Farouk Arnaz & Jonathan Vit – Papua Police arrested seven members of the pro-independence West Papua National Committee (KNPB) on Saturday in connection with an alleged bomb plot th

Rizky Amelia – The Supreme Court refused to intervene in a row between the National Police and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Monday, declining to issue an edict determi

Fadli, Batam – A visiting Cabinet minister on Monday gave a green light to the controversial appointment of a former corruption convict to head the maritime resources and fishery office

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – The Social and Religious Study Institute (eLSA) in Semarang, Central Java, has blamed the government and particular segments of society for the disappearance of

Banjarmasin – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) raided a South Kalimantan nightclub early Sunday morning, shouting "get out of this immoral place" as police officers watched from outsid

Jakarta – In spite of new evidence that the prosecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was a gross human rights violation, survivo

Jakarta, Indonesia – TAPOL, a UK-based human rights watchdog, has urged Indonesia to address the 1965 Communist purge, as failure to do so would result in continued community divisions,

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Scott Waide – After decades of maintaining a relatively neutral stance, the Papua New Guinea Government will finally be making a strong representation to Indonesia to raise concerns ove

Thousands of Indonesians on Sunday chanted anti-American slogans outside the US embassy in Jakarta, in the latest protest against a film that sparked demonstrations in at least 20 count

Pitan Daslani – Indonesia's big political parties are struggling to prevent the emergence of alternative presidential candidates for the 2014 election as political scientists said on Sa

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A victim of the 1965 anticommunist purges in Medan, North Sumatra, Astaman Hasibuan, raised his voice in protest against the controversial film The Act of Killi

A major raid occurred on Saturday by troops from the Indonesian army (TNI) and Australian-trained Detachment 88 counter-terror unit on activists from the West Papua National Committee (

Hyginus Hardoyo – The declaration by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) that the 1965 purge of communists and their supporters was a gross violation of human rights im

Bambang Muryanto – For the first time, a state-sponsored investigation has concluded that the 1965-1966 killings following the 1965 alleged aborted coup was a "gross human rights violat

Ati Nurbaiti – Despite unresolved debates on the details of the power struggle of the 1960s, the arbitrary killings and the detention of hundreds of thousands of people in the mid-1960s

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the National Police were at loggerheads again on Friday as graft suspect Insp. Gen.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Comedian-turned-lawmaker Dedi Gumelar on Friday aired his support behind the government's move to erase science and social science from the curriculum of elem

Pitan Daslani, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – A proposal by some lawmakers to strip the Corruption Eradication Commission of some of its powers and make it answerable to a

A group of lawyers representing the incarcerated Shia leader Tajul Muluk submitted documents to the Constitutional Court on Friday and asked the court to annul articles in the Criminal

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Indonesian government must eradicate corrupt practices and improve transparency in order to attract more foreign participation in infrastructure pro

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Amelia Yani, the daughter of one of the generals slain between Sept. 30 and Oct.

Bagus BT Saragih, New York – Some of the luster of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to New York faded earlier this week after he apparently fumbled a press conference at Unite

Hamish McDonald – There comes a point in the curve of political authority for a limited-term leader where it turns inexorably downwards and he or she becomes more and more of a lame duc

Dozens of people from Timor Leste, who had taken refuge in the province for 13 years with minimum facilities from the Indonesian government, have left the Naibonat refugee camp to retur

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Ronna Nirmala – Solo Mayor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was officially declared the winner of the Jakarta gubernatorial election on Friday, securing nearly 54 percent votes and beating out incu

Dessy Sagita – Around 10,000 workers descended on Jalan Rasuna Said and Jalan Gatot Subroto in South Jakarta on Thursday to stage protests against outsourcing and low wages.

Alex Rayfield – Two West Papuan activists currently in police detention in Yapen Island in West Papua are being threatened with twenty years jail by the Indonesian police for organising

Jakarta – The Retired Army Association (PPAD) is warning the government and society at large over the influx of foreign ideologies that threaten the values of Pancasila among Indonesian

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – The billionaires club in Indonesia is set to welcome new members.

Jakarta – The leadership of the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has rebutted suggestions that it has fallen out of favor with the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-

Firdha Novialita, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Pitan Daslani – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono needs to protect minority groups from violence inside his own country before telling

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SP/Imron Rosyid & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Solo/West Kutai – Forest fires have razed thousands of hectares of land in Central Java and East Kalimantan as an unusually intense and p

Jakarta – Following two recent school brawls that have resulted in the deaths of two students, Religious Affairs minister Suryadharma Ali put the blame on a lack of religious discussion

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Jakarta – Judges at the Jakarta Corruption Court have sentenced Miranda Goeltom to three years' imprisonment for bribing lawmakers to elect her as Bank Indonesia senior deputy governor

Madiun, East Java – Four Indonesian soldiers on Thursday were sentenced to between five and six years in prison for helping to smuggle illegal migrants to Australia.

Fadli, Batam – The Riau Islands governor has appointed a former graft convict, Azirwan, as head of the provincial maritime resources and fishery office, which has drawn the ire of the C

Deputy chairman of the House of Representatives' Commission II on regional autonomy, Ganjar Pranowo, said that lawmakers would support a proposal for the formation of a new province in

Timika, Papua – Police in Papua's Mimika district will use CCTV recordings to help identify members of a 300-strong mob that attacked a Freeport Indonesia office on Friday.

Jonathan Vit – New Zealand's public pension fund pulled more than $1 million in investment from Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold over allegations of human rights offenses committed by

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The Bogor administration's plan to relocate the GKI Yasmin Church to Jalan Semeru in Kotaparis, Bogor, has been met with rejection from local residents.

On 24 September, trade unions belonging to the recently formed Majelis Pekerja Buruh Indonesia (Indonesian Worker Employees Assembly - MPBI) have called for a national strike for Octobe

Fatulmau, East Timor – Filomena Mendonca gave birth to all five of her children at home in the village of Fatulmau, high up in the mountains of East Timor, without registering their bir

James Balowski, Jakarta – A suicide in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh by a teenager who was publicly humiliated by the province's abusive sharia police has again put the spo

Jayapura – Buchtar Tabuni, 32, human rights activist and leader of the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), was sentenced to eight months in prison for vandalism at the Jayapura Prison

Palembang – Residents of the Sidodadi subdistrict in Palembang, South Sumatra, staged a demonstration on Monday in front of the subdistrict office to protest the intimidation tactics em