A new survey on the popularity and electability of political parties in the country showed that more and more people were losing faith in Islamic parties.

Ezequiel Freitas – Member of National Parliament Mateus de Jesus says the $115 minimum salary for workers is not enough to cover basic necessities, as the price of goods continues to ri

Anushka Shahjahan – Indonesian men were among the most likely to admit to rape – up to 16.6 percent in some places – according to a UN study of six Asian countries published in the Lanc

Bastiaan Scherpen – Almost 67 years after thousands of Indonesian men were summarily executed in South Sulawesi as part of a ruthless campaign to crush a rebellion against Dutch colonia

Venidora Oliveira – The General Commander of the PNTL threatened to dismiss any police officers still involved in martial arts groups.

An Australian boat carrying pro-independence activists to Indonesian Papua will be turned around, the head of the military in the province's port city of Merauke says.

Eni plans to spend up to $230 million on offshore drilling in the Timor Sea over the next 18 months, according to the managing director of its Australian division.

The flotilla making its way from Australia towards Papua is expected to cross Indonesia's marine border today.

The fallout over pointed questions about the government's inability to tackle illegal logging in a protected forest has continued with a legislator calling for the banishment of a leadi

Anushka Shahjahan – Successful economic development in recent years has failed to lift the livelihoods of children in Indonesia, participants in a conference in Jakarta agreed on Tuesda

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka, Malang – Demand for underage domestic workers is high in Malang, East Java because they can be paid less than adults, and employers do not fear getting caught.

Rizky Amelia – The country's antigraft body has urged the leadership of the House of Representatives to keep a close eye on the legislative process, saying that it was highly vulnerable

Jakarta – Environmental activists have submitted a class-action lawsuit against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the claim he has failed to protect people in Riau province from t

Jakarta – Journalists from Indonesia and Timor Leste are expected to help forge partnership between the former foes, according to a bilateral dialogue.

Ezequiel Freitas – The US Ambassador to Timor-Leste Judith R. Fergin says there is a big risk of organized crime, money laundering and financial terrorism in Timor-Leste.

Anushka Shahjahan – The national government has been tackling child poverty and improving social protection for citizens via several programs, but progress is hampered without the full

Joe Magarey – Activists of the "Freedom Flotilla" left Thursday Island yesterday bound for disputed waters off West Papua and a probable ocean confrontation with Indonesian forces, defy

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Anti-Corruption Study Center (PUKAT) at Gadjah Mada University revealed on Monday that Indonesia has lost Rp 3.3 trillion (US$289.88 million) due to c

Jakarta – Deputy National Police chief Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – The Civil Society Coalition for Security Sector Reform (KMSRSK) is calling for reform to military justice to be accelerated.

James Balowski – Human rights groups have condemned a US government decision to go ahead with the sale of eight Apache attack helicopters to Indonesia, saying they are offensive weapons

SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Dyah Ayu Pitaloka – The government's poor management of commodities has caused loopholes that have resulted in the creation of cartels among several groups

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Business groups have demanded the government to put local interests as their top priority when it revises the negative investment list (DNI) by giving them amp

Indonesia's forestry minister has accused Hollywood star Harrison Ford of subjecting him to a rude interview on climate change that left him "shocked", an official said.

Tony Abbott has backed away from his pledge to visit Indonesia in his first week in office, but the promise stands to make it his first overseas destination as prime minister.

Jakarta – The Health Minister will reevaluate its policy of requiring high school students to record the shape and size of their genitalia for their health status reports following a pu

Rebecca Lake, Nusa Dua, Bali – Indonesian delegates have come away with new approaches to women's economic empowerment after first-day discussions at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperati

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Two top Democratic Party (PD) executives declared their support for former Indonesian Army chief Gen.

Jakarta – A survey has shown that First Lady Ani Yudhoyono tops the list of the most untrustworthy potential candidates in the 2014 presidential election.

Bagus BT Saragih and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Despite a groundswell of support for popular Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi' Widodo, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) thr

Indonesia's agriculture industry has seen growing productivity over the past decade despite a decline in the number of workers, a national census shows, but the industry remains far beh

Michael Bachelard – The "Freedom Flotilla" of Australian protesters set sail from far north Queensland on Monday bound for the province of West Papua, where the Indonesian military stan

The jailed leader of the self-proclaimed republic of West Papua Fokorus Yaboisembut has written to the Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott to congratulate him and seek support.

On Election Day, West Papuan activists spread a message of hope and freedom in Melbourne to raise awareness of the Freedom Flotilla, writes Jenny Denton.

Bali – The 63rd edition of the Miss World pageant opened Sunday after protests by Muslim hardliners confined the event to Indonesia's predominantly Hindu resort island of Bali.

Jakarta – The Alliance to Save the Indonesian Embassy in Germany has criticized the government for proposing former Jakarta governor Fauzi Bowo as the new envoy to Germany, Europe's lar

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The cult of personality surrounding Megawati Soekarnoputri and making her the most powerful figure in the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) is gradu

Desy Nurhayati, Nusa Dua – Increasing protest from hard-line groups over the 2013 Miss World beauty pageant – which is slated to be held in Bali and Sentul in West Java from Sept.

Today in Papua New Guineas capital, the Melanesian Unified Front for West Papuan Self-Determination, or WUF, is to host a public forum on the West Papuan bid for membership in the Melan

Indonesia – A bomb exploded at the offices of local tabloid Modus in Banda Aceh on Saturday morning, but no injuries have been reported.

Dessy Sagita – It has been nine years since Munir Said Thalib was silenced by arsenic poisoning as he sat on a Garuda Indonesia flight, but justice for the murdered political activist c

Jakarta – The Health Ministry is supporting the move by local administrations – including Sabang city in Aceh – to make it a requirement for high school students to record the shape and

Paulina Quintao – Only 49 of the 288 sexual abuse cases involving children registered with the organization Legal Assistance for Women and Children (AlFeLa) have been resolved with a fi

Paulina Quintao – The United Nations Population Fund recommends the Timor-Leste government should create a new law or strengthen existing laws that set the age people can get married.

Hardline Islamists in Indonesia have burnt effigies of Miss World beauty pageant organisers and branded them "infidels" during an angry protest ahead of Sunday's show.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan/Jakarta – It is not only plantations but also oil and gas companies that threaten to turn parts of Papua into an industrial wasteland.

Dessy Sagita – The special forces sergeant who drove his Kopassus colleagues to Cebongan prison to execute four inmates was told by a military tribunal today that assisting in multiple

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – We who are concerned about the state of religious freedom in the country are likely enduring what the character Gil Pender suffers from in Woody Allen's Midnight

Marcel Thee – The term "a military general's son," up until a few months ago, had little meaning beyond a literal, perfunctory status.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Due to the recent trend of capital outflow, Indonesia was particularly vulnerable to financial stress, economists have said.