From whatever side one looks at it, by any measure the chain of events that was set in motion by what happened around October 1, 1965, constitutes…

Moch. N. Kurniawan and Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) received on Tuesday an anonymous package containing 11…

Two extraordinary reports appeared in this newspaper, on its National page last week. The first contained a strong warning coming from respected…

Singapore – East Timor, the world's youngest nation, is struggling to find ways to achieve economic survival and needs external investment,…

Slamet Susanto & Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Yogyakarta/Jakarta – A number of people were injured during a clash between police and about 200…

ID Nugroho and Ainur R. Sophiaan, Surabaya – As many as 4,000 workers of giant household equipment producer PT Maspion in the East Java town of…

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – Casual sex, oral sex, cohabitation, homosexual sex and witchcraft will be outlawed if proposals by the Ministry of Justice…

Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – Lawyers for the 11 military personnel accused of committing gross human rights violations in the 1984 Tanjung Priok…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – A historian demanded on Monday that the government revise the historical accounts on the September 30, 1965 coup…

Bambang Nurbianto and Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – Thousands of more families will soon be left homeless as the Jakarta Administration is…

A'an Suryana, Jakarta – Frustrated with the protracted economic crises, stalled reforms and poor law enforcement, the general public are now more…

Jakarta – A group of Indonesian Muslims, handpicked by the US Embassy here for their moderate views, told an expert panel from Washington in plain…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Army soldiers began a four-day military exercise in Biak Numfor regency, Papua, on Monday, but it immediately…

Devi Asmarani, Jakarta – Schools are the new breeding grounds for violence in Indonesia if the murders and acts of brutality at colleges and…

By Teuku Samsul Bahri

A. Grassroots economic situation

After observing more than 100 days of the implementation of the…

Bali – An Indonesian court on the resort island of Bali sentenced two men on Monday to 12 and 15 years in jail for their part in last year's…

Tiarma Siboro and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Surabaya – Former president Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid is facing an uphill challenge in his bid to…

Tertiani ZB Simanjuntak, Jakarta – About 150 members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) raided a number of nightspots in Cilincing area, Muara…

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – University communities throughout the country, particularly those in Java, have committed themselves to a…

Jakarta – Indonesian business confidence rose in the June and July period for the first time since September last year, in the belief that the…

Jakarta – Money sent by Al-Qaeda to support the families of suspects arrested over the Bali bombings was used to finance the August 5 attack on…

Jakarta – The Ministry of Finance is currently drafting a new bill on the accountancy profession, which will replace the existing outdated law…

Cohabitation, oral sex and homosexual sex will soon become crimes in Indonesia if the justice ministry has its way, a ministry spokesman said.…

Jakarta – Only 20 percent of the some 450,000 daily commuter train passengers in the Greater Jakarta area buy tickets while the rest either bribe…

Lie Hua, Jakarta – September 30, 1965, is a black day in the history of modern Indonesia. The assassination of seven generals in the wee hours of…

Jakarta – Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu said on Sunday that the Army had long detected foreign parties' involvement in a…

Dikhy Sasra, Jakarta – Around 100 people from the group Solidarity for Aceh and Papua protested rejecting militarism at the offices of the United…

Damar Harsanto, Jakarta – Police released on Friday another four people reportedly linked to terrorist activities, deeming their accounts during…

Robert Go, Jakarta – Several Jemaah Islamiah members detained by Indonesian police said an extremist splinter faction of the group is responsible…

Jakarta – Demonstrators wearing traditional Papuan tribal dress marched Saturday to protest an Indonesian government plan to divide…

Mark Forbes, Canberra – Despite the Bali and Marriott Hotel bombings and rising anti-Western sentiment in the world's most populous Muslim nation…

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Two conflicting camps at the municipal branch of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI Perjuangan) in the…

Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Akbar Tandjung blamed fellow lawmakers on Friday for the legislative body's…

Moch. N. Kurniawan, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has allocated more than 12 seats in provincial and regency/municipality…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Jakarta – The Golkar Party would take advantage of widespread disappointment with the so-called reform parties to woo…

Zakki Hakim and Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has found 58 cases of irregularities in six Jakarta…

Luh Putu, Trisna Wahyuni and Damar Harsanto – Mataram/Jakarta Three police officers have been detained in connection with the death of a student…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has set up a team to investigate a string of evictions in the city,…

Blontank Poer, Jakarta – Some people may have taken Shakespeare's "What's in a name?" to heart and decided they needed more weight to their names…

Muninggar Sri Saraswati and Kurniawan Hari, Jakarta – House of Representatives' Speaker Akbar Tandjung defended on Friday the water resources bill…

Jakarta – East Timor prosecutors have indicted 18 people for crimes against humanity, including two Indonesian military officers, in connection…

Jakarta – Supporters and opponents of the creation of Central Irian Jaya province barbecued two pigs in a traditional ceremony on Thursday in the…

Marian Wilkinson, Washington – Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri has called on the West to re-examine its strategy in the war on…

Security experts say the regional terrorist group, Jemaah Islamiah still poses a significant threat, despite the arrest of around 200 men…

Max Lane, Jakarta – There was little doubt about what feelings dwell in the heart of Negro Alpius Kogoyo, head of the Lani tribe of Mimika and…

Malang – During its presence in Indonesia, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) formed a "mafia" intent on choking and ruining the nation…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja, New York – President Megawati Soekarnoputri says foreigners have been helping rebels in troubled provinces Papua and…

Nick Ferrett – It may be that Australia fails in its bid to obtain chairmanship of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. That would make Greg…

Fabiola Desy Unidjaja and Tiarma Siboro, Jakarta – The government has played down the Human Rights Watch's accusation of gross human rights abuses…

Ainur R. Sophiaan and ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Hundreds of students and religious activists staged separate rallies in the nation's second largest…