Jakarta – Unfair procurement tenders topped the list of cases reported to the anti-monopoly watchdog throughout 2009.

Of the 201 reports of…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Papua Police says it will not reduce the number of police officers guarding the gold and copper mine of US-based PT…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – What do Robert Tantular and Amir Mahmud have in common? Both of them are convicts. Both of them were sentenced to four…

Wisdom cannot be measured by how long one has lived...

B Josie Susilo Hardianto – Anton Sumer sat stunned in front of the television. The…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – In the wake of mounting calls for the government to award the title of national hero to the late former president…

Port Vila – The West Papua National Coalition for Liberation and National Authority has invited members of all the Indonesian province's…

Jakarta - A existence of a human rights court and ad hoc human rights judges needs to be reexamined. Moreover ad hoc human rights judges are seen…

Heru Andriyanto & Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission hinted on Monday that it would name controversial businessman Anggodo…

Amid strong public demand to name the late former President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid a national hero, the Golkar Party on Sunday called for the…

Evan A. Laksmana, Jakarta – "To defend everything is to defend nothing." There is a lot of wisdom in this old military axiom. Indeed, it is hard…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Calls for unity and reconciliation by National Awakening Party chairman Muhaimin Iskandar have been dismissed by members…

Candra Malik, Solo – With controversy still raging around the bill to extend the special status of Yogyakarta, rival central Javanese city Solo…

A cluster of organizations and academics is planning a rally this month to demand President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono resign or be forced out of…

Dewi Kurniawati, Sekutur Jaya, Jambi – Despite its serenity, complete with smiling, laid-back people, a serious problem is weighing heavily upon…

Muhamad Al Azhari, Irvan Tisnabudi & Dion Bisara – Despite the turbulence in financial markets decimating global commerce and nearly toppling…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – After the controversial banning of five books last week, the government has added 20 more titles to its evaluation list…

Jakarta – The long-standing poor image of Jakarta Police affected legal practitioners' appraisal of its performance in graft investigations last…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – As many as 560 legislators at the House of Representatives took their oath on Oct. 1 and pledged to…

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – After the hectic string of national and presidential elections, residents in the regions will be at the polls again with…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to, within two weeks, declare…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree on Wednesday to establish a special team to eradicate judicial…

Nurfika Osman & Farouk Arnaz – Muhammad Jibriel, who is suspected of having links to the July suicide bombings at Jakarta's JW Marriott and…

Linda Mottram – Secret cabinet documents from 1979 have confirmed the high tensions between Australia and Indonesia over East Timor, as the Fraser…

Dessy Sagita & Emmy Fitri – A new year, a new decade. But is the country in for better things ahead, or will 2010 be as scandal-filled as 2009…

Nivell Rayda – After several high-profile criminal defamation cases in 2009, analysts said on Friday that the House of Representatives must pass…

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Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Breakthroughs are needed in 2010 to successfully fight corruption in the country, director of Gadjah Mada University's…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Cases where hospitals reject patients living in poverty because they cannot pay the advance was a common occurrence in…

The government says that it will seek compensation from Australia for environmental damage in the Timor Sea caused by a leak at the…

Fidelis E Satriastanti – While the recent Copenhagen climate talks have been criticized for failing to produce a concrete agreement on emissions…

Greg Poulgrain – When Indonesia officially became independent of the Dutch 60 years ago this week, Australia's role as midwife was crucial. The…

Jakarta – While the police should be at the front of enforcing the law, thousands of officers are involved in abuse of power and criminal acts,…

Madura, East Java – Fifteen activists from the Indonesian Muslim Student Movement (PMII) in Sumenep, Madura, East Java, began a hunger…

Abdurrahman Wahid, more affectionately known as Gus Dur, was the most colorful, if not the most illustrious among six presidents Indonesia has had…

Jakarta – Festive preparations to part with 2009 quickly turned into mourning on Wednesday as the nation bid farewell to its cleric of pluralism,…

The year 2009 is coming to an end and given the spat of bad news these past 12 months, it is probably better to count our blessings than the…

Although a scion of a respected East Java family of Islamic ulemas and educators, Abdurrahman Wahid forged his name as an ardent proponent of…

The controversy over the book "Membongkar Gurita Cikeas," or "Unravelling the Cikeas Octopus," moved from free speech drama to farce on Wednesday…

A branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, has reportedly issued a fatwa to ban Muslims from watching a movie…

Indonesia will allow some infrastructure projects deemed in the public interest such as toll roads and geothermal energy plants to operate in…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – George Junus Aditjondro's controversial Cikeas Octopus book, which suggests a link between President Susilo Bambang…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights has sent a letter to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) requesting clarification on the latter'…

Lindsay Murdoch and Yuko Narushima – Fears of a disease outbreak are causing tensions to rise among asylum seekers on a boat moored at the…

Jakarta – The number of instances of violence against journalists dropped by 30 percent this year, a report from the Alliance of…

Jakarta – Like previous years, 2008 was marked by a variety of actions by students who took to the streets opposing government policies that they…

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection said thousands of Indonesian children had become the prey of sex traffickers due to poverty…

Gus Dur was known for his way with words and his love of jokes. Some of his memorable quotes include:

Suharto was a New Order president.…

Muhammad Taufiqqurahman, Jakarta – The Solidarity Action Committee for Munir (Kasum) sees 2009 as a year of gloom that failed to provide any…