Kit Yin Boey – Camp Leakey, Kalimantan – The bushes shook violently and the female orangutan froze. Her baby clutched her tightly before the two quickly disappeared into the Borneo undergrowth.

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – The Singapore High Court has awarded material compensation for the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS) and two of its teachers in a defamation case against the mother of one

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Jakarta – A host of benchmark publicly listed companies suffered double-digit plunges in first-half net profits, something unseen since 2008, as weak domestic consumption and low commodity prices l

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Days after CCTV footage appeared to have helped facilitate the safe return of a child abducted from a Jakarta shopping center, the city administration has announced

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – As Jakarta's shortfall of affordable housing deepens, many developers are failing to meet their obligation to build low-cost apartments, a stipulation of permits to construct

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The controversial police general overseeing dubious criminal investigations against antigraft officials promised on Friday that his office would not "criminalize" their repl

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The latest fatwa from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) declaring the national health insurance (JKN) program to be in violation of sharia law is deemed to be misguid

Suherdjoko and Jon Afrizal, Semarang/Jambi – The government's efforts to improve food security are facing a tough road ahead after several regions across the archipelago have reported massive harve

Jakarta – Indonesia's top clerical council is demanding the government draw up legislation to make tourism in the country compliant with Islamic principles.

Jakarta – Forensic experts are urging law enforcers to heed results of scientific examinations by credible professionals in order to avoid charging innocent people in child sexual abuse cases.

Jakarta – As the growing world population will need more energy, food and water, future conflict is likely to shift to countries rich in such resources, the chief of the Indonesian Military (TNI) s

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Donning a long-sleeve green blouse with a black headscarf, Evi Susanti, the second wife of North Sumatra Governor Gatot Pujo Nugroho, looked extremely tired walking out of t

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Muslim clerics across the nation have urged law enforcement agencies and courts to be steadfast in dealing with corruption and money laundering, and bold enough to ha

Jakarta – In the current era of easily accessible information, the Indonesian government needs to keep an eye on the media, the recently appointed head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) said a

Jakarta – The Indonesian delegates would raise the issue of membership of Timor Leste in ASEAN during the 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur early next month, an Indonesian offic

Jakarta – Indonesia's consumer confidence worsened in the first half of this year as the economy deteriorated with no signs of a quick recovery, latest surveys show.

Oktovianus Pogau, Jayapura – The president of the Evangelical Church of Indonesia (GIDI), Pastor Dorman Wandikmbo insists that the mushola (small mosque) that was burnt down recently in Karubaga di

Jayapura, Jubi – Human right activist Markus Haluk said the threat of Papuan population has became obvious.

Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court has rejected a lawsuit against the release of Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto, who was previously convicted of the murder of human rights activist Mun

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Bali-based Sukarno Center will this year award its annual prize for global statesmanship to Kim Jong Un of North Korea, hailing him as a champion in the figh

Jakarta – New requirements applied to this year's regional elections could pave the way for the emergence of "puppet candidates" who run merely to boost the profile of other candidates, warned a po

Dylan Amirio, National – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) that wil

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Transportation Ministry director general for sea transportation Bobby Mamahit said on Tuesday that the rally staged by employees of PT Jakarta International Container

Jakarta – Alliances built by political parties for the 2014 presidential elections have been rendered irrelevant with parties at the regional level crafting a new form of alliance with the single p

Indra Harsaputra and Djemi Amnifu, Surabaya/Kupang – A number of Regional General Elections Commissions (KPUD) have extended the registration period for political party-endorsed candidates to nomin

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – In a major overhaul of key military positions, three Army generals who used to serve as security chiefs and an adjutant to then president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have been a

Andi Hajramurni and Suherdjoko, Makassar/Semarang – One graft suspect and another man convicted of the offense are two highlights of the list of candidates being offered up for the upcoming electio

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Haeril Halim, National – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has lashed out at the National Police for questioning two of its activists about remarks that allegedly defamed a senior legal expert from

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Giant gold and copper miner PT Freeport Indonesia has received certainty from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry that its export permit, which ended last week, wi

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesians who join Islamic State or sympathise with the terrorist group will face criminal sanctions for the first time under draft laws that will significantly harden the c

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Tolikara Police chief, Adj. Sr. Comr.

The Australia West Papua Association is calling on Pacific Islands Forum leaders to address what it describes as a deteriorating human rights situation in Indonesia's Papuan provinces.

Ganug Nugroho Adi and Agus Maryono, Karanganyar Banyumas, Central Java – A prolonged drought has left thousands of hectares of rice fields dried out and tens of thousands of residents with a clean-

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – Maharani said she was unable to hold back her tears when hundreds of uniformed men raided her neighborhood and started to throw her family's belongings out of the house.

Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has once again come to the defense of a religious minority congregation targeted by Islamic hard-liners, this time siding wi

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A lawyer representing former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Abraham Samad and investigator Novel Baswedan has lashed out at the Attorney General's Office (

Erik Slavin, Tokyo – About 150 US sailors have arrived in East Timor, a country that international observers say is on its way toward stability but still has a long way to go in its development.

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Greg Poulgrain, Brisbane, Australia – One main issue is still to be resolved in the hard bargaining by Freeport Indonesia regarding its contract of work.

Jakarta – For Budiman Sudjatmiko, the memory is still fresh of the massacre on July 27, 1996, at the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI)'s offices on Jl. Diponegoro in Menteng, Central Jakarta.

Tom Allard – A Labor government will enter into maritime boundary negotiations with East Timor, a move that would likely give the tiny half-island state a far greater share of royalties and tax rec

Sam Reeves, Jakarta – Container ships dot the horizon off the coast of Jakarta, as cranes and laborers work on an ambitious, economy-boosting project to expand the port network in the world's large

Retno Ayuningtyas & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – Freeport Indonesia, the local unit of US mining giant Freeport McMoRan, remains hopeful to secure an export permit from the government after missing S

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Film producer Ody Mulya Hidayat had no reservations about paying Rp 1.5 billion (US$112,880) to buy the film rights to Bulan Terbelah di Langit Amerika (Split Moon in th

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Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta, Central Java – Despite a peace agreement after an incident in Tolikara, Papua, thousands of Muslims from various groups in Surakarta, Central Java, staged a rally on F

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government is rolling out a new program starting in the 2015 academic year that places heavy emphasis on nurturing students' characters outside normal study.

Faiz Nashrillah, Jakarta – Chairman of human rights watchdog group Setara Institute Hendardi, said on Saturday, July 25, 2015, that the roots of Tolikara incident are injustice and continued discri