Jakarta – The East Java chapter of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)'s youth wings GP Ansor and Banser urged the government to suspend or even disband all mass organizations that often use violence.

Bayu Marhaenjati – Jakarta Police named three members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) as suspects on Friday for vandalizing the Home Affairs Ministry during a demonstration last mo

Razali Ritonga, Jakarta – The labor protests over minimum wage demands that recently occurred in some parts of Indonesia should have been anticipated by the government.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The dispute between factions of former Free Aceh Movement (GAM) members may escalate following a coordination meeting held by ex-guerrilla leaders to for

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., the largest publicly traded copper producer, will cooperate with the Indonesian government as it reviews the company's contract to operate the G

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The incidence of HIV/AIDS in Papua has become a general epidemic stage that requires immediate action to prevent the further spread of the disease into th

Bagus BT Saragih and Agnes Winarti, Jakarta/Denpasar – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been infuriated by the widening rifts in the leadership of the Democratic Party that he fou

A leading researcher on West Papua says the trial of five Papuan leaders for treason has hallmarks of being another public relations disaster for Indonesia.

Mary Anugrah Rasita – The deaths of at least 44 people in a series of accidents involving buses this year has prompted commuters, operators and analysts to call for a complete rethink o

During Indonesia's 25-year occupation of East Timor, about 4-thousand children were transferred to Indonesia to live with adoptive parents.

Damien Kingsbury – As Timor-Leste heads into the three rounds of 2012 elections, election observers have begun to organise to monitor the election process and to report their findings.

Ulma Haryanto – The slew of clashes between communities and police officers and the apparent increase in public distrust in the law enforcement body are signs of a systemic problem in t

Jakarta – The government says it wants to help more people join the ranks of the nation's 90 million street vendors in order to promote public welfare and economic development.

Padang – State Prosecutor Zulkardiman demanded that two alleged striptease dancers, SS and NA, receive 18 months in prison on Thursday.

Ezra Sihite & Hangga Brata – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi asked the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front not to rush to open branches in Central Kalimantan following protests fr

Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hardliner group that has been under the spotlight recently as its violent image has begun to receive pushback from other community groups, h

Jakarta – Islam Defenders Front (FPI) spokesman Munarman has pointed the finger at the Democratic Party as being behind the recent anti-FPI rally in Jakarta, saying that it tried to div

Kusumasari Ayuningtyas, Surakarta – While protests demanding the disbandment of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) have been flaring in other cities, about 200 other people claiming to be

Ezra Sihite – In a sign of more strained ties between lawmakers and antigraft investigators, Corruption Eradication Commission chairman Abraham Samad said he would not attend hearings w

Damien Kingsbury – The various contenders for Timor-Leste's presidency in the 17 March election have begun to try to persuade the voting public why they should be elected as president.

Agus Triyono – Disappointed with the president's vague pledges to "resolve" the plight of GKI Yasmin church, the nation's main Christian organizations have taken the matter to the Const

An Islam-based political party has proposed a new draft bill to ban alcohol sales in Indonesia.

Timika, Papua – The military in Papua will give maximum assistance to the local police in maintaining security in the concession area of mining company PT Freeport Indonesia in Timika d

Jakarta – Jakarta residents who use public transportation account for only 11 percent of the total population due to poor management and safety, said Tulus Abadi from the Indonesian Con

Ismira Lutfia – Interreligious strife is just media hype, rights abuses in Papua don't go unpunished and the current anticorruption drive is the most aggressive in the country's history

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Artist Bramantyo Prijosusilo's planned street performance that criticizes rampant violence was forcefully aborted after he himself experienced it for real

Arientha Primanita – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi said on Wednesday that the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is one violation away from having its license suspended.

Jakarta – In the face of many calls to freeze the activities of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the hard-line group remained firm that they were here to stay.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Jakarta Police said on Wednesday that they had detained four men involved in Tuesday afternoon's protest at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, where pro

Surakarta – Responding to a wave of anti-FPI (Islam Defenders Front) rallies, including in Central Kalimantan and Jakarta, the FPI said it would hold a counter-rally in Surakarta, Centr

Jakarta – Democratic Party chief patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reportedly "greatly angered" by a plan formulated by his party's board to assign troubled cadre Angelina Sondakh to

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Journalists Association believes that one of its members has been murdered despite the initial police investigation suggesting that he died in a traf

The money laundering charges slapped on Monday by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Muhammad Nazaruddin, fondly known as Nazar, a former House member and Democratic Party t

Agus Triyono – The Supreme Court's decision to scrap eight points from the code of ethics for judges has prompted civil society groups to file a formal complaint against the five justic

Anita Rachman – As they commemorated their day on Wednesday, Indonesian domestic workers said they only wanted two things: for the domestic workers protection bill to be deliberated thi

Ezra Sihite – Pressure is mounting on the government to disband mass organizations known to have used violent tactics to achieve their goals, following a series of attacks by those grou

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, is often held up as a shining example of how democracy can gel with moderate Islam.

Chloe Booker, Jakarta – Local government officials may have accepted bribes from logging, mining and companies in exchange for permission to clear forests, a top official has said.

Ezra Sihite – The fallout from Muhammad Nasir's controversial late-night visit to his brother in prison continued to grow on Tuesday, with the Democratic Party lawmaker being questioned

Jakarta – A rainbow group of protesters carrying the same tagline of "Indonesia-without-the-FPI," rallied at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Tuesday afternoon, demanding the gover

Agus Triyono & Made Arya Kencana – Potentially further straining tensions between the Supreme Court and the Judicial Commission, the country's top court announced on Tuesday that it

Bagus BT Saragih – Members of the House of Representatives are proving their supervisory worth to the public, only this time, their focus is on snacks.

Bangkok – The Southeast Asian half-island nation of Timor-Leste is falling short on most Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), experts warn.

Singapore – Indonesia on Wednesday signed a $325 million contract with Airbus Military for nine C-295 transport planes to be used for defense, logistical and humanitarian purposes.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Critics have slammed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his hands-off approach to the impasse involving the Bogor city administration and the Indonesian

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya, East Java – Five soldiers are facing imprisonment of between five and 15 years and dismissal from the military over their alleged involvement in the smug

Dozens of housemaids staged a protest at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday, demanding the government to pass a bill on the profession.

Bayu Marhaenjati & Dofa Fasila – The Jakarta administration may have approved the highest sectoral minimum wages ever, but hundreds of workers rallied with the Jakarta Labor Forum t

Ismira Lutfia – Indonesia is aiming to reduce the number of child workers by 10,000 this year, an official said on Tuesday.

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – A coalition of NGO activists, experts and lawmakers has called for a reform in the political party financing system.