Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – The People's Democratic Party, or PRD, once accused by the military of having ties to the banned Communist Party of Indonesia, or PKI, (as well as, more innocuously, to Amn

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A leader of the Free Papua Movement has not "surrendered" to the Indonesian military and remains committed to armed struggled over Jakarta's occupation of Papua, a relat

Hans Nicholas Jong and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The State Palace is being pushed in a corner to explain its decision to drop Comr. Gen.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Civil society organizations have criticized the National Police for their move to name former deputy law and human rights minister Denny Indrayana a graft suspect, calling t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) told a hearing at the Constitutional Court on Thursday that a mechanism used to suspend KPK leaders could be misused and may event

Fedina S.

Kennial Caroline Laia & Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – Analysts have warned that the party of President Joko Widodo is committing political suicide by not endorsing the popular and highly regarded Tr

Liam Fox – Papua New Guinea's government says a prominent West Papuan activist has been flown out of the country because he was travelling without a visa.

Port Moresby (PNG Loop/Pacific Media Watch) – West Papua roving ambassador Benny Wenda says he came to Papua New Guinea to personally thank Prime Minister Peter O'Neill for voicing concern and supp

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – The National Police have officially issued a decree allowing female police officers to wear the Islamic headscarf, or hijab, with their uniforms.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A proposal for an inquiry into Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H.

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The Military Region Command (Kodam) VII/Wirabuna is stepping up monitoring and surveillance to prevent the Islamic State (IS) militant group from entering and spreading

Jayapura (ANTARA News) – Commander XVII/Cenderawasih Major General Fransen Siahaan asserted, Jakarta-Papua dialogue that aggressively championed by a number of people, will be presented in the fram

Jakarta – Indonesian poet Saut Situmorang was taken by three Jakarta Police officers from his Yogyakarta home to testify in a libel case, his friends said on Thursday.

Farouk Arnaz, Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Natasia Christy Wahyuni & Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta/Malang – Indonesia's counterterrorism agency has urged the government to revise laws governing freedom o

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court held its first hearing on Monday of a petition challenging the decision to release Pollycarpus Budihari Prijanto, the convicted murdere

Fedina S.

Yogyakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry has blocked 70 websites with content linked to terrorism, including the Islamic State (IS) organization.

Erwin Cristianson, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Yustinus Paat & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – The Red-White Coalition could be reduced to only two parties soon, political analysts say, as the biggest

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – A bomb explosion in a Jakarta shopping mall last month has been linked to members of the so-called Islamic State who fought in Syria, highlighting the danger posed by for

The aggressive implementation of neoliberal policies in Indonesia cannot be halted by a small handful of groups.

Margareth S.

West Papua leader Benny Wenda is still under the control of PNG Immigration and will be deported today at 1pm, back to England where he came from yesterday.

Hans Nicholas Jong and Margareth S.

Angela Macdonald-Smith – Japanese oil and gas producer Inpex Corporation has written down the value of its Kitan oil field in the Timor Sea after the plunge in crude oil prices, signalling the decl

Dewanti A.

Timika, Jubi/Antara – A legislator urged the Papua Police to thoroughly investigate the shooting case of a number of civilians in Paniai on December 8, 2014.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The candidacy of Comr. Gen.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Tensions between two opposing factions in the Golkar Party have escalated as Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The Indonesian military has claimed a prominent leader of the pro-independence Free Papua Movement, or OPM, has turned himself in to authorities and renounced his strugg

There's an uneasy calm in Yahukimo regency of Indonesia's Papua province following an incident at a West Papuan fundraising event which left a person dead.

Jakarta – Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama says he likes the idea of banning any political activities on the weekly car-free day in parts of Jakarta.

Margareth S.

Jakarta – Environmental group Greenpeace has demanded that President Joko Widodo extends a moratorium on new forest concessions, which is due to end in less than three months, after the government

Andrew Janes – Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg copper mine in Indonesia, the world's second-largest for the metal by capacity, reopened Saturday after a worker roadblock stopped production for five day

Haeril Halim – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Sunday that it was ready to face lawsuits lodged by four graft suspects who had sought to challenge their suspect statuses.

Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo received the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) on Friday, discussing several women's rights issues, including rising discrimi

Singapore – Timor Leste's bilateral cooperation with China is increasing and it has been an "important development partner" since the country became independent, but new prime minister Rui Maria de

Since its birth almost 70 years ago, this nation has tirelessly promoted equality before the law; but the latest two cases of poor elderly persons being forced to stand trial for minor criminal cha

Dennys Kapa, Jakarta – A blockade by workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian mine extended into a fifth day on Friday, a union official said, with output still halted but maintenance workers allow

Dewanti A.

Singapore – Indonesia's state-owned Pertamina is seeking up to 9,600 kilolitres, or more than 60,000 barrels, of diesel and gasoline for delivery into Timor Leste, a tender document showed on Frida

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Experts and activists have urged all stakeholders to pay serious attention to sexual violence against children as the number of reported cases has increased over the years.

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – A proposal to reactivate the deputy commander post in the Indonesian Military (TNI) is being criticized as an unnecessary reform that could promote inefficiency.

Margareth S.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – High-ranking government officials said on Wednesday that no executions of drug convicts would take place in the next few months, as the country's judiciary was still processi

Jakarta – Operators of an elite reconnaissance unit of the Indonesian Marine Corps kicked off a joint training with their American counterparts in Situbondo, East Java, on Thursday.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Activists have lambasted President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo for his lenient approach to tobacco use.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A policeman was assaulted and his firearm stolen during a fundraising event in the separatist eastern province of Papua on Thursday, Indonesian police told the Jakarta G

SP/Hizbul Ridho, Jakarta – The General Election Commission, or KPU, has announced it will form an ethics committee to oversee pollsters, a move it hopes will squeeze out unreliable survey instituti