Headlines – One truck driver appeared to believe that he still lived in the era of former president Soeharto, when the military ruled Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Timor Leste Attorney General's Office (AGO) plans to strengthen relations with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in the future.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Hotman Siregar – The Jakarta Transportation Agency's ongoing war on illegal parking accelerated on Wednesday as parking officers announced the latest weapon aimed at punishing parking s

Fadli, Batam – The Maritime Security Coordinating Board (Bakorkamla) says it rejects being dictated to by Australia in deciding the way it handles boat people wanting to enter the count

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The East Java administration has denied claims that it tried to relocate a group of Shia refugees by force from a housing block in Sidoarjo district to the much mo

Bayu Marhaenjati – A two-week operation by police and public-order officials at the National Monument has "trained and advised" 28 couples for reasons unknown, although Monas's head of

Jakarta – Businesses are urging the Indonesian government to take measures to reduce logistics costs in a bid to increase the country's competitiveness ahead of the ASEAN Economic Commu

Hotman Siregar & Deti Mega Purnamasari – With hordes of cheap, new cars and motorcycles continuing to hit the city's streets, and the two rail-based public transit networks not expe

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Dozens of Cendrawasih University students staged a mass rally to protest the Papua autonomy plus draft currently being considered by the provincial admini

Erwin Sihombing – None of the rulings passed in cases overseen by Akil Mochtar, the disgraced former chief justice of the Constitutional Court, passed muster, according to a survey of 2

Jakarta – A survey published by the Setara Institute, a democracy watchdog, has found that the public wants the creation of a separate court to handle local election disputes and remove

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The Jakarta Labor Forum has demanded a revision to the 2014 minimum wage, which was set on Nov.

James Balowski – Tens of thousands of Indonesian workers held a nationalstrike on 31 October and 1 November.

Neles Tebay, Jayapura, Papua – The central government and the provincial government of Papua have taken the initiative to produce another new policy for Papua under the name of "special

Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla said half of the country's mosques were equipped with poor quality sound systems and that such subpar sound meant they caused noise pollution

Yuliasri Perdani and Nurni Sulaiman, Jakarta/Balikpapan – Calls have mounted for the Indonesian Military (TNI) to review its primary weapons and other defense equipment in the wake of t

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – The number of eligible voters who are not exercising their voting rights continues to rise, with many analysts believing the number will increase in next year'

Jakarta – A public opinion poll conducted by the Indonesian Voters Institute (LPI) has found that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is considered the most lenient government official w

SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari & SP/Daurina L.

Berni Moestafa – Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesia's forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers from 2007 to 2011, costing the gover

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The past few months have seen the Jakarta administration widen some footpaths in the city's business district, and install a number of park benches beside the roa

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The latest government survey has found that the number of Indonesian teenagers who think virginity is important is declining.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – After a two-month-long investigation, environmental NGO the Hutan Rakyat Institute, says it has found that a "colonial labor system" that violates workers' righ

A boatload of asylum seekers at the centre of a standoff between Australia and Indonesia will be taken to Christmas Island.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives has been urged to take concrete action to revise a regulation that allows legislators to receive a pension even after they have b

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – As many as 1.7 million local girls and women under the age of 24 give birth annually, with nearly a half a million of them being teenagers, a representati

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Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ombudsman has found that police investigators, especially at district levels, are failing to fulfill their primary functions to investigate cr

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Domestic biofuel producers are anticipating a rise in demand next year, possibly a triple increase, particularly following the recent issuance of a regulation

Bayu Marhaenjati – won't disarm, but have promised to reevaluate the psychological condition of officers carrying firearms in the wake of a fatal shooting allegedly by a Mobile Brigade

Indonesia's economy grew by roughly 6 percent in 2013, but its poverty reduction has nearly stalled with almost half the population living in poverty – and experts struggling to identif

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has said there is a possibility that the Shia refugees from Sampang, Madura, who are currently living in a shelter at the Puspa Agro Market co

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A joint panel has found a number of judges breached the code of ethics this year.

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Gorontalo – A police officer identified by the initials IG, who is believed to be the key suspect in the rape of a 17-year-old girl, has been officially named a suspect by the Gorontalo

Randy Fabi and Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta – Indonesia's ban on shipping unprocessed mineral ore should cut export revenue by no more than 10 percent next year, the country's investment

[An interview with Said Iqbal, President of the Confederation of Indonesian Workers' Union (Konfederasi Serikat Pekerja Indonesia, KSPI) published by the Asian Human Rights Commission.]

Stephanie Boulet – Legal experts and NGOs in East Timor say laws against domestic violence are failing to reduce rates of violence against women.

Jim Middleton and staff – The head of Indonesia's Parliamentary Commission for Foreign Affairs has called for those found to be responsible for spying to be thrown out of Indonesia.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesia plans to reduce the foreign ownership cap in the telecommunications and pharmaceutical sectors and open up new industries, such as airport manag

Nurfika Osman and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesia's unemployment rate reportedly rose in August on the back of the economic slowdown, as shown by the latest data from the Central

Ezequiel Freitas – Members of National Parliament consider the work of the Anti-Corruption Commission (KAK) to be ineffective combating corruption, especially in the area of human resou

Paris – Forests are still disappearing and local communities disregarded by palm oil development despite a plan to put the sector on a sustainable footing, researchers warned as an indu

Diana Parker – On Sept.

Jakarta – The Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) ruled in favor of labor unions, which demanded that seven companies commenced paying their workers in line with the 2013 provinci

Gloria Bauai – The Free West Papua campaign PNG chapter office was launched yesterday by international campaigner Benny Wenda.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Hundreds of students from various universities in Jayapura, Papua, continued protesting against the Papua administration bill, also known as the special a

Olivia Rondonuwu – High in the snow-capped mountains, the sight of tribesmen roaming in loincloths contrasts sharply with that of miners using hi-tech machinery to extract gold and copp

Australian RWB correspondent Mark Pearson tells us about an historic congress of Timor Leste journalists which was held in Dili from 25 to 27 October.