Vita A.D.

Rizky Amelia, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission chief Abraham Samad laments a string of sentence cuts given by the government to a number of graft convicts on Independence Day

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) launched on Sunday its own television channel, KPK TV, which will serve to educate the public about preventing corruption.

Johan Chang – A recent seminar on human rights issues in West Papua has focused questions about New Zealand's priority on trade relations over press freedom and rights violations.

Satria Sambijantoro and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – While President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has pledged to assist his successor wherever necessary, his proposed 2015 state budget appears to

Thin Lei Win, Bali, Indonesia – Under a full moon one night in 2006, 30 machete-wielding men surrounded Aleta Baun in the middle of a forest as she headed home to breastfeed her younges

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Celebrations for Indonesia's 69th Independence Day in Tiom, the capital of Lanny Jaya regency, Papua, passed off peacefully on Sunday, with a flag-raising

Lasse Underbjerg – After an election campaign filled with turmoil and nerve-wrecking rivalry, Joko Widodo has been elected as the new president for the world's third largest democracy w

Jakarta – The XVII/Cendrawasih Military Command chief spokesman Lt. Col.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of Papuan students in Yogyakarta affiliated with the Papuan Students Alliance (AMP) rallied in Yogyakarta on Friday, demanding the release of two

Jakarta – The government will maintain its deforestation targets despite its pledge to control emissions.

Satria Sambijantoro and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has effectively handed a poisoned chalice to his successor president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Expert witnesses helped the General Elections Commission (KPU) appear strong during a hearing at the Constitutional Court on Friday in its defense against

Jakarta – The incoming government has to pay more attention to citizenship education as well as carry out structural changes in the Religious Affairs Ministry to control radicalism and

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Indonesian Islamic University's Center for Human Rights Studies (Pusham UII) has said that the Yogyakarta police's failure to reveal the murderer of j

Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – A key witness has alleged that Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, the youngest son of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, took a $200,000 backhander from a slew of

Instead of focusing on improving public transportation, the Jakarta administration has finally decided to go ahead with its plan to construct six inner-city toll roads next year, which

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Alarm bells have begun to ring again after the release of statistics showing the country's current-account deficit, the major worry among investors, widen

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Police in Papua say they have found indications that two French journalists who have been held in custody since Aug.

Two French journalists arrested in the Indonesian province of Papua late last week remain in detention on charges relating to misusing their visas.

Shannon Gillies, Dili – After decades of Indonesian occupation, East Timor is touted as a success story for the United Nations.

Craig Hoyle – Political activists are using this month's "Pacific shame" seminar in New Zealand to highlight the plight of indigenous West Papuans, and some say they fear the extinction

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The presidential election dispute hearing at the Constitutional Court took an unexpected turn on Thursday as one of the witnesses testified on the alleged

Jakarta – Around 50 students from the University of Indonesia (UI) staged a demonstration at the Jakarta Police headquarters in South Jakarta to protest the slow investigation into a ra

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Health Ministry is preparing supporting regulations to guarantee that a recent decree legalizing abortion for rape victims and those with life threatening med

Jakarta – Golkar Party politician M.

Jakarta – Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono delivered the final state of the nation address of his 10-year tenure on Friday, thanking the electorate for its "support" and pain

Jakarta – Deputy head of president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's Transition Team, Hasto Kristiyanto, has defended the appointment of former National Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Gen.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Election Organizers Ethics Council (DKPP) grilled members of the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Wednesday over the opening of ballot boxes prior

Jakarta – An executive of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said on Wednesday that no leaders of political parties in its coalition would be nominated for ministerial

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – The detention of two French journalists in the Indonesian province of West Papua has taken a dangerous new turn, with local police suggesting the pair were

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The improper implementation of policy and lack of attention to security-related problems in Papua are said to be the root causes of the ongoing separatist

The Chairman of the Vanuatu-based West Papua Unification Committee says they won't defer to Indonesia on the issue of West Papuan self-determination aspiration.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Among those to whom President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono awarded the Bintang Mahaputera Adipradana medal on Wednesday, the nation's second-highest civilian honor, w

The Vanuatu-based West Papua Unification Committee has postponed this month's planned West Papua conference to early October.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The panel of justices at the Constitutional Court grilled on Tuesday members of the General Elections Commission (KPU) about why they insisted on wrapping

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has left another ticking time-bomb for his successor when he signed a government regulation on reproductive health that requires women getting pregnan

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of activists are urging president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to resolve various human rights abuse cases, including the murder of Bernas daily jour

Jakarta – An Indonesian atheist was lawfully jailed for two-and-a-half years after being accused of blaspheming Islam, the Supreme Court decided in a ruling posted on its website on Tue

In the months leading up to the new government administration, does Indonesia hope to improve the management of its religion-and-state affairs?

Novi Setu, Jakarta – Leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) insist that commissioner Busyro Muqoddas does not need to be replaced, saying that the committee the governme

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leaders on Tuesday lambasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for insisting on establishing a selection committee to re

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – A group of hard-line clerics have called on Muslims in Indonesia not to support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), accusing the militant rebels

Rendi A.

Jakarta – North Sumatra Governor Gatot Pujo Nugroho has come under fire over an allegation of polygamy, with pictures circulating of the politician from a conservative Islamic party in

Herman Genie & Ezra Sihite, Jakarta – A new government regulation placing a 40-day restriction for rape victims and women with serious medical conditions to have abortions has spark

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Authorities in Jayapura, Papua, continue to investigate two French journalists who were arrested on Aug. 6, for allegedly abusing their tourist visas.

The fate of two French journalists detained by Indonesian police for almost a week in the restive region of Papua remains uncertain.

A West Papua advocacy group is urging New Zealand and other Pacific nations to lobby Indonesian authorities for the immediate release of two French journalists.

Sophie McNeill – Doctors say a worsening health crisis in East Timor is causing hundreds of preventable deaths, including those of many children.