Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Supiani binti Abdul Salam had worked in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, for less than a year before tragedy struck.

James Balowski, Jakarta – Riots erupted in the West Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura on June 14 after a leading pro-independence activist was shot dead during an arrest reportedly

Ezra Sihite & Ismira Lutfia – A major human rights group has refuted the police account of Thursday's killing of Papuan activist Mako Tabuni in Jayapura, saying there were no indica

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Two activists wearing Sumatran tiger costumes along with several members of Greenpeace visited a KFC fast food restaurant on Jl.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Home Affairs Ministry says it will summon the mayor and City Council speaker of Tasikmalaya to explain controversial shariah-inspired bylaws issued in the

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Central Java has displayed a unique phenomenon in religious life as, although seeds of tolerance have been growing relatively quickly, signs of intolerance are

Jakarta – Police remain inconsistent in their task of protecting religious freedoms, a study has found, though the National Police reiterated on Thursday their commitment to protecting

Kuala Lumpur – Haze caused by forest fires in neighboring Indonesia blanketed parts of Malaysia including the capital on Saturday, causing air pollution to hit unhealthy levels.

Alina Musta'idah – The Constitutional Court began reviewing on Friday a provision in the 2012 state budget that allows the government to use taxpayer money to compensate victims of the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's claim on Wednesday that his Democratic Party ranked only third in terms of the number of its members involved in corrupti

Banjir Ambarita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jayapura – A day after the president described the scale of violence in Papua as "small," a coalition of Papuan churches called the situa

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Indonesia Police Watch has cautioned the National Police against increasing the presence of its anti-terrorism unit in Papua, saying that move would instead worsen conflict in the resti

Bandung – The administration of Bekasi regency will fight against a court ruling in favor of embattled Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) Filadelfia over the construction of their church in

Ezra Sihite – Antigraft officials told the House of Representatives on Wednesday that there was strong reason to believe that the decision to bail out Bank Century in 2008 was flawed, b

Bagus BT Saragih and Elly Burhaini Faizal, Bogor/Jakarta – Andi Mallarangeng escaped firing on Wednesday, as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced a minor Cabinet reshuffle and t

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government can go to court if it wants to disband vigilante mass organizations such as the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) for its members' violent actions

Novianti Setuningsih – A trio of high-profile Indonesian graft figures, Muhammad Nazaruddin, Mindo Rosalina Manulang and Angelina Sondakh, were not only taking kickbacks for Sports Mini

Ismira Lutfia – A global poll of gender experts has ranked Indonesia 17th out of the world's 19 biggest economies in terms of the best places to be a woman.

Yuliana Lantipo, Jakarta – Humanitarian Solidarity for Papua (Skup) is urging the central government to form an independent fact finding team to conduct a fast and effective investigati

Jakarta – Humanitarian Solidarity for Papua (Skup) is urging all government institutions to end the stigmatisation of the Papuan people as separatists in responding to developments in W

Ezra Sihite & Arientha Primanitha – Amid speculation about what President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono meant earlier this week when he asked troubled members of his Democratic Party to

Jayapura – Human rights activists on Friday slammed Indonesian police for the killing of a prominent Papuan independence leader who was allegedly involved in a series of mysterious shoo

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Jakarta – In what critics have condemned as a precedent that may harm free speech and individual liberty, a court in West Sumatra sentenced on Thursday Alexander A

Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of an Indonesian man detained for professing atheism, calling his imprisonment a serious setback for freedom

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Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – With a month to go before gold mine company PT Agincourt Resources starts production on a 1,639 square-kilometer plot of land in South Tapanuli regency, North S

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandar lampung – Thousands of farmers from four districts in Ogan Ilir regency, South Sumatra, staged a rally in front of local police headquarters on Wednesday, prote

Following the assassination of Mako Tabuni, the deputy chairman of the KNPB (National Committee of West Papua), the police are now alleging that the man they murdered was responsible fo

In an effort to solve a problem, a leader has to avoid blowing an issue out of proportion or, in the extreme, playing it down as if everything is fine.

Angry scenes have reportedly erupted in Jayapura and across West Papua after officers from the Australian- funded and trained Detachment 88 counter-terror troops shot dead the secretary

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Angry residents of Indonesia's resource-rich Papua island burned cars and shops on Thursday after an independence activist was shot and killed, police and human rights activists said.

Vitalis Yogi Trisna, A. Wisnubrata, Jakarta – West Papua is a region of Indonesia that is extraordinarily rich in natural resources and culture.

Indonesia has been able to cut by more than half the annual mortality among women and children in just over two decades, but too many of them continue to die, Unicef said on Thursday.

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Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – News reports on the high-profile corruption investigation into the construction of a sports facility worth Rp 1.52 trillion (US$161 million) in Hambalang, Wes

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A 16-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital after being beaten by an angry mob in a raid on a group of teenagers suspected of having an orgy outside a villag

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The wife of former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin, Neneng Sri Wahyuni, who is a fugitive from the law, was arrested at her home in Pejaten, South

An Indonesian man arrested after writing "God doesn't exist" on his Facebook page was jailed for 30 months Thursday for sharing explicit material about the Prophet Mohammed online.

Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Padang – Alexander Aan, 32, a Minang civil servant who was arrested for blasphemy after he declared himself an atheist on a social media website, was sentenced to

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar – Indonesia has been running its own version of the China bargain.

Bayu Marhaenjati – Bekasi district head Neneng Hasanah Yasin has asked members of the HKBP Filadelfia church to "cool down" and conduct worship at a location provided by the local gover

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Puji Utami, Semarang – Scores of Papuan students from National Papua Solidarity (Nasional Papua Solidaritas, Napas) held a protest action in front of the regional police headquarters (M

Emma Macdonald – The decision by independence fighters in East Timor to swap guns for diplomacy not only worked in creating the new independent nation of Timor-Leste, but serves as a ca

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Ezra Sihite – A decision by the National Democrat Party to give as much as Rp 10 billion ($1.1 million) to each of its candidates preparing to run for a seat in the House of Representat

Indonesian publisher Gramedia Pustaka Utama burned hundreds of copies of a book that called the Prophet Muhammad a pirate and a murderer on Wednesday following protests by the hard-line