Palmerah – The number of farming households over the last 10 years has declined by 5.04 million. Over the same period, the number of agribusinesses has grown by 1,475 companies.

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Farouk Arnaz & Made Arya Kencana – Islamic hard-liners intensified their protests against this year's Miss World beauty pageant on Tuesday as contestants started to arrive in Bali f

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Carlos Paath – The country's main opposition party has given its strongest indication yet that it may nominate Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo as its preside

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Following the disclosure that a close friend of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, identified as Sengman Tjahja, could have played a ro

Phelim Kine – My preparation for a news conference in February launching a Human Rights Watch report on Indonesia's rising religious intolerance included an emergency escape drill.

Novianti Setuningsih & Carla Isati Octama – By making proactive use of money laundering and anti-corruption laws, Indonesia's graftbusters are managing to snare a greater number of

Yeremia Sukoyo – The new chief of staff of the Indonesian Army has made a strong commitment to ensure a smooth and peaceful national election next year.

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court sentenced Insp. Gen.

The Timorese government is creating protected areas in the waters of the Coral Triangle, called "no-take zones," where fishing is prohibited.

[Shirley Shackleton was on board the Lusitania when it sailed to East Timor in 1992 to protest the Indonesian occupation.

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Raras Cahyafitri and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Several manufacturers are considering delaying the importing of their raw materials while others are having to increase the prices of thei

The former Prime Minister of East-Timor, Mari Alkatiri, has visited Macau in the hope of attracting investment for the special zones project under development in his country.

Bali's mystically beautiful rice fields, watered by an intricate, centuries-old subak irrigation system, are near collapse as farmers sell their properties to developers for villas and

Jakarta – Recent research conducted by The Habibie Center has revealed that violence has occurred during direct regional administrative elections in most provinces and regencies in nine

Carlos Paath – Election fever has gripped the political establishment as parties busy themselves with finding presidential candidates – but the bug has conspicuously not spread to the n

Jakarta – A lawmaker has blasted a proposal to change the name of one of the capital city's main thoroughfares, Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat, to Jl.

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Despite mounting calls by state officials and mass organizations for the upcoming Miss World beauty pageant to be canceled, Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pas

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The country's more assertive role in the regional and global arena, on top of its rich natural resources, have turned the country into a magnet for foreign e

Worshipers from displaced church congregations took their anger to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's door on Sunday, calling for him to take a leaf out of Jakarta Governor Joko Widod

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Calls are mounting for antigraft investigators not to cease in expanding their probe into a corruption scandal that a witness claims reaches as high as the na

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A Palembang businessman who is said to have played a key role in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's political career and who has now been dragged into a

Banjir Ambarita & Farouk Arnaz, Jayapura/Jakarta – A clash between security personnel and armed separatists in Papua on Saturday led to the death of an Indonesian Military (TNI) sol

Made Arya Kencana – Several academics, doctors and nongovernmental organization activists gathered in Bali on Sunday to petition the government to halt the World Tobacco Asia Forum, sla

As the flag of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste was hoisted at 5:00am on the 20th of August in a ceremony in Betano, the official state celebrations of the 38th Anniversary of FAL

Paulina Quintao – The participants of the fourth National Women's Congress identified nine priority issues for the government to work on.

Fransisca Ria Susan, Jakarta – The kidnappings, forced disappearances and killing of more than 1 million Indonesians between 1965-1967 were not a tragedy, because they did not occur as

Jakarta – The long fight to uncover and moreover reconcile the 1965-66 affair is slowly starting to show results.

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is being called on to ratify the International Convention on Enforced Disappearance of Persons.

Jakarta – Jama'ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) has become the latest hard-line Islamic organization to condemn the 2013 Miss World pageant, which is to take place in Bali from Sept.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A plan to name a main thoroughfare in the heart of Jakarta after former President Suharto has drawn both support and muted criticism, with Jakarta Governor Jo

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Bali Police, with support from the military and pecalang (Balinese traditional security guards), said it would ensure the Miss World pageant in Bali in Sep

National – House of Representatives Commission X member Reni Marlinawatin said the Miss World pageant, set to take place in Bali in September, would encourage sexual harassment against

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Novianti Setuningsi – A man said to be a close aide to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been implicated in the beef quota corruption case, suggestin

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The fight against corruption has come up against yet another hurdle with the Supreme Court admitting it struggles to recruit quality judges for corruption cases.

The number of cases involving teachers resorting to violence when punishing errant students indicates a lack of awareness of the impact of such action on students' psyche, and is ground

Jakarta – In a move that has surprised many, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has named the Indonesian Military (TNI) as press enemy number one this year.

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Workers Forum on Friday urged the central government to cancel the presidential instruction (Inpres) that regulates wage rises, saying that i

Jakarta – Intelligence, military and high-ranking police figures, both retired and active, have gathered at Hotel Borobudur in Lapangan Banteng, Central Jakarta.

In a rare show of unity, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has joined the National Commission on Violence Against Women in the chorus condemning the proposed mandatory virginit

Jakarta – The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions (KSPI) and several other labour associations have emphatically rejected the issuance of a presidential instruction (Inpres) on lim

inda Yulisman/Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as part of the government's efforts to avert further massive layoffs amid the current economic slowdown, si

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Ridwan Hakim, son of Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chief patron Hilmi Aminuddin, thumbed his nose at the Jakarta Corruption Court on Thursday and refused

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono officially inaugurated Gen. Moeldoko and Lt. Gen.

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National – The House of Representatives celebrated on Thursday its 68th anniversary with a dismal legislative record and poor attendance by its members.

Indonesia's religious affairs minister has called for the Miss World beauty pageant to be cancelled, as opposition in the Muslim-majority country mounts the week before the contest open

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Residents of the Karang Anyar village in Langsa denied reports that a drunken mob had beaten Shariah police as they tried to disperse a live music performance

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) urged leaders of the country's law enforcement agencies to improve coordination, especially when dealing with graft