Camelia Pasandaran – The United Development Party, or PPP, is pushing for the formation of a coalition of Islamic parties in order to shift the…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Manokwari – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono visited West Papua on Thursday, pouring hundreds of billion of rupiah in…

Arientha Primanita – Thirteen East Java Police officers have been formally disciplined over an investigation that led to the convictions of two…

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – The United Nations will continue to monitor the case involving the murder of human rights activist Munir. UN Special…

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – The public prosecutor handing the case of murdered human rights activists Munir has submitted a judicial…

Heru Andriyanto – The conviction of Rohainil Aini last Tuesday could not serve as supporting evidence in prosecutors' attempts to overturn the…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Discrimination remains a major stumbling block for transvestites and gay communities across the country, especially…

Jakarta – Anti-corruption activist Teten Masduki said the Indonesian Ulema Council's threat to sue Transparency International…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The control of state assets by government-linked social foundations to help them operate and raise funds may lead to…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Ret. Gen. Prabowo Subianto is seeking the support of his former in-laws, the still-influential family of the late…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The national polls body agreed Thursday that the presidential election will take place on July 8, 2009, with a…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Former president Megawati Soekanorputri and the current Vice President Jusuf Kalla are the most preferable among workers…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Golkar Party must name its presidential candidate soon or risk losing its most popular figures to other party…

Jakarta – Controversial issues ranging from yoga to abstaining from voting will head the agenda when 700 ulema from throughout the country meet in…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) expressed its commitment Wednesday to investigate the 102 illegal accounts…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The police force is seen by the business community as the most bribe-riddled institution, while corruption at judicial…

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Prabowo Subianto, who chairs the Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra, says he still intends to run for…

Dessy Sagita – A senior legislator from the moderate Islamic National Mandate Party, or PAN, said he wanted to ensure that as many as 14 jobs out…

Jakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace urged Indonesia's election watchdog Thursday to investigate funding for political parties…

Febriamy Hutapea – If the legislative election scheduled for April 9 were held today, more than 50 percent of the votes cast would be declared…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – As elections draw closer, political party leaders have intensified communications between them, but avoided early…

Jakarta – Dozens of transsexuals attended a meeting Thursday at the House of Representatives' Health and Manpower Commission to…

Jakarta – Dozens of villagers on Indonesia's Sumatra island began a protest march Wednesday to demand the release of 76 people arrested in a land…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Along the East to North Jakarta stretch of Jl. Gen. D.I. Panjaitan, barely a blank space can be seen among the sea of…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) vowed to issue a regulation to award more legislative seats to women should…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Around half the education agency heads across the country's 33 provinces are "incompetent" and only secured their…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's top banks Bank Mandiri and Bank BNI have started cutting their lending rates in response to the central…

Jakarta – The Supreme Court convicted former Garuda chief secretary pilot Rohainil Aini on Tuesday for providing a fake assignment letter to off-…

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned at the status of the free media in Timor Leste as a local newspaper editor faces a…

Jakarta – According to Transparency International Indonesia (TII), the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) has become one of the institutions that most…

Jakarta – The Indonesian chapter of Transparency International has named Kupang, the capital of East Nusa Tenggara, as the most…

Mark Dodd – East Timor's Gusmao Government yesterday denied claims by the Fretilin opposition that several million dollars' worth of unaccounted…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The regional elections in 2008 have been quite successful considering the low number of election disputes filed with…

Her Excellency
The Secretary of State
Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Dear Secretary Clinton:

The West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT)…

Presidential hopeful Rizal Ramli was questioned by police Tuesday for a second time as a suspect in last year's protests against fuel price…

The Papua Customary Council, which represents tribal interests in the Indonesian province of Papua, says some 500 Indonesian police…

Nurseffi Dwi Wahyuni, Jakarta – As many as 500,000 casual, contract and permanent workers will loose their jobs if no orders come in to ensure…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – A legislative candidate from Lampung, Atte Suganda, says he never thought people would ask him directly for funds…

Nivell Rayda – The Ministry of Justice and Human Rights is planning to double Indonesia's prison capacity to battle overcrowding in its facilities…

Muh Syaifullah/Pito A. Rudiana, Yogyakarta – The 1998 activists grouped in the Benteng Kedaulatan (Sovereignty Fort) prefer to support…

Jakarta – Political parties participating in the 2009 general election are barred from recruiting children for their political…

Markus Makur, Timika – PT Freeport Indonesia (FI), a gold and copper mining company operating in Mimika regency, Papua, is cutting costs despite a…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – New Year has brought no change to the House of Representatives, which is struggling to fight its chronic problem of…

Jakarta – Over a million Indonesians will lose their jobs in the global economic downturn and many will head to the capital, Jakarta, swelling the…

Jakarta – A citizen group has criticized the general election commission (KPU) and its Jakarta chapter (KPUD) for having a regulation that keeps…

Departing from a contentious Constitutional Court ruling on the allocation of legislative seats, the General Elections Commission (KPU) has…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) claims a proposal by the General Elections Commission (KPU) to award seats to female…

David Fogarty – Indonesia has delayed releasing complete regulations on using carbon credits to protect rainforests, preferring to fine-tune rules…

Riyadi Suparno, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has learned the lesson the easy way. When he cut fuel prices twice in December, his…

[The following is an English translation of a statement issued by an ad-hoc coalition of Timor-Leste NGOs at a Dili press conference on 19…