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Simon Roughneen – A proposed new media code in Timor-Leste is raising hackles among the country's press, who see an attempt to impose curbs on journalists and criminalise transgressions

Paulina Quintao – According to research by the Alola Foundation (FA), many female laborers in urban and rural areas are unaware of labor laws ratified in 2012.

From KNPB and West Papua Media sources in Jayapura – A cultural parade organised by university students in Jayapura was blockaded and then dispersed with force by Indonesian police on F

East Manggarai – Hundreds of residents of Elar, Sambirampas and Lambaleda districts demonstrated in front of the East Manggarai Council building, East Manggarai regency in East Nusa Ten

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The governments of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide better working conditions for Indonesian workers in the

Jakarta – Indonesia's justice minister has played down a set of recommendations drawn up by the Corruption Eradication Commission in response to ongoing deliberations in the House of Re

Paulina Quintao – The recent spread of HIV/AIDS poses a big threat to the entire population of Timor-Leste.

Jakarta – Secretary-general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Tjahjo Kumolo denied on Wednesday that there was division within the party's central board over a plan

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's (PD) presidential convention seems to be going nowhere with a senior party member admitting the ruling party might not be able to fiel

Timor Leste's (East Timor's) Oil Fund ended 2013 with assets of US$14.9 billion, the Timor Leste Central Bank said in Dili Tuesday.

Ainur Rohmah and Suherdjoko, Semarang – Radicalism among senior high school students is on the rise, teachers of Islamic education in Semarang, Central Java, have warned.

Condemnation has erupted at the decision by a court in West Papua province to hand down a two-year sentence to a police officer for illegal logging, despite strong evidence that he may

Jakarta – The number of hotspots of forest, plantation and peatland fires in Riau reached 256 on Wednesday morning, more than double the 126 of the previous day.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A minister has threatened to punish Indonesian telecommunications companies if found to be complicit in allowing US and Australian intelligence agenc

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Tony Ng, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia and local communities in Batang, Central Java, have alleged alarmingly high figures for greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants from a coal-fired

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The recent shooting of a National Democrat (NasDem) Party campaign post in Aceh was politically motivated, party members said.

Nicole Jade Millane, Jakarta – Encouraging men to become involved in anti-violence campaigns can help minimize gender-based violence, activists say.

Benjamin Soloway & Josua Gantan, Lebak, Banten – As we make our way from Jakarta to the heart of Banten province – which stretches from Tangerang, the capital's sprawling western su

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – Indonesia's outspoken House of Representatives speaker Marzuki Alie accused the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of political cherry-picking in

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Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also chairman of the ruling Democratic Party, to use his executive power

Jakarta – A court in Papua was unable to convict a low-ranking police officer of money laundering on Monday despite evidence of wire transfers totalling Rp 1.5 trillion ($129 million) f

Jakarta – The apparent controversy surrounding a book on independence fighter and former communist party member Tan Malaka grew on Monday after protesters in Central Java attempted to s

In its distinguished mandate, the Constitutional Court is granted a privilege that eludes the legislative and executive branches of power in the country's governance system.

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – When the documentary film The Act of Killing, which portrays the 1965 massacres of people accused of having ties to communism, was internationally relea

Haeril Halim – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has given assurances that the eruption of East Java's Mount Kelud will not hamper the distribution of logistical materials for the

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya/Jakarta – Last Thursday's eruption of Mount Kelud in Kediri, East Java, has inflicted tremendous financial losses in the aviation, ma

Oliver Laughland and Bridie Jabour – Indonesia has said Australia and America need to "clean up their mess" to salvage relations with Indonesia after revelations that Australia spied on

Sentani – As many as 296 soldiers based in Papua have received teaching certificates, allowing them to teach in remote areas.

Prodita Sabarini, Contributor, Washington, DC – Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on Tuesday called on the US to acknowledge its role in Indonesia's communist pur

Jakarta – Life is slowly returning to normal in east Java after Thursday's volcanic eruption killed at least four people, closed airports and caused flight cancellations.

Tangerang – Dozens of people claiming to be residents of Sindang Jaya district, Tangerang, have rejected the assignment of Endang Sulistyawati as district head because she is a woman.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – They danced, sang and shared stories for one purpose: To end violence against women.

Shaun Tandon, Hong Kong – Anwar Congo makes no secret of the fact that he killed about 1,000 people with his bare hands, boasting about the methods he used to murder alleged communists

Jakarta – Six have died so far in the wake of Mount Kelud's forceful Thursday eruption, which drove tens of thousands of Central and East Java residents from their homes and scattered a

Gorontalo – The Boalemo administration has been slammed for naming two new bridges – in the capital of Boalemo regency Tilamuta in Gorontalo – after late president Soeharto and Tien Soe

Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights, Komnas HAM, has released its findings regarding serious human rights violations in the Freeport big Gossan tunnel cave-in that claimed t

Jakarta – More than 100 Islamic hard-liners slammed the Indonesian government Friday for approving Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby's parole from jail, saying the convicted dr

Jakarta – In a sign of intensified relations between the two nations, Indonesia and the United States will sign two agreements during US Secretary of State's visit to Jakarta, a ministe

Jakarta – As couples the world over celebrated Valentine's Day on Friday, vocal opposition to the holiday mounted in Indonesia over concerns of morality and religion, as it does every y

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Constitutional Court on Thursday overturned President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's October 2013 regulation in lieu of a law, or Perppu, which was directed t

Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste (East Timor) was due Friday to start a re-evaluation of the bilateral oil agreements and a study to set up a consortium for onshore exploration of

Jakarta – Amnesty International condemned Indonesia's parliament Friday for "dragging its feet" on the protection of domestic workers, despite the recent brutal abuse of an Indonesian m

Kate Lamb in Jakarta and Oliver Laughland in Sydney – Australian naval ships entered Indonesian territorial waters often and with ease before the incursions sparked a diplomatic inciden

Harriet Conron & Kennial Caroline Laia – Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa reiterated on Thursday that Australia's "Operation Sovereign Borders" policy, under which asylum-seeker bo

Haeril Halim, Nurfika Osman and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – The electoral prospects of the nation's official Islamic parties have taken a turn for the worse with the Corruption Eradi

Daniel Flitton – Vandals have targeted the Australian embassy in East Timor, spray painting a blood-stained parody of the Australian coat of arms with a kangaroo and emu sucking a barre

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Malang – Security officers in the East Java town of Malang rounded up 13 commercial sex workers during a raid on Tuesday night, highlig