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Marni Cordell – Scores of unarmed civilians were tortured and killed and their bodies dumped at sea in a massacre by Indonesian security forces in West Papua 15 years ago, a "citizens'

Jakarta – Despite strong opposition from residents, the destruction of illegal dwellings in Taman Burung Village, Pluit, North Jakarta, went on as planned yesterday.

Nineteen untenured employees of Riau's Rokan Hulu district government were fired in November because they did not show up to 5 a.m.

Kennial Caroline Laia – As the nation moves closer to the upcoming 2014 general elections, an often overlooked and underestimated group of voters may be a key factor in deciding the nat

All political parties except the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) were secretive about their financial reports, according to the Central Information Commission (KIP).

Indonesia's four-year-old plan to ban the export of raw mineral ore in an effort to foster a domestic processing industry comes into effect on Jan.

Satria Sambijantoro, Nusa Dua, Bali – Indonesia is now racing against the clock to boost its manufacturing sector and strengthen its supply-side economy as the nation is on the brink of

More than 40 percent of Indonesian voters consider politicians seeking to buy support at elections acceptable, a survey showed Friday, months before national polls in the graft-ridden c

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The results of a public opinion poll released on Thursday revealed that a significant portion of voters had no problem accepting money in return for their vote.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – The City Council on Wednesday endorsed the Spatial Zoning Bylaw, which, to some extent, limits the Jakarta governor from making changes to land-use purposes.

Gwynne Dyer – And now for something completely different: A spy story that isn't about Edward Snowden's disclosures and the US National Security Agency's surveillance of everything and

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A bus carrying Merauke Military Commander Brig. Gen.

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta administration has backed the Education Ministry's controversial new curriculum that scraps English classes, computer studies and physical education a

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Indonesia is in a state of emergency regarding human rights violations, according to the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), the National Commissio

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has reported several lawmakers to the House of Representatives' ethics council for allegedly harassing a female Indo

Yogyakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has called on the Press Council (Dewan Pers) to closely monitor and strictly censure media outlets that

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said certain elements in civil society were designing movements to disrupt security and order ahead of the general election next year.

The Semarang District Court handed down a two-year prison term on Thursday to an Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) member who killed a woman with his car during a violent confrontation in C

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Government ministers from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have criticized the Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court's decision to sentence disgra

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Children born to couples in unregistered marriages, known as nikah siri, will now be able to have the names of their fathers recorded on their birth certificates

Peter Lloyd, staff – East Timor's former president Jose Ramos-Horta says Australia would never have secured a seat on the United Nations Security Council had claims that it spied on its

Damien Kingsbury – Australia and Timor-Leste are in a diplomatic lull following the revelations that Australia spied on Timor-Leste's cabinet via agents working through its aid program.

Whatever merit the Australian government might discern in spying on the ministers of East Timor in 2004, it is beggarly that its operatives apparently went about their work in Dili usin

Two vehicles operating at copper and gold producer PT Freeport Indonesia's (PTFI) mine were targeted in shootings on Sunday and Monday in Timika, Papua.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – After spending lavishly on opening its presidential convention in September, the Democratic Party's (PD) coffers appear to be spent as it attempts to pay for

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Environment Ministry has issued 17 firms with so-called "black labels" for polluting the environment and failing to meet environmental standards set b

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Muslim intellectual Dawam Rahardjo won the 2013 Yap Thiam Hien human rights award for what the committee described as his "consistent fight to uphold religious e

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – The arrest in October of Akil Mochtar, recently dismissed as the chief justice of the Constitutional Court, for alleged bribery has severely damaged the nation's

Nukila Evanty, Jakarta – Indonesia received 180 recommendations when it was reviewed under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting

East Timor is ready to develop the Greater Sunrise gas fields "tomorrow" but refuses to bend to Woodside's preference for a floating project.

Tom Allard – East Timor's government believes it has identified the members of a team of four Australian spies who allegedly bugged its government offices, describing it as "very distur

Novianti Setuningsih & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The number of corruption accusations being thrown against politicians and parties will surge in the next few months as the smear ca

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – Research commissioned by the Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) since the National Education System Law came in to effect in 2003 revealed an increasin

Ezra Sihite, Ezra Sihite, Novy Lumanauw, Novianti Setuningsih & Arnold Sianturi – Ten years after it was founded, the national antigraft commission remains confident that it is movi

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang, East Java – A museum built in honor of Munir Said Thalib, a prominent human rights activist assassinated in 2004, was officially opened on Sunday on what woul

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Ezequiel Freitas – President of the Republic, Taur Matan Ruak (TMR), said the Caras Massacre that took place in 1983 was an event of great significance to the history of Timor-Leste bec

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – As the ruling Democratic Party complains about the many graft allegations leveled against it, a classified document detailing the roles of those close to P

Novianti Setuningsih – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) broke ground on its new Rp 215 billion ($17.9 million) headquarters on Monday in a ceremony that both commemorated int

Colin Brown – When I started planning this paper, I intended to focus on the period of the second SBY Cabinet (since 2009), and to look in the broad at the ways in which Australia featu

Agnieszka Sobocinska – This summer, many of us are heading overseas. Australians are the world's largest spenders on international travel on a per capita basis.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Dozens of activists from different NGOs from a number of cities staged a rally at the Yogyakarta Ground Zero area on Friday, demanding the government draw

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) and the Jakarta administration launched a website on Friday to reach out to sexual abuse

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Despite government efforts to combat malnutrition, the recently released basic health research (Riskesdas) shows an increase in the percentage of children

Indonesia is in talks with Russia on the purchase of a number of Kilo Class submarines, as the country expands its deterrent capabilities in anticipation of future regional disputes.

Kennial Caroline Laia & Natasia Christy Wahyuni – Indonesia ranks second from the bottom in an international education survey conducted to assess students' skill in mathematics, sci

Indonesian foreign minister Marty Natalegawa has given a cautious response to comments by prime minister Tony Abbott that Australia will continue to spy on its northern neighbour.

Shirley Shackleton – This week the home and offices of Australian barrister Bernard Collaery were raided, while he was in the Hague seeking arbitration for a fair deal for the Timorese