Bekasi – The Bekasi branch of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) announced Tuesday it had received reports from 15…

Maire Leadbeater – My introduction to West Papua was flying for many kilometres over the vast grey tailings deposition area created by the…

R.A. Khairun Nisa, Jakarta – The Indonesian People's Opposition Forum (sic) (FOR Indonesia) believes that the first 100 days of the administration…

The North Sumatra Pro-Democracy Movement says that the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono, as…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Students held a demonstration against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Makassar on…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Recruited protesters are paid to shout, crowd public minibuses and carry banners defaming figures related to the Bank…

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Remember Johnny Castle? I'm sure the clerics from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) think him the devil incarnate,…

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Wednesday vowed to present a friendlier face to the public, including abandoning terminology associated with…

Jakarta – While it is an unspoken truism that most penitentiaries in the country face the enduring problem of overcapacity and lack of funding,…

Bernard Lane – Max Lane is multiplying. There was a young Australian diplomat by that name, posted to Jakarta in 1980. He was soon sent home for…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The source of conflicts in the country has shifted from ethnic, racial and religious issues to those concerning…

Cunding Levi, Jayapura – Linked to terror acts that often happen around the mining area of PT Freeport Indonesia in Tembagapura,…

Indonesian police are hunting for the gunmen responsible for a shooting near the Freeport mine in Indonesia's majority-Melanesian Papua province.…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – As the administration approaches its 100th day in office, yet another polling body has given the President a middling…

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura/Timika – The latest attack against mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua, weeks after the…

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Free Papua Movement on Tuesday rejected an accusation by the National Police that it was behind…

Anita Rachman – Police are forever the friends of industry, and never of labor organizations, much less any single laborer, representatives of the…

Jakarta – The coordinator of the politics, law and human rights division of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence…

Febriamy Hutapea – The Corruption Eradication Commission on Monday contradicted earlier statements by several government officials over the source…

Dessy Sagita – Religious leaders on Tuesday criticized the Ministry of Religious Affairs for being against acknowledging religions and faiths…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Zaky Pawas – Amid rising tension, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday issued a strong defense…

Baseless accusations have always been directed towards the OPM/TPN when any killings or shootings happened around the mining area. The recent…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The House of Representatives' investigation of the Bank Century bailout was unlikely to result in the impeachment of…

We bet most people are not happy about the burning of churches in North Sumatra on Friday night. As a Muslim-majority nation, we are a proud…

Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian Corruption Watch has found that some hospitals still discriminate against poor families who are entitled to free…

The much-respected Constitutional Court on Monday received an award from the Malang-based Brawijaya University for being the most transparent…

Farouk Arnaz – Police claims that the killing of Papuan rebel leader Kelly Kwalik last month would improve security in the province's Timika area…

Farouk Arnaz – Police in Papua have found shell casings during investigations of Sunday's ambush in which nine people traveling in a convoy of US…

Camelia Pasandaran – A number of former ministers – including a few controversial ones – found themselves back in the government's inner circle on…

Sepudin Zuhri, Jakarta – The Indonesian People's Opposition Front (FOR Indonesia) is calling on the government to immediately stop trade…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Questions are being raised over President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's timing in addressing…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A signboard on Jl. Mister Muhammad Hasan, the main access to provincial capital Banda Aceh, reads: "Welcome to…

Nurfika Osman – At least 7.6 million Indonesian children under the age of 5 – or one out of every three – suffer from stunted growth, a primary…

Muhammad Taufik, Jakarta – About eight hundred workers of a textile company in East Java went on strike on Monday (25/1) to demand…

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Some 300 residents of Eks Yon Angkub Military Housing Complex in Cililitan Besar, East Jakarta protested…

Sukmawati, Jakarta – The Peace Institute's Board chairman, Ichsan Melik, said that in the next 10 years Indonesia will become…

Palu – The Central Sulawesi Indonesian People's Opposition Front (FOR Indonesia) was officially declared at 10am at the Gor Palu Park.

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Febriamy Hutapea – The House of Representatives special committee is today expected to deliver tentative recommendations based on its…

Heru Andriyanto – Graft suspects might prefer to have their cases prosecuted by the Attorney General's Office, where there is always a good chance…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A national survey released on Sunday shows the public squarely identifying Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister…

A new alliance or united front organization was formed in January in Indonesia to fight the current neo-liberal policies of the Indonesian…

Kompas – The families of the victims of forced disappearances in 1997-1998 are hoping that the government will soon form a team to search for the…

Jakarta – Almost none of the administrative regions that will hold elections this year have approved budgets proposed by local polling…

A family friend came to the rescue to mediate, helping end the 30-hour military police's siege of a general's residence smoothly without a single…

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Bogor – In a surprise move seen as an attempt to shore up his authority, Indonesia's president…

A Papua analyst says increasing militarisation of Indonesia's Mimika district and recent actions by police are incendiary for local…

Anita Rachman – Angry that controversial national exams have been given the green light, a group of students and parents want to force compliance…

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should reshuffle his cabinet as 10 ministers of his Cabinet were graded with poor…

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – The pace of deforestation in Java from 2007 to 2010 has reached 10,000 hectares and has become a serious threat to…

Heru Andriyanto – The death sentence being sought for former antigraft czar and murder suspect Antasari Azhar has reignited debate over capital…