Jakarta – A bomb exploded inside the Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West Jakarta late on Sunday, injuring three people and destroying some parts of the site, which was established in 1995 t

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said the perpetrators of Sunday's bombing of Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West Jakarta did not respect the sanctity of the Muslim holy

A Senior Indonesia vice-presidential advisor says the government is serious about protecting human rights in West Papua and Papua provinces.

A platoon of the Indonesian Police Mobile Brigade, or Brimob, has been deployed to Mulia, in Papua province's Puncak Jaya regency, in response to a fatal shooting last week.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Aceh Governor Zaini Abdullah has criticized the action by security forces to forcefully seize hundreds of flags bearing the symbol of the now-disbanded separa

The Timor-Leste (East Timor) Central Bank Friday announced a project to develop a strategic plan to expand the country's financial services with a view to reaching more of its citizens.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Shariah Police in West Aceh said on Sunday that they have arrested total of 35 food vendors in the district for selling meals during Ramadan while other peopl

Jakarta – Hercules Rozario Marhsal, 55, has been the epitome of Jakarta's seedy underbelly since the 1980s, ushered to the top by a meticulous arrangement of military elites.

Bumper to bumper traffic jams were reported on several main roadways outside of Jakarta on Sunday, as nearly five million homebound travelers left the capital for Idul Fitri.

Wildlife conservation activists in Indonesia marked a somber Global Tiger Day earlier this week with dire warnings about the relentless destruction of the last remaining forests that ar

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesia's impressive period of 6-plus percent economic expansion is over, after its economy posted only 5.8 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said it would follow up on the fresh allegations leveled by former House of Representatives budgetary committee

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Three environmentalists in North Sumatra are going to give up their awards in protest against the national government, which they claim has persistently neglect

Ina Parlina and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi is claiming that the Aceh administration has opened negotiations to change its official provincial flag and coat

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Nurdin Hasan – Dozens of plain-clothes security forces moved through the streets of Aceh's Lhokseumawe city early Friday morning, seizing hundreds of flags bearing the symbol of the now

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – For some graft suspects who lived large before being detained by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), spending time behind bars could be excruciati

Luh De Suriyani – Environmental activists staged protests over the planned reclamation of Benoa Bay in front of the governor's office on Wednesday, demanding the governor revoke the con

Jess O'Callaghan – More than decade on from when Timor-Leste gained independence, and six month since troops left the country, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bob Carr has initiated an inqu

Rizky Amelia & Novianti Setuningsih – Antigraft investigators have received a compact disc that allegedly contains evidence former Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng bought

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Members of the House of Representatives Commission I overseeing defense will question Army chief of staff Gen.

Rendi Witular, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry will soon issue a regulation that will eliminate value-added tax (VAT) and income tax for the importation of non-fiction books, a move that

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Health Ministry has revealed that more than 90 percent of people diagnosed with schizophrenia in the country have no access to medical treatment.

Novrida Manurung – Indonesia's inflation accelerated to the highest level in more than four years in July, adding to risks facing Southeast Asia's largest economy as growth cools.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has selected former law and justice minister Patrialis Akbar as a Constitutional Court justice, a move many have said could be

Jose Sarito Amaral, Dili – The East Timor National Parliament urges its government to immediately complete the investigation over the procurement of 77 MP1-V2 firearms from an Indonesia

The Hague, West Papua – The Free West Papua Campaign is to open a new office in the Netherlands.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia will likely see its trade deficit breach a record high of US$5 billion this year, more than double the figure last year, as the bleak export outlook

Banjir Ambarita – An armed civilian group shot at an ambulance carrying a patient in the restive Papua district of Puncak Jaya on Wednesday, killing one and injuring two others.

Alex Rayfield, Yapen – In dramatic scenes outside a remote West Papuan prison, local community leaders on Monday forced the Indonesian police to release to two independence activists ja

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A group of 14 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has signed an online petition urging a drug manufacturer to offer Hepatitis C drugs at lower prices.

Novianti Setuningsih – The recent arrest of a lawyer for allegedly bribing a Supreme Court official has sparked a debate between those who say the case is just the tip of the iceberg, a

Jayapura – Five Papuan Freedom activists were arrested while taking part in a demonstration on 29 July, in support of the discussion on Self-Determination for the people of West Papua w

The State Palace on Monday lashed out at foreign governments that allegedly spied on Indonesian leaders, saying the practice was unethical.

Jayapura – The Second Secretary for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Jakarta, James P.

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Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta District Court on Monday sent four defendants involved in an attack against an Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) member,

Karon Snowdon – East Timor's foreign minister says a boatload of asylum seekers en route to Australia was not forcibly pushed away from his country in early July.

Jakarta – "I don't want my friends to turn away from me when I tell them who I am," said 13-year-old Ardan, not his real name, on Saturday during a story-telling event at the Jakarta Le

Program Coordinator of the Timor-Leste Coalition for Education (TLCE) Matias dos Santos said many Timorese students are studying illegally in Indonesia.

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Amir Tedjo, Surabaya – The death of a drug suspect during an allegedly brutal interrogation by Sawahan Police on April 1 has cast a light on what human rights groups call the widespread

Timorese National Police (PNTL) Deputy Commander, Afonso de Jesus, has acknowledged that the police force has failed in its conflict prevention plans and this has left the impression th

Jakarta – Gen. (ret) Djoko Santoso claims he has told Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm. Agus Suhartono that he wants to run for president in the 2014 election.

Ezequiel Freitas, TDW – Survivors from 1975 continue to complain about injustice, so they've called on the government to accelerate the process of establishing an international court to

Carlos Paath – Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie said he is considering asking the Democratic Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle to form a coalition with his party in t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In the latest scandal exposing the corruption that plagues the judiciary, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Friday detained and charged a low-ranking

Arientha Primanita – Sampang's persecuted Shiite Muslim minority, fearful of another round of forced conversions by Sunni Muslims, called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to ensure

Jakarta – Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya's remark made on July 17 that he would not publish the concession had sparked criticism from environment activists.