Jakarta – Former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Busyro Muqoddas on Tuesday called on the Supreme Court to issue a circular ordering all courts in the country to reject pret

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Mount Leuser National Park (TNGL) rangers have arrested a Navy sailor on suspicion of illegal logging in the Leuser Park protected forest in Langkat regency, North Sumatra.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In conjunction with the recent International Women's Day, the government has laid out its plans to protect Indonesian women from violence, with this year's focus being

Loren Bell, Mongabay-Indonesia correspondent – Indonesia's indigenous population has suffered a long history of human rights violations says a report to be released by the country's National Commis

Daniel Flitton – East Timor's independence hero Xanana Gusmao has revealed he knew Australia was secretly spying in the tiny nation years before hauling Canberra before the international court for

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Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – The Indonesian Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of a Filipina drug courier scheduled to be shot at the same time as the Bali nine duo, potentially delaying the

It's hard to look at the government's recent capitulations in the fight against corruption and write them off as minor setbacks, misguided policies, or sheer ineptitude on the part of the officials

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Concerns over a widening current account deficit have temporarily eased as Indonesia posted a larger than-expected trade surplus in February despite signs of slowing manuf

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Church leaders grouped under an ecumenical cooperation forum in Papua have urged President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to establish a Commission of Inquiry into Human Rights

Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Yasonna H.

Jakarta – Antigraft officials have greeted with dismay a plan by the justice minister to make it easier for corruption convicts to qualify for sentence reductions, in what is shaping up to be the l

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Rather than honoring his campaign pledge to strengthen graft prosecutions, President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo told the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Monday at the Stat

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The precedent set by a recent and controversial pretrial verdict is breathing new life into the legal strategies of graft suspects in the country, with Hadi Poernomo the lat

Canberra – Timor-Leste's former leader Xanana Gusmao has again warned Australia that his fledgling nation will not back away from a dispute between the two countries over lucrative oil reserves bel

Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen. Moeldoko submitted on Tuesday a series of reorganization steps to a limited Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace.

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Carlos Paath, Jakarta – A 63-year-old woman, who was arrested three months ago on suspicion that she had taken wood from a teak plantation managed by state-owned forestry firm Perhutani, was releas

Hans Nicholas Jong and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – While the crisis between the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) recedes, the government has drawn further ire with a plan

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) said on Sunday that its investigators had found that the dossiers of Comr. Gen.

Jewel Topsfield – Indonesian parliamentarians are publicly questioning the fact that 10 prisoners on death row, including Bali nine organisers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, have not yet been ki

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and the new Indonesian Ambassador to Solomon Islands, Ronald Manik said they want to see a strengthened bilateral relationship between their two countries.

East Timor's former leader Xanana Gusmao has attacked Australia for hypocrisy over maritime boundary disputes.

Inequality and poverty and not religion and extremism are the biggest drivers of conflict in fragile countries, East Timor's independence hero warns.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – Freeport's operations at the Grasberg mine in Papua are being hampered, the company confirmed on Monday, as hundreds of upset employees were blocking access to th

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – "It's not easy to be a lesbian in Indonesia," says 27-year-old Maria, not her real name.

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta/Solo – The national commission for women's protection has called on the government to acknowledge as a national tragedy the mass rape of ethnic Chinese women during the May

Siteri Sauvakacolo – Support for the indigenous people of West Papua continues to gather momentum.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A major change is expected to transpire at the House of Representatives as the Golkar Party, the second-largest faction in the legislative body, is expected to replace

Tom Allard – Prominent figures in the Indonesian government, including senior cabinet members, have been urging President Joko Widodo to reconsider the executions of the Bali nine duo, Fairfax Medi

Yustinus Paat, Jakarta – With no apparent resolution in sight, the prolonged rifts plaguing two major political parties could cause them to miss this year's regional elections, activists warned on

I do not know what the prospects are that President Widodo will stop the current implementation of the death sentence for people convicted of drug related crimes.

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A former senior Fiji military figure, Jone Baledrokadroka, says there is much that the Royal Fiji Military Forces can learn from Indonesia's army.

Carlos Roy Fajarta Barus, Jakarta – The Indonesian Navy's military police, or Pomal, arrested a naval officer last week after he was found with crystal methamphetamine and pages of counterfeit bill

Jakarta – The Public Works and Housing Ministry and state-owned housing developer PT Perumnas will team up to start working on a program to build 1 million homes over the next five years.

Woodside Petroleum is looking at options to develop the Sunrise liquefied natural gas project but says the East Timorese and Australian governments need to first agree on terms.

Peter Klinger – The Timor-Leste Government has floated the prospect of buying Woodside Petroleum out of the giant Sunrise gas project, as the fledgling South East Asian gets increasingly impatient

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In a bid to curb extravagant political campaigns, the General Elections Commission (KPU) is set to put a cap on campaign spending for candidates and political parties

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Sleman Police are hunting a student in Yogyakarta alleged to be behind the Wednesday's screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's Senyap (The Look of Silence) documentary

Bastiaan Scherpen, Jakarta – The Dutch state has to compensate not only widows, but also the children of men murdered during a bloody crackdown on Indonesians resisting colonial rule in South Sulaw

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With rifts having developed within political parties following last year's presidential election, a new law on regional elections has introduced a mechanism that allow

Farouk Arnaz & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – The top two officials in the Indonesian police force continue to contradict each other over their stance on ongoing investigations into antigraft officials

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The NGO behind the filing of a police report against Tempo weekly for its coverage of Comr. Gen.

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Carlos Paath Jakarta – The Jakarta City Council launched a formal investigation against Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Wednesday, in a move that could result in his i

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Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it will not seek a case review against a South Jakarta District Court pretrial ruling to have one of its highest-profile investigations to

Jayapura, Jubi – The Independent Student Forum (FIM) urged the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) to immediately form an inquiry team to investigate the shooting dead of four high sch

Ari Susanto, Yogyakarta – Islamic radical groups in Yogyakarta attempted to storm a screening of Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary film "Senyap" ("The Look of Silence") at Sunan Kalijaga State Islam

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) says the Supreme Court (MA) was wrong for denouncing a plan from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to file a case review against a con