Rendy A Witular, Jakarta – Fighting terrorism has never been a lower priority for the police than it has been under the watch of police chief Gen…

Christian Motte – The Papuan People's Assembly, a body representing the cultural and social rights of Papuans, on Friday urged the police to find…

Agus Maryono, Banyumas (Central Java) – The rapid growth of prostitution has been blamed for the high number of people living with HIV/AIDS in…

East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta says he will not push for a war crimes tribunal to investigate the deaths of six Australians in 1975.…

Niken Prathivi, Denpasar – In response to growing moves aimed to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), an alliance of NGOs in Bali…

Jakarta – Journalists reporting on sensitive issues face imprisonment or the death penalty if the government and the House of Representatives pass…

Ary Hermawan – Indonesia dismissed as fiction the recently premiered Australian film describing the murder of five Australian journalists by the…

Adam Gartrell – The new feature film about the Balibo Five may stir up fresh controversy in Australia but as far as Indonesia is concerned the…

Fidelis E. Satriastanti – The Papua tribe suing mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia reported what it claims is a series of…

Nurfika Osman – A leading graft watchdog warned on Friday that the state secrecy bill threatened to undermine any progress the country had made in…

Camelia Pasandaran & Stephanie Tangkilisan – A Supreme Court ruling has ordered the General Elections Commission to reallocate seats in the…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Six university students were sentenced to five years imprisonment each Thursday for their involvement in a violent…

Stephanie Tangkilisan – The media was criticized on Friday for its coverage of last week's bombings at two Jakarta hotels, including broadcasting…

The recent bombings of the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta were an ominous reminder that terrorists still view Indonesia as a prime…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being further derided after he criticized the media for "twisting around" his…

Twenty years after the death of her brother, one of five journalists killed in Balibo, East Timor, grandmother Maureen Tolfree began a painstaking…

East Timor's Ombudsman is calling for the country's Minister of Justice to be prosecuted, over allegations of corruption, following calls from the…

The number of neglected children is going up, and government programs have done little to help, according to an official at the…

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has renewed calls for the Attorney General's Office (…

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office indicated on Thursday that it would likely request a Supreme Court review of the acquittal of…

Paul Toohey, Solo – Abu Bakar Bashir has endorsed the deadly work of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorist, Noordin Top, saying Allah would…

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Having been defeated in this year's legislative and presidential polls, the future of the Golkar…

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won reelection with nearly 61 percent of the vote, according to official…

Camelia Pasandaran – Media analysts and open-government advocates warned on Thursday that the state secrecy bill now before the House of…

Palembang – The number of hot spots in South Sumatra is rising ahead of the peak of the dry season in August.

According to…

Christian Motte, Jayapura – The trial of 15 people accused of treason just days before April's legislative elections began on Thursday in Papua's…

Anthony Deutsch, Jakarta – Three more people were wounded by gunfire Wednesday at the world's largest gold mine, the latest ambush targeting…

Candra Malik, Solo – Hard-line Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Wednesday blamed the US Central Intelligence Agency for Friday's bomb attacks on…

Christian Motte & Farouk Arnaz – Another convoy of PT Freeport Indonesia vehicles came under attack in Papua on Wednesday, leaving a Timika…

Lindsay Murdoch in Jakarta and Tom Allard in Java – The terrorist network behind the Jakarta hotel bombings received help from al-Qaeda leaders in…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Muninggar Sri Saraswati, April Aswadi & Farouk Arnaz – In what is becoming a nagging political problem, President…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The race to be the Golkar Party's next chairman is growing heated, with all three frontrunners claiming to have…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered the Indonesian Armed Forces to deploy personnel down to the village…

More than 50 US organizations today urged the US government to "strictly prohibit any US cooperation with or assistance to the Indonesian Special…

We the undersigned organizations call upon the U.S. government to strictly prohibit any U.S. cooperation with or assistance to the Indonesian…

Nelson Rand – The day before last week's bombings of two luxury hotels in Jakarta, the Australian Strategic Policy Research Institute (ASPRI)…

Fourteen local Papuans have been arrested over the series of deadly ambushes near the Freeport mine last weekend.

At least several of them…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The arrest of a key figure in the Indonesian terrorist network just weeks before the deadly Jakarta hotel bombings is…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono has been urged to apologize for linking Friday's hotel bombings to complaints made…

Nivell Rayda – At least 20 prominent lawyers declared their support for the Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday, saying members of the…

Timika, Papua – Fourteen people have been arrested over a series of deadly ambushes near a Freeport gold and copper mine in Indonesia's Papua…

Mataram – Police were still questioning four people Tuesday following a clash with police officers Monday night in Rasabou village,…

One person was injured in a shooting Wednesday along the embattled road leading to the Freeport gold and copper mine in Papua.

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Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out a judicial review request over a Criminal Code article about provocation…

Surabaya – Dozens of university students under the Indonesian University Students Alliance (SMI) rallied outside the Grahadi building…

Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's crackdown on militant Islamic groups has been widely praised in recent years, particularly…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Golkar would rather join with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's coalition than be left out of power, party…

East Timor's ombudsman is calling for the country's Justice Minister to be prosecuted following a corruption investigation.

Late…

Melbourne – A hard-hitting movie depicting the infamous killing of six Australian-based journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor…

Tom Allard in Jakarta, Brendan Nicholson in Canberra – Australia and Indonesia say they will take their close police and security relationship "to…