Paulina Quintao – The Advocacy Manager of the Women's Communication Forum Timor-Leste (FOKUPERS) Honorio Lopes said the language used in the song was an insult to women.

Jayapura – The TPN/OPM [National Resistance Army/Papuan Freedom Movement] in Gurangi, Puncak Jaya has written to the Indonesian Red Crescent [PMI] [Indonesian Red Cross – JB.] in the Di

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Ezra Sihite – Indonesia's traffic-clogged capital needs a comprehensive mass transit system, not cheaper cars, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo reiterated in a le

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In the midst of a rebellion by rival politicians hoping to foil the presidential bid of Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie, the party's leadership maintains th

Rendi Witular and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta – More than 100 Papuan students, who have been awarded full scholarships to study at top universities on Java, have discovered their places

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government has made another promise to the displaced Shia followers from Sampang in Madura, East Java – that they will be able to safely practice their f

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite being ousted as the Democratic Party's chairman over his involvement in a high-profile corruption scandal, Anas Urbaningrum is conti

Rebecca Lake – Outraged Miss World organizers and human rights activists have condemned the Indonesian government for its lack of support for the event, saying the last-minute decision

Bayu Marhaenjati – Hundreds of members of an organization notorious for its thuggery attacked the Depok District Court in West Java on Tuesday morning, threatening the chairman of the c

Camellia Webb-Gannon – The very unpredictability of politics is the greatest hope for those seeking an independent West Papuan state.

Jakarta – The Medan Military High Court has sentenced Lt. Col.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House Commission III members came out on Monday in support of National Police chief Timur Pradopo's decision to allow female police officers to wear a jilbab,

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Heritage society Sjarikat Poesaka Soerabaja has filed a complaint to the Surabaya municipal administration for allowing the demolition of a Jewish synagogue

Michael Taylor – Indonesia's anti-monopolies regulator has begun an investigation into the country's rapidly growing soybean trade, after a recent spike in domestic prices and a strike

Erwida Maulia & Jonathan Vit – Environmental groups accused Indonesia's second-largest pulp and paper company Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Monday that he was often disturbed by mass rallies that took place in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Police has said it will look into its officers' habits of moonlighting following reports that one of its officers had been working in a side job

Jayapura – The National Committee of West Papua – KNPB – has claimed that 249 members have been arrested by the police across West Papua because they took part in demonstrations to mark

Daniel Drageset – The West Papua Freedom Flotilla has arrived back in Gove in the Northern Territory of Australia, describing their attempt to get the attention of the region's Indonesi

Jakarta – Ricky Avenzora, a forestry expert at the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), has hailed Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan's plan to evaluate cooperations with foreign NGOs.

Jayapura – Dozens of people taking part in peaceful actions organised by the KNPB to mark International Democracy Day were forced to retreat by the security forces who sprayed them with

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has said that it was not able to investigate graft cases involving the Indonesian Military (TNI).

Denpasar, Bali – Several members of the Dvipa Bali Youth Alliance staged a protest outside Bali Police Headquarters here on Monday to denounce the presence of radical organizations in t

Bali, Indonesia – If public graft were a symphony, Djoko Susilo might be its Mozart.

Jakarta – The leadership of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has said that it is not perturbed by the growing popularity of Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

Jakarta – Around 15,000 workers from the Congress Alliance of Indonesian Labor Unions (KASBI) took to the streets across Jakarta on Monday, urging the government to immediately implemen

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – An investigation by the Indonesian Police Watch (IPW) has found that a Papua Police officer paid bribes to 33 police officials, including the Papua Police ch

Ina Parlina, Dili, Timor Leste – Tito Filipe, 30, started as a reporter in Dili, Timor Leste, when he was 21 just after he finished high school.

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Jakarta – The police arrested 19 men on Sunday for allegedly abducting and torturing a coffee seller in Kebon Jeruk, West Jakarta, after she refused to pay them Rp 100,000 (US$8.78) in

Jakarta – Following the official Dutch apology for a series of mass killings carried out by its colonial troops between 1945 and 1949, widows and relatives of those who were summarily e

Hyginus Hardoyo, Boven Digoel, Papua – In Ogenetan, a tiny village located in Iniyandit, one of the more remote districts of Boven Digoel regency in Papua, residents recently donned the

Ahmad Romadoni, Jakarta – The momentum of Car Free Day along the length of Jl.

Australia's incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop said Sunday that the new conservative government would work with Indonesia "where we need to" but it was not seeking permission to imp

Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) chairperson Neta S. Pane said 33 officials of the National Police allegedly received money from Chief Brig.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Democratic Party (PD) has banned its members from joining the Indonesian Movement Association (PPI), a mass organization said to be the new political v

Drivers of Transjakarta buses serving Corridors IX in Pinang Ranti and X in Cililitan, both in East Jakarta, refused to man their buses in protest of bus operator PT Trans Mayapada's de

Jember – Hundreds of members of hard-line group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia in Jember, East Java, on Saturday continued to express their anger at the 63rd Miss World pageant, despite the fa

Jakarta – A survey conducted by the National Commission on Child Protection (KPAI) has found that at least one in 10 Indonesian children decided to smoke after being exposed to tobacco

Indonesia will hold a pageant exclusively for Muslims, The Muslimah World contest, in rivalry to the Miss World beauty contest.

Hundreds of Bali-bound members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) found themselves stuck in Banyuwangi, East Java, on Saturday as female police officers – backed by nearly a

Aruna Kashyap – Calls for "virginity tests" for high school girls emerge regularly in Indonesia, with education officials, politicians and religious leaders proposing tests every few ye

Mikael Niman & Camelia Pasandaran, Bekasi – The Bekasi district court on Thursday sentenced a man who threatened a Batak Protestant Congregation (HKBP) church pastor Palti Panjaitan

Bekasi – Bekasi District Court handed down a suspended sentence to Abdul Azis, who was found guilty of assaulting members of the Toba Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) congregation last ye

National – Two T-50i training fighter jets ordered by the Defense Ministry from the Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) arrived at Iswahyudi Air Force base in Maospati district, Magetan r

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite initial demands for the law to be changed, the House of Representatives looks set on keeping the 2009 Presidential Election Law – including the 20 per

Marni Cordell – West Papuan political leaders who met a boatload of Australian and West Papuan activists across the Indonesian sea border could face interrogation or torture at the hand

Monique Ross – Activists on a flotilla which left Australia last month have completed their mission to present water and ashes to leaders of Indonesia's disputed Papua region.

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – One Freedom Flotilla protest vessel has completed its ceremonial mission, meeting activists from West Papua in secret and under the noses of the Indonesian

A new survey on potential candidates for the 2014 presidential election has once again affirmed Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo's strategic position over Great Indonesia Movement Party fou