Jakarta – The Institute for the Free Flow of Information (ISAI) announced on Tuesday that Aceh is the least likely province to allow press freedom and the most dangerous for journalists

Ezra Sihite – Military chief of staff Agus Suhartono has sought to downplay Papuan separatist Benny Wenda's activities overseas, saying he is not worried because the firebrand activist

A police emergency response unit found four bodies and rescued 10 workers trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold's Grasberg complex in Tembagapura, Papua, o

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police in Papua have made a shocking revelation linking bank transactions totaling Rp 1.5 trillion ($154 million) to a low-ranking police officer suspected o

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A number of former lawmakers, including those convicted of graft and serving out their sentences, are apparently still receiving their salaries, a member of t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – When the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned lingerie model Vitalia Sesha last week, many expected she would be the last woman connected to the high

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East Timor's Oil Fund grew by US$1.2 billion in the first quarter of the year to US$13 billion at the end of March, said the East Timor Central Bank in Dili Monday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Marzuki Alie, the speaker of the House of Representatives, has urged the Foreign Ministry to take a stronger stand against domestic separatist groups operatin

Jayapura – The Jayapura City Police detained West Papua National Committee (KNPB) leader Viktor Weimo during a rally in Jayapura on Monday.

Michael Bachelard – West Papuan independence movement leader Victor Yeimo was detained and allegedly beaten by police on Monday as another prominent Indonesian national politician warne

Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi and local Islamic leaders will petition President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to institute a nationwide ban on the oppressed Ahmadiyah Muslim sect.

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Wiji Thukul disappeared 15 years ago this month, along with many others lost in the upheaval of the student-led protests that forced Suharto out of power.

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Is Mujiarso, Jakarta – Even when he was a political fugitive, Wiji Thukul could still joke.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Graft watchdogs and environmental groups have warned about increasing levels of graft in the forestry sector ahead of the 2014 election.

Jakarta – The head of research and development at the Education and Culture Ministry, Khairil Anwar Notodiputro, has resigned from his position, a move which many view as a face-saving

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – The Ahmadiyah community in Manislor village, Jalaksana district, Kuningan regency, West Java, are going about their business as usual and remaining calm despite

Bagus BT Saragh, Jakarta – Following a two-day high level meeting, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has devised a strategy to strike back against the Corruption Eradication Commission

Endy Bayuni, Jakarta – Corruption scandals may be hurting every major political party in Indonesia, but when such allegations hit the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), they have the poten

Indonesian police in Jayapura have this morning violently dispersed a pro-independence rally being held by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), arresting its leader Victor Yeimo, m

Jakarta – Australian academics and researchers have raised concerns, in a letter sent to Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, about a recent fatal shooting in Sorong, Papua.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A Papuan, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, was killed after a soldier in Wamena, Papua, opened fire to defend himself after being chased by a gro

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Legislative Council (DPRA) is mulling a Shariah bylaw that would mandate tougher sentences for convicted rapists than those doled out under the Indon

It was not as heroic as the country's Independence Day of Aug. 17, 1945, nor as dramatic and horrific as the Sept.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which prides itself as being an ostensibly antigraft party, continues to resist attempts by the Corruption

Dozens of members of the Tangjungduren Islamic People's Association raided two minimarts in Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta, on Friday for selling alcoholic beverages.

Michael Bachelard – Newborn babies are being traded on a lucrative black market in Indonesia that could involve hundreds of children a year, some going illegally to parents offshore.

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Michael Bachelard – West Papua marked its 50-year anniversary under Indonesian rule last week and three events amply reminded us why it is a festering sore within the country and a seri

Oyos Saroso H.N., Jakarta/Bandar Lampung – The arrest of more than a dozen terror suspects in a series of raids conducted by the National Police's antiterror squad, Densus 88, in four p

Dessy Sagita – Though Indonesia has made significant progress in saving the lives of newborns over the past two decades, the country has been struggling to rescue mothers during childbi

Tito Summa Siahaan – As consumers await a rise in the subsidized fuel price next month, the national government on Friday announced limits in the size of daily purchases in a move seen

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – Indonesia's labor system opens the door to worker exploitation and slavery, as evidenced by a recent case in Tangerang that has gripped the n

The critically endangered Sumatran tiger could soon be extinct in the province of Jambi because of the rapid loss of its forest habitat, conservationists warn.

Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must show that he deserves an award for upholding religious freedom by doing more for victims of persecution in his own country, rights

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of minority groups, who have long suffered persecution, are calling on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to end their plight before accepting an awar

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Displaced Shia followers from Karanggayam and Bluuran villages in Sampang, Madura regency, have demanded East Java Governor Timur Soekarwo protect their rig

ID/Aris Cahyadi – Ahmad Fathanah, a suspect in the beef import quota scandal, seems to have been involved with a number of women who were receiving money and gifts.

Jayapura – Amnesty International has urged Indonesia to probe the deaths of three Papua independence activists who were gunned down as they protested 50 years of Jakarta's control over

Jamie Small – A prominent West Papuan journalist and activist has visited New Zealand to gather support for West Papua's inclusion in the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) while an Indon

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry says it will further reduce the number of schools slated to introduce its new curriculum this year.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Palm oil planters have denounced a two-year forest-clearing moratorium that ends this month, saying it has throttled palm oil production and are u

In his work Indonesia's Accountability Trap: Party Cartels and Presidential Power after Democratic Transition, Dan Slater, an observer of Indonesian politics at the University of Chicag

Adi Marsiela, Bandung, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit went on a busy 24-hour spree to root out suspected Islamic militants, killing seven and arresting six others in

Ali Akhmad, Jakarta – As many as 29 women's community groups from the Indonesian Women's Action Committee (KAPI) commemorated 20 years since the murder of Marsinah by holding a candleli

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesian media need to work together to ensure that religious extremists don't have a voice in print, the International Association of Religion Journalists said o

Makassar – Two journalists have been attacked by a motorcycle gang in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in an incident that is likely to draw further attention to the unsafe conditions journali

Farouk Arnaz & Vento Saudale – West Java's persecuted Ahmadiyah Muslim sect suffered another blow on Tuesday as Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers shuttered a mosque in Depok