Suherdjoko, Semarang – Thousands of workers staged a rally at the Central Java gubernatorial office on Thursday demanding that minimum wages in…

Anita Rachman & Camelia Pasandaran – The National Police drew the ire of journalists and media experts on Friday by summoning two newspaper…

Jakarta – Bunga (not her real name) never imagined the nightmare she would go through on her first night as a prostitute in a Malaysian brothel,…

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – While many big-time criminals evades justice across the country for corruption, an elderly woman in Banyumas, Central…

Camelia Pasandaran – Claiming to have improved the performance of the Finance Ministry's bureaucracy, the government plans similar reforms in 12…

New film breaks Indonesian media ban on images of West Papuan rebel camps

Diet Simon – A new film shows rarely-seen footage of separatist…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Critics say the House of Representatives is out of step with and failing to follow through on popular public…

Mataram – Dozens of students and local leaders from Bima regency rallied outside the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Police headquarters in…

Dessy Sagita& Candra Malik – The case of a grandmother of seven who was charged with stealing three pieces of cocoa fruit and subjected to 18…

Nurfika Osman – Despite the raft of killings, abductions and other violence carried out by unidentified groups in Papua, the nation's eyes remain…

Liam Fox, Papua New Guinea – More than 100 people who fled the Indonesian province of Papua to neighbouring Papua New Guinea have…

Nurfika Osman – Anew book by the National Commission on Violence Against Women should be used as a tool by judges, prosecutors and police in…

April Aswadi, Febriamy Hutapea & Antara – A cabinet minister on Thursday strongly denied months of rumors in the media that the controversial…

Attempts to shed light on the controversial bailout of a private bank got a minor boost Tuesday after legislators asked a plenary session to set…

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – The honeymoon ended for Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono less than a month into his second term.…

Rallies supporting the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have been a constant fixture of protest schedules for weeks now,…

Niken Prathivi, Jakarta – For Rp 25,000 (US$26) each, hundreds of people staged a rally at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle and area near the…

Nivell Rayda – Former members of the Team of Eight said on Wednesday that they were confident that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would accept…

Pandaya, Jakarta – The hurly-burly among the 200-plus House of Representatives members seeking an inquiry into the Rp 6.7 trillion (US$700,000)…

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday that he would not bow to public pressure and order the National Police and Attorney General's…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must take action to complete internal reforms of the National Police and at the Attorney General's…

Jakarta – Indonesia's counter-terror chief called Thursday for greater power to hold suspects, warning that Islamist extremists remained active…

Cunding Levi, Jakarta – Papua New Guinea repatriated on Thursday 141 Papuans on Thursday as part of the program to return about 700…

Camelia Pasandaran – In the wake of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's calls for a crackdown on the nation's "judicial mafia," new evidence has…

Nine rallies are scheduled for Jakarta on Thursday and will likely cause traffic delays.

According to Jakarta Police's Traffic…

Jakarta – Indonesia should release three men imprisoned for raising a banned separatist flag because the harsh punishment undermines the country's…

Tom Allard in Jakarta and Ben Doherty in Tanjung Pinang – The Indonesian Government has reversed its policy to swiftly deport Sri Lankan asylum…

Ten Sri Lankan women and children who came off the Oceanic Viking yesterday say they are locked up and unable to leave an Australian-funded…

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Thousands of workers staged a rally in front the Central Java Gubernatorial Office in Semarang on…

Jakarta – The government should cease sending low-skilled labor abroad to prevent the continued abuse of Indonesian migrant workers by their…

Indonesia still faces a key risk of new militant attacks as Islamic radicals have set up new cells in recent years and some bomb experts remain at…

Foreign journalists based in Indonesia have condemned the deportation of two reporters from Italy and India who had covered a recent Greenpeace…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Greenpeace Southeast Asia has sent a letter to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono calling on him to stop…

Ulma Haryanto – At least a quarter of Jakarta would be underwater by 2050 if current rates of development projects and groundwater harvesting…

President Yudhoyono has a chance to show Papuans before the December 1 anniversary that Indonesia is a rights-respecting country that upholds…

The local rent-a-mob tradition continued on Wednesday during a demonstration allegedly in support of the National Police and Attorney…

Farouk Arnaz – Businessman Ary Muladi on Tuesday was interrogated by Indonesia's National Police, a day after he was questioned at length by…

Fabio Scarpello, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is widely expected to use his strong electoral mandate to push reforms in…

Despite a damning report from the presidential team established to investigate Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) scandal, an…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should heed the recommendations of his fact-finding team into the Corruption…

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Several regional branches of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country's highest self-proclaimed Islamic…

David Coady – An international charity focussed on safe water and sanitation says children are dying needlessly in East Timor due to…

Jakarta – Experts urged the government to consider human rights when making policies to avoid rights violations, and to establish better social…

Jakarta – Despite some progress in coping with the impacts of the global financial crisis, labor and social trends in the country this fiscal year…

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono blamed Tuesday the state utility firm PT PLN monopoly for the power shortages…

Emmy Fitri – Farmer Kamsari Turahim, from Santing, Indramayu in West Java, said he could no longer rely on the traditional patterns of rice…

Nivell Rayda – Indonesia's efforts to eradicate corruption have started to bear fruit, after the country moved to 111th spot in a…

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Key Golkar Party member and media magnate Surya Paloh was rumored on Tuesday to be considering jumping the political fence…

The fact-finding team presented 31 pages of recommendations to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday as part of their investigation into…

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – During the year ending September 2009, more than 1 million people have joined the state workers' insurance firm PT…