Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Indonesian Muslims will ignore the recent edict by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country's highest Islamic…

Jakarta – A survey on the city administration's performance in 2008 was released on Wednesday and showed illegal fees and dissatisfaction with…

Jason Tedjasukmana, Jakarta – Four days after the fatwa went out, students continued to fill the yoga mats in the classrooms of Jakarta's…

Markus Makur, Timika – Dozens of police officers patrolled the streets of Yos Sudarso, Timika, Papua on Wednesday while relatives of a person shot…

Heru Andriyanto – The National Commission on Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, said on Wednesday that it planned to hire a team of five legal experts…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Businesses have warned the government against giving firms in labor-intensive sectors a waive in employees' taxes they…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The legal stipulation requiring a political party to acquire a minimum number of seats in the House of Representatives…

Blontank Poer, Surabaya – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) ended a two-day meeting Wednesday no closer to picking a running…

AI Index: ASA 21/001/2009

Amnesty International welcomes the decision today by the Jayapura District Court to clear human rights…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, voted Sultan Hamengkubuwono X the party's preferred vice…

Jakarta – Political experts and players on both sides of the controversy over the gender quota issued last week by the General Elections Committee…

Laurencius Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Protest actions continue to enliven the main roads of Jakarta. Today, Thursday January 29, four…

Erwida Maulia, Surabaya – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched two education programs and announced he would dramatically increase spending…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – After giving conflicting figures, the government has finally set the stimulus at Rp 71.3 trillion (US$6.31 billion) to…

Timika – Four people were wounded Tuesday when Indonesian police opened fire on hundreds of people in Papua province during a protest…

Endy M. Bayuni, Jakarta – The lengths people will go to get what they want this election year is amazing, though not all that surprising. A case…

Ed McWilliams – During the Cold War, the United States built alliances with notoriously corrupt, abusive regimes, including that of Suharto in…

Julie Shingleton, Jakarta – Indonesian smokers and the country's tobacco industry have slammed a move by the nation's top Islamic body to place…

Jakarta – Most businesses may wait until after elections before deciding whether to lay off workers permanently, to minimize potential social…

Banda Aceh – A spate of recent deadly animal attacks in Indonesia has thrown the spotlight on growing conflicts between humans and animals…

Three of the six fatwa issued by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) have drawn strong resistance, not only from the general public, but also from…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Sally Piri – Sultan Hamengkubuwono X should be expelled from the Golkar Party for "violating party discipline" by…

Febriamy Hutapea – The Indonesian Council of Ulema, or MUI, went too far when it banned Muslims from abstaining from voting, House of…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Bandung, Padang – Regional general election commissions (KPUDs) are concerned with the new way to vote…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Former President Megawati Sukarnoputri, who is currently setting her sights anew on the presidency, lashed out at…

Blontank Poer and Erwida Maulia, Surakarta/Malang – Potential vice presidential candidates attended the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – A political watchdog has criticized legislators for taking unnecessary overseas trips and threatening the progress of a…

Jakarta – The newly Sworn-in Supreme Court Chief Justice Harifin Tumpa faces an uphill battle against corruption with the nation's top legal…

Jakarta – A Christian political leader has criticised a religious edict or fatwa issued by Indonesia's top Islamic body stating that only a Muslim…

David Jardine – Some controversies simply will not go away. One of them is the continued denial by leading Japanese politicians of the Liberal…

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – The Constitution Court's Regulation No. 8/2008 on granting legislative seats to candidates who win the most votes,…

Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organisation has attacked a move by the country's highest Islamic authority to impose bans on smoking,…

Blontank Poer and Slamet Susanto, Surakarta, Yogyakarta – A duet between Megawati Soekarnoputri of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (…

Surabaya – Due to the global economic downturn, the provincial government has allowed 14 troubled companies to underpay their workers.

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Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – NGOs conducting public opinion and exit polls have established an association that obliges members to reveal their…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today called on Timor-Leste's (East Timor) prosecutor-general to drop criminal defamation…

Sara Webb, Jakarta – Indonesia's former president Suharto has been dead for a year, but the country he ruled for three decades until his ouster in…

Dili – A rights group Monday urged East Timor to drop criminal charges against a weekly newspaper and its editor for alleged…

Nurfika Osman & Sally Piri – Following a busy weekend of deciding whether smoking, yoga, not voting and other issues were right or wrong for…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The political romance between former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X appears to have…

Ismira Lutfia – An Indonesian Council of Ulema, or MUI, edict that allows women to have an abortion under certain conditions could serve as a…

Nurdin Hasan & Anita Rachman – A chapter of the Alliance of Independent Journalists, or AJI, in Aceh Province has rejected the…

Jakarta – Muslims in Indonesia have been banned from doing yoga if they engage in Hindu religious rituals during the exercise, the chairman of the…

Jakarta – Chief of National Intelligence Agency (BIN) Syamsir Siregar said Sunday that Muslim scholars, Islamic boarding schools and…

Joshua Frank – In wee morning hours on Friday, January 23, a US spy plane killed at least 15 in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border. It was…

Indonesia managed to achieve self-sufficiency and even a surplus in rice production last year, but failed to improve the economic conditions of…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) said that massive layoffs are in sight should the city administration insist on its plan…

Abdul Khalik – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla have stepped up visits to regions across the country, a move many…

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Dozens of environmental activists staged a protest Friday in front of the Bali governor's office to oppose a plan to…

Olivia Rondonuwu, Padang Panjang – Indonesia's top Islamic body debated on Sunday whether to apply a blanket ban on smoking for Muslims or place a…