Michael Bachelard, Karuni Rompies – Bali bomb-maker Umar Patek has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being found guilty over his role in the deaths of 202 people in the Bali bo

Jakarta – The failure to convince judges to hand terrorist convict Umar Patek a life sentence is solely the fault of prosecutors, according to terrorism commentator Dynno Creesbon.

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Rabby Pramudhatama, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it has interrogated several officials at the Religious Affairs Ministry about a graft-ridden procurement o

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – More than double the amount of cash that Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng said went into the graft-ridden Hambalang sports center

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – New evidence in a major bribery scandal implicates the five highest-ranking members of the House of Representatives, the five highest-rankin

Michael Bachelard – Crucial differences have emerged between the Australian and Indonesian versions of the rescue attempt for an asylum seeker boat that sank yesterday.

Ezra Sihite – A special legislative committee deliberating amendments to the regional governance and villages laws is set to embark on study trips to four countries, drawing the ire of

Jakarta – Twenty four bodies were recovered on Wednesday from a mass grave that was accidentally found in the garden of the office of Timor Leste's Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao in Dili

Misti P., Mojokerto – Scores of activists from the United Indonesian Labour Movement (PPBI) went to the 0815 Mojokerto District Military Command Headquarters in the East Java city of Mo

Ezra Sihite – Golkar Party chairman and business tycoon Aburizal Bakrie is reportedly considering Edhie Baskoro, the youngest son of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, as his running m

SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Ezra Sihite – Suspended lawmaker Wa Ode Nurhayati on Tuesday stood by her accusations that leaders in the House of Representatives leaders and the House Bu

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Hard line organization the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Bandung chapter has rejected the dangdut group Trio Macan, who were planning to perform in Bandung, We

A rally has been held in New Zealand in response to recent violence in Indonesia's West Papua region including the alleged shooting of the pro-independence leader Mako Tabuni last week.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government says that it has been in talks with the separatist Free Papua Movement (OPM) since last year – months before the start of the latest wave of v

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Police denied on Monday that it was planning to send counterterrorism unit Densus 88 to Papua, saying the recent spate of dead

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Residents of Tulungagung, East Java, have spoken out against a plan for military exercises in the area, claiming that they own the land and that the drills wi

Expose – Despite the inconvenience of the chaotic traffic jams that their mass prayers create, sermon groups led by clerics claiming to be descendants of Prophet Muhammad are gaining po

Hasyim Widhiarto and Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Expose – Although they differ from the Freemasons, the secret society frequently linked by conspiracy theorists to the rise of the United Stat

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Antara & Dessy Sagita – Newly-appointed Health Minister Nafsiah Mboy posted a video to YouTube on Tuesday explaining the ministry's plan to promote condom use among teenagers and ot

Michael Bachelard – Police in West Papua say the independence activist they killed in the streets last week was carrying the same gun used to shoot a German tourist last month.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A Papuan pastor calling for justice and an end to the violence in the restive province told the Jakarta Globe on Tuesday that a dialogue between Papua and the

Kontras Papua, SKPKC and BUK believe that there has been speculation about the killing of Mako Tabuni on 14 June.

Jakarta – An effort from the House of Representatives to come up with a regulation that would guarantee equality between men and women in the country has been met, ironically, with stau

Zakir Hussain – The mayor of Tasikmalaya, which made headlines this month for reportedly proposing a bylaw that would require all Muslim women to wear headscarves, on Monday said the re

Ezra Sihite – House Speaker Marzuki Alie said on Tuesday he was prepared to swear in the name of God as well as perform a "sumpah pocong" (death oath) to deny the allegation that he too

Lenny Tristia Tambun – As the Jakarta elections draws closer, the campaign of gubernatorial candidate Hidayat Nur Wahid and his running mate Didik J.

Ronna Nirmala – The Head of Jakarta's Elections Supervisory Committee (Panwaslu Jakarta) said on Tuesday that they will forbid the use of the campaign slogan "Jakarta Free of Mustache"

Banjir Ambarita, Arientha Primanita & Ismira Lutfia – The National Police have issued warrants for five people allegedly behind the recent series of shootings in Papua's provincial

Nethy Dharma Somba and Margaretha Aritonang, Jayapura/Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto ruled out a military operation to tackle the es

Damiana Ningsih Simanjuntak – The Minister of Industry on Tuesday said that the government has no plan to curb the production of local vehicles, despite admitting that traffic jams are

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia, Ezra Sihite & Bayu Marhaenjati – Neneng Sri Wahyuni's arrest is part of a wider plan to allow Anas Urbaningrum, the chairman of President Sus

Riwanto Tirtosudarmo, Jakarta – The problem confronted by Papua, the easternmost province of Indonesia, is structural, rather than developmental as perceived by the current government.

Damien Kingsbury – When Timor-Leste's Anti-Corruption Commission (CAC) was established in 2009, many people wondered whether it was just a political sop to minimise concern about percep

Oei Eng Goan – The absence of Anas Urbaningrum at the meeting of the Communication Forum of the Democratic Party's founders held in Jakarta last Wednesday has raised public speculation

Nurdin Hasan & Ezra Sihite – A mob of about 300 men vandalized a store that was being used for a church service by dozens of Bethel Christians in Aceh on Sunday.

Yogyakarta – A plenary session held by the Golkar Party's Yogyakarta provincial branch on Friday evening decided to propose Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X of Yogyakarta Palace for the par

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Jakarta – In a country where opposition to Lady Gaga forced the provocative pop star to cancel her show this month, Indonesia's home-grown stars are also raising the ire of religious au

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Jakarta – Government today sends team to investigate a series of shootings of civilians in Papua.

A member of a notorious Indonesian military special forces unit linked to human rights violations in East Timor and West Papua has trained with the New Zealand Defence Force, it's been

Agustiyanti – State expenditure until May 23 of this year had only reached Rp 400 trillion ($42.4 billion), or just 27.9 percent of the year's target, data from the Finance Ministry sho

Amelia Tan, Singapore – Maid agents – unhappy with a new policy by the Indonesian government that bars agencies from earning commission from maids – hope to resolve the issue with the I

Jakarta – The Democratic Party would likely suffer a serious defeat in 2014 and garner only 11 percent of the vote if the election were held today, according to an opinion poll released

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on Monday for a closer partnership between governments and the business community to stimulate the global economy during the lingering economic

Jakarta – Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum is warning his opponents that he is still in charge of the party and any efforts to topple him will fail.

Zakir Hussain, Jakarta – Indonesia says several churches in Aceh were ordered shut not because of deepening religious conflict or intolerance, but because they did not have local permit

Family planning officials want to raise Indonesia's legal age for marriage from 16 to 21 years, in a bid to curb the country's high maternal mortality and birth rates.