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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Lenny Tristia Tambun, Ezra Sihite & Bayu Marhaenjati – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo's failure to distance himself from anti-Christian fringe supporters coul

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Kate Lamb, Jakarta – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says East Timor is ready for UN peacekeeping troops to withdraw as planned by the end of 2012.

Guido Goulart, Dili, East Timor – East Timor is ready to maintain stability on its own without the hundreds of international peacekeepers who have stayed in Asia's newest country a deca

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The origin of the St.

Arya Dipa and Fadli, Bandung/Batam – The West Java provincial administration plans to close all pig farms in the Muslim majority province following the implementation of a ban on pig fa

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Sultan Hamengkubuwono X and Sri Paku Alam IX, twin monarchs of the Yogyakarta sultanate, will have their positions as governor and deputy governor extended

Rizal Harahap and Apriadi Gunawan, Pekanbaru, Medan – Riau Islands province and its surrounding areas were shrouded in a haze that reportedly originated from fires in a number of planta

Nurfika Osman and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – With approximately 16.5 million holidaymakers throughout the country beginning their journeys home for the Idul Fitri holidays, the governm

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – An investigation by the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) found that the South Sumatra Police were responsible for the shooting of civilians dur

Liberty Jemadu – Gubernatorial candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is throwing exploding tomatoes at corrupt politicians in an effort to root out Jakarta's evils and save the city in a new o

James Balowski, Jakarta – The killing of a leading pro-independence activist in West Papua during a raid reportedly led by members of the Australian-funded and -trained counter-terrori

Cirebon – A ticket collector was attacked aboard a Jakarta-bound express train on Sunday after he allegedly told a member of the Indonesian Military (TNI) that he wasn't allowed to sit

Ezra Sihite – The list of possible candidates for the 2014 presidential election may be growing, but no one in the lineup has a spotless resume, according to politicians and analysts.

Dessy Sagita – The Confederation of Indonesian Workers Unions has called on the government to crack down on companies shirking their obligation to pay workers their 13th month bonus bef

Lenny Tristia Tambun – TransJakarta bus drivers went on strike Monday morning over unpaid Idul Fitri holiday allowances and what they call an unfair disparity among bus drivers on diffe

Jakarta – New central government regulations will allow mining and palm oil plantation companies with regional licenses to buy their concessions in state-controlled forests.

Bogor – The police on Monday arrested 150 Afghan and Pakistani nationals who planned to take a dangerous boat trip to Australia, a police chief said.

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Farouk Arnaz – Justice and Human Rights Deputy Minister Denny Indrayana clamped down last year on sentence reductions and parole for convicts involved in terrorism, narcotics and corrup

A new Islamic social networking site will be launched in Indonesia in November, and will offer "better protection" for young Muslims from "harmful content." The Beta version of the site

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry says that it will collaborate with Internet search giant Google and video-sharing site YouTube to block pornographic websites.

Pitan Daslani – The Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that military personnel and police would not be allowed to participate in 2014 elections because Indonesia's political infr

When four men were sentenced to eight months in jail in March for the "murder" of orangutans, it was the first time that people associated with Indonesia's booming palm oil industry wer

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has said it will go ahead with its investigation into the graft case in the procurement of driving simulators involving senior Nati

Pitan Daslani – Chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission Abraham Samad vowed on Saturday to continue fighting corruption, even if he and his four deputies have to face the wors

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The much-awaited presidential regulation on land acquisition, which has taken more than six months to draft, failed to impress businesses looking forwar

Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The State Palace has denied claims by former antigraft czar Antasari Azhar that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led a high-level m

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Ronna Nirmala – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) announced on Saturday that it will throw its support behind incumbent governor Fauzi Bowo for September's gubernatorial runoff to, cit

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & SP/Novianti Setuningsih – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center said on Friday that it submitted a report on suspicious transactions linke

Jayapura – West Papua Police have arrested 10 people for raising the banned Morning Star flag, a symbol of Papuan independence, during a rally in Manokwari on Thursday.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The government's highly touted program to convert official vehicles to natural gas from gasoline and diesel fuel is likely to miss all its targets this year

Rizky Amelia – Graft suspect Miranda Goeltom offered up to Rp 500 million ($53,000) each for legislators' votes in her selection in 2004 as senior deputy governor of Bank Indonesia, a w

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – A local NGO wants the police to reduce their presence in Ogan Ilir, South Sumatra, following the crackdown after a boy was killed in a standoff with law enforc

Jakarta – A coalition of civil society groups under the collective banner MATA has called on the government to withdraw its support for the World Tobacco Asia (WTA) conference, slated f

Iman Mahditama, Jakarta – The Jakarta Military Command said Friday that the military police had arrested two soldiers for reportedly assaulting a man near the entrance gate of Taman Min

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Despite an ongoing graft investigation into their traffic division, the National Police received government awards on Friday for their traffic management and driver's license services.

Jakarta – Selphius Bobii may have spent four months in Abepura Penitentiary in Papua on charges of treason after joining the third Papuan People's Congress last October, but he remains

Several leaders of the House of Representatives (DPR) are backing a plan to hold the presidential and legislative elections on the same day in 2014.

Jakarta – Economic growth, which reached 6.4 percent in the second quarter of 2012, is largely being enjoyed by the middle- and upper-class, because it is not quality growth.

Fitri Bintang Timur, Singapore – What makes certain countries great while others are not?

On the International Day of the Indigenous Peoples, Papuan people took to the streets to celebrate their continued survival as indigenous people, and called for an end to the Indonesian

Jakarta – Former Army general Prabowo Subianto seems to be the main contender for anyone contesting the 2014 presidential election as a recent survey points to his growing popularity am

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The number of incidents of violence against women in Indonesia is not easy to calculate as most victims want to protect their privacy, according to a gov

Jakarta – A recent remark made by the current Jakarta Governor and candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election, Fauzi "Foke" Bowo, during his visit to fire victims was a "blunder"

Jakarta – Scattered across 17,000 islands on the Indian and Pacific oceans, the world's largest Muslim country has found its own blend of Islam: equal parts religion, secularism and con