Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Prosecutors will seek the death sentence for Maj. Gen. (ret) Muchdi Purwoprandjono if he is found guilty of involvement in…

Fery Firmansyah, Jakarta – Six protest actions are scheduled to inundate the main streets of the capital today, Thursday August 7. In order not to…

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – A government environmental report praising some of the country's biggest polluters will lead to further…

Rizal Harahap and Suherdjoko, Pekanbaru, Semarang – Forest fires have broken out in several places in Riau and Central Java provinces over the…

Jakarta – Hundreds of Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) members rallied in front of the Senayan City shopping mall Tuesday to demand the…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – One former and two active lawmakers were grilled Tuesday by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for their…

Washington – The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today congratulated U.S. congress members for their letter to Indonesian president…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The move by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to retain two ministers implicated in a major corruption case drew mixed…

Dian Kuswandini, Jakarta – Indonesia has seen regime changes, but the tyranny of capital has always determined the road to power, with the…

Titis Setianingtyas, Jakarta – Andi Widjajanto, a military and intelligence observer from the University of Indonesia, has said that the…

Abdul Khalik – Former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and her Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) would sweep to victory in both the…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – State Minister for National Development Planning Paskah Suzetta has been implicated for the second time in as many…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – At least 3,000 people mobilized by the Papuan Christian Communication Forum staged a rally in Jayapura on Monday,…

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – An offer by a notorious Jakarta gangster to develop the site of a refugee camp in Dili has been accepted by the East…

Laurencius Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Actions by residents articulating their aspirations will compliment the hustle and bustle of Jakarta…

Jakarta – Hundreds of white-clad Muslim hardliners took to the streets of the Indonesian capital Monday to demand the government ban a minority…

Henry Saragih, Jakarta – Talks on the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha Round have collapsed. With figures on the table for agriculture, non-…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A letter sent by Forestry Minister Malam Sambat Ka'ban to the police to defend convicted illegal logger Adelin Lis should…

Jakarta – Pressure is mounting for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to dismiss two Cabinet ministers who have been implicated in a 2003…

Dianing Sari, Jakarta – About 1.5 percent of 228 million Indonesians or 3.4 million are suffering from eye problems that leads to…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Deaths from cholera increased to 173 in Papua as of Saturday, with lawmakers and civil society groups accusing the local…

Jakarta – The Star Reform Party or PBR has signed a Minimum Commitment with the Indonesian Poor People's Union (SRMI), which will be used to bind…

Bandung, Makassar, Yogyakarta – A total of at least 78 regional high-ranking officials across three provinces are either being tried or…

Canberra – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has defended his decision to pardon a notorious Timorese militia leader, saying it was unfair to…

Djoko Tjiptono, Jakarta – Scores of student from the Student Action Front for Reform and Democracy (Famred) have again taken to the streets to…

Jakarta – The chairperson of the National Liberation Party of Unity's (Papernas) advisory board, Dita Indah Sari, has decided to run as a…

[Unfinished Nation: Indonesia Before and After Suharto by Max Lane Verso, HK$223. Reviewed by Tom Fawthrop.]

Much of the traumatic story…

Kuala Lumpur – Indonesia will seek higher wages for its nationals working as domestic helpers in Malaysia as the cost of living rises…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Acehnese politicians are no longer required to be proficient in reading the Koran to be eligible for the upcoming…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – More than 300 Muslim scholars ended a three-day international conference here Friday with a decision to form an ulema body…

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – The government should mete out the stiffest punishment against anyone involved in the trade of protected wildlife to…

Jeff Kingston – On July 15 in Bali the leaders of Indonesia and East Timor met and received the final report of the Commission of Truth and…

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – On-year inflation hit a 22-month high in July as the second-round effects of the May fuel price increases were yet to…

Laurencius Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Around 70 housewives went to the Star Reform Party (PBR) offices on Jl. Abdullah Syafei in Tebet,…

Laurencius Simanjuntak, Jakarta – It appears that the phenomena of 'changing cloths' is becoming commonplace in the lead up to the 2009 general…

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Justice for victims of conflict and human rights abuses in once-restive Aceh could be a long time coming, with the…

Closer to home, and it's emerged that Indonesian embassy officials tried to invoke a security treaty with Australia early this month to try to…

Filmmakers have recreated scenes of chaos in the heart of East Timor's sleepy capital, blocking streets and sending up plumes of smoke for Balibo…

Jon Lamb – On July 15, the final report from the joint Commission for Truth and Friendship (CTF) was officially received by the governments of…

[Unfinished Nation: Indonesia before and after Suharto. By Max Lane. Verso 2008 312 pages. RRP (Australia) $49.95. Reviewed by Nick Everett.]

Sahil K. Mahtani – As if to illustrate the universality of poor taste, the former chief of the Indonesian Special Forces Gen. Prabowo Subianto…

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Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The much-hyped global trade talks collapsed Tuesday with economic powers and top developing nations trading the blame…

Matt Chambers – Woodside Petroleum has ruled out a $15 billion East Timor liquefied natural gas export plant to process output from its Greater…

Dili – Since it was built in 1983, residents of Dili have watched the retaining wall of the Pantai Kelapa road along Timor-Leste's coastline…

Fery Firmansyah, Jakarta – Three protest actions are scheduled to take place at the State Place and two other government offices on…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Pressure is mounting for the AGO to re-open investigations into the Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) graft case…

Andreas D. Arditya, Jakarta – The Corruption Court sentenced businesswoman Artalyta Suryani to five years in prison on Tuesday for bribing state…

Andreas D. Arditya and Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Two Cabinet ministers implicated in the BI liquidity support scandal declared their innocence…

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The implementation of the electronic school textbook (e-books) policy has been met with glitches, with parents of…