Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency's (BIN) deputy of communication and information Bambang Wiyono refused on Wednesday to comment on allegations that the agenc

In an interview with The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo expressed his confidence that there was no difference between managing Jakarta and Indonesia despite his lac

Farouk Arnaz – National Police chief Cmr. Gen.

Indonesia will suspend all intelligence and military cooperation with Australia – including efforts to combat people smuggling – as officials investigate claims that Australia's intelli

Former senior politician in the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) Suripto disclosed the identify of controversial figure Bunda Putri in Jakarta on Wednesday, saying that Bunda Putri was th

Oliver Laughland, Jakarta – The diplomatic falling-out between Australia and Indonesia following the presidential phone tapping revelations reported by Guardian Australia and the ABC do

Clinton Fernandes – Just before Christmas 1981, Indonesia's foreign minister Mochtar Kusumaatmadja asked to meet Australia's ambassador to Jakarta, Rawdon Dalrymple.

Philip Dorling – The news that Australia's electronic spy agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, has targeted Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's mobile phone won't come a

Jakarta – Independent watchdog on state and local budget, Pattiro, says the implementation of gender responsive budgeting (ARG) will accelerate progress toward achieving the Millennium

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) on Monday claimed to have uncovered the existence of a shadowy group of operatives whose sole purpose was

The accomplishments and popularity of Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo may not have been possible without the men and women who have positioned the former furniture businessman as

Ben Packham – Indonesia says it doesn't spy on Australia; but it did once, according to a former Indonesian intelligence chief.

Jakarta – Business relationships between Indonesia and Australia will remain strong despite the recent wire tapping incidents, a senior official says.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The first high-resolution global forest cover on Google Earth should be used as a tool to revive discussion over the country's actual forest coverage and

Jakarta – The Awaking Papua Forum (Forum Papua Bangkit) said it suspects corruption was the cause of the long delay in the construction of a Trans Irian highway linking the southern and

Havana – A total of 246 medical students in Timor-Leste received their degrees today in that nation as a part of a joint project between the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba an

Despite rejecting allegations that he was gay, Second Sergeant S.N.F.

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia will call back its ambassador to Australia and "review" Australian diplomatic positions in Jakarta as anger rises in Indonesia over revelations that Austra

Muhammad Al Azhari – A large mixed use property project, managed by an Indonesian building contractor, held a ground-breaking ceremony in Dili, East Timor, last week, signaling a strong

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesian businessman Rudi Gunawan, 44, is a premium carmaker's prime target.

Jakarta – Dozens of women gathered at Plaza Senayan not long after dawn broke last Saturday.

The head of Indonesia's largest union organization has announced a new strike across several regions of the archipelago to pressure provincial governments into making greater concession

Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) arrest of former Bank Indonesia (BI) deputy governor Budi Mulya for his alleged role in

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The electability of Golkar Party presidential candidate Aburizal Bakrie remains below 10 percent and is very unlikely to improve before next year's election,

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and the Great Indonesia Movement Party have reportedly signed a political pact in 2009 – dubbed the Batu Tulis Pact – that included a point w

Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata – Members of the Muara Angke fishing community in North Jakarta make their living from the sea, but it is a living that many residents say is increasingly at

Indonesia's vice president, Boediono, has shrugged off suggestions that recent disputes with Australia regarding asylum seekers and espionage claims have damaged the countries' relation

Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabi – An inspector general of Indonesian police had just withstood eight hours of interrogation on the night of October 5, last year at the Jakarta headqua

A large demonstration allegedly initiated by palm oil company Kallista Alam, which is accused of illegally destroying some of the world's most important remaining orangutan habitat on t

Carlos Paath, Bandung – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said on Friday that religious tolerance in Indonesia is among the best in the world, despite some issues he said still

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – The Bali Wage Council's decision to set the 2014 minimum wage for the province at Rp 1.3 million (US$111) per month triggered protests from unions that say

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation in the past 12 years, according to a new global map on deforestation.

Syamsul Huda M.Suhari, Manado – Fishermen in Manado, North Sulawesi, have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to immediately stop land reclamation to develop a commercial distr

Jakarta – Champions of pluralism urged the government to heed their call to counter the rise of religious intolerance.

Michael Field – A 23-strong delegation of politicians from Indonesia-controlled Papua is heading to New Zealand amidst controversy that they're on a junket with little perceived benefit

Novy Lumanauw – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought on Thursday to reinforce the merit of his administration's policy to boost sales of low-cost green cars in Indonesia in respons

Bayu Marheanjati, Ezra Sihite & Farouk Arnaz – A week to the day after directly contradicting the law on general elections, the new chief of the Constitutional Court has said he pla

Diana Parker – The one-horned Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus), which once ranged through South and Southeast Asia, is now extinct in all but one rare lowland forest in western Java,

An Indonesian parliamentarian, Eva Sundari, says there should be no restriction for foreign journalists wanting to go to Papua.

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Two members of the West Papua Provincial Legislative Council (DPRD) and the director of a provincial business appeared at the Jayapura Corruption Court on

Farouk Arnaz & Camelia Pasandaran – Police in the predominately Sunni province of West Java have refused an application by Shiite Muslims in Bandung to mark the religious day of Ash

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Just weeks into his new job, Constitutional Court chief Hamdan Zoelva has come under fire for supporting a position completely at odds with both Indonesian el

Bambang Muryanto and Jon Afrizal, Yogyakarta/Jambi – Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwo X said that the minimum wage in the province (UMP) 2014 would be increased by around 10

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United Development Party (PPP) on Tuesday said it would actively approach other major Islamic parties to form a coalition to support a presidential candid

Jakarta – Labor intensive industries are predicting a gloomier business outlook next year, with an increase in minimum wages and growing labor rallies hurting business.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Copies of a national newspaper featuring a half-page tobacco advertisement on its front page was given away at an event held by the Health Ministry to com

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government rebuffed on Tuesday Australia's claim that Indonesia was responsible for the fate of a group of asylum seekers at the center of a maritime standoff

Banjir Ambarita & Robert Isidorus, Jayapura – The entire membership of the Papua provincial legislature, including a corruption convict and other officials accused of embezzling soc