Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Environmental activists have called on the Indonesian government to extend the 2011 moratorium that bans the issuance of any new permits for land convers

Jakarta – Students from several universities in Depok demonstrated at Pondok Cina station on Friday about plans to evict vendors from the station.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Lawmakers have to follow the constitution and prioritize the common good when it comes to law-making.

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SP/Edi Hardum – Responding to a threat made by labor unions to conduct a massive fund withdrawal from state social security firm Jamsostek, the president director said that any withdraw

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The number of incidents of violence as a result of Shariah law in Aceh increased in 2012 from a year earlier, a rights group noted on Thursday.

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Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office plans to examine alleged gross human rights violations in 1965 and the killings of civilians by snipers from 1982 to 1985.

Grace Susetyo – Joshua Oppenheimer's controversial documentary "The Act of Killing" has attracted an overwhelming response since debuting at the Toronto International Film Festival last

Imam Muzakir – Minister for Public Housing Djan Faridz revealed on Friday that his ministry will build low-cost rental apartments to accommodate 10,000 laborers.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Torrential rain has been pounding several locations in Indonesia, leading to an increasing number of areas hit by floods and landslides throughout the country o

Jakarta – An increase in the price of electricity beginning this month will reduce the purchasing power of laborers, Said Iqbal, the president of the Indonesian Workers Unions Confedera

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan estimates that Indonesia's annual trade deficit could be as much as US$2 billion in 2012, as a downward trend in exports continued

Oktovianus Pogau, Papua, Jayapura – In 2012 Indonesian security forces murdered twenty-two activists from the West Papuan National Committee (KNPB) and a further fifty-five are behind b

ID/Retno Ayuningtyas – Mining company Freeport Indonesia has agreed to trim its concession area in Timika, Papua, indicating that the government's efforts to renegotiate mining contract

Incompetent lawmakers and transactional politics are fouling the legislative process, leading to shoddy laws and a host of constitutional challenges, according to one of the nation's to

Bagus BT Saragih and Hotli Simanjuntak, Jakarta – The administration of Lhokseumawe, Aceh, is planning to issue a bylaw banning women from straddling motorcycles, arguing that the pract

Nurdin Hassan, Banda Aceh – The plan by the administration of the Aceh town of Lhokseumawe to issue a regulation that will ban female passengers from straddling motor bikes has sparked

Jakarta – The Indonesian Minister of Religious Affairs, Suryadharma Ali, has stated that Indonesia has become a model of tolerance in religious and national diversity for the world.

Timor-Leste (East Timor) is preparing to liberalise its telecommunications market in the first quarter of 2013, which is expected to drive prices down and expand the country's telecommu

Peter Yeo – I was standing outside a Timorese refugee camp on the day Carlos Caceres pulled me aside with a frightening message – "The militias know who I am and where they can find me.

Brook Sabin – The busiest doctor in Timor has made a plea for help to New Zealand, inundated with patients who are dying needlessly.

Zubaidah Nazeer, Jakarta – If you need an organized demonstration in the streets of Jakarta, call Hercules.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has once again become a target for criticism not only for their poor legislation record but also for its members penchant for tr

Rizky Amelia – Corruptors and corrupt companies are being protected by Indonesia's tax law, which protects confidentiality of taxpayer information, the Indonesian Forum for Budget Trans

Jakarta – Tobacco industry lobbyists have urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to revise the draft government regulation (RPP) on tobacco control, saying that the president should t

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Karawang – Analysts are attributing voter apathy to rampant money politics in legislative races, saying that cash payments are likely to be a deciding factor in the

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Golkar Party has decided to play it safe in the 2014 presidential election by putting everything on hold until the results of the 2014 legislative election ar

Jakarta – The Muslim-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) gave an award on Tuesday to Agus Chaerudin, an office boy at a bank in Bekasi, West Java, who returned the Rp 100 million (US$1

Rangga Prakoso – The Confederation of Indonesian Trade Unions will set up complaint posts in order to monitor the implementation of Jakarta's new minimum wage law, which is set to take

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The administration of the Aceh town of Lhokseumawe is set to issue a regulation that will ban female passengers from straddling motor bikes.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – An unidentified gunman shot and wounded a man not far from the Papua Police headquarters on the first day of the new year, residents here said.

Ambon – A journalist was assaulted and threatened by Pattimura 16 Cavalier Military Command officers while covering the New Year's Eve celebration early on Tuesday.

Irman I.P, Lhokseumawe – Ulema Consultative Assembly (MPU) chairperson Tgk H Asnawi Abdullah from the Northern Acehnese city of Lhokseumawe supports the plan by Lhokseumawe Mayor Suaidi

Jakarta, Indonesia – The congregation of beleaguered Filadelfia Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) failed to conduct a New Year's Eve service as hundreds of local residents, police and

Novia D. Rulistia, Jakarta – It is estimated that Jakarta will face total gridlock in 2014.

Saskia Schaefer – In June 2012, images of a group of formally-dressed men watching a pile of burning books circulated widely in the Indonesian media.

New York – The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Timor-Leste today ended its operations, in line with the expiration of its mandate and amidst significant progress made in establis

Gianrigo Marletta – The UN ends its peacekeeping mission in East Timor after 13 years in Asia's youngest nation following a bloody transition to independence as the country faces the ch

Dili – The United Nations ended its peacekeeping mission in East Timor on Monday, leaving the country without any direct security assistance for the first time since a spasm of politica

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency has urged former top cop Susno Duadji to turn himself over to authorities after the Supreme Court upheld a graft conviction and three-and-a-half

Possessed students, cross-species sexual encounters and a girl with "emerald tears"; 2012 was a typically bizarre year in Indonesia as stories stocked with strange twists, trickster spi

Ezra Sihite & SP/Erwin Cristianson – The scale of corruption involving political parties is only expected to increase in 2013 as parties rely on officials in elected positions natio

Rizky Amelia – A leading budget watchdog has highlighted what it claims is the misuse of emergency-related funding for presidential overhead expenses.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The North Sumatra Police's bomb squad on Saturday secured an alleged homemade bomb, that contained 500 grams of nails, which was found in the backyard of Salaon

Antonia Timmerman & SP/Erwin Cristianson – Rights advocates on Saturday gave a poor review of Indonesia's performance in 2012 in terms of tackling corruption and securing human righ

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – With more politicians potentially earning money from illicit sources ahead of the 2014 general elections, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has renewed

A UN "liquidation team" will take over in East Timor on Monday from peacekeepers who put a lid on deadly unrest in the tiny nation marking a first decade of turbulent existence.

Incumbent West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan was reported to the local election board for alleged campaign violations after the governor reportedly asked local village chiefs for their s

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – As the 2014 general election draws near, graft watchdog Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) has warned about the possible flourishing of political corruption