Officials and city councillors were angered by the sale of 49 percent of water company PT Lyonnaise Jaya (Palyja)'s shares. Although the France-…

Seattle – Daniel Lev, a leading Indonesia scholar and longtime University of Washington professor, died Saturday following a battle…

Todd Crowell, Hua Hin, Thailand – The turmoil in East Timor and the subsequent deployment of Australian and other peacekeeping troops has prompted…

Indonesia may well be the world's largest Muslim country, but only Aceh has the legal right to apply Islamic law in full. Aceh was granted the…

Jakarta – Economist Faisal Basri and former environment minister Sarwono Kusumaatmaja have both said they will firmly oppose any sharia-based…

Jakarta – Hundreds of bus drivers from state-owned transportation company PPD went on strike Monday over nine months of unpaid salaries.

The…

Denmark – On Monday July 31, members of the Acehnese community residing in Denmark sent a special letter to the High Representative of…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – After one batch of lawmakers was spotted on a shopping spree in the Middle East, a second group of legislators is set…

Campaigners from Free West Papua Campaign in Melbourne have welcomed the decision by the Refugee Review Tribunal in overturning the original…

Jayapura – President Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono has agreed to evaluate Law No.21/2001 on Papua Special Autonomy in view of the latest developments…

Michael Gordon – A Federal Government decision to deny a Papuan asylum seeker refugee status in Australia has been overturned by the independent…

Rieka Rahadiana, Jakarta – The US Senate Appropriation Committee Bill is discussing an increase of foreign military financing proposed…

Dimas Adityo, Jakarta – The Indonesian military (TNI) will continue to keep on guard against the Free Papua Movement (OPM) groups that are still…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The government should end the bans on communism and Marxist-Leninism in the new Criminal Code because the restrictions are…

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – If one thought that regional elections would produce a more accurate map of the strengths and ideological…

Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Jakarta – Muhidin, 34, a farmer from Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara, is in despair. The Dompu District Court recently sentenced…

Jakarta – If Indonesia's economy was a jumbo jet, it would be flying on the single engine of exports at the moment, with the other engines of…

Markus Makur, Timika – Two tribes involved in a series of deadly clashes over the past week in Mimika regency, Papua, have sat down for peace…

Banda Aceh – Two people in Indonesia's Aceh have been caned for adultery, the latest case of public punishments since courts in the province were…

Jonathan Lyons, Jakarta – A battle brewing over a draft anti-smut law has laid bare deep divisions within Indonesia and, say critics, threatens…

Hera Diani, Jakarta – National Commission on Violence Against Women Chairwoman Tati Krisnawaty looked a tad irritated when most of the questions…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The funds given to lawmakers to visit their constituents during their one-month recess are prone to abuse due to a…

A group of leaders of different faiths demanded Friday that the UN intervene to put an end to the Israeli military assault on Lebanon.

"We…

An Indonesian journalist faces trial over his decision to publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Teguh Santosa, online…

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The country's largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), strongly reiterated its opposition Friday to efforts…

Jakarta – An explosion at an oil refinery in Indonesia early Saturday injured nearly 150 people and caused about 7,000 residents to…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Two scholarly treatises on Indonesian communism remain banned more than 40 years after the Indonesian Communist Party…

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Almost two months since it began, hot mud continues to pour from the ground in the East Java regency of Sidoarjo.…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Critics are accusing the government of compromising individual rights in the newly drafted Criminal Code that provides…

Bogor – About 100 tonnes of useless and out-of-date medicines donated by foreigners after a major earthquake last year have been…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Up to 1.3 percent of Indonesian Muslims nationwide admit using violence against people or objects they consider…

Suherdjoko and Ridwan M. Sijabat, Semarang/Jakarta – Hundreds of members of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) Central Java…

Jakarta – The war against corruption has become tougher for the Attorney General's Office since the Constitutional Court ruled Tuesday that…

Medan – Some 800 employees of companies that are heavily reliant on gas staged a protest Wednesday at the North Sumatra provincial council and the…

Jakarta – Acrid smoke from raging ground and forest fires on Indonesia's Sumatra blanketed the city of Pekanbaru, stinging eyes and reducing…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A special agency would protect Indonesian migrant workers and oversee the labor export program under a decree…

Abdul Khalik, Kuala Lumpur – In an attempt to reduce outside influence over its eastern territories, especially Papua province, and to limit the…

Adianto Simamora, Jakarta – Despite an ongoing land dispute and mounting protests from area residents, public order officers began demolishing the…

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Legal experts have faulted the bill on the Criminal Code, drafted by the government to replace its outdated antecedent,…

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – At least 35 shops and makeshift kiosks were demolished Tuesday by the Tangerang regency administration to make way for…

Jane Perlez, Masjid – For a moment, the villagers in this seaside community glimpsed a vision of a splendid future: houses with shady verandas, a…

Australian police could be deployed in East Timor for another five years and in greater numbers after the strife-torn country asked the United…

Makassar – Hundreds of young people from across the country attended Monday the first congress of the newly formed Association of…

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Papua's "special autonomy" status has not brought significant progress to the people because it has failed to…

Jakarta – A court in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua on Wednesday jailed two people for five and six years each for taking part in…

Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – As soon as he got home from school Monday, eight-year old Yoga changed out of his uniform, reached for his yellow…

Lindsay Murdoch – East Timor's former interior minister, Rogerio Lobato, twice admitted during closed court hearings that he armed civilian…

Australia will cut its peacekeeping troops in East Timor by the end of this year, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer announced today, signalling…

James Balowski, Jakarta – Less than two weeks after the House of Representatives passed the Aceh governance bill – which the government says will…

Jakarta – The conversion of jungles into plantations is becoming the biggest threat to the survival of orangutans in Kalimantan, while illegal…