Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The ethics panel set up by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has concluded its month-long probe to determine who leaked a document pertaining to

Ezra Sihite & SP/Jeis Montesori – Indonesian government officials have denied a recent allegation that dozens of people in a Papuan district died after suffering from severe malnutr

Acts of violence are creating an image for the nation that is quite different from that presented in hospitality advertisements to woo foreign tourists.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The central government has given the Aceh provincial administration 15 days to clarify Qanun (Bylaw) No.

Ezra Sihite – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) on Wednesday said it would support a revision of the criminal code (KUHP) which includes a controversial article that would punish witch

Former Constitutional Court chief justice Mahfud MD has said that he has engaged in talks with a number of political parties for a possible coalition to support his presidential bid.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Recently elected Democratic Party chairman President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is preparing to purge the party's central executive board of those loyal to for

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa said on Wednesday that Indonesia's decision to abstain for the UN General Assembly's approval of the global arms tr

National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo has promoted Insp. Gen. Saud Usman Nasution and Brig. Gen.

SP/Dina Manafe, Surabaya – The recent closure of half of Surabaya's red light districts has prompted worries about the spread of HIV/AIDS throughout the city, as sex workers will no lon

Camelia Pasandaran – Bekasi's district head has failed to come up with a solution for a group of pastors, representing the district's beleaguered Christian community, over the spate of

Ronnie Hatley – A campaign of mass assassination, torture, rape, imprisonment and other atrocities against people accused of being 'communists' swept across Indonesia following the seiz

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Made Arya Kencana – An election watchdog has slammed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his domination over the Democratic Party's organizational stru

The Indonesian government is planning to transfer the authority of issuing mining, forestry and plantation concessions from municipalities and districts to provincial administrations in

SP/Erwin Sihombing – In the first three months of this year, a total of 13 police officers fell victim to violence, the Indonesia Police Watch chairman said on Monday, just days after t

Robert Cribb – Filmed over several years in the North Sumatra capital, Medan, The Act of Killing is a sprawling work that encompasses three distinct, though related, stories.

Michael Buehler – After the decentralisation of political and fiscal power in 2001, local government heads have become some of the most powerful political players in Indonesia.

Ezra Sihite, Nurdin Hasan & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sent a government minister to Aceh to dissuade local officials from adopting a separatist sym

John Roosa – At times one comes close to feeling sorry for Pak Wanandi. So little in his life worked out as planned.

Gerry van Klinken – The most extraordinary achievement of the New Order might have been the tenacity of its ideology.

Camelia Pasandaran – There will be no indoor Easter service this year for three embattled congregations in West Java still fighting to worship in their own churches, but that won't stop

Jakarta – Members of a number of churches in Greater Jakarta will hold their Easter mass in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Sunday and call for an end to their su

Yohannie Linggasari – Rights activists have blasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his failure to order a human rights tribunal set up to investigate the widespread abuses surro

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Organizers of One Billion Rising Indonesia have finally secured a public space to hold the Women's Festival at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) in Central Jakarta o

Bagus BT Saragih, Sanur, Bali – The Democratic Party's extraordinary congress has appointed Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as the new party chairman, replacing Anas Urbaningrum who resigned o

Erwin Cristianson – Army Chief of Staff Gen.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The police may have failed to foresee the recent attack on four inmates at Cebongan Penitentiary in Sleman, Yogyakarta, and may have ignored potential clu

SP/Robertus Wardi – A parliamentary watchdog has called on the House of Representatives' Ethics Council to take action against lawmakers who frequently skip meetings and plenary session

Made Arya Kencana – Most Indonesians do not approve the idea for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to be elected as the new Democratic Party chairman to replace the ousted Anas Urbanin

Angela Dewan – The elite police unit on the front line of Indonesia's lauded terrorism clampdown faces fresh allegations of torture and unlawful killings, raising concerns it is fueling

Yohanes Sulaiman – The proposed criminal law that is currently being discussed in the parliament is, to put it bluntly, a disaster in the making.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A police station commander in Simalungun, Sumatera Utara, has been beaten to death by a mob during a vice raid, police have said.

The Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday jailed two men who were involved in several shootings in the Aceh province in the lead-up to the April 2012 gubernatorial elections.

Jakarta – Fresh on the heels of the demolition of a Bekasi church, the local administration banned congregants from conducting services at their church in Jatibening Baru subdistrict on

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Activists are renewing calls for the government and the House of Representatives to push for more reform of the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National

Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Chairwoman of the National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Siti Noor Laila confirmed that the commission had been denied access

Jakarta – Graft convict and former chief detective Comr. Gen. (ret.) Susno Duadji says he has joined the Muslim-based Crescent Star Party (PBB).

Yeremia Sukoyo – Criticism continues to pour in against a controversial bill that would tighten the regulation of mass organizations, ahead of its expected passage this week by the Hous

Farouk Arnaz, Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Robertus Wardi – More indications have emerged that point to a rogue military unit as the heavily armed group who infiltrated a police de

The Archipelago – The Papua Police reportedly has identified the gunmen who attacked a missionaries' helicopter in Puncak Senyum, Puncak Jaya, Papua.

Prodita Sabarini – Papuans have been allowed to reject secrecy as one of the principles of general elections.

Prodita Sabarini, Reportage – For Papuans, their graves are a reminder of the grief that besieges their land.

Papua continues to be plagued by violence.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is being asked to revise the 2002 Children Protection Law this year in response to the rampant number of child abuse cases, with

Police in Aceh have arrested two men for allegedly raping and strangling a six-year-old girl to death.

Operation Astute was launched in May 2006 in response to a request from the East Timor government following violence fanned by an army mutiny.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have deadlocked on plans to amend Law No. 42/2008 on presidential elections.

Prodita Sabarini, Wamena, Jayawijaya – A mama walks barefoot under the skin-burning sun in a hamlet in Piramid district, Jayawijaya regency.

Returning to the land may be one way to improve food security and welfare in Papua.