Australia will be asked to "share the burden" of asylum seekers with Indonesia, where detention centres are overcrowded with people stymied by the Abbott government's hardline border po

SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Forming a coalition of Islam-based parties may be difficult, following a meeting late on Thursday during which parties appeared

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – A coalition claiming to represent Islamic mass organizations has called on Islamic-based political parties to form an alliance and endorse their own candidat

Bagus BT Saragih, Ina Parlina and Margareth S.

Paul Farrell, Perth – The chief of the Australian navy has sacked a senior commanding officer involved in one of the incursions into Indonesian waters.

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Upholding the rule of law remains a serious challenge in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) called on the government to raise the legal minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18 years old for females.

Jakarta – Climate change experts have said that stronger law enforcement was needed to prevent future disastrous wildfires in susceptible areas such as the peatlands of Riau, Sumatra.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – With a next round of political campaigning due for the presidential election, experts have called for stricter regulations to ensure fairness in televised polit

SP/Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – Indonesia's oldest Islamic party was in turmoil after United Development Party (PPP) chairman and serving Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali expelle

Jakarta – For the first time in history, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) issued late on Wednesday a survey that measured the level of happiness among Indonesians.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – An armed group in Papua fired on a border post between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, injuring one civilian, Indonesian officials said on Wednesday.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh administration's approval of the Qanun Hukum Acara Jinayat (criminal code procedure) bylaw authorizes sharia police in the province to detain an

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Governor Joko Widodo has been criticized for losing focus on running Southeast Asia's largest city because the of the amount of time he has been forced to spend

Syamsul Huda M.Suhari, Gorontalo – Gorontalo Governor Rusli Habibie has issued a new policy requiring Muslim civil servants to hold mass prayers and attend Islamic religious lectures ev

Mr Gusmao met China's top leaders in the first visit by an East Timorese Prime Minister in 11 years.

Paulina Quintao – University students have urged the HAK Association to organize a national seminar in Timor-Leste to encourage leaders, including those of the Japanese government, to s

Jakarta – The Parks and Cemeteries Agency intends to force lovebirds caught in compromising positions in public parks to get married.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A hard-line Sunni Islamic group says it will host an anti-Shiite declaration in Bandung on Sunday, to be attended by the West Java governor, in the latest

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Paulina Quintao – The Secretary of State for the Promotion of Equality (SEPI), Idelta Maria Rodrigues said SEPI will this year hold a campaign toraise awareness and open dialogue with t

Jakarta – A top graft buster has urged the country's highest court to end the House of Representatives' monopoly on selecting leaders for the national antigraft body, calling the move u

Jayapura – Operations by the Indonesian military to capture rebels near the border with Papua New Guinea last week scared residents in Vanimo, said PNG opposition leader BeldeNamah.

Jakarta – The Eyes on the Forest (EoF) environmental group published their latest investigative report on Tuesday into deforestation in Sumatra, especially Riau, following environmental

Arya Dipa, Bandung – An association of human rights abuse victims' families said it hoped voters would take presidential hopefuls' background of human rights violations into serious con

SP/Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's much-hyped presidential candidate convention, underway since September, has ended, following the party's drubbing at the recent legisla

SP/Yoseph Kelen, Kupang – Failure to secure seats in the recent election has begun to impact some legislative candidates who spent exorbitant amounts of money to buy votes, to the exten

Jakarta – Islamic-based political parties have remained key players in politics but never as prime movers, as indicated by their ability to garner a significant share of the legislative

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The 15 percent of the popular vote garnered by the Golkar Party in the April 9 legislative election quick count appears to have failed to stop clashes betwee

Paulina Quintao – Catholic priests and nuns are refusing to baptise children born of incest, according to Timor-Leste Women's Communication Forum (FOKUPERS) shelter home coordinator Jud

Jakarta – Research institute Freedom Foundation predicts the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which nominated Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as its presidential c

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Saturday that reports of a rift within the party were untrue and that sugge

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and his Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P; former general Prabowo Subianto and his Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra; an

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Although the legislative election in Aceh on Wednesday was regarded as a success due to a lack of serious security issues, it was still marred by violenc

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Media mogul Surya Paloh's National Democratic Party (Nasdem) has announced that it has thrown its support behind Joko Widodo and the Indonesian Democ

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Unmoved by friction within his party, Jakarta Governor and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo s

Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali is on the verge of losing the top job in the country's oldest Islamic-based party fol

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Indonesia's first presidential aircraft finally arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in Jakarta on Thursday after years of controversy and delays since i

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Gunmen believed to be from a separatist group attacked a border post between Indonesian Papua and Papua New Guinea on Thursday, taking down the Indonesian fl

Josua Gantan & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Negative campaigning directed against the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, and the limited ability of the party, better known

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen.

Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – An analyst attributed the significant vote increase for the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) to party founder and presidential candidate Prabowo Subia

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Angela Dewan, Jakarta – Indonesia's Muslim parties enjoyed a surprise jump in support at legislative elections this week, but analysts put it more down to anger with a corrupt ruling pa

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Internal rifts within the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the wake of the party's poorer-than-expected results in Wednesday's legisla

Emily Mitchell – Last year, during a visit to Kupang, in West Timor, I met a fisherman with a 12 year old daughter and a seven year old son.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Investors dumped Indonesian assets a day after the country's legislative election resulted in an unexpected weak showing for the political party behind po

Jakarta/Makassar – Australia's military-led operation to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from reaching its shores has been hailed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a success, with

Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Thursday Ahmad Jauhari, a former senior official at the Religious Affairs Ministry, to eight years in prison for his role in rigging

Ronny Kareni – Wednesday 2 April marked a global day of action to call for the immediate and unconditional release of the 77 Papuan and Malukan political prisoners currently being held