Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang, East Java – Indonesia's controversial Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali was reported to the police for allegedly stumping for the United Development

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Jakarta – The Indigenous People's Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN) has called for the immediate ratification of the indigenous people's rights acknowledgment and protection bill, so t

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police charged 21 members and supporters of the Aceh Party over a string of violent attacks on rival political parties ahead of the April legislative election

Semarang – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie doubled-down on claims that there was nothing out of the ordinary about jet-setting to the Maldives with a pair of Indonesian actresses

Amron Hamdi, Jakarta – One heart-wrenching scene in the Academy Award-winning film 12 Years a Slave is the stripping and whipping of Patsey, a slave girl on a Louisiana plantation.

John Vidal, Manila – High above the vast Indonesian island of Sumatra, satellites identify hundreds of plumes of smoke drifting over the oil palm plantations and rainforests.

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – With religious sentiment believed to still play a significant role in the nation's politics, presidential hopeful Joko "Jokowi" Widodo – widely seen as a typ

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Two National Aceh Party (PNA) members were critically injured and a member of the Aceh Party (PA) was hospitalized for non-life-threatening injuries in relate

Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi – Heading into the 2014 election, Indonesian society is being faced with certain political figures, ranging from businessmen and office holders, to military

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence Against Women has praised Surabaya Mayor Tri Rismaharini for her decision to fire a number of civil servants for polyga

Arnold Belau, Jayapura – The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) is calling on all West Papuan people from Sorong to Samarai to boycott both the legislative and presidential elections

The Solomon Islands Prime Minister says any self-determination efforts in Indonesia's Papua region must be made in conjunction with Jakarta.

Jakarta – Political parties are trying to gain as many votes as possible during the open campaign period ahead of the April 9 legislative election, including fielding celebrities to sec

Jakarta – A video clearly intended to embarrass Aburizal Bakrie emerged on the internet on Thursday showing the Golkar Party presidential candidate jetting off to the Maldives with a la

Kennial Caroline Laia – As Indonesia's legislative election candidates canvass the public ahead of next months poll, voters have voiced their hopes for the next intake of lawmakers.

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the Indonesia Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential candidate, visited the central board of Muhammadiyah on Thursday, the

Ellya Rossa's search for a traditional healer to treat a chronic heart ailment brought her to Guntur Bumi, an ustad, or Islamic cleric, who has often appeared in television commercials

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A West Java court threw out a Bekasi government-issued building permit for a Catholic church on Thursday, ruling that the church congregation failed to ope

Papua has become an example of what happens when a nation's ruling elites fail to give everybody a piece of the economic pie.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – As the campaign season entered its fourth day on Wednesday, election watchdogs said campaign violations had become so widespread they were virtually impossib

Jakarta – A legal challenge by lawyer and Crescent Star Party (PBB) head Yusril Ihza Mahendra that threatened to turn Indonesia's presidential election on its head was rejected on Thurs

Jakarta – Supreme Court justice Gayus Lumbuun on Wednesday defended a Court secretary's eyebrow-raising decision to hand out 2,500 iPod Shuffles as party favors at his daughter's Hotel

Jakarta – The University's of Indonesia's (UI) Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM-UI) has estimated that a legislative candidate for the House of Representatives must spen

Tomi Sujatmiko, Yogya – Demonstrators from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (Pembebasan) held a protest action at the zero kilometer point near the central post offic

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia's competitiveness is suffering because, despite improvements, its logistics performance still lags behind its Southeast Asian neighbors, a World

Kennial Caroline Laia – A 2-year-old girl chews on an areca nut, while a drunken man slumbers by the roadside that morning.

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – A foreign expert on public services has said that water privatization is an obstacle to the government in implementing human rights, especially relating to the ac

Carlos Paath & Hotman Siregar, Jakarta – With Governor Joko Widodo the frontrunner in the upcoming presidential election, politicians from opposing parties have started to get jitte

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Indonesian Military (TNI) said on Wednesday it was investigating allegations that several soldiers had rented their guns to the perpetrators of an attack

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – In spite of calls for him to reconsider his presidential bid following the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) nomination of Jakarta Governor J

Jakarta – A candidate vying for a seat in West Lampung Legislative Council (DPRD) has been sentenced to six months in prison for vote buying during campaigning, according to Election Su

Jakarta – Indonesian Survey Circle (LSI) executive director Kuskridho Ambardi says the nomination of Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as a presidential candidate has had a positive impact on the el

Jose Belo, Timor-Leste's celebrated champion of investigative journalism and advocate for a free media, recently vowed he was prepared to go to jail rather than allow his fledgling inde

Jakarta – Indonesia's social media community uttered a collective "LOL" on Tuesday after the country's vehement anti-pornography crusader Communications and Information Minister Tifatul

Andrew R. C. Marshall, Makassar, Indonesia – Makassar is a scrappy, traffic-choked port city in South Sulawesi where everybody knows your name. If, that is, your name is Limpo.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – The government has reduced the allocation for infrastructure projects by about Rp 48 trillion (US$4.27 billion) in the 2014 state budget and instead used

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The daughter of former president Soeharto, Siti Hardiyanti "Tutut" Rukmana, on Monday filed a police report against media mogul and Hanura Party vice-preside

Marian Wilkinson and Peter Cronau – Late last year the office of Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery was raided by agents from ASIO and the Federal Police.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – A mining watchdog group in East Kalimantan says that a number of companies are using conservation areas in the region for mining activities.

The Free West Papua campaign is calling on ethnic Papuan people to boycott upcoming elections in the disputed Indonesian province.

Jakarta – A joint police and Indonesian Military (TNI) patrol has killed a suspected separatist and arrested four others in Papua.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – One of the participants in an attack on a National Democrat Party (NasDem) campaign office in Munyee Kunyet village, North Aceh in February was a former Free Ace

Jakarta – World Bank (WB) lead economist Jim Brumby predicts that the Indonesian economy will still face a number of challenges related to the country's uncertain investment levels and

Bogor – A prominent Islamic cleric sacked after a videotaped threesome with two school teachers surfaced online was charged on Tuesday with violating Indonesia's controversial anti-porn

Peter Cronau – The Australian Government has warned East Timor there will be tough consequences over its decision to launch international arbitration proceedings over its maritime bound

Pekanbaru – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi says 23 governors and 11 deputy governors have asked for a leave of absence in order to campaign for their respective parties ahead of the upcomi

Port Vila (Radio New Zealand International/Vanuatu Post) – Two leaders of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation have been warned that they face assassination by the Indonesia

Jayapura – The Papua Police are on the hunt for the instigators of the communal clash in Timika that broke out on March 4, resulting in the deaths of seven people while 300 others have