Fitri, Mataram – Some dangdut songs have gone too far, according to the West Nusa Tenggara Broadcasting Commission, which on Thursday announced a ban on 10 songs with "pornographic" lyr

Over the last three weeks, at least three surveys have uncovered a growing public distrust of political parties, all because of corruption cases plaguing their leaders and individual me

James Balowski, Jakarta – A civil servant who posted "God does not exist" on his Facebook page has been arrested and charged under Indonesia's draconian anti-blasphemy law.

Arientha Primanita – A senior minister on Tuesday called for a renegotiation of royalty fees paid to the government by US-owned mining giants Freeport Indonesia and Newmont Nusa Tenggar

Ronna Nirmala – Streetside food stall owners dished it out to Jakarta's deputy governor on Tuesday, angry over plans for a new restaurant tax in the capital.

Five striptease dancers and two female disc jockeys were caught red-handed while naked at a nightclub in Pekanbaru, Riau, early on Tuesday, police said.

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Cianjur, West Java – Twenty men have been named suspects in the Friday attack on a mosque used by Ahmadiyah sect members in Cipeuyeum village, Cianjur, West Java, police said.

Central Kalimantan – The Central Kalimantan administration announced Wednesday that it issued a letter, rejecting the presence of hard-liner group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) in the

Dicky Christanto, Kediri – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali has asked the media to be more balanced in covering news about hard-liner group Islam Defenders Front

Imam Shamsi Ali of the New York Islamic Center has asked the Islamic Defenders Front to reconsider the methods it employs to achieve its goals.

Bagus T Saragih, Jakarta – Presidential spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha has downplayed reports on suspicious financial transactions by some Cabinet members and on an allegation that a min

Indonesian mainstream society has begun to push back against radical groups that have sought to force their agenda on the country.

Robertus Wardi – The government plans to allow people who do not identify with any of the six official religions to leave the religion column on their identity cards blank, the Home Aff

Nethy Dharma Somba and Dicky Christanto, Papua, Jakarta – Maj. Gen.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Two district head candidates in Puncak Papua were named suspects on Monday by the Papua Police for allegedly inciting a political feud that has killed at lea

Lisa Siregar – For most people, the easiest way to protest the government is to join a street rally. For two Jakarta communities, however, protesting can also be a relaxing affair.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – Anti-Islamic Defenders Front sentiment in Indonesia continued on Monday as residents in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, made it clear the hard-line group wasn't

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – When asked for comments on rampant violence by the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI), the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) secretary general Ekm

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The group calling for an end to the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front said on Sunday that it was preparing a series of programs to further its cause.

Jakarta – Civil rights activists grouped under the banner "Indonesia-without-the-FPI" said on Sunday that they would attempt to deter further acceleration of the FPI movement.

Jakarta – Administrative Reforms Ministry is drafting a policy to require all civil servants to register their wealth statements with the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – The leadership of the House of Representatives said on Monday that suspicions of irregular transactions stemming from reports by the anti-mo

Rangga Prakoso – Tobacco control activists are continuing their long-running campaign against legislators accused of dropping a key clause from the 2009 Health Bill, demanding that a ha

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – Orangutans in Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan face a bleak future unless urgent measures are taken to stop wildlife poachi

Jakarta – Ahead of the United Development Party's (PPP) national meeting, party chairman Suryadharma Ali has called on cadres to improve the party's image to win the hearts of the peopl

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police in Aceh are issuing increasingly strident demands for a reluctant public to relinquish the estimated thousand-odd firearms still held illegally after t

Jayapura – Authorities in Indonesia's remote Papua province say they have no plans to make male circumcision mandatory, despite media reports to the contrary.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith and East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao have discussed Australia's future security role as East Timor moves towards elections and an end to the Uni

Hamish McDonald – As Australians recalled the Japanese bombing of Darwin 70 years ago yesterday, the leader of a small neighbouring country was reminding us gently that this was but a s

Ezra Sihite – Legislators deliberating a bill to regulate mass organizations said over the weekend that foreign nongovernmental organizations would also be subject to the new legislatio

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Students from Papua and West Papua studying in Makassar, South Sulawesi, have protested the central government's decision to create the Speci

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – With many politicians implicated in corruption scandals, political parties are using the issue to pressurize rivals in order to secure their political agenda

Jayapura – Thousands of Papuans who are members of the National Committee occupied the building of West Papua People's Assembly in Kotaraja Papua, Jayapura, Monday, February 20, 2012.

After President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono acknowledged that security forces have committed human rights violations in Papua, Amnesty International on Friday called on him to go further –

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Dessy Sagita – Calls to ban liquor sales in Indonesia may hurt the nation's tourism industry, an official at the Home Affairs Ministry said on Saturday, commenting on the draft bill pro

Agus Triyono – The government's $91 million purchase of a new presidential jet has not flown smoothly with a coalition of NGOs, who on Sunday criticized the president and legislature fo

Jakarta – United Development Party chairman Suryadharma Ali invited all Islamic parties to join his party, excluding, however, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) and National Mandate Pa

The Jakarta Police on Friday denied stalling in bringing to court several cases of alleged sexual assault by a renowned traditional healer.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police will summon Hasan bin Ja'afar Assegaf, a influential cleric who is accused of sexually abusing some his boy students.

Jakarta – A notorious cleric, identified as Habib H, who has been reported for alleged sexual abuse, failed to answer the National Child Protection Commission's (KPAI) summons to explai

The plot thickens in the saga of the leadership of the Democratic Party with an aide to party chairman Anas Urbaningrum claiming that two major political parties contributed funds to he

SP/Robertus Wardi – The antigraft agency has kept a recording of an incriminating BlackBerry Messenger conversation between Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh and corruption con

Novianti Setuningsih – Lawmaker Mahyuddin N.S.

Yuli Krisna & Ulma Haryanto, Cianjur, West Java – A mob of about 50 people attacked and vandalized a mosque on Friday that was being used by the beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect.

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Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – The death toll from violent clashes between supporters of rival political candidates in Papua's Tolikara district now stands at six while the number of injur

Jakarta – Muhammadiyah Youth chairman Saleh Daulay said that in its actions the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) had acted beyond law enforcers, especially the police.