Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Security guards at a public park in West Jakarta have been on an undercover mission in the past few months: in pairs, they pose as young couples dating in Cattley

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – This year's legislative election result doesn't look too good for the Golkar Party.

Ina Parlina and Bambang Muryanto, Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Politician Amien Rais, an icon during the 1998 reform movement to topple former president Soeharto, amplified a call on Friday to

Bayu Marhaenjati, Jakarta – Twelve members of Pancasila Youth were arrested by the Jakarta police for the attack on rival group Betawi Brotherhood Forum that left at least one person se

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy, Jakarta – The 12 political parties that competed in the April 9 legislative election had campaign funds totaling Rp 3.1 trillion ($272 million), according t

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Female activists in Aceh, affiliated with the 231 Monitoring Network, have urged the government and police to investigate child abuse cases in the provin

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Two Indonesian Military officers were injured after yet another exchange of gunfire on Friday between the military and an armed group suspected to be part of

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The trial of graft suspect Anggoro Widjojo has revealed that former forestry minister MS Kaban – who is chairman of the Islamic-based Crescent Star Party (PBB) –

Suara Pembaruan, Jakarta – Golkar Party will decide on Aburizal Bakrie's running mate and the party's coalition partners in next month's national leaders meeting, as it dismissed specul

Pekanbaru – The Riau Police are intensifying their investigation into haze by probing a number of companies in Bengkalis and Indragiri Hilir regencies in connection to forest and peatla

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Advocacy groups for disabled persons are seeking a new law to replace the current 1997 disability law, which they say is ineffective.

Paulina Quintao – Upset to the point of tears.

Jayapura – The call by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) chairperson to boycott the July 9 presidential election in Papua has become a threat for Indonesia and West Papua.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – An Ahmadiyah community in West Java has lashed out at a call for a ban on its activities by the country's highest clerical council, which only days earlier

Patrick Tibke – In recent times Prabowo Subianto's presidential campaign has often manifested as a peculiar spectacle, characterised by colourful and highly unpredictable politicking.

SP/Robertus Wardhy & Vento Saudale, Bogor – Two rival factions of Indonesia's oldest Islamic party agreed on Wednesday to reconcile, following a bitter split that had threatened to

Business – State-owned electricity company PT PLN says it burned 1.84 million kiloliters of fossil fuel in the first quarter of 2014.

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The allegations had swirled for years, but when the first solid accusation of corruption was finally leveled at Agriculture Minister Suswono, it wasn'

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The police had identified and were currently hunting the instigators of a recent clash between Christians and Muslims in Sorong, West Papua, which left three peop

Clyde Russell, Launceston, Australia – Indonesia s decision to start cancelling investment treaties with 62 countries has passed with little comment, but the move may have a greater imp

Jakarta – A prosecutor is seeking a sentence of at least five years in prison for gang leader Hercules Rosario Marshal, who is on trial for extortion.

Jakarta – Indonesia's military chief collects counterfeit watches, with no qualms about it, and he'll go to extreme lengths to prove it.

Jakarta – As Indonesia debates the merits of the three-decade rule of strongman Suharto, the one thing the country seems to agree on is that the dictator fared better on protecting reli

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police in Aceh have named one of their own members a suspect in the alleged sexual abuse of at least two young girls, as clerics in the staunchly conservative

Jakarta – More than a century after the death of Raden Ajeng Kartini, the first Indonesian woman to demand the emancipation of women in the country, activists say gender inequality rema

Anastasia Arvirianty, Jakarta – Indonesian presidential frontrunner Joko "Jokowi" Widodo looks to be getting some extra help from the bickering that threatens to undermine his chief riv

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A proposed coalition of Islamic political parties should back a presidential candidate who prays five times a day at a mosque and will cut short cabi

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Prominent clerics from 67 Muslim organizations have called on the five Islamic-based parties to band together in a coalition ahead of the July 9 presidential

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Even though official legislative election results are still pending, pollsters and media have already made their predictions about the coming crop of le

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Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police are reluctant to act against the alleged hate speech made at an anti-Shia declaration, an event attended by more than 1,000 people in Ban

Jakarta – The congregation of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin urged recently inaugurated Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto to act on his promise to reopen their church before

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A 25-year-old woman died after delivering her only child.

Bayu Marhaenjati & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – Jakarta/Balikpapan.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – More than 1,000 people attended an anti-Shia declaration on Sunday at the Al Fajr mosque in the West Java capital of Bandung, in what appeared to be the first organ

Jakarta – Jakarta called on governments on Monday to stop "shifting responsibility" for asylum seekers, in veiled criticism of Australia's hardline policy of towing boatloads of would-b

Jakarta/Makassar – Saleem Ali, not his real name, was just 13 when his mother decided that paying strangers to smuggle him through several countries in the hope of reaching Australia wa

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A Pesantren Waria (Islamic boarding school for transgenders) in Yogyakarta has once again opened its doors, and brought the subject of freedom of religion

Pekanbaru – Indonesian Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya said on Monday that as many as 23 companies were allegedly responsible for fires and haze that struck Riau earlier this ye

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Suspended United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali exacerbated resentment within his party on Sunday after he toured Central Java with the Ger

Jakarta – The Central Statistics Agency (BPS) said that when collating the country's first ever Happiness Index it had applied different parameters from other similar indexes.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A number of prominent politicians may lose their seats in the House of Representatives after early results based on quick counts conducted by a number of pol

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – A planned declaration in Bandung to denounce the Shiite community turned into a fiery call for jihad, or holy war, against the much-maligned minority group.

Jakarta – The United Development Party's (PPP) national leaders meeting (Rapimnas), which concluded early on Sunday, resulted in the decision to temporarily dismiss Suryadharma Ali from

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Shia followers in Bandung, West Java, have filed a protest with local authorities over a planned declaration by the Anti-Shia National Alliance, schedule

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Proponents of religious schooling are clamoring for a larger slice of the public education budget, even as government struggles to fund secular state sc

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Attempts to legislate alcoholic beverages to reduce fatalities from alcohol-related poisoning in Malang, East Java, have been in vain as nine more people di

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The April 9 legislative election has brought two surprising results.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali pledged his party's support for Gerindra Party presidential nomin

Haeril Halim and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has yet to clearly state its stance over the upcoming declaration by the National Anti-Shia Alliance at