M. Hilaly Basya, Leiden – Based on the Hijriyah (Islamic) calendar, on 8 Dzulhijjah 1430 (Nov. 26, 2009), Muhammadiyah will mark the one hundredth…

Harlyne Joku – "They're being sent to a concentration camp." This is how a West Papuan spokesman for the Merauke group living in Port Moresby,…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The government has revealed plans to amend the law on natural resource conservation, which could pave the way for…

Environmental activists shut down four cranes at a port run by one of Asia's biggest pulp and paper groups on Indonesia's Sumatra island, but…

Nurfika Osman – In an effort to boost the country's campaign against abuse of women, a women's rights watchdog is set to release a compilation of…

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A battle is already brewing within the House of Representatives to lead a special committee that…

Camelia Pasandaran – Confirming what most of the public already believed, the Constitutional Court declared on Wednesday that the…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Bliss was short-lived for antigraft leaders embroiled in opposing an alleged conspiracy against them as the…

Jakarta – Former chief of the National Intelligence Agency (BIN), A.M. Hendropriyono, has said in his latest book that Indonesia is one of the…

Daniel Flitton – East Timor has warned it will abandon a multibillion-dollar deal with Australia to exploit natural gas fields in the Timor Sea…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Muhammadiyah, one of the country's largest Islamic organizations, celebrated its Islamic calendar centenary on Wednesday…

Heru Andriyanto – The AGO remained defiant in the face of criticism on Wednesday, with its spokesman playing down calls for urgent internal reform…

Dicky Christanto and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The National Police chief turned about face and sacked the detective chief implicated in an alleged…

Lilian Karunungan – - Coal and palm oil exporters' profit margins may narrow should the rupiah rise another 4 percent to 9,000 per dollar, and the…

Candra Malik, Batang (Central Java) – After the uproar over the case of Minah, a grandmother who received a suspended sentence for stealing three…

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) no longer has any grounds to postpone submitting a judicial review on the release of former National…

Fidelis E Satriastanti – Undeterred by their encounter with local police earlier this month, Greenpeace activists once again carried out protests…

Reva Sasistiya – Investors have largely ignored the Energy Ministry's tenders for 17 oil and gas blocks offered in June because of the government'…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Indonesians are becoming even more confused over President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's speech, during which he was…

May 2

Chief of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Antasari Azhar, is arrested on charges of murdering businessman Nasruddin…

Eleanor Hall: More reports have emerged of decimated fish stocks off the coast of Indonesia near the recent oil spill in the Timor Sea. At least…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Foreign citizens have yet again become the target of terror attacks in Aceh, this time against two American…

Palembang – A group of journalists from various organizations rallied in Palembang, South Sumatra, on Monday morning to voice their…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Child Protection said here Monday that instances of violence against children committed by teachers had this…

Rendi A. Witular and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The much-awaited Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) investigative audit on the controversial bailout of Bank…

Jakarta – The value of mobilized domestic investment doubled this year as confidence in the country's economy increased, the Investment…

If you are going to steal, make sure you steal big. You're more likely to get away with it, or get off lightly, compared to what a small time…

A World Bank study that cited Indonesia as the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases was wrong, an Indonesian report sent to the…

Jakarta – Troubled migrant workers have cried out against rampant extortion and sexual harassment at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport on their…

The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) revealed its audit result for Bank Century at the House of Representatives on Monday, stating that errors had been…

The University of Indonesia's Alumni Association said they would encourage people to take to the streets in protest if the House of…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The controversial state secrecy bill is back, with the Defense Ministry planning to meet with a number of prominent…

Philip Dorling – The Defence Department has blocked the release of 34-year-old intelligence papers that would shed new light on the deaths of the…

Heru Andriyanto – Police and prosecutors have expressed determination to launch an all out-war against so-called case brokers, or middlemen, in…

Timika – Residents of Mimika, Papua, hoped the security situation in the area of PT Freeport Indonesia would soon be restored to normal, so that…

Malang – Compared to their predecessors, followers of the Muhammadiyah Islamic group today are less wealthy, its chairman says.

Minister of Communication and Information Tifatul Sembiring denied that the summoning of a number of chief editors by President Susilo…

At least 29 people have died when an Indonesian passenger ferry sank in rough waters off Sumatra.

Rescuers desperately hunted for survivors…

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is scheduled to announce his response on Monday to the recommendations made by the fact-finding…

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Manado – Regions, which are vital in economic development amid the current regional autonomy regime, will continue to…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The record of the police in handling graft cases, has been poor, say experts, prompting demands to government to hand…

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Aceh's controversial Qanun Jinayat code, which allows stoning to death for adulterers, would be difficult to implement…

Nivell Rayda – Activists have called for the empowerment of the toothless and allegedly biased National Police Commission in a bid to clean up the…

Antara & Nivell Rayda – Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono does not want to cut off probes into the the controversies surrounding…

Amir Tejo & Aidi Yursal – Eradicating the so-called "judicial mafia" is high on the government's to-do list. But anybody who knows the extent…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Calls for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to sack the National Police chief and the attorney general have…

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – At a small cigarette stall in Palmerah, West Jakarta, Syafei, 35, recently installed a 14-inch TV and has been…

Jakarta - Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang…

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – The newly sworn in Army Chief Lt. Gen. George Toisutta said that the Indonesian Military (TNI) is to set up two new…

Jonathan Pearlman – As dawn was breaking across the Indonesian province of Papua on a Saturday last July, an Australian mine worker, Drew Grant,…