Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index stood at a record 400 at 11 a.m., a level deemed hazardous, the National Environment Agency, or NEA, said on its website.

The leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group have signed off on a communique at the end of their meeting, raising issues of alleged human rights abuses in the Indonesian Province of We

Efforts to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the Indonesian provinces of Papua, which has among the country's highest rates of infection, and West Papua are making steady though slow progr

Hipolitus Yolisandy Ringgi Wangge & Agustinus Kambuaya – The Free Papua Movement (Organisasi Papua Merdeka or OPM) has opened an office in the city of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Jakarta – Timor Leste President Taur Matan Ruak is scheduled to meet Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the State Palace in Jakarta on Friday afternoon.

Godwin Ligo – Oceania Decolonization Committee (ODC) president Shem Rarua said Vanuatu leaders compromising the nation's stand on West Papua with the rest of the Melanesian Spearhead Gr

Dessy Sagita & Ezra Sihite – The head of Indonesia's largest labor union promised strikes that could paralyze the country as thousands of workers walked out on Friday and police pre

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – A legislator and workers' rights activist has highlighted what she says is a massive scam facilitated by the Manpower Ministry to fleece mill

Indonesia on Thursday accused Singapore of "behaving like a child" by complaining about severe haze from raging forest fires on Sumatra island that has cloaked the city-state.

Bagus BT Saragih and Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Pekanbaru – Amid criticism from its neighbors, Malaysia and Singapore, over the cross-border haze and deteriorating air quality affecting the

Yeremia Sukoyo – The Attorney General's Office has been urged to take a hard line on corruption suspects by issuing travel bans and detaining them during investigations.

Noumea, New Caledonia – Another group has emerged claiming to legitimately represent the people of West Papua are lobbying for recognition at the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Leader

The House of Representatives is expected to pass the draft revision to the 1985 Mass Organizations Law next week, as all factions in the House have reportedly reached compromise on seve

Camelia Pasandaran & Arientha Primanita – A fatal mob attack on a community in East Java that displaced 160 Shiite Muslims took another turn today when authorities began their forci

Farouk Arnaz – Papua Police have named another two suspects over the burning down of a police station in the east of the restive province, bringing the total to eight suspects, police s

Jakarta – Belu Deputy Regent Lodovikus Taolin said that Indonesia and Timor Leste would work to uphold law enforcement along the border of the two countries in Belu regency.

The Timor-Leste Defence Force Chief, Major General Lere Anan Timur, has called on the defence and security institutions in the country to obey by the country's rule of law following a s

The State Secretary for Professional Training and Employment (SEFOPE), Elidio Ximenes said the country's law banned children from working and said they had rights to get access to educa

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – A group of female activists voiced their rejection on Wednesday of the planned fuel-price hike, which they said would put more burden on low-income women work

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) released on Wednesday a report on its inquiry into the execution-style killing of detainees in Cebongan Penit

Ethan Harfenist – The national human rights body has called on judges in the court martial of 12 soldiers charged with the summary execution of four men in police custody to ensure tran

George Roberts, Indonesia – Indonesia's Human Rights Commission is under fire from supporters of 12 soldiers who stormed a prison and executed 4 suspects.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has invited foreign ministers from Melanesian nations grouped under the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to Jakarta to receive brie

A man in Indonesia's Papua province says he is currently on the run from the military after witnessing a massacre of Papuans reported last month.

Rizal Harahap – Singapore's worst air pollution in 16 years sparked diplomatic tension on Tuesday, as the city state urged Indonesia to provide data on companies and concession maps to

Farouk Arnaz – Police in Papua have arrested 14 people following Sunday's attack on a police district headquarters in Pegunungan Bintang, a police official said on Wednesday.

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Banjir Ambarita – Dozens of people vandalized Freeport facilities and looted ore concentrate at the copper and gold giant's mining district in Mimika, Papua, on Sunday.

It has been recommended that a bid by the Free West Papua movement to join regional Pacific body the Melanesian Spearhead Group to been deferred by at least six months.

Criticism has mounted over the government's lack of discussion regarding the Rp 155 billion ($15.7 million) fund allocation in the 2013 state budget for the management of the Sidoarjo m

Carlos Paath – The Mimika Regency government in Papua has asked the central government to push forward talks with Freeport Indonesia in order to speed up the reopening of the company's

Batam – Timor Leste's former prime minister Mari Alkatiri, who is now the country's economic attache, visited the Batam Free Trade Zone Management Agency (BPK FTZ) on Monday to study th

SP/Hotman Siregar – A group supporting Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's presidential candidacy has officially set itself up as a formal organization, one of its executives said o

Jakarta – Thousands of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) members launch a long march to the State Palace in Jakarta to protest against the recent subsidized-fuel price hik

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The brouhaha over the National Police's ban on the hijab (headscarf) is about to get political with the House of Representatives' Commission III on human rig

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A team of psychologists examining 42 witnesses in the attack that took place in Cebongan Penitentiary, Sleman, Yogyakarta, said 10 witnesses would require

Tito Summa Siahaan – Economists and business leaders have urged the government to treat the decision to reduce fuel subsidies only as a first step in a pricing reform project, saying th

Jakarta – The Sunni majority in Sampang, Madura, East Java, had no problem welcoming the return of ostracized Shia community members; the main issue that bars them from returning to the

Jakarta – The US Department of State's 2012 Report on International Religious Freedom has revealed that the Indonesian government has failed to properly address the banning and assault

Indonesia's political parties are hardly paragons of consistency, but the sheer number of flip-flops in the past week, culminating in Monday's grueling debate and vote over raising the

The notorious former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin is maintaining his power and influence despite being locked up in jail on charges of corruption.

Bayu Marhaenjati – Jakarta Police have arrested 88 people after forcibly breaking up a protest against Monday night's fuel-price vote at the House of Representatives building, police sa

Jakarta – Some rallies against the proposed fuel-price hike staged across the archipelago on Monday were tainted by violence.

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesia's Parliament voted to approve a budget package on Monday that lays the groundwork for the slashing of government fuel subsidies, as police fired tear

A number of protesters and police officers, as well as two journalists, were reportedly injured as rallies against the proposed fuel price hike turned violent on Monday in the North Mal

Bayu Marhaenjati & SP/Bernadus Wijayaka – Jakarta Police shut down access to the Jakata-Tangerang toll road Monday morning as labor unions attempted to flood the capital in protest

Jakarta – The Indonesian government received an award from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) presented to recognize its consistent work in reducing hunger and malnourishm

Batam – An expert on Saturday accused the government of not being serious about increasing export growth from non-oil and gas products, as indicated in the continuous decline of the val