Surabaya – Thousands of victims of the mudflow disaster in Porong district in Sidoarjo, East Java, rallied Monday to demand gas drilling company…

Jakarta – International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders Tuesday lambasted the decision of Indonesian authorities to ban four films on…

John Aglionby, Jakarta – Freedom of speech in Indonesia has suffered a significant reverse after censors banned four "disturbing" documentaries on…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A caucus of lawmakers has criticized the controversial civil registration bill, saying it harmed the rights of…

Andi Haswidi, Jakarta – Despite efforts to improve legal certainty under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration, investor trust in…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – The Free Aceh Movement (GAM) has taken a neutral stance toward all candidates in the first gubernatorial election in…

Jakarta/Surabaya – Two new political parties, linked to the country's two biggest Muslim organizations – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah,…

Lloyd Jones, Port Moresby – A flag banned from being raised in Indonesia flew in Port Moresby today as activists called on Australia and other…

Campaigning has begun for next month's long-awaited elections in the Indonesian province of Aceh. For the first time, Acehnese will directly elect…

Ben Terrall and John M. Miller – On his return from last week's Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vietnam, President Bush briefly…

Thousands of Indonesians blocked a key road on Java island with sand to press the operator of an exploratory oil well spewing torrents of mud to…

Harry Bhaskara, Jakarta – The government seems to be inconsistent when it comes to handling disasters. It reacted relatively quickly to the Aceh…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women says it deplores the reconciliatory move between three men charged with…

Reporters Without Borders has lambasted the decision of the Indonesian authorities to ban screening of four films, three on East Timor and one…

Djamester A. Simarmata, Jakarta – Most of Indonesia's fiscal problems are inherited from previous governments, especially from the Soeharto era.…

Morgan Mellish, Jakarta – Companies from 30 countries have been in Jakarta trying to sell their weaponry.

There were Iranians selling high…

Indonesia will trim down the proportion of the US-made military weaponry and equipment in its military to lessen the dependency on the US military…

Sebastien Blanc, Jakarta – Six months after a deadly earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Java, between 50,000 and 80,000 families still lack a…

John Loizou, Dili - The contrast between the physical presence of Cuba and the rest of the world in East Timor is as stark as the difference in…

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The government will not allocate any funding in the 2007 national budget for the Sidoarjo mud-volcano catastrophe in East…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Female lawmakers repeated Friday their demand for a 30 percent quota for women representatives in…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Political parties have failed in their function as training grounds for future leaders of the country and instead…

Avian E. Tumengkol, Jakarta – The implementation of sharia-style laws in several regions in the country could negatively affect foreign investment…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Two years after the December 2004 tsunami devastated Aceh, women are playing a significant role in helping the economy…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Campaigning for the landmark Dec. 11 elections in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam kicked off Friday after gubernatorial…

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has banned four films on Aceh and East Timor from an international film festival on the grounds they could "…

Morgan Mellish, Timika – In the estuary where the Ajkwa and Otomona rivers flow into the Arafura Sea off the coast of West Papua, a new island has…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – After being suspended for around a month for his alleged involvement in a corruption case, Akhyarmansyah Lubis has been…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – As long as Indonesia is unable to fix its corrupt bureaucratic and legal system, the country will find it difficult to…

Some 1,000 factory workers from industrial complexes in Cimahi staged a protest outside West Java Governor Danny Setiawan's office in…

Heri Retnowati, Sidoarjo – Indonesia blamed an uncontrolled mud flow on Thursday for a gas pipeline explosion that killed at least seven people…

Jakarta – National Military (TNI) commander Air Chief Marshall Djoko Suyanto said Wednesday that officers aspiring to be politicians…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has demanded that the government act upon findings from the National Commission on Human…

Gary LaMoshi, Bali – US President George W Bush has come and gone for his quickie summit with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,…

Jakarta – Indonesia's police said they will seek assistance from the United States to speed up their probe into murder of respected Indonesian…

One man has been killed and two others, including a policeman, injured during street violence in East Timor, Home Affairs Minister Alcino Barris…

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – A majority of Indonesians believe that globalization has brought many benefits to them, with most people wanting the…

Cynthia Banham, Dili – The Minister for Defence, Brendan Nelson, has warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis in East Timor if camps for…

Police fired warning shots to disperse hundreds of Papuans who protested outside the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby to demand…

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Theresia Sufa, Bandung/Bogor – Angry public bus and minivan owners in Bogor are planning to bill the government for losses…

Evi Mariani, Brussels/Belgium – Indonesian and European human rights activists attending a recent conference in Belgium expressed concern at the…

Guy Warrington – "Of course the police are just as good at torturing as the army. Some of the cruder forms [include] putting a table leg onto the…

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Two foreign observers have been accredited by Aceh's Independent Election Commission (KIP) to monitor the upcoming Aceh…

Nani Afrida, Aceh Jaya – It was once too dangerous to dine out in Aceh Jaya's Tuwe village, a former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) stronghold and the…

Gary LaMoshi, Bali – US President George W Bush's scheduled 10-hour trip to Indonesia on Monday has entailed vast security preparations and…

Controversial British arms company, BAE Systems, is coming under renewed attack for attending this week's second Indonesia arms fair to be held in…

Abdul Khalik, Bogor – At least two of the experts who attended the bilateral talks between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and US President…

Evi Mariani, Brussels/Belgium – Poverty and human rights abuses are still serious problems in Indonesia, with non-governmental organizations…

Bogor, Bandung, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Makassar – Some braved the rain to protest, while other chose to watch proceedings from afar during the…

Charmain Mohamed – Despite all its recent progress, Indonesia remains far from a fully functioning democracy. Religious intolerance is on the rise…