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Paulina Quintao – Women's advocacy group Alola Foundation has withdrawn funding from five scholarship recipients because they fell pregnant.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government has sided with Islamic hard-liners in requesting the Constitutional Court throw out a challenge to the 1974 Marriage Law by petitioners seeking recog

Jayapura – Police have set up a team to investigate gunfire exchanged between members of the 756th infantry battalion and officers of Kelapa Dua Police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) in Lann

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid increasing calls to disband the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) for its record of violence, the hard-line Islamic group was permitted to present arguments during

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Erwin Sihombing & Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court on Monday began hearing the judicial review on the recently passed Regional Elections Law, which stripped the

SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – The city's acting governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has told his security staff that they are to shoot any demonstrators who become violent and are arm

Paulina Quintao – Timor-Leste's 2014 non-petroleum sector derived economic growth is projected to hit 8 per cent, according to government estimates.

Muhammad Muhyiddin, Jakarta – University of Indonesia political communications expert Ade Armando says that Prabowo Subianto's Islamic supporters are furious over Facebook founder Mark

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – For the second time this year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono awarded the Bintang Mahaputera Adipradana medal, the nation's second-highest civilian honor, to

Paulina Quintao – Timor-Leste will create a new institution to regulate media.

Jakarta – Entering the last days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's term in office, rights group the Setara Institute has highlighted his failure in promoting and defending harmony

Paulina Quintao – The National Commission to Combat HIV/AIDS – Timor-Leste (CNCS-TL) is working in partnership with the government to establish a shelter to house HIV/AIDS sufferers.

Paulina Quintao – The Secretariat of State for the Environment (SEMA) has conducted a workshop with stakeholders to review Timor-Leste's five-year biodiversity plan.

There are reports in the West Papuan media that 29 members of the separatist West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, have been arrested by Indonesian government officials.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President-elect Joko Widodo has denied reports confirming his coalition has officially accepted the United Development Party, or PPP, into its fold.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Civil society organizations (CSOs) and activists, who are seeking to challenge the Regional Elections (Pilkada) Law at the Constitutional Court (MK), said on Sund

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura, Papua – A military officer was wounded in a shooting between police officers and soldiers in restive Papua province on Monday.

Masrul Fajrin – The Papua Student Alliance (AMP) in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya held a protest action in front of the Surabaya Grahadi building (governor's office) dema

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Poor compliance by companies and local administrations is the major cause of the rampant forest fires in Riau, a government-sanctioned audit team has revea

Jakarta – A coalition of NGOs said on Sunday that outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had failed to formulate pro-people foreign policies during his 10 years' tenure.

Jakarta – Freeport-McMoRan Inc's Indonesian unit can resume open-pit mining at its Grasberg complex, one of the world's biggest copper mines, after it agreed to improve safety following

Agus Sigit, Yogya – The Papua Student Alliance (AMP) held an action at the zero kilometre point in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta on the afternoon of Monday October 13.

Jakarta – As thick haze continues to cover large parts of Sumatra, police in Riau say that those responsible for the problem are getting away with sentences so lenient that there is har

Philip Dorling – Five years after opening an investigation into the Indonesian military's killing of five Australian journalists at Balibo in East Timor in 1975, the Australian Federal

Michael Bachelard – Every so often, a convicted Australian paedophile – we'll call him "Malcolm" – transfers small amounts of cash via Western Union to his "friends" in Indonesia.

Kornelius Purba, Opinion – Amid rising concern over the reported plan to block the inauguration of Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Jusuf Kalla as the country's president and vice president on

Endy M. Bayuni – When the circus leaves, the whole town would normally be saddened by it.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono bestowed the country's highest award, the Adipurna Star, on Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and East Timor Prime Minister X

Yuliasri Perdani, National – National Police chief Gen. Sutarman said on Friday that he supported the disbandment of the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI).

Satria Sambijantoro, Bali – Nobel laureate economist Joseph E.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With ambitious growth targets being set for several years into the future, Indonesia must implement a comprehensive strategy to maintain environmental sustai

Jakarta – Deputy Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin denied that Timor Leste Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao made a statement saying that his country wanted to reunite with Indonesia.

Jakarta – Two mass organizations affiliated with the Golkar Party once again called on Thursday for the party to oust its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie.

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to adequately address the population decline of Indonesia's wild animals and curb the country's growing ecological f

Jakarta – The newly inaugurated speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly, Zulkifli Hassan, has stated that impeaching the president would be a difficult task.

Jakarta – Despite criticism that their rally was just a way of looking for trouble, the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) insisted on organizing another rally in the front of the Jakarta City

Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – President-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo responded calmly to the vengeful agenda of Hashim Sujono Djojohadikusumo, the brother and top aid

Jakarta – Indonesia needs more mainstay products in order to compete in the Asean Economic Community (AEC), Executive Chairman of the Indonesian Communications and Information Technolog

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – The opposition to President-elect Joko Widodo on Wednesday managed to score a narrow victory, which completed the bloc's attempt

Michael Taylor and Dennys Kapa, Jakarta – Workers at Freeport-McMoRan Inc's giant Indonesian copper mine are seeking face-to-face talks with local management following a fatal accident,

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Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – The senior leader of the Islamic Defenders Front who allegedly organized last Friday's riot outside the City Council could face a cumulative eight years in p

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – President-elect Joko Widodo confirmed on Thursday the inclusion of the United Development Party (PPP) in his upcoming cabinet, substantiating rumors the

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Political analysts have attributed the winning streak of the opposition Red-White Coalition in the legislature to the re-emergence of "old actors" in Indonesian

Jakarta – The Draft Law on Regional Elections (RUU Pilkada), which abolishes the direct election of regional heads and was successfully enacted into law (UU Pilkada) by the parties back

Herdaru Purnomo & Neil Chatterjee – Indonesian President-elect Joko Widodo's plan to install a team of experts and professionals at the top of the government of Southeast Asia's big