Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – A teachers association reported presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to the Election Supervisory Body, or Bawaslu, after several schools received a letter urg

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Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Former military strongman Prabowo Subianto has for the first time pulled level or even slightly ahead of the previous favourite, Joko Widodo, in the Indones

Yenni Kwok – As the candidate who it was made for, Prabowo Subianto, once said, "Do I have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?"

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – New polls suggest presidential candidate Joko Widodo's initial lead over Prabowo Subianto has narrowed, or possibly even disappeared, with some pollsters choosin

Margie Mason, Jakarta – Tobacco companies on Tuesday largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs, another setback for anti-smoking effor

Jakarta – Indonesia's disaster agency warned Wednesday that haze could return to neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia after a huge jump in forest fires in a province at the centre of a s

Jakarta – The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), a regional network of anti-tobacco advocates, says it fully supports the Indonesian public health community in its fight

A new office for the self-declared Federal Republic of West Papua has been opened in Australia.

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Denpasar – Environmentalists lamented that neither of the presidential candidates contesting the July 9 election had mentioned plans to manage the issue of climate

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Paulina Quintao – The General Prosecutor for the Republic of Timor-Leste (PGR), Jose Ximenes said that the Public Ministry submitted a proposal for amendment of the Penal Code to the Mi

Paulina Quintao – From January until April 2014, the Secretariat of State for Vocational Training Policy and Employment (SEPFOPE) through the National Directorate for Employment Relatio

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court handed down a lenient five-year prison sentence on Monday to Tubagus Chaeri "Wawan" Wardana, the politically wired Banten businessma

Dita Alangkara, Surabaya, Indonesia – The mayor of Indonesia's second-largest city has officially shut down "Dolly," one of Southeast Asia's biggest red-light districts, but the world's

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Australia has a "phobia" about Indonesia and is to blame for the poor relationship between the two countries, strong-man presidential candidate Prabowo Subi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing to receive the first batch of armored vehicles it procured from Germany – from an order of 164 units – as the archipelagic nat

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – During the 20 months of their tenure, acting Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and non-active governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo have made many breakthrou

Jakarta – A number of NGOs, united under the Coalition Against Forgetting Movement, have filed a report with the Elections Supervising Agency (Bawaslu) against the General Elections Com

The organisation calling itself the Federal Republic of West Papua is today opening an office in Melbourne.

Haeril Halim, Headlines – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gave an impressive performance during the third televised debate

Jose Belo – The tale of East Timor's controversial proposed media law is a story of insiders versus outsiders, of the rich versus the poor.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Migrant workers' advocacy group Migrant Care on Monday accused presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto of trying to score easy political points by ta

On July 9 the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia, will hold an election that could result in General Prabowo Subianto becoming president.

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Randy Fabi, Jakarta – One of the two hopefuls in Indonesia's presidential election has been accused of being a closet Christian, the other of being a foreigner and unfit to lead the nat

On July 9 the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia, will hold an election that could result in General Prabowo Subianto becoming president.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – A community leader at the Payosigadung red-light district in Jambi city, Amir, said the forthcoming closure of the area's brothels would see hundreds slipping into

Kursi Istana, Jayapura – Human rights activists and organisations have launched the Movement Against Forgetting in Papua.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Outgoing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may still have four months in office before his term expires in October, but some of his ministers are already distanc

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief filed a lawsuit on slander against news portal Inilah.com, which reported an alleged conspiracy between the attorney general and Megawati Soekar

Jakarta – Jakarta Acting Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama said that he supported the removal of religion status from Indonesia's national identity card, or KTP, after a member of Indones

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – While the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa ticket is embracing firebrand groups in its coalition, the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla ticket says it will enfor

Rick Wilkinson, Melbourne – The Democratic Republic of Timor Leste (East Timor) is planning its first bid round for onshore acreage toward the end of this year.

Jakarta – Tobacco-control activists have presented more evidence to dispel myths on the negative impact the United Nations' Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) will have on t

Tevita Vuibau – Churches in Fiji and the region are throwing their voices behind self determination for West Papua.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & SP/Yohannes Douglas, Jakarta – Presidential candidate and former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto declined to respond to former Army chief Wirant

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Jakarta – Human rights abuse allegations that have dogged Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto intensified Thursday when a former military chief confirmed the ex-general u

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Former Indonesian Armed Forces (ABRI) commander Gen.

Novianti Setuningsih, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Carlos Paath & Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – The central pillar of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's economic platform is the nee

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – When presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto spoke of his "Big Push Strategy," which entails the opening up of 4 million hectares of land in Indonesia for agricu

Nurhayat Indriyatno & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Months before a single ballot had been cast in the presidential election, Indonesia's oldest Islamic party was facing its most

Michael Bachelard – Prabowo Subianto stands on stage in his beige safari suit, pounds the podium and shouts to a 100,000-strong crowd that they are nothing more than lackeys.

Jakarta – Indonesia's last military commander under the strongman Suharto has confirmed that presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, a top Army general at the time, was indeed discharg

SP/Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The campaign team of presidential candidate Joko Widodo said that Joko would remove the designation of religion on the national identity card to prevent discr

Netani Rika, Fiji – Fijians have been described as among the most hospitable people in the world, flinging open the doors to their homes at every opportunity to passing guests.

Simon Butt – In late May 2014, Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa formally registered with the General Electoral Commission as presidential and vice presidential candidates.

Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Concerns of a loan default by Indonesia's private sector are growing among economists following another rise in the sector's foreign debt for the second time

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would explain his policies on Papua during his visit to Fiji, where he will attend a meeting of Pacific Island leaders, some of whom