Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Sidoarjo Regent Win Hendrarso demanded Monday that Lapindo Brantas Inc., which owns the gas exploration well that has…

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Simpang Kampong, a small coastal village in Mauk district in the north of Tangerang regency, has a seemingly…

Sydney – A former leader of the Islamic militant group responsible for the deadly Bali bombings has warned that more attacks were likely this year…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Although the Cipinang Penitentiary in Jakarta has recommended the conditional release of former president Soeharto's son…

Fadli, Batam, Riau Islands – Confusion among the police means it remains unclear whether a group of local and international non-governmental…

Rusman, Bekasi – After three days of sifting through trash to search for the bodies of more victims who may be buried under a garbage slide in…

Jakarta – Some 500 workers staged a demonstration Sunday in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta to demand a national…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Human rights campaigners are questioning a report that the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) hired Washington lobbying firm…

Australian East Timor activists say the Federal Government's decision to send a group of 42 refugees back to the country does not make sense…

Rusman, Bekasi – The search for more victims of the huge dump slide east of Jakarta continued Saturday, but the death toll remained at three, with…

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – After midnight, a site near the center of Sidoarjo's mudflows remains busy – not with workers trying to stop the…

Indonesia – A woman was killed Saturday night when a bomb went off in Poso, Central Sulawesi, only two days after a homemade bomb…

Jakarta – On September 10 the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration at the State Palace in Jakarta against new forms of…

Jakarta – The Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) is threatening to hold a national strike if the government fails to increase the national wage and…

Jakarta – Around 500 protesters from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration at the Hotel Indonesia (HI) roundabout it Central…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Major factions in the House of Representatives, led by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), are…

George Quinn – It is hard to describe the air of lassitude that lies like a twilight over Dili. Pigs rifle through piles of rubbish. Grass runs…

Mark Dodd, Dili – East Timor's most wanted man, Australian-trained army rebel Alfredo Reinado, appealed yesterday for international forces in the…

Peacekeepers have fired tear gas to stop fighting at a refugee camp in the East Timorese capital of Dili, in the latest unrest to hit the tiny…

Canberra – Lawmakers criticized the government Saturday for forcing 42 East Timorese who fled violence in the capital Dili in May to return to…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The National Police said Friday it would expedite the probe into the 2004 murder of leading human rights campaigner Munir…

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Lapindo Brantas Inc. is dumping contaminated water from the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster directly into the Porong River…

A survey by the Civil Society Alliance for Democracy (Yappika) discovered that the implementation of regional autonomy between 2001 and 2005 gave…

Jakarta – In an attempt to recoup the power stripped from it by the Constitutional Court, the Judicial Commission is seeking support from…

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Malang – A human rights group is suing flagship airline Garuda Indonesia over the 2004 death…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – International NGOs have slammed the Riau Police's decision to ban them from holding a gathering next week on Batam Island…

Tony Hotland, Jakarta – The government is seeking to create jobs for 15 million people over the next three years as part of an expanded poverty…

John McBeth, Timika – For centuries, Papua's warlike mountain tribesmen have used bows and arrows, spears and knives to settle their differences…

Jakarta/Batam – Warned they were unwelcome in Singapore, the site of an upcoming World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual conference,…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Sutinah's chores start early and end late, day in and day out.

The 18-year-old from the Central Java town of…

Muhammad Nur Hayid, Jakarta – Two years after Munir's murder the case remains a mystery but demands for the case to be resolved are continuing to…

Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti, Jakarta – Around 500 activists from a number of non-government organisations held a demonstration at the…

Rudy Prasetyo, Jakarta – Around 500 people from the Solidarity Alliance for Munir demonstrated at the national police headquarters in…

Jakarta – International non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday urged the city administration to enact a short-term…

The government is drafting a law on domestic workers that is aimed at providing legal protection from widespread exploitation.

The draft,…

Bekasi – Thousands of workers at Japan-based electronic goods producer PT Sanyo Indonesia went on strike Tuesday following the…

Jakarta/Sidoarjo – The government is organizing a national team to address the hot toxic mud that is flooding Sidoarjo, East Java. The move came…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Although the government has agreed that military personnel should be tried for misdemeanors in civilian court, it is…

Andreas Harsono in Jakarta and Nathaniel Heller and Susannah Hamblin in Washington – The Indonesian national intelligence agency used a former…

Samantha Brown, Jakarta – The Bali bombings brought the horror of September 11 to Asia, but Indonesia took a different approach to the United…

For Suciwati, Soultan Alif Allende and Diva Suukyi Larasati, the widow and children of the late Munir Said Thalib, today (Thursday) is a time of…

Aleksius Jemadu, Bandung – How many innocent people have been killed during Indonesia's delicate transition to democracy? There have been many.…

Leo Shanahan – East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado has vowed not to give himself up and says he is willing to shoot at Australian troops.…

It has been a week now since East Timor's most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado with 56 other prisoners somehow managed to just walk…

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Papuans claim that Indonesian riot police have used an ongoing tribal warfare in eastern Papua to kill at…

Fadli, Bintan – Foreign and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) insisted Tuesday they would go ahead with plans to hold a protest meeting…

Banda Aceh – A study by the World Food Programme (WFP) has found that primary school children in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and Nias…

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – After two years the Munir case remains unsolved. Only former Garuda Airlines pilot Pollycarpus Priyanto has been…

A quick visit to Dili has sobered the Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer. Before setting off there, Mr Downer was jawboning the East…

Jakarta – Indonesia's attractiveness as an investment destination is slipping compared with its more competitive regional rivals, according to a…