Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Cabinet secretary Dipo Alam visited the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) late Wednesday and submitted reports of alleged budget mark-ups within three

Jakarta – State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan delivered another letter, containing revised names of lawmakers that allegedly asked state-owned companies' officials for kickbac

Zubaidah Nazeer, Jakarta – Thousands of workers took to the streets in Purwakarta, West Java, in ugly protests on Wednesday that saw most roads closed.

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta Wage Council decided late on Wednesday night to recommend a massive 44 percent increase in next year's minimum wage, much to the dismay of business re

Former prime minister Paul Keating says Australia needs to dramatically improve its relationship with Indonesia and stop being subservient to the United States.

Pekanbaru – Fakhri Rubiyanto, one of the journalists assaulted by Air Force officers when covering a jet crash in Riau last month, has once again been physically attacked, this time by

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The occupational social security programs will certainly raise further problems and worsen the labor situation if they are implemented under the current em

Stephanie March, Canberra – Hundreds of East Timorese will be forced to find new jobs when the United Nations withdraws from the country at the end of this year.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Thousands of workers from the Medan Industrial Zone (KIM) in Medan, North Sumatra, rallied on Tuesday, calling a proposal to raise the monthly minimum wage (UMK

Jakarta – Believing in the democratic value that everyone has the same right to be a presidential candidate, Rhoma Irama, the country's king of dangdut music, says that he is ready to g

After weeks of speculation, the Education Ministry has announced that English language lessons will not be scrapped from the nation's elementary school curriculum after all.

Jakarta – United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has called for a full investigations into all cases of gross human rights violations in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Students took to the streets of Jakarta on Tuesday, demanding the government resolve the Semanggi I riot, which broke out exactly 14 years ago.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), a non-governmental organization advocating human rights issues, has received the Emilio F.

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In July, the national human rights body issued its report after four years of investigations – that the witch hunt and widespread abuse and killings in the 1960s entailed a gross violat

Approximately 50 students and one teacher affiliated with an Islamic boarding school and allegedly involved in terrorist activities were taken into police custody on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Blame it on Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

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Arientha Primanita – After creating a stir by banning government officials from colluding with lawmakers, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam has caused further controversy by suggesting that p

The UN human rights chief on Tuesday condemned violence and discrimination against Christians and Muslim minorities like Shiites in Indonesia, the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation

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After a period of relative peace, Poso, Central Sulawesi, was again rocked by a series of incidents that have occurred in the past three months.

After a peace pact in 2001 that ended three years of bloody sectarian conflict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, extremists linked to and directed by al-Qaeda affiliated Jamaah Islamiyah (JI)

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – After lengthy and tough negotiations that had been going on since early October, the Riau Remuneration Council eventually agreed to a monthly 2013 Provincial

Bagus BT Saragih and Ruslan Sangadji, Jakarta – The police and military personnel combed Maros regency in South Sulawesi on Monday for two individuals implicated in an incident on Sunda

Rights groups marking the 21st anniversary of the massacre of 270 Timorese by Indonesian forces are demanding justice for this and other crimes committed during Jakarta's occupation of

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – The Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili was full of people on Nov. 1. In preparation for Nov.

United Nations – A UN official says peacekeepers are on track to leave East Timor by year's end, but the international community will remain engaged in one of the world's youngest natio

Matthew Russell Lee, United Nations – Timor Leste is called a rare UN success story, and it is slated to come off the agenda of the Security Council through the expiration of its mandat

This afternoon (12 November), the Security Council is scheduled to hold a debate on the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT), whose mandate will expire at the end of December.

Jakarta – The decision by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to dismiss the National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) finding that the 1965 communist purge was a gross violatio

Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) announced over the weekend that out of 16 political parties, 13 had passed the factual verification stage at the national level.

Andylala Waluyo, Jakarta – The chairperson of the Institute for the Study of the 1965-1966 Massacres (YPKP 65), Bejo Untung, told Voice of America (Indonesian language) that the victims

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Finance Ministry has issued a regulation that raises the non-taxable income threshold of individual taxpayers to Rp 24.3 million (US$2,524) per year

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – "Rahman" and his four colleagues were apprehended by the National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism personnel in a house in Pejaten, South Jakarta, in 2010.

Ezra Sihite – Former State Enterprises Ministry secretary Said Didu has backed up claims made by current minister Dahlan Iskan that lawmakers have engaged in extortion.

Kuala Lumpur – Three policemen have been accused of gang-raping an Indonesian woman at a police station in a northern Malaysian town.

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief said the systematic persecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was not a gross human righ

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Mark Fenn, Singapore – This has been a big year for Timor Leste, with one of the world's smallest and most impoverished countries passing a series of important milestones.

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Rangga Prakoso, Ezra Sihite, Bayu Marhaenjati& Firdha Novialita – The Attorney General's Office has rejected a plea by the National Commission on Human Rights to conduct an official

Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD has called for the dismissal and replacement of all law enforcement officials so the nation's judicial institutions can be freed from t

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The government needs to prohibit the conversion of rice fields into housing, industrial complexes or other non-agricultural activities as part of efforts

Timika – The chief of police in Papua has announced that he will be setting up a special team to investigate recent acts of terror in the vicinity of the Freeport copper-and-gold mine w

Dessy Sagita – Indonesia's infant mortality rate matches that of significantly poorer Bangladesh, and blame for the alarmingly high rate lies with the government, an activist says.

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Camelia Pasandaran & Ethan Harfenist – More than 30 Shiites in Sampang, East Java, have reportedly been forced to embrace Sunni Islam after they were faced with the prospect of havi