Alfian, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) on Thursday unveiled findings of alleged state losses of Rp 21.32 trillion (US$1.7 billion)…

There is no record chief welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie ever contributed to Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Jusuf Kalla's 2004 campaign fund, said…

Jakarta – The former commander of the Indonesian army's special task force [Kopassus], Prabowo Subianto, held a friendly meeting with…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Victory or defeat for the Golkar Party in next year's legislative elections could spell certain doom for Vice President…

Lima – Indonesia, expecting a slowdown in economic growth to 6 percent in 2008 in the face of a global economic crisis, intends to…

Jakarta – The threat of a wave of dismissals as a consequence of the global crisis is beginning to be concretely felt by the manufacturing sector…

Astrid Wijaya, Jakarta – Negative campaigning is common practice in elections, and all presidential candidates must be ready to come under fire…

Angela Flassy, Jayapura – The return home from Australia of two Papuan asylum seekers was due to legal problems arising from the couples ongoing…

East Timor's government says closing the country's internal refugee camps represents only a small part of the effort needed to ensure…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The rupiah's recent heavy falls against the US dollar do not pose a threat yet to the business community, with the…

Yogyakarta – Dozens of transgender people in Yogyakarta on Wednesday commemorated Transgender Day of Remembrance, which falls every…

Mob power has taken over the role that the state once played in our recent past in curtailing our freedoms – from freedom of speech and expression…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Chief welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie is still widely perceived as politically and financially influential in the country…

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers staged a rally outside of the Presidential Office in Central Jakarta on Wednesday to protest a joint…

Democrats on Capitol Hill are obstructing military ties

With all eyes peeled for clues to President-elect Barack Obama's foreign…

Mabsuti Ibnu Marhas, Jakarta – Around one thousand workers in Banten province resonated protests against new regulation on workers pay…

Tom McCawley, Jakarta – Two old rivals are already jostling in Indonesia's biggest political battle, the presidential elections which take place…

Sara Webb, Sekayu – When Indonesia shifted power from the capital, Jakarta, to the regions, investors had to start dealing with a confusing…

Jakarta – The Marines celebrated their 63rd anniversary here Tuesday, with a military demonstration and parade displaying, among other things,…

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Artists, journalists and activists from non-governmental groups in Surakarta on Tuesday urged the police to guarantee…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The rupiah bounced back from its weakest level in 10 years on Tuesday as demand for the corporate sector to pay off…

John Aglionby, Bali – Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer and emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation, yesterday dealt a…

Hyginus Hardoyo, Denpasar – Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono on Tuesday defended Indonesia's drive to expand oil palm plantations, despite a…

Setyo Budi – West Papuan man Opinus Tabuni was shot and killed by the Indonesian military during a celebration of the UN World Indigenous People…

Jakarta – Indonesia, which has been losing forests at a rapid pace in recent years, plans to plant 100 million trees across the country this year…

Jakarta – Demanding an end to the minimum-wage talks deadlock between employers and workers, thousands of workers have rallied at the…

At least four villages in Glaharum and West Siring subdistricts in Porong district were inundated when the giant mudflow pond overflew due to…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – A court has rejected a prosecution request to present as evidence a document they claim links former spy Muchdi…

Jakarta – Military analysts say the Indonesian Military (TNI) must get out of politics and business completely to pave the way for a more…

Marwaan Macan-Markar, Jakarta – In many crowded neighborhoods of this sprawling city families sat glued to their television sets late into the…

Buol, Indonesia – Six people were killed and some 10,000 displaced by the powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake which struck Indonesia's…

Surakarta – Indonesian artists protested here Tuesday after police bowed to pressure from Islamic hardliners and shut down production of a film…

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Radical groups in Central Java have forced a prominent filmmaker to stop shooting a feature on a past tragedy that…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's third quarter economy grew at the slowest speed in six quarters as slumping commodity prices cut export…

Andra Wisnu, Denpasar – The head of the West Papua Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD) repeated the province's intention to secede from…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Prosperous and Justice Party (PKS) has admitted it deliberately glorified Indonesia's national heroes in a series of…

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – According to estimates, around 5,000 children, most of them girls, in Jakarta are being sexually exploited today,…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Banda Aceh State Administrative Court (PTUN) on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed against the Aceh elections…

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Workers and activists in East Java have joined forces with other provinces in opposition to the joint ministerial decree on…

Jakarta – Around 100 people held a protest action in front of the United States Embassy in Central Jakarta on November 15 demanding that a G20…

A new report by the Small Arms Survey group says East Timor still has a serious problem with controlling weapons.

Weapons collections and an…

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Syofiardi Bachyul, Bandung, Padang – Research by the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Agency (PVMBG) in Bandung…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' plan to spend Rp 33.4 billion (US$2.83 million) renovating the offices of its legislators…

Former Indonesian president BJ Habibie says a letter from then-Australian prime minister John Howard pushed him into acting quickly on…

Hundreds of people rallied in the Hindu-majority holiday island of Bali against a tough anti-pornography law branded by critics as a threat to…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Golkar Party leader Jusuf Kalla said Friday he settled his feud with People's Conscience Party (Hanura) head Wiranto,…

Jakarta – Families of missing persons reiterated their demand for the President and the government to establish an ad hoc court tasked with…

P. Parameswaran, Washington – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for a strategic partnership with the United States to…

Anthony Deutsch, Surabaya – The men bound the thumbs of dozens of suspected communists behind their backs with banana leaves and drove them to a…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The banking sector remains solid despite a liquidity squeeze caused by the global financial crisis, the central bank…