Jakarta – The debate over the provision of luxury sedans for councilors moved to another level Friday, with the city budget watchdog accusing them…

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Police provided tight security Friday for several mosques belonging to a hard-line Islamic group in Jember, East Java,…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – An attempt by factions in the House of Representatives to pass a bill forcing all political parties to adopt…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) will recruit youths living along the Indonesia and Malaysia borders as non-commissioned…

Jakarta – Around 50 members of the Poor People's Alliance (ARM) demonstrated in front of the Jakarta Regional House of Representatives (DPRD)…

Alice Coster, Jakarta – France's junior minister for foreign affairs and human rights has expressed hope the Indonesian government can make…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – With the Indonesia-Timor Leste Commission for Truth and Friendship (CTF) due to hold its final hearing Monday, critics are…

Denpasar – East Timor's president on Friday brushed off a UN threat to boycott a commission charged with examining violence surrounding East Timor…

Tito Belo, Dili – Chinese businessmen want to invest more than $100 million in East Timor over the next 10 years in a range of sectors from…

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – The World Bank-United Nations joint initiative to help developing countries recover assets stolen by corrupt leaders…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Major factions at the House of Representatives agreed Thursday to set a 30 percent quota for women as party…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The public and the media must work together to maintain the republic's press freedom and the current anti-corruption…

Nadhifa Putri, Jakarta – A transvestite made up in garish dress joined with buskers demonstrating at the Jakarta Regional House of…

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – Physical reconstruction and rehabilitation activities in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam alone cannot accelerate development…

Jayapura – Although the matter has not been in the news recently, it now appears that the police are still carrying out investigations about the…

Rofiuddin, Sohirin, Semarang – Victims of the September 30 Movement/Indonesian Communist Party (G30S/PKI) affair will issue a summons against…

Jakarta – The nation's public must pressure legislators to ensure the public information bill works for them, said an information-focused NGO…

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen. Sutanto said Friday he would summon senior officials at the State Intelligence Agency (BIN)…

Jakarta – A perception that local governments in Indonesia have been introducing sharia or Islamic laws at an escalating rate is misplaced, an…

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – Media workers and lawyers have criticized the Supreme Court's decision to award former president Soeharto US$…

Anton Aprianto, Jakarta – Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Free Papua Organization (OPM), Nicholas Messet, 61, has met Vice…

Jakarta – Former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid will fight for his old job in the 2009 elections if asked by Muslim clerics, he told the…

Tony Hotland, New York – Indonesia may become part of an initiative launched Monday by the United Nations to help recover stolen funds embezzled…

Dikhy Sasra, Jakarta – The new bylaw on public order continues to draw protests from various groups, including from student-intellectual circles…

A number of human rights activists and leading personalities in West Papua have taken the unusual step of making representations to the police in…

Kanis Dursin – Wearing a headscarf, T-shirt and jeans, Nurhayati, 21, appears very much like any other girl in Aceh.

She gets about on a…

Kanis Dursin, Cot Keueng, Aceh Besar – It was around 3:00 p.m. and the sky above Cot Keueng mosque in Lamroh village, Kuta Baro district, some 13…

The Democratic Socialist Perspective (DSP), a Marxist tendency in the Socialist Alliance, is now calling for the immediate withdrawal of the…

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police have acknowledged they asked state-owned phone operator PT Telkom to release the text messaging records of a Tempo…

Erin Maulday – Australians should not be alarmed about the Indonesia-Russia military hardware deal worth $1.2billion, signed in Jakarta on…

Alice Coster, Jakarta – Protesters wearing death masks and skeleton costumes stood outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Monday, calling…

Julia Daia Bore – Over 500 settlers from Papua province of Indonesia (formerly West Papua) living at the 8-Mile Settlement outside the…

Jakarta – A call by Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Governor Irwandi Yusuf for the Acehnese to surrender all of their illegal guns has so far…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Army's plan to establish a third infantry division in Papua is necessary and feasible, as long as the proposal is…

The United Nations says authorities in East Timor have arrested five national police officers and two civilians over suspected…

Musthofid, Jakarta – It is an all-women work: Women writing a compilation about women artists. The essays are also presented by women and so is…

Jakarta – Opponents of the controversial new bylaw banning beggars and street vendors have said the threat of increased poverty across the city…

Depok – The Jakarta suburb of Depok might have lost tens of billions of rupiah from building permits, as money that should have gone…

Mark Forbes, Jakarta – "Money mister," are the first words from sweet-faced, five-year-old Lia's mouth as she scampers between cars at a busy…

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Jusuf Kalla has rejected the idea of holding a party convention to select a candidate for the 2009 presidential…

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said Friday it is ready to use "strong evidence" to prove Soeharto illegally…

It's the season of giving – but you can't give. A fine of Rp 50 million (US$5,300) threatens anyone in Jakarta caught handing money to beggars,…

Hamish McDonald – Alongside the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summitry last weekend, there was an impressive roadshow from an Asian country…

Jakarta – The Indonesian Press Council condemned Friday state-owned telecommunication services provider PT Telkom for giving the text messaging…

The outcome of Timor Leste's parliamentary election could be seen as a political victory for former President and now Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao…

Maryann Keady – The current situation in East Timor makes me think of my first year American Politics essay: 'The American President as Actor; the…

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – Malang regency public order officers have banned sex workers from operating during Ramadhan and are making efforts…

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – Jreng... jreng.... Dung... dung... dung... Buskers and street children strumming guitars and pounding drums. The…

Jakarta – The Jakarta chapter of the Indonesian Legal Aid and Human Rights Association (PBHI) has urged the Home Ministry not to endorse the new…

Jakarta – Poor communication by the government with its people and its neighbors has seen the birth of an unfavorable national security agreement…