Zakir Hussain – When The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) opposed cuts to fuel subsidies by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's government, fellow coalition members angrily called for th

Unrest has broken out in East Timor, where the campaign office of presidential candidate Taur Matan Ruak has been attacked in the lead-up to the election on Monday.

Dili – East Timor's second presidential election as a free nation will see two ex-guerrillas compete in a run-off vote on Monday, after the Nobel Prize-winning incumbent was knocked out

Victor R Savage – The current presidential election in Timor-Leste has brought international visibility to this rather marginalised state within Southeast Asia.

Lenny Tristia Tambun – A national business organization has called on the government to reconsider its beef "self-sufficiency" program, which its members say has caused a scarcity of th

Ezra Sihite & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party appears keen to have two opposition parties join the government coalition, despite the pair

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The newly-endorsed Legislative Elections Law will make no significant changes for better elections and democracy in the future because it is purely based o

Dion Bisara & Ulma Haryanto – British Prime Minister David Cameron praised Indonesia's political and economic transformation on a visit to Jakarta on Thursday, citing it as a model

Erwida Maulia – Lampung Governor Sjachroedin Z.P. installed the new head of the Mesuji district and his graft convict deputy in a ceremony at a local penitentiary on Friday.

Made Arya Kencana & Rizky Amelia, Denpasar – A financial transaction watchdog has found 2,300 potentially problematic bank accounts belonging to heads of regional administrations or

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Michael Bachelard, Banda Aceh – Some of the tsunami alert sirens that are supposed to protect the city of Banda Aceh failed as an earthquake shook the city.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – The obscure legal framework governing the management of the country's forests has given rise to hundreds of sometimes deadly conf

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – Several unexplained cases of violence involving mysterious snipers are heightening insecurity in Papua, the national rights body has said.

Nurdin Hasan & Antara – Days after Aceh dodged a bullet when two massive earthquakes failed to trigger a potentially devastating tsunami, it emerged that the country's tsunami early

Jakarta – Activists rallied before the Attorney General's Office (AGO) on Friday, urging an investigation into what they called "light charges" for alleged orangutan killers.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Millions of the country's traditional fishermen have left their jobs to become motorcycle taxi drivers, street vendors or trash p

Dili – Following a peaceful presidential poll in March and several years of stability, international peacekeeping forces dispatched in 2006 to prevent the outbreak of civil war in Timor

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono swore in on Thursday new members of the General Elections Commission (KPU) and the Elections Monitoring Body (Bawaslu) for the 2012-2017 ter

Robertus Wardi – Lawmakers at the House of Representatives only work earnestly when the issue at hand affects their parties' hold on power, an activist said on Thursday.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) says that businesses are disappointed over the fact that the government has failed to issue a pr

Bayu Marhaenjati – Police disclosed on Friday that members of the Indonesian Navy were allegedly involved in a string of motorcycle gang attacks in Jakarta that left two civilians dead

Indonesia will go ahead with its plan to limit the use of subsidized fuels by private cars to meet the subsidized fuel quota target of 40 million kiloliters set in the revised 2012 stat

Indonesia's parliament ratified on Thursday a UN convention on the protection of migrant workers in a move that will offer greater rights to millions of Indonesians working abroad.

Dessy Sagita – The strong prevailing patriarchal culture is being blamed for the country's high maternal death rate, with some pregnant women missing out on urgent medical care because

Olin Monteiro – After "Jakarta Maghrib" and the horror omnibus "Hi5teria," which is still playing in cinemas, get ready for "Sanubari Jakarta" ("Jakarta Deep Down").

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said that the government would not submit to a demand to legalize same-sex marriages in the country.

Dion Bisara – Despite seeing Indonesia as a potential investment destination, British businesses appear still concerned with the country's bureaucratic hindrances.

Ismira Lutfia – In a study of two prison in Greater Jakarta, only 9 percent of juvenile offenders had access to lawyers, 74 percent shared their cells with adult criminals and 98 percen

Anita Rachman – The Central Jakarta District Court refused on Wednesday to hear a lawsuit filed against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono by a former palace dancer who was arrested dur

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John Sidel – Speaking at an Islamic university in Jakarta, David Cameron hailed Indonesia as a model democracy to be celebrated and emulated by countries across the Muslim world.

Agus Triyono – The Constitutional Court has rejected a motion by firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to have several articles of the Criminal Procedures Code repealed.

Ezra Sihite – A leaked speech by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono from a Democratic Party meeting on April 1 seems to counter suggestions that the president followed the Golkar Party'

Jakarta – In democracy, everyone has the right to speak out, including elementary students.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A top military officer was quick on Wednesday to blame the Free Papua Movement (OPM) for a recent shooting at an airport in Papua that killed one and injured

Jakarta – Graft convict Mindo "Rosa" Rosalina Manulang is the first inmate of the Corruption Eradication Commission's new prison.

Rory MacKinnon – David Cameron may have once been a West Papuan hero but activists poured scorn on the PM on Wednesday after he promised their Indonesian oppressors "the best defence eq

Hans David Tampubolon – Public Housing Minister Djan Faridz says that there is no political motive behind his ministry's recent plan to develop cheap housing for journalists.

Demonstrations were held in Jayapura on April 5 in support of a groundbreaking conference held in The Hague, The Netherlands, to examine pathways to the reinstatement of the New Guinea

An aftershock measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale struck Sumatera mere hours after a powerful quake sent residents running for higher ground in Banda Aceh after a tsunami warning was iss

Banjir Ambarita, Arientha Primanita & Farouk Arnaz – The identity of the gunmen who on Sunday fired machine guns at a commercial plane in Papua may already be known by authorities.

Ezra Sihite – The Democratic Party played down media reports of a leaked speech by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during an internal party meeting on April 1, but said it would inve

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Lawyers for bribery defendant Nunun Nurbaeti presented before the Jakarta Corruption Court three staff members who worked for Nunun as defense witnesses to prove

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Just a day after Monday's largely peaceful elections, protests flared up in Aceh over allegations of cheating.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Corruption Watch (ICW) watchdog urged the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to expedite its execution of court rulings on 49 graft suspects who remain at large.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The ruling Aceh Party is expected to win the gubernatorial, mayoral and district head polls due to the party's strong structure of command right down to the v

Arientha Primanita, Farouk Arnaz & Ismira Lutfia – Soldiers may be deployed in Papua to assist the police in the search for the gunmen responsible for Sunday's attack on a commercia

Michael Bachelard – The 120 Afghan men and boys who were refusing to get off a ship at an Indonesian port spent last night at a hotel in the port city of Merak after being forced off by

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – Efforts to provide people with legal assistance need to be stepped up in the wake of what many call the "gross criminalization" of communities by palm-oil c