Hotli Simanjuntak and Ina Parlina, Banda Aceh/Jakarta – Without much fanfare, the Aceh provincial administration and legislative council have approved the Qanun Jinayat (behavior-govern

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Human rights activists criticized the Aceh Shariah police on Friday for an official suggestion that non-Muslim women should wear the hijab in the semi-auto

Ina Parlina and Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday urged the House of Representatives to drop its plan to amend the Code of Criminal Procedu

Ainur Rohmah and Suherdjoko, Semarang – Floods and landslides in most parts of Central Java have caused dozens of casualties, damaged hundreds of kilometers of roads and destroyed thous

Mataram – At least 120 farmers from three villages in Central Lombok regency staged a rally in front of the West Nusa Tenggara gubernatorial office on Wednesday, demanding payment for l

Jakarta – Chairman of the Golkar Party Advisory Council, Akbar Tanjung, denied that the party had considered nominating the daughter of former president Soeharto, Siti Hediati "Titiek"

Helen Davidson – Reports are coming out of Indonesia of a boat arriving at a West Java beach carrying asylum seekers who say they were transferred from their vessel into a lifeboat and

Michael Bachelard – For a man whose words have whipped up a political and media storm in Australia, Yousif Ibrahim Fasher has been remarkably untroubled by visits from journalists.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Legislative Council is deliberating a special bylaw that will force non-Muslims in the province to follow sharia.

Jakarta – The defense ministers of Indonesia and the Netherlands, Purnomo Yusgiantoro and Jeanine Hennis Plasschaert, signed an MoU to strengthen defense cooperation between the two cou

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Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Government spending and exports became the main driver of gross domestic product (GDP) growth last year and managed to offset a decline in investment.

Ezequiel Freitas – The Timor-Leste Parliamentary Women's Group (GMPTL) intends to propose legislation to regulate pornography in the country.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – A witness in the graft trial of former Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) chairman Rudi Rubiandini has further exposed the endemic cor

Elaine Pearson – Exactly three years ago, on 6 February 2011, some 1,500 Islamist militants stormed the Ahmadiyah community in Cikeusik village in western Java.

Jakarta – The Air Force is preparing the acquisition of additional jet fighters to establish a new squadron in eastern Indonesia, chief of staff Air Chief Marshal Ida Bagus Putu Dunia s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A popular Indonesian blogger and minor Twitter celebrity has been sentenced to one year of probation over libelous tweets ai

Alina Musta'idah, Jakarta – A legislator has demanded the overhaul of a city-run hospital in Bandarlampung, Lampung province, in the wake of the death of an elderly patient after he was

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Ousted Democratic Party (PD) chairman Anas Urbaningrum ramped up his attacks against current party chief President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Harriet Conron & Nicole Jade Millane, Jakarta – Businesses are the most trusted institutions in Indonesia ahead of the media, nongovernmental organizations and governments, accordin

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Hayat Indriyatno, Jakarta – A road expert has joined in the chorus of criticism against the Jakarta and central governments for the poor state of roads in the capital, long stretches of

Wilda Asmarini & Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – Indonesia's mines minister, Jero Wacik, has been on an unusual mission in recent months: finding a way out of implementing his own gover

Tom Davies – Imagine a protest. A protest against the actions of a tyrannical, oppressive military administration totally intolerant of dissent.

Joe Collins from the Australia West Papua Association responds to Peter McCawley's item on Peter Cosgrove's views on Indonesia, a piece which also mentioned Ambassador Greg Moriarty:

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police have warned that Aceh and Papua could be hot spots for communal conflict during the upcoming general election.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Officials at Sentani Airport in Jayapura, Papua, arrested a man, identified as KDM, 30, because he was carrying eight 8.4 mm carbine cartridges on Monday.

Philip Dorling – Australia's chief intelligence watchdog has been drawn into a legal battle over government claims that Australia's relations with Indonesia are too fragile to allow the

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Cash-strapped carrier Merpati Nusantara Airlines has suspended all flights in early February as falling revenue continued to push the struggling state-owne

Jakarta – The Indonesian Police have arrested ten suspects from the Papua shooting incident that claimed an army personnel from 753 Battalion First Private Sugianto in Mulia, Puncak Jay

The United Development Party (PPP) is unlikely to break from tradition and will nominate its party chairman as its presidential candidate for the upcoming national election, a senior PP

Up to 30 activists were arrested during the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) visit to the West Papua provincial capital of Jayapura on 13 January.

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – Antigraft investigators appeared to have a bumper 2013, arresting the country's top judge, a serving governor and the former sports minister, among ot

Marni Cordell – Villagers in a remote West Papuan town have described being beaten and having guns pointed at their heads during a "terrifying" police and military operation at a local

Jakarta – The co-director of the film, "The Act of Killing" denied that it was a foreign effort to tarnish Indonesia's reputation in international eyes, saying a negative image does not

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Awakening Party, or PKB, insists it is seriously mulling backing former vice president Jusuf Kalla for the presidential election, despite polls g

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Democratic Party officials have played down poll results that indicate none of the 11 men vying for the party's presidential nomination would stand a chance in t

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The Indonesian security forces killed one member of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) during a firefight in Yapen Waropen district on Saturday, arresting 11 othe

David Robie – A year after Indonesian troops killed more than 270 peaceful demonstrators at the cemetery of Santa Cruz in the Timor-Leste capital of Dili in 1991, news footage secretly

Karo, North Sumatra – Fourteen people, including four schoolchildren, were killed on Saturday after they were engulfed in scorching ash clouds spat out by Indonesia's Mount Sinabung in

Jakarta – Indonesia's netizens have rebuked Communications and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring for asking them what they would do with a fast Internet connection, in the wake of

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A group of civil society organizations, called the Frequency Belongs to the Public (FMP), plans to take the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) to court as

Ina Parlina and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The leadership of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) on Friday kick-off a two-day meeting to decide who would be the party's presidential can

Robert Matau – The Melanesian Spearhead Group heads into further talks this month to seek more answers from the MSG mission that failed to meet indigenous West Papuan leaders in West Pa

Jakarta – Alexander Aan, who was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in 2012 for publicly declaring himself an atheist on Facebook, was released from prison on Jan. 27.

Miko Napitupulu – Muslim scholar Dawam Rahardjo was awarded Indonesia's annual Yap Thiam Hien prize for human rights in Jakarta on Thursday.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Honda opened its second car manufacturing factory in Indonesia this month, and Datsun is set to follow suit in April.

Jon Afrizal, Jambi – While thousands of people throughout the country have had to flee their homes to escape flooding, the Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) indigenous people in Jambi have been for

Jakarta – Indonesian extremists have turned their attentions to the Syrian war, a bloody two-year battle soaked in sectarian division and apocalyptic prophecy, as radical Islamist group

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A survey has revealed that the country will see a higher voter turnout for this year's presidential election if Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo were