Arientha Primanita & Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged developing countries to review restrictions on trade beyond tariff walls in order to boost economic d

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Two new surveys are predicting a massive hemorrhaging of votes for the Democratic Party in the 2014 election, painting a bleak scenario in w

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo – A Shiite leader from Sampang, East Java, Tajul Muluk, has been forced to remain incarcerated at Sidoarjo Penitentiary even though his detention period e

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The family of a Kiwi news cameraman slain during the Indonesian invasion of East Timor is calling on the Government to seek justice.

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Shirley Shackleton is the only of the relatives of the Balibo Five who wants the men's grave dug up and their remains returned to Australia, according to th

Stephanie March – East Timor is considering walking away from its treaty with the Australian government and Woodside Petroleum over the development of oil and gas fields in the Timor Se

Relatives of two news reporters killed at Balibo in East Timor in 1975 say an attempt to exhume their remains will cause more trauma.

The family of one of the five journalists killed in East Timor in 1975 is opposed to having his remains returned to Australia.

Michael Bachelard, Indonesia – Shirley Shackleton refers to it as "my job" – telling journalists the story of her husband, Greg, who died at Balibo in East Timor in 1975, and seeking ju

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police Commission (Kompolnas) has found irregularities behind the controversial police move to prosecute Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Deddy Kusdinar, the first suspect in the Youth and Sports Ministry's graft-ridden Hambalang sports complex project, spoke of his bosses' alleged roles in th

Dessy Sagita – A prominent teachers' union has demanded that Education Minister Mohammad Nuh resign for suggesting that a 14-year-old girl who faced expulsion from her school after bein

Jakarta – Two opinion polls have painted a gloomy picture for Islam-based political parties, with none of the existing ones being predicted to remain among the top five parties in the 2

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Antara – A survey released on Monday shows that Indonesian voters are losing faith in the nation's Islamic political parties.

Dion Bisara – Indonesia's problems developing infrastructure and reforming the bureaucracy may cost 1 percent to 3 percent of the country's annual GDP growth over the next decades, impe

Jayapura – A group called the Federated State of West Papua, known by its Indonesian initials as the NFRPB plans to mark the first anniversary of the Third Papua Conference on 19 Octobe

Nick Chesterfield, with Westpapuamedia stringers – Amid an intensification of armed security sweeps against West Papuan clanspeople around Wamena, Church leaders in West Papua have cond

Jakarta – The National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA) says that at least 129 teenagers have been sexually assaulted this year to date, already surpassing the 121 cases recor

Pitan Daslani – The Legislation Committee of the House of Representatives is currently studying a draft law on national security that covers a broad range of issues affecting the nation

Pitan Daslani – The government is pushing to get a wide-ranging national security bill passed by the House of Representatives, but lawmakers are showing reluctance to deliberate on it o

Bali – In its desperate attempt to show its commitment to fight corruption, the Democratic Party has come up with the idea of an anti-corruption songwriting competition, expected to pro

The 80-year-old widow of an Australian journalist allegedly shot by Indonesian forces in East Timor in 1975 pleaded Sunday for her husband's remains to be swiftly repatriated.

George Roberts, Indonesia – The widow of one of five journalists killed by Indonesian troops in Timor in 1975 has launched a new campaign to have her husband's remains returned to Austr

In its press statement on October 3, the Indonesian Workers and Labourers Assembly (MPBI) stated that 2 million workers mobilized for the national strike it called for that date, with m

Indonesia has seen a major decline in the number of child brides, but a significant 22 percent of Indonesian women aged 20 to 24 were married before the age of 18, according to a landma

Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – Indonesia risks falling into a so-called middle-income trap if it fails to improve infrastructure needed to sustain faster economic growth, says the Internatio

Jakarta – A top education official has defended the government's plan to streamline the curriculum for primary education, saying it is customized to boost character building.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The Papua gubernatorial election process has resumed with the issuance of the Papua General Elections Commission (KPUD) Decree No. 33/2012, dated Oct.

Hamish McDonald – Just over a month ago, popular Darwin identity Vikki Riley was riding her bike on one of her regular visits to asylum seekers at the Airport Lodge, a motel turned into

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Surabaya – Former president and opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri revealed on Friday that she had to fight against a "great current" to back the ticket t

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III overseeing law and human rights affairs has finally approved the budget allocation to build a new building for the Corruption Erad

Following news that science and social studies would be largely scrubbed from the nation's elementary school curriculum, the government has decided to make young Indonesians' lessons ev

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Jakarta – Indonesians support the democratic system but believe that it can harm minority groups and economic development, as well as spark conflict, a survey reveals.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has rejected a request to review Law No.

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Zubaidah Nazeer, Solo, Central Java – Even as Indonesia stepped up security throughout the archipelago in the decade since the Bali blasts, a new wave of militants is regrouping in the

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Rizky Amelia – With graft investigators' net widening in late 2010, Angelina Sondakh allegedly threatened to unleash a "tsunami" on the House of Representatives building in Senayan, Cen

Rizky Amelia – The East Timor Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday visited the headquarters of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission in Jakarta in hopes of fostering cooperat

Former East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta has called for help for students wanting to study in Tasmania.

Lauren Turner – Intestinal worms affect up to half of East Timor's children and former president Jose Ramos-Horta is calling on Australians to help eradicate the "scourge" within five y

Farouk Arnaz & John Lory – Twin explosions rocked the restive district of Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Tuesday as the region's ongoing sectarian violence continued.

Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden, the Netherlands – Three Dutch institutions – the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the Institute for

Jakarta – Human rights activists have criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration for its poor achievement in resolving human rights violations, saying the nation is

Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again cut its estimate of Indonesia's economic growth as the global economic slowdown in Europe, the US and Chin

Jakarta – The death penalty was still necessary within the Indonesian criminal law system, Deputy Law and Human Rights Minister Denny Indrayana said during a discussion held in commemor

Jakarta – As the world celebrates "World Day against the Death Penalty" on Wednesday, a coalition of human rights groups has urged the government to abolish the death penalty, describin