On a gloomy Thursday in February last year, thousands of passengers who landed at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport found themselves stranded…

Ismira Lutfia – A scholar on Tuesday called on Islamic leaders, Muslim organizations, students and scholars to take responsibility for their part…

Ambon – As many as 37 prisoners in a subversion case of the separatist South Maluku Republic (RMS) were moved from Ambon penitentiary…

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Denpasar – So much to choose from, so little choice. When Indonesians flock to the polls in the April 9 legislative…

The Democratic Party (PD) wins the most votes in the April parliamentary election, and its candidate, the incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,…

Jakarta – More than 40,000 workers in Jakarta have lost their jobs so far this year, according to the Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Employers…

Muhamad Al Azhari & Janeman Latul – In yet another warning that Indonesia is far from being immune to the global economic turmoil, the…

Camelia Pasandaran – A nongovernmental organization on Wednesday called on the General Elections Commission, or KPU, and election watchers to…

Sally Piri – Golkar Party leaders remain at odds with one another over whether or not the party should nominate its own presidential candidate,…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Armed Foces Chief Gen. Djoko Santoso on Wednesday acknowledged that growing disappointment in Papua Province toward the…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The arrest of House of Representatives lawmaker Abdul Hadi Djamal for accepting a "bribe" to finance his election…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Indonesian police should be on alert for possible elections-related conflict in regions that have witnessed "…

Denpasar, Bali – Five Australians freed from jail in West Papua have appealed to the Australian Government for help, after Indonesian prosecutors…

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – The growing rift in the Indonesian leadership is heading for chasm proportions, with an election strategy meeting…

Jakarta – The Sidoarjo Mud Mitigation Agency warned Tuesday that levees built to contain the massive mudflow pond in Sidoarjo, East…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – More than a third of the nation's 530,000 polling stations, including those in Aceh, are vulnerable to security…

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – As the economic crisis takes firm hold in the city, hundreds of workers staged rallies Tuesday demanding their right…

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Djoko Susilo says the main reason for many Papuans wishing to separate from the Indonesian…

Several hundred Papuans, rallying in the name of the National Action Committee of the West Papuan People took to the streets in Jayapura on…

Markus Makur, Timika – Hundreds of Kei tribal members staged a rally Tuesday at the Mimika Legislative Council to demand the police investigate a…

Putri Prameshwari – Two men were shot and stabbed to death and another two badly injured after they were allegedly attacked by members of the…

Jakarta – Farmers in Salatiga city, Central Java held a rally at Salatiga City Hall protesting the administration decision to allow an…

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Women across the world rallied for equal rights, protection against domestic violence and for greater…

Surakarta – Unregistered marriages must be stopped because they cause problems for both parties, radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – With the Golkar Party still deliberating who it will choose as its presidential candidates, chairman Jusuf Kalla…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) favors forming a coalition with nationalist parties rather than other Islamic-…

Debnath Guharoy, Consultant – In a poll of 1,936 eligible voters conducted by Roy Morgan Research across four weeks and completed at the end of…

Merauke – Five Australians jailed for illegally entering Indonesia's sensitive Papua province by plane have been released after winning their…

The Australia West Papua Association says dramatic statistics about infant and maternal mortality emerging from the Provincial Health Department…

Ismira Lutfia – Indonesian woman are coming forward with allegations of domestic and economic violence and sexual harassment in record numbers,…

Nivell Rayda – Without any real supervision from the central government, regional autonomy had created several provinces with puppet governments,…

Nana Rukmana and Suherdjoko, Cirebon, Semarang – Presidential candidate Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X (HB X) of Yogyakarta Palace visited…

Arlina Arshad, Bandung – Gyrating her hips to traditional gamelan music on a makeshift village stage, Indonesian folk dancer Sri Wulandari ignores…

The Golkar Party and United Development Party (PPP) have reached an agreement to coalesce in the presidential election in July this year, Golkar…

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The US will not release the Jemaah Islamiah operations chief Hambali into Indonesian custody despite finally permitting its…

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – The recent Constitutional Court ruling has brought together in a solidarity campaign female candidates concerned…

Agnes Winarti, Jakarta – Women vying for legislative seats in the general elections next month are being encouraged to get more active in…

Nivell Rayda & Febriamy Hutapea – The Corruption Eradication Commission, or KPK, found itself taking heat from critics for being too "cowardly…

Febriamy Hutapea & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Still reeling from having his party at the center of the latest corruption scandal to rock the…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – The wave of layoffs caused by the negative impacts of the global economic crisis has increased by another 18,000…

Yogyakarta – Over 5,000 disabled people in Sleman regency might lose their voting rights in the upcoming legislative election if…

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Gresik has followed other regencies protesting against the blatant disregard of a recent rise in minimum wages by employers…

Corinne Podger – Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon has told Radio Australia that Australian troops will stay as long as East Timor says it needs…

Nivell Rayda – One of the country's most senior Muslim leaders on Thursday threatened to issue an edict banning people from voting for the…

Andra Wisnu, Jakarta – Islam and yoga share more similarities than some parties would like to admit, a seminar concluded Thursday.

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Stephanie March – East Timor's state secretary for defence, Julio Tomas Pinto, wants to send more of his troops to Australia for…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The upcoming legislative election has already been tainted by money politics, fueled by the fierce competition among…

Jakarta – Ten years down the track, regional autonomy may be doing more harm than good, the founding father of the country's current self-reliance…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia has officially agreed US$5.5 billion of loans from Australia, Japan, the World Bank (WB) and the Asian…

Lilian Karunungan – Indonesia's rupiah erased losses on speculation the central bank intervened to support the currency. Government bonds rose.…