Recent brawls among high school students left two dead in separate incidents in the city, leading to an outcry on how the chronic problem might be overcome.

Prodita Sabarini – A 15-year-old boy returned home on the night of March 14 this year to find all the lights in his house in Depok, turned off.

Zubaidah Nazeer, Jakarta – Indonesian unions vowed to step up pressure on employers to refrain from using contract labor, a day after an unprecedented nationwide strike shut thousands o

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The Transportation and Trade Ministries are among the few state institutions with the most effective corruption prevention programs, according to a recent a

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Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has promoted 28 National Police personnel, who were working as KPK investigators, to permanent employees, KPK deputy chairman Busyr

SP/Fuska Sani Evani, Bayu Marhaenjati & Arientha Primanita – Around two million workers took to the streets across Indonesia on Wednesday, demanding that the outsourcing employment

Rieka Rahadiana and Matthew Bigg, Jakarta – Indonesia said on Thursday it would improve worker pay and restrict the use of temporary contracts in the face of a vow by union leaders, who

Ridwan Max Sjabat, Jakarta – Thousands of blue-collar workers across the nation began on Wednesday a massive strike they said would last for weeks should the government fail to grant th

Faiza Mardzoeki – Last month I visited the Monumen Pancasila Sakti at Lubang Buaya, Jakarta, for the first time.

Jakarta – Former deputy financial director at the problematic firm Permai Group, Yulianis, revealed the names of a number of lawmakers who she says were involved in "schemes" benefiting

Jakarta – Indonesia recorded 285 corruption cases unearthed in the first half of this year, with a combined potential loss to the state of Rp 1.22 trillion, the Indonesia Corruption Wat

Fears of massive traffic gridlock across Jakarta because of a labor demonstration failed to materialize on Wednesday as unions and police ensured that the rallies did not spread beyond

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on retired Indonesian Military (TNI) generals looking to join the 2014 presidential election race to uphold democratic values while contest

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has urged the government to take concrete actions to stem the burgeoning support for the separatist movement in Papua.

An Australian-funded police unit in West Papua has again been implicated in a crackdown on the region's independence movement.

WPM and local sources – Over a thousand people who had gathered in Manokwari on Tuesday (2/10) to demonstrate in support of the independence movement in Papua were attacked by police wh

Farouk Arnaz – Convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Bashir has blasted the police's "lenient" action against members of a Papuan pro-independence group allegedly plotting a coordinated bombing

A commander from the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPN) has categorically denied any responsibility or involvement in an alleged bombing campaign against security force targets i

The excellent new ABC Television Four Corners documentary Taxing Times in Timor highlights critical issues for Timor-Leste, and will open they eyes of Australians and others.

Jakarta – Survivors of the 1965 anti-communist purge have deplored Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto's statement that the mass killings were just

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Ezra Sihite – Golkar Party legislators have lashed out at their colleagues from other parties as hypocrites for appearing to publicly oppose moves to curb the antigraft agency's powers

Arya Dipa, Bandung – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan issued on Wednesday a moratorium on outsourcing following massive labor rallies across the country on the same day.

Bekasi, West Java – Workers of the Indonesian Metal Workers Federation (FSPMI) say they will continue to occupy roads in Greater Jakarta if the government does not meet their demands.

Indonesian unions say more than 2 million factory workers have gone on a one-day strike across the country to call for higher wages and protest the hiring of contract workers.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has officially suspended Democratic Party politician Angelina Sondakh from her position as lawmaker.

Gary LaMoshi, Bali – On October 12, 2002, a ragtag gang of radicals set off a series of bombs here that left 202 people dead, mostly foreign tourists.

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Dion Bisara – The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a strong private business lobby group, called on the government on Tuesday to establish an investment fund to be used to p

Pitan Daslani & Ezra Sihite – The House of Representatives on Tuesday unanimously passed the Defense Industry Law, setting the stage for Indonesia to independently modernize its wea

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Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Around 2.8 million workers in 24 cities and on 80 industrial estates nationwide will go on strike in protest against outsourcing practices, a cheap labor p

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta, Indonesia – On Tuesday, the House of Representative launched a fingerprint scanner system to record the attendance of lawmakers.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A veteran opposition legislator has lashed out at the singing of a song composed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a ceremony on Monday to mark the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Findings by the Supreme Audit Agency show that Jakarta tops the list of provinces responsible for the biggest losses in state funds, a leading budget watchdog

Ezra Sihite – Calls for the national government to apologize and make reparations for the 1965 communist purge, in which up to two million people were killed, continue to fall on deaf e

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Tito Summa Siahaan – A group of 10 business associations called on the government to stand firm to curb "excessive behavior" in labor protests.

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Woodside Petroleum Ltd, along with ConocoPhillips and other resource companies, is facing demands by the East Timor government to pay up to $3 billion in disputed tax payments related t

(Footage of US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, arriving for a visit in Timor Leste)

Peter Cronau and Andrew Fowler – Potentially billions of dollars of tax is being withheld from the government of East Timor by some of the world's richest oil and gas companies operatin

Wendy Frew – Historians often say the past is a foreign country but in East Timor it's a thread that runs through the fabric of daily life.

Ronna Nirmala & Bayu Marhaenjati – Indonesia emerged from the chaos of the 1965 communist purge, and survived the turbulence of the 1998 reformation, but the two events showed that

Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said on Monday that he would raise the idea of adding hours for religious lessons in schools with the education minister.

Jakarta – The Golkar Party has lashed out at Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam for releasing a list of the country's most corrupt political parties and putting Golkar at the top of the list.

Jakarta, Indonesia – The Law and Human Rights Ministry is currently preparing a scheme to implement Law No.

Jakarta – Anti-graft watchdogs have called on the House of Representatives to drop its plan to amend the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law No.