Ambon - Student activists from the Student Struggle Center for National Liberation (PEMBEBASAN) held a protest action on the main road in front of the Sirimau Sectoral Police Headquarte

Safari Sidakaton – International Women's Day (IWD) was commemorated by a variety of different women's communities and organisations that united under the International Women's Day Actio

Farouk Arnaz/AFP – The Central Sulawesi Police have detained five of its members over the alleged torture of militants after a video posted on YouTube showed a suspect being shot and ot

Tangerang – Hundreds of factory workers grouped under the Indonesian Metal Workers Labor Union Federation (FSPMI) staged a rally on Jl.

Faiq Nuraini, Mojokerto – Scores of women from the Mojokerto Women's Struggle Alliance (APPM) and Perempuan Mahardika (Free Women) Mojokerto took to the streets of the East Java city of

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must use the final year of his second term to take radical measures to end discrimination against religious minorities, an NGO

Adelia Syahfitri – Scores of women activists from a joint committee greeted International Women's Day (IWD) by holding a peaceful action at the Simpang Lima traffic circle in the Acehne

Farouk Arnaz – Soldiers in South Sumatra attacked a police station on Wednesday, torching the building and giving 16 inmates a chance to escape, in the latest incident of police-militar

Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) quizzed politically wired deputy National Police chief Comr. Gen.

Camelia Pasandaran & Abdul Qowi Bastian – Indonesia's revision of its outdated Criminal Code includes proposed sanctions against cheating spouses, cohabiting couples and sorcerers a

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – After it was revealed that a group of young married women in Aceh had met to raffle off young men to sleep with, an ulema in the conservative province urged r

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The rift within the Golkar Party has intensified with Aburizal Bakrie's camp warning rival politicians to end their campaign to oust him as party chairman.

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The Religious Affairs Ministry said it would stop charging a marriage registration fee to ease the burden of those who want to get married and discourage the practice of charging exorbi

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – Scores of people from the Greater Jakarta Labour Joint Secretariat (Sekber Buruh Jabotabek) held a candle lit vigil at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle in Centr

SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo launched on Wednesday the first TransJakarta pedestrian bridge that has an escalator, but encountered some glitches.

Local residents in Paniai regency are bracing for more repression in sweep operations by Indonesian security forces after two separate incidents across the Paniai have intensified ongoi

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Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Women's empowerment officials in the staunchly Islamic province of Aceh say they have uncovered a growing practice of women getting together to raffle off a m

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Phelim Kine – The worst fears of the Shia Muslim community in Sampang in Indonesia's East Java came to pass on Aug. 20, 2012.

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Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – In the next few weeks, Indonesia's liberal-minded middle class will possibly get what they have always wanted: the end of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Outspoken member of the House of Representatives Bambang Soesatyo said on Monday that he was ready to face a firing squad if the accusation that he had been

Graft convict Raja Thamsir Rahman, the former district chief of Indragiri Hulu district in Riau who was sentenced to eight years in prison, was spotted by journalists attending a weddin

Hans David Tampubolon – Residents of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java will never forget May 29, 2006.

The following stories are the second of a series of reports on the life of residents in Sidoarjo, East Java, who have been affected by a mudflow since 2006.

Ezra Sihite – Despite mounting criticism against the National Police's counterterrorism unit, Densus 88, calls to disband the body are excessive and unnecessary, a minister said on Tues

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The killing of eight Indonesian soldiers in two separate incidents in Papua late last month was the bloodiest attack on security forces in the Indonesian province for two years.

The nation's commitment to honest and transparent law enforcement has again been put to the test by recent allegations of human rights abuses committed by members of the National Police

Ami Afriatni – The troubled Islamic Solidarity Games hit another roadblock on Monday as construction workers sealed the Riau Main Stadium, in Pekanbaru, over allegations that they had n

SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – The struggling National Democratic Party is attempting to bolster its ranks with laborers after some 20,000 members burned their membership cards and quit in the wak

Hans David Tampubolon – The failure to mitigate and to stop the mudflow that started in 2006 in Porong, Sidoarjo, in East Java, has severely damaged the environment and threatens public

Political apathy is growing in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, where since May 2006 residents have suffered from an endless mudflow.

Jakarta – The National Police are examining the allegation that some of their members have been involved in human rights abuses when handling suspected terrorists in Central Sulawesi.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Visibly irked from the prolonged turmoil within his Democratic Party, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono lashed out at other political parties, saying they w

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Democratic Party has made a plea to the General Elections Commission (KPU) to allow it to bypass submitting a list of legislative candidates for the 2014

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – A television reporter in East Kalimantan says she suffered a miscarriage after being beaten by a village chief and more than a do

Jakarta – The parents of alleged victims of sexual abuse by Muslim cleric Hasan Ja'far Assegaf in 2011 have expressed concerns over the police's sluggish investigation.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesia is gearing up for further trade liberalization as reflected by ambitious efforts to negotiate a number of trade deals with partners, but a lack of co

Margareth S.Aritonang, Jakarta – A Constitutional Court justice candidate, Arief Hidayat, said on Monday that atheism and same-sex marriage should be prohibited in Indonesia because th

Jakarta – General (ret) Wiranto, chairman of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura), met with British Ambassador to Indonesia Mark Canning at the party's headquarters here on Monday.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – As the only tinplate producer in Indonesia, Pelat Timah Nusantara (Latinusa) has supplied packaging material to an array of manufacturers, such as producers of

Bandung – The West Java chapter of the General Elections Commission (KPU) on Sunday declared incumbent Governor Ahmad Heryawan and his running mate, veteran actor Deddy Mizwar, as the w

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Yeremia Sukoyo – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Sunday warned of fresh violence in the Central Sulawesi town of Poso and Maluku after the publication of a YouTu

Dion Bisara & Fracezka Nangoy – Indonesia's inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in 20 months in February as consumers started to pay higher electricity bills and prices of som

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