Imran MA, Lhokseumawe – Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers and Sharia police (Wilayatul Hisbah) began conducted raids on motorcycle riders on the main roads of Lhokseumawe city in

Syarifah Nur Haida, Jakarta – Commissioners from the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) were startled when during a break in a Komnas HAM press conference on the Cebongan pri

Dessy Sagita – A coalition of parents, educators and activists have urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to drop the new school curriculum, scheduled to roll out in July, as they be

As Friday prayers begin today, we might ask if all Indonesians truly enjoy the equal right to worship.

Margareth S.

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The early marriage rate has reportedly been increasing from year-to-year in some East Java regencies, raising concerns from local administrations that a bab

Abdul Qowi Bastian – The most troubling issue Jakarta faces is the enormous social disparity between the haves and the have-nots, Governor Joko Widodo said on Thursday.

Camelia Pasandaran – The Bekasi administration says they will only open the sealed Ahmadiyah mosque in Pondok Gede if the congregation agrees to let the local government select an Imam

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of religious freedom activists, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights activists, and human rights and judiciary watchdogs has rejected

Yeremia Sukoyo & Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will not rein in his cabinet members' legislative ambitions, after a media report indicated that up to 10 ministers

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The new lineup of the Democratic Party's central board is expected to be filled with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's loyalists, while his son, Edhie "Ib

Paul Toohey – Three months before Indonesia invaded East Timor in December 1975, Gough Whitlam dismissed an Indonesian proposal to send a joint international military force to restore p

The Army has officially announced that 11 commandos from the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Group 2 based in Kartasura, Central Java, were the perpetrators behind the raid on Cebongan

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – As the 11 members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) accused of brutally killing four men inside Cebongan Penitentiary in Sleman, Y

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – A deadlock between political factions at the House of Representatives over a plan to amend Law No.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A tax official in Central Jakarta has been charged with extortion for demanding bribe money from a businessman who claimed to have paid his taxes.

Linda Yulisman and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Vice President Boediono has promised that the government will work extra hard to maintain political stability ahead of the general elect

Margareth S.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – It may be too late for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to bolster his public image by joining Twitter, but netizens will nevertheless soon be able to i

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A new survey showed that the country's courts remain mired in corruption, in spite of efforts to improve the welfare of its officials.

Efforts to protect children in Indonesia from abuse are obstructed by barriers to crime reporting, which may worsen with the threatened closure of police-run units that handle crimes ag

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Sixty-one residents of Samenage hamlet in Helenga district, Yahukimo, Papua, are reported to have died between January and March this year due to a variet

Robert Isidorus, Jayapura – Sixty-one people have reportedly died in the past three months in the Samenage district of Yahukimo, Papua, due to the lack of health-care facilities.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A report released on Wednesday brings to light secret documents claimed to be evidence that some of the country's richest people and top firms use tax havens

Nurdin Hasan – A plan to draft a bylaw on how Islamic men and women in Aceh's Bireuen District should dress as Muslims is a wasteful effort that nobody needs, activists say.

Five years ago, property agent Daisul Akhyar took 20 minutes to drive to work in Pekanbaru, capital of Indonesia's Riau province.

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – The Central Java Police have started intensifying raids on preman (local term for thugs), through all the police precincts in its jurisdiction but deny that the

The National Director for Social Assistance said the government doesn't have plans to build more shelter homes for victims of gender based violence but will continue to give financial s

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – A top general removed from his post after commenting on the Sleman prison massacre says that he respects the integrity of the 11 commandos arrested in the incid

Paul Toohey – Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser was anxious to assure Jakarta that the matter of East Timor was closed as far as Australia was concerned, less than a year after Indonesia in

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers plan to bring a bill on mass organizations before a plenary session this week, despite concerns from Muslim and human rights groups.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) chief Adm.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – As if recovering from rape or molestation was not enough, teenage survivors of sexual abuse in Jakarta are saying that they have to fight for the right to con

East Timor is the second of only two countries in Asia that in 2013 and 2014 are expected to post economic growth of two figures, with 10 percent growth in both years, according to the

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Bayu Marhaenjati – Thousands of workers on Wednesday marched together in Jakarta to protest against low wages and to demand that the government implement heal

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Bireuen Legislative Council in Aceh are preparing a draft bylaw on how Islamic men and women in the district should dress as Muslims.

The chief patron of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), Taufiq Kiemas, said there was a possibility that his party could join in a coalition with the ruling Democratic

Palu, Central Sulawesi – No pregnant students are allowed to sit for national examination even though they have been registered, a local education official said.

Health Minister Nafsiah Mboi has called Indonesia's family planning program a failure for its inability to control the country's fertility rate.

Oei Eng Goan – When law enforcement agencies fail to guarantee public safety and security and the judicial process does not work accordingly, it is certain that people will take the law

Margareth S.

Human rights activists have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to issue a special regulation allowing 11 members of the Army to be tried in a public court for their alleged ex

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives is set to send another delegation off on an overseas study trip, this time to the United States and Japan, drawing yet more criti

Nicky Hager – Owners of corporations registered in tax havens include some linked to regime of the late dictator, Suharto.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Yogyakarta – The murder of four prisoners at the Cebongan prison in Sleman, Yogyakarta, could potentially be used for political image building.

Sandra Siagian & Rebecca Lake – So often the victims of intolerance in Indonesia, Christians, Ahmadiyah and Shia Muslims on Monday marched together in Central Jakarta to urge the go

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi and Margareth S.

The National Commission on Human Rights on Tuesday said that 85 percent of Indonesia's houses of worship do not have building permits, with most of them being mosques.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Adm.