has yet to…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Even if the seemingly unchecked mining that is destroying the forests of Kalimantan were stopped today, it would still…

Nurfika Osman – A new law on gender equality currently being drafted is expected to serve as a legal reference to ensure that all government…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the House of Representatives were urged on Sunday to include the revision of the…

Heru Andriyanto – The absence of executions in 2009 was the result not of an intentional moratorium but because the Supreme Court has failed to…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – Responsibility for investigating the Bank Century bailout scandal should be transferred from the…

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – Infotainment TV audiences have switched to the news to watch live broadcasts of the hearings at the House of…

In the Netherlands, Papuan activist VIktor Kaisiepo has died in his home town of Amersfoort at the age of 61.

Mr Kaisiepo…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Two human rights activists said on Sunday that the implementation of Shariah law in Aceh was unfair and discriminatory…

Jakarta – Indonesia is showing less-than-impressive performance in good governance, despite approaching one of the most critical stages in its…

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Golkar Party backed down Friday in its attempt to impeach Vice President Boediono…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Having to stand trial for a prank involving a bee sting and the sudden media attention was too much for a nine-year-…

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – A group of NGOs concerned with religious freedom and democracy has filed a judicial review request at the…

Agnes S. Jayakarna, Surabaya – The East Java provincial administration's decision to allow nine companies to postpone the implementation of the…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Legal case brokers claiming to be acting on behalf of the Corruption Eradication Commission have allegedly scammed…

Dion Bisara, Janeman Latul & Ardian Wibisono – Indonesia's 100 worst tax-dodgers, including a slew of state-owned enterprises and some well-…