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As part of its organizational restructuring, the Indonesian Military (TNI) merged on Monday the military police corps of the three armed forces into one institution dealing with enforcement of mili

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Jakarta – A political analyst has warned the General Elections Commission (KPU) against adopting the three recommendations proposed by the House of Representatives regarding this year's simultaneou

Jakarta – The HIV/AIDS Research Center of Atmajaya University has released a study arguing that HIV patients may be stigmatized by local ordinances requiring them to admit their health status to th

Erwin Sihombing & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The Indonesian government's top official in charge of prisons handed in his resignation on Monday following the discovery last month that a drug kingpi

Kristian Silva – The Brisbane lawyer who asked the Australian Federal Police to stop Bali Nine member Scott Rush travelling to Indonesia has dismissed a police explanation that the drug smugglers c

Reza Munawir, Banda Aceh – North Aceh district has passed legislation requiring schools to teach boys and girls separately and hopes to follow that up with a ban prohibiting the two sexes from ridi

Banda Aceh – A district in Indonesia's Aceh has passed legislation banning unmarried men and women from riding together on motorbikes, a lawmaker said Monday, the latest new Islamic regulation in t

Jakarta – The public is dissatisfied with the government's ability to implement its social-assistance programs, according to a recent survey.

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan has filed a pretrial motion against the National Police over his arrest, which his lawyers say

Jennifer Robinson – Australia is up in arms over Indonesia's execution of the Bali Nine pair Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. And rightly so: the death penalty is abhorrent and must be abolished.

Dave Armstrong – Today we may think of the Dutch as a race of benevolent liberals, many of whom sit in Amsterdam cafes smoking hash and listening to bad Eurojazz, but like all colonists, the Dutch

Sara Everingham – Australia has agreed to return documents seized during an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) raid on the office of a lawyer representing East Timor's government

Daniel Hurst – The Timor-Leste government has praised a decision by the Australian government to return documents about past spying that were at the centre of raids by the Australian Security Intel

Malang – Indonesia has dropped to 138th place in the latest World Press Freedom Index, as journalists declare police an enemy of free speech and activists call for an end to restrictions on news co

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Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) named the police enemies of press freedom for the fourth time during an event held to commemorate World Press Freedom Day on Sunday.

Jakarta – The Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has urged the government to end restrictions on media access in Papua, as the world commemorates World Press Freedom Day on Sunday.

Jayapura, Jubi – Amidst intimidation, illegal arrests, disappearances, torture and killings in Tanah Papua resulting from tensions between the Indonesian authorities and the Papuan pro-liberation g

Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Coalition for Liberation (WPNCL) said it strongly condemned the brutal and inhuman acts carried out by security forces against students and activists who su

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Police are still investigating the motive behind the alleged suicide of a worker who set himself on fire and leapt to his death from the roof of the Gelora Bung Karno st

Andi Hajramurni and Suherdjoko, Makassar/Semarang – Workers across the archipelago marked International Labor Day, or May Day, on Friday, with street rallies and art performances, voicing their var

Jakarta – More members of the Democratic Party have expressed their opposition to the reelection of former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as party chairman ahead of the party's national congres

A member of the House of Representatives (DPR) from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Ahmad Basarah, is saying that the recent arrest of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KP

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Jakarta – An advocacy group has criticized a House of Representatives' early draft of the disability bill, demanding a revision because of what it deems to be a discriminatory approach.

Ina Parlina and Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – This year's May Day celebrations proceeded peacefully on Friday with workers mostly taking to the streets in festive moods.

Jakarta – Tens of thousands of workers from various labor unions in Greater Jakarta joined a peaceful, festive rally to commemorate International Labor Day – known as May Day – on Friday in Jakarta

Mass arrests are reported to have been carried out in West Papua on Friday, on the anniversary of Indonesia's annexation of the province.

Hari Istiawan, Malang - Hundreds of workers from the East Java city of Malang gathered at the monument traffic circle to commemorate International Labour Day on May 1.

Mei Amelia R, Jakarta - Tens of thousands of protesting workers have packed the Hotel Indonesia (HI) traffic Circle in Central Jakarta this morning, Friday May 1, turning the Thamrin business distr

Subur Dani, Banda Aceh – Hundreds of workers from the Aceh Workers Alliance (ABA) held a peaceful action commemorating International Labour Day at the Simpang Lima traffic circle in the Achenese pr

Dwi Renjani, Bandung - Scores of people from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) joined workers demonstrating in front of the governor's office at the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial

Avit Hidayat, Surabaya - Commemorating International Labour Day in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) held a silent protest at the Surabaya

Within a week of one-time graft suspect Budi Gunawan being inaugurated as deputy police chief, the boys in brown have tried to arrest three officials from the antigraft commission that initially ch

Nurul Arifin, Surabaya - A protest action in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya by students from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) has ended in chaos with two demonstrators being arrested

Tens of thousands of workers from various different factory units, trade unions and labour confederations packed the streets in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on May 1 to declare the

Makassar - In commemorating May Day 2015, a number of different organisations from the group People's Solidarity (SORAK) held a peaceful rally underneath the Jl.

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies – Military strongman and former presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto urged Indonesian President Joko Widodo to indefinitely delay the executions of 10 drug fel

Edzan Raharjo, Yogyakarta - International Labour Day in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta was commemorated by thousands of workers from various different organisations who came together under the

Bandung - More than 3,000 workers demonstrated in front of the governor's office at the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung demanding that companies pay more attenti

Dwi Renjani, Bandung - Hundreds of workers held a rally in front of the governor's office at the Gedung Sate building in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung on International Labour Day wher

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Ihsan Dalimunthe - Workers are sick and tired of the empty promises made by the political elite and President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Bayu Marhaenjati & Mikael Niman, Jakarta – Calls for a cabinet reshuffle as well as the enactment of key legislation were among workers' demands on May Day this Friday

London (TAPOL/Pacific Media Watch) – Dozens of demonstrators dressed in black gathered outside the Indonesian Embassy in London this week to lead the global protest against West Papua's 50-year lon

Abraham Utama, Jakarta – International Labour Day or May will be commemorated tomorrow on Friday May 1 in a number of different countries.

Jakarta – A group of labor unions is planning to declare a new political party after a May Day rally on Friday.

Mitchell Bland – Dozens of protesters gathered at Brisbane's King George Square last night as part of a global day of action against Indonesia's media blackout of West Papua.