Shannon Gillies – Media will be silenced and the people will lose their voice if a controversial new Media Law is ratified in one of the Asia Pacific's newest countries.

Auckland (Pacific Media Watch/Scoop/CBS/Radio Australia) – New Zealand police minister Anne Tolley and defence minister Dr Jonathan Coleman must meet with the first West Papuan journali

The Pacific Islands Forum leaders in Palau have been urged to discuss human rights violations in West Papua.

Indonesian police on Sunday fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters at the country's infamous "Dolly" red light district, where workers are refusing to accept government orders to clos

Pat Walsh – The day after the result of Indonesia's presidential election was announced, I joined crowds of excited Indonesians at the Proclamation Monument in central Jakarta to celebr

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi defended on Monday the recent move by local authorities to prohibit hundreds of internally displaced Shia from returning to their home

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Three soldiers suffered from gunshot injuries on Monday morning following an attack against a military post in the Tingginambut area of Papua's Puncak Jaya d

Jakarta – The victory of president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has prompted more prominent members of the United Development Party (PPP) and the Democratic Party to join his team of supp

Police Minister Anne Tolley and Defence Minister Dr Jonathan Coleman have a rare opportunity this week to gain first-hand knowledge about Indonesian police and military activities in We

Jakarta – More hot spots have been found in the Sumatran province of Riau on Sunday, blanketing at least 10 districts and cities with haze, the disaster management agency says, accordin

Ina Parlina and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – New Army chief Lt. Gen.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Human rights groups have called on president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to fill the new Cabinet only with figures whose track records are free from corruptio

Raras Cahyafitri and Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Less than three months before the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is due to leave office, it sealed a strategic

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SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Rizky Amelia, Tangerang – Indonesia's anti-corruption authority arrested figures from the country's military and police in addition to several gangsters on

Jakarta – Days ahead of Idul Fitri, many factory workers have not received annual bonuses, locally known as tunjangan hari raya (THR).

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – With this year's presidential election featuring two presidential candidates with contrasting styles, many predicted voter turnout would reach a record hig

Jakarta – The ex-general who lost Indonesia's presidential election to Jakarta governor Joko Widodo mounted a legal challenge to the result on Friday, alleging widespread electoral frau

Josua Gantan & Adelia Anjani Putri, Jakarta – The campaign team of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto arrived outside Indonesia's Constitutional Court on Friday with a 2

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A United Development Party (PPP) politician revealed on Tuesday that party chairman and former religious affairs minister Suryadharma Ali also took other politic

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Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Foreign direct investment (FDI) growth in Indonesia has reached a historic high in the second quarter after slowing earlier this year, partly boosted by n

The 32 years of Suharto's New Order regime had a deep impact on the lives of most Indonesians, and continue to do so more than a decade and a half since its fall from power as one of th

Jakarta – The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) has confirmed that Singapore topped the foreign investor list in Indonesia during the first half of 2014.

Jakarta – The campaign team of losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has reported the North Jakarta office of the General Elections Commission, or KPU, to the police because, a

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Joko Widodo's victory in Indonesia's presidential election has inspired fresh hope that the country can finally resolve human rights abuses that have gone unadd

Jakarta – Many world leaders were apparently hesitant to contact president-elect Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, perhaps preferring to wait until the loser of the election, Prabowo Subianto, file

Jakarta – Hundreds of outsourced employees from a number of state-owned companies have yet to receive their Idul Fitri bonuses.

Liam Gammon – Since his loss in Indonesia's presidential election became known not long after polls closed on 9 July, Prabowo Subianto has claimed victory based on bogus quick counts, c

Edward Zachary Albrecht and Eric Plese – New and encouraging developments in the struggle for independence of West Papua have been unfolding in the past week.

When, on Tuesday, the people of Indonesia should have been cherishing the end of a prolonged national divide and moving on to extend olive branches to each other, losing presidential ca

Alison Martin – Over 130 million Indonesians voted in the recent presidential election, and notwithstanding the losing candidate Prabowo Subianto's continued refusal to concede, the wor

This Latin phrase, translated as "the voice of the people is the voice of God," in an Indonesian context simply means that the nation has decided to entrust Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and Jus

Paulina Quintao – The Secretary-General for the National Commission for Combating HIV/AIDS in Timor-Leste (CNCS-TL) Daniel Marcal has recommended to the government the inclusion of sexu

Ina Parlina and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Gerindra Party presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto humiliated himself on Tuesday by rejecting the 2014 presidential election result and p

Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabi, Jakarta – After winning Indonesia's closest ever presidential election, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo now faces what could be his toughest battle yet – winning

Kanupriya Kapoor & Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – Indonesia's new president, Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, promised to make life simpler for investors by beefing up the country's threadbare i

Ina Parlina and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The loser of the presidential election, Prabowo Subianto, may well have to swallow his claim that he has absolutely no trust in the state i

Michael Bachelard – Defeated Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto will challenge the result of the election in the country's constitutional court, citing "irregularities"

Ina Parlina and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed on Tuesday Lt. Gen. Gatot Nurmantyo as the new Army chief of staff to replace Gen.

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – While Joko Widodo has been officially announced as Indonesia's president elect by the General Elections Committee, or KPU, his rival contender Prabowo Subianto h

Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto said all Indonesian people should stand firm against any provocation that could lead to social unrest

Jakarta – Indonesia Military (TNI) Commander Gen. Moeldoko said on Tuesday that the TNI headquarters had proposed three candidates to take over as Army chief of staff, after Gen.

Paulina Quintao – Poor family education is contributing to high rates of infanticide in Timor-Leste, and in particular in Dili, according to Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equa

Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta – Indonesian stocks and the rupiah fell on Tuesday after presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto withdrew from the electoral process and told supporters to le

Election Watch – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) will remain committed to supporting presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto after he withdrew from the election process following his

Jakarta – Indonesia's General Elections Commission, or KPU, hit back at Prabowo Subianto on Tuesday, emphasizing the integrity of its vote count and saying that the losing candidate's d

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Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto upstaged Tuesday night's announcement confirming his defeat in the election earlier this month by declaring his rejection of the offici