Tito Summa Siahaan & Grace Dwitiya Amianti – The central bank introduced a regulation on Friday aimed at preventing potentially dangerous bubbles by encouraging prudent banking prac

Aloysius Unditu – Indonesia's rupiah and bond markets remained under selling pressure this week as investors dumped local high-yield assets ahead of next month's scheduled subsidized fu

Anita Rachman – The media have historically been some of the most tenacious advocates of workers' rights, yet in one of the ironies of an increasingly independent and privatized nationa

Karlis Salna – East Timor's incumbent president, Jose Ramos-Horta, remains nonchalant even though this weekend could mark the beginning of the end for his career as one of the country's

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Ezra Sihite & Dessy Sagita – A barrage of criticism and scorn continue to assail the president's recent establishment of an anti-pornography task force, with many saying on Wednesda

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Rights watchdogs say that the Indonesian government used a broker to buy Sukhoi fighter jets from Russia, despite claims to the contrary from the Russian Em

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Samarinda, East Kalimantan – Land issues and mine permits are threatening to scuttle a government plan to turn East Kalimantan into a center for national food

Tri Listiyarini & Tito Summa Siahaan – Commuters will abandon their private cars and public transportation in favor of motorcylces once the government increases the price of subsidi

Ezra Sihite – A photograph of three Cabinet ministers posing with a group of miniskirt-clad caddies at an East Jakarta golf course sparked public outrage after being splashed across the

Hangga Brata, Klaten, Central Java – Andreas Guntur, the leader of Amanat Keagungan Ilahi, a spiritual group which draws upon certain verses of the Koran, was sentenced to a four-year j

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Public order officers arrested several punks on Tuesday who were deemed to be causing a nuisance to citizens at several locations.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked the Indonesian Muslim Intellectuals Association (ICMI) to help ensure that the upcoming 2014 elections are condu

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – While the prolonged deliberation of the bill on Yogyakarta's special status (RUUK) at the House of Representatives is expected to come to an end by the mi

Dessy Sagita – Most Indonesians may be employed in the agricultural sector, but dwindling investment in the field and lack of government attention has led to a food crisis and widesprea

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesia-Singapore bilateral meeting on Tuesday included the signing of agreements at the ministerial level, but one of the Indonesian ministers said he

David McKittrick – At the funeral of Francisco Xavier do Amaral the president of East Timor paid handsome tribute to the man he described as "a symbol of unity in our aspiration to inde

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia could fail its Millenium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015, due to the slow progress in improving the

Jakarta – The government is set to create anti-pornography task forces at provincial and regency levels as an extension to the new anti-porn task force which was recently formed by Pres

Arienta Primanita, Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed a task force to implement the country's controversial Anti-Pornography Law, prompting

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Jakarta – Dudhie Makmun Murod and Udju Juhaeri, former House members from Commission IX overseeing finance in 1999-2004, testified at Jakarta Corruption court on Wednesday that they had

Sukabumi, West Java – More than 70 illegal immigrants attempting to make the 236 mile crossing from Indonesia's seaside village of Loji to Australia's Christmas Island were arrested by

The government's plan to allow foreigners to buy condominiums could help reduce "illegal purchases" of properties by foreigners that have tended to increase property values in the count

Erwida Maulia – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed Indonesia's first anti-pornography task force to oversee the enforcement of the country's controversial 2008 law banning th

Anna Powles, Dili – Timorese voters will go to the polls twice this year to elect the nation's president and parliament for the third time since achieving independence in 2001.

Jakarta – Only days after Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum declared that he was ready to suffer capital punishment if he was proven guilty of corruption, a local party head cl

Trisnadi Marjan, Surabaya, Indonesia – The tigers are emaciated and the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they cannot unfurl their wings without hitting a neighbor.

Ismira Lutfia – Official discrimination against women is on the rise, particularly at the local government level, according to a survey released by the National Commission on Violence A

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The nation's poverty rate may spike above the government's 2012 target due to the government's planned subsidized fuel-price increase, which may result

Rizky Amelia – A second consecutive witness called by graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has implicated Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum in wrongdoing, as the defendant continu

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Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – In the run-up to the government's planned fuel price hike, the police are intensifying raids against hoarders, and three key labor organizations are w

Bayu Marhaenjati – A popular Muslim cleric was questioned by the police on Monday about claims by 11 young men that he molested them years ago.

Michael Bachelard, Dili – When East Timorese voters go to the polls on Saturday to choose their new president, every candidate with a chance of victory will be a veteran of the struggle

Timika – The Indonesian subsidiary of US mining giant McMoRan said on Monday it had resumed operations after a two-week suspension caused by fighting among workers.

Anita Rachman – This week, lawmakers representing the nine political factions in the House of Representatives will begin a series of meetings aimed at reaching a consensus on the long-r

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The Wirabuana Military Command, which oversees the Gorontalo, Central, North, South, West and Southeast Sulawesi provinces, spends part of its time on streng

Jakarta – A new government regulation scheduled for implementation in May has promised a legal breakthrough that would allow foreigners to own property in Indonesia, albeit restricted t

Yuli Tri Suwarni – The government has allocated Rp 1.14 trillion (US$125 million) in the state budget this year to build 86 rented flats for members of the Indonesian Military (TNI) and

Dion Bisara & Anita Rachman – The government came under fire over the weekend after it released a ruling banning foreigners from occupying 19 types of positions in Indonesian-owned

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Jakarta – A poll conducted by the Lingkaran Survei Indonesia (LSI) shows that at least 86.6 percent of 440 respondents opposed the government's plan to raise fuel prices.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Mataram – The People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) warned the government that agrarian conflicts could turn into a conflagration that could foster social unrest in t

Bayu Marhaenjati – A subdistrict police chief in Bekasi has been arrested for using methamphetamine at his official residence.

Farouk Arnaz – The police's elite counterterrorism unit has arrested five people in Aceh and North Sumatra believed to be linked to a spate of politically motivated attacks in the lead-

Catriona Richards – In a year's time, Jakarta's orange bajajs – those three-wheeled, smoke-belching buggies of banged-up steel – will be banished from the city's streets for good.

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat – Some attitudes are hard to change.

Yohanes Sulaiman & Phillip Turnbull – It appears we're having a coup. Or at least that is what some in the government would have us believe.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – At least 23 Shiite followers from Sampang, Madura, in East Java, have been forced to lead a nomadic life after an anti-Shiite group threatened to kill t