Sherr Rinn – During July and August, the Indonesian government firmed up its resistance to any further large increases in the minimum wage.

An activist from the Indonesian province of West Papua says Indonesia is lying and not honouring its promise to the leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group.

Jakarta – The new head of Lenteng Agung subdistrict in South Jakarta, Susan Jasmine Zulkifli, 43, whose replacement on sectarian grounds was demanded on Monday, has won the support of m

Farouk Arnaz & Shesar Andriawan – Thousands of members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) paraded through the streets of Jakarta on Sunday in commemoration of the group'

Indonesia's top Islamic authority lashed out Friday at the country's decision to host the Miss World beauty pageant next month, saying that women exposing their bodies went against Musl

The country's far-right religious authority, Indonesian Ulema Council, is voicing their support for Rizieq Syihab, chief of the Islamic Defenders Front as a possible candidate in the up

Brian Robins – Woodside's decision to opt for an offshore solution to develop the Browse Basin gasfield off north-west of Australia threatens to delay further any prospective developmen

Despite claims published by Indonesian website merdeka.com that the Freedom Flotilla is not proceeding, Freedom Flotilla co-founders, Jacob Rumbiak, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Izzy Brown

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The package of economic measures announced by the government on Friday to overcome the growing current account deficit and avert further economic slowdown woul

Jason MacLeod – Tineke Rumkabu handed me a bright yellow piece of A4 paper, double-sided, and folded in half.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) said on Friday it would investigate the controversial Supreme Court ruling that exonerated a high-profile graft fugitive after it rec

Nadia Bulkin – The Act of Killing, a new documentary on Indonesia's anti-Communist mass killings, is making the rounds globally and earning praise for its innovative cinematography.

Jakarta – Three wives of imprisoned terror suspects filed a report on Friday with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) claiming they were sexually harassed by police whi

Bekasi – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) held its 3rd National Conference (Munas) at the Wisma Haji building in Bekasi, West Java, between Thursday and Saturday, August 22-24.

Daniel Drageset, Auckland – Aboriginal elder Kevin Buzzacott, who is on board the West Papua Freedom Flotilla, says media attention is "very important" in order to "expose what's happen

Jayapura – The second Deputy Chairperson of the MRP, Engelberta has urged leading politicians in Papua to show respect for indigenous Papuans in their ability to become heads of local a

Jakarta – All police units in Papua have been warned of a possible unauthorized visit by foreign ships carrying activists campaigning for a free Papua.

Rights groups have lashed out at the government for not doing enough to end discrimination against women, warning that women and girls face a continued risk of rights abuses and questio

Jakarta – As of mid-August this year the number of discriminative regulations has risen two-fold, from 154 in 2009 to 342.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is becoming increasingly polarized over the nomination of chairman Aburizal Bakrie as the party's presidential candidate in the 2014 electio

Phelim Kine – It's degrading, discriminatory, not to mention junk science – so why does the notion of "virginity tests" keep rearing its ugly head?

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – Agriculture Minister Suswono has admitted that he discussed Indonesia's beef shortages with the former Prosperous Justice Party chairman early this year in Med

Wahyu Sudoyo & Tito Summa Siahaan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono plans to revise the negative list of investment among other policies he promises to reveal on Friday, in a mov

Loro Horta – Following the July 2012 elections Timor-Leste formed one of the largest governments in the region made up of 57 cabinet members.

Farouk Arnaz & Camelia Pasandaran – A hard-line Islamic group notorious for its violent raids and vigilantism has filed a complaint with the Press Council against a slew of national

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Army chief of staff Gen.

Observers claim that the fairness of an ongoing court martial of a group of elite soldiers who gunned down four detainees in a police jail in Yogyakarta in March is being compromised by

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – A reduction in land devoted to agricultural use is to blame for Indonesia's increasing imports of staple foods and other products, a presidential

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta administration says it will not bow to pressure from a group of South Jakarta residents requesting the dismissal of their local ward chief for being a

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – An official with a municipal religious affairs agency has been arrested for possession of methamphetamine, police in East Kalimantan revealed on Wednesday.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Activists are demanding the police solve the 17-year-old case of murdered Yogyakarta journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin, widely known as Udin, before it mu

Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono has ordered Education Minister Mohammad Nuh to strongly reject and stop South Sumatra's Prabumulih education board head from car

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism squad arrested eight more suspected militants, including a former convicted terrorist, in connection with a plot to bomb the Burma

Supplying electricity to the whole of Timor-Leste (East Timor) was almost achieved Tuesday with the inauguration of the Betano power plant, some 90 kilometres south of Dili, said the Ti

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The Surabaya city administration's plan to close down the Klakah Rejo red light district in the western suburbs has raised concerns among social activists who have

David Wroe and Paddy Doulman – Indonesia still faces significant terrorism threats despite the dismantling of major Jihadist networks after the Bali bombings, a top expert says.

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Jakarta – A coalition of education-focused NGOs have strongly rejected a plan by the Prabumulih municipality administration in South Sumatra to conduct virginity tests on female student

Ansyor Idrus and Margareth Aritonang, Palembang/Jakarta – A plan to conduct virginity tests on female students entering high school in the town of Prabumulih, South Sumatra, has drawn c

Bagus BT Saragih and Nethy Dharma Somba, Jakarta, Jayapura – Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Tuesday he believed authorities in Papua New Guinea (PNG) would take decisive meas

Jakarta – The Australian government does not have the authority to stop its citizen from sailing out of Australian ports as long as it is legal.

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Several elementary school students in Denpasar were left suffering the pain and trauma of a tear gas attack on Monday after getting caught up in an evictio

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Aris Cahyadi – Legislators vetting Gen.

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Camelia Pasandaran – A plan by the Education Agency of Prabumulih, South Sumatra, to include virginity tests as part of its high school admission requirements has drawn the ire of legis

Security sectory monitoring NGO, Fundasaun Mahein says that "the recent increase in violence and crime in Timor-Leste reflects a growing effort by organized crime to recruit Timorese fo

Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika has revoked a controversial decree that granted a license to a private company to develop Benoa Bay into a tourism facility.

Phelim Kine – In early June, the Indonesian government erected a 16-foot gleaming white statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, on Washington's Embassy Row.

Alsadad Rudi, Jakarta – The Cross-Factory Labour Forum (FBLP) disputes the claim that four South Korean companies have left Jakarta.

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