Ridwan Max Sijabat – House of Representatives lawmakers have agreed to let political party leaders decide some of the most crucial issues surrounding pending revisions to the law on leg

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Vento Saudale – The chief of Bogor's public order agency says he has been named a police suspect for blocking people from praying outside the illegally sealed GKI Yasmin church last Oct

Ezra Sihite – The brother of high-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin has offered a variety of excuses after his late-night visit to the suspect's jail cell earlier this week was

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – Nazril "Ariel" Irham, the lead singer of the band Peterpan who was jailed for distributing pornography following a controversial sex video scandal, is participati

Testriono – The GKI Yasmin congregation in Bogor has been prohibited by the local administration from holding services in its church for years.

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) has rejected a request by civil activists for a review of the 2009 National Heroes Law, saying that articles in the law do not contravene the Con

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Following public outrage over a string of questionable spending decisions by the House of Representatives, the House Honor Council has propo

Legislators involved in common-law marriages will not be disciplined by the House of Representatives (DPR) unless they fail to make good on promises to their wives, officials said on Th

Rizky Amelia & Ezra Sihite – Graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin, who has lobbed corruption allegations at a string of high-profile officials, has been receiving late-night visitors a

Natasua Christy Wahyuni, Farouk Arnaz & Rizky Amelia – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday reminded the media of its responsibility to safeguard the integrity of journali

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Labor issues including disputes over minimum wages are not the main issue affecting Indonesian businesses, with political instability, poor governance an

Rizky Amelia & Ulma Haryanto – After the Constitutional Court called it unconstitutional to put a travel ban on suspects during the early stages of investigation, the nation's antig

Mohd Adhe Bhakti – Three Islamic terrorists were each sentenced to between seven and nine years in prison on Wednesday for their roles in the suicide bombing of a West Java mosque last

Police said on Wednesday that they were still investigating TV celebrities and models Luna Maya and Cut Tari for sex tapes allegedly featuring them with rock star Nazril "Ariel" Irham.

Ulma Haryanto – The court case of Muhammad Nazaruddin and the slowly unfolding web of graft that has resulted from it have brought a specific type of corruption into focus: that involvi

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation's long fight for their right to pray in their church went back to square one on Wednesday when th

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – There is a growing feeling among some activists and politicians that members of the antigraft body are spending too much time mingling with lawmakers, threate

A new television series set to air across Indonesia this month will be an alternative to the common drama found in the average Sinetron, promoters are promising.

Sumenep, East Java – A lone protester let loose more than 100 poisonous snakes in the Sumenep District Court to vent his anger after judges rejected his claim that he was the rightful o

The arrest on Wednesday of Ber-naldi Kadir Djemat, who reported TV-actor-turned-politician Zumi Zola to the police on Jan.

Batam – Hundreds of workers at PT Varta Microbattery Indonesia (VMI) in Batam, Riau Islands, went on strike on Wednesday.

Bagus BT Saragih and Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – For politician and former lawyer Amir Syamsuddin, the job of weeding out corrupt politicians in the ruling Democratic Party turned out t

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Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Police in Papua have been criticized for not doing enough to investigate a string of shootings that have killed at least three people in the past month.

Timika, Papua – Unidentified gunmen have attacked a group of workers near Freeport-McMoRan's gold and copper mine in eastern Indonesia, wounding several of them.

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A Czech man arrested in Manokwari on Wednesday worked as a journalist.

Jakarta – Problems related to Papua are Indonesia's internal affair. The United State has never considered the Papua problem in its cooperative defense relationships.

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission on Thursday slammed the blocking of its Web site by some Indonesian Internet providers for having "pornographic elements."

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Islamist parties demanded on Wednesday that the government ignore a Supreme Court ruling to unseal the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor, forcing the legislature to

East Timor or Timor-Leste on Wednesday sought Thailand's assistance and support in its quest for membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations or Asean.

Rahmat – Around 500 protesters burned down buildings and other facilities belonging to Vale Indonesia in Morowali, Central Sulawesi, on Monday in another violent dispute between local r

Rizky Amelia – Former Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari wrote off at least Rp 6.8 billion ($760,000) in alleged embezzlement under her watch as "small" and "trifling," after her quest

Kate Lamb, Jakarta – After pulling the plug on more than a million online porn sites, Indonesia's Communications Minister, Tifatul Sembiring, has now set his sights on Twitter.

The National Police on Wednesday accused the group associated with Temy Kwalik, a local Papuan who was linked with the Free Papua Organization (OPM) separatist movement, as being respon

Sara Everingham – A Timorese-Australian who was acquitted of conspiring to kill East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta is now running for his job.

Hasyim Widhiarto – Since the reform era began in 1998, the union movement has been primarily driven by activists who were unemployed or had no affiliations to employers.

January's labor unrest that culminated in the paralyzing of economic activities in the industrial estates of Bekasi, West Java, took many by surprise as it marked the awakening of the l

Hasyim Widhiarto and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The string of workers' rallies that has severely disturbed businesses recently, particularly in the industrial estates of Bekasi in We

Agus Triyono – The Central Jakarta District Court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by domestic workers' rights activists against the government for failing to protect the country's maids

Arientha Primanita & Anita Rachman – After blocking access to almost one million pornographic Web sites, the Communication and Information Technology Ministry is now targeting anony

Jakarta – The Communications and Information Ministry claims it has blocked nearly 1 million sites that carry pornographic content.

Ezra Sihite, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rangga Prakoso – The Democratic Party will continue to decline in popularity unless President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono removes those who are

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – It appears that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has grown to be such a fearsome outfit that corrupt officials have become very careful in running thei

Outgoing Democratic Party deputy secretary general Angelina Sondakh has accepted the party's decision to suspend her and says she is ready to be detained after anticorruption authoritie

Dion Bisara – The economy grew 6.5 percent last year, its biggest expansion since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, as domestic consumption helped shield the country from the global e

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is looking to delay the deliberation of the controversial national security bill following public rejection due to claims that

Salim Osman – After surviving a mob attack over a Facebook posting, 31-year-old Indonesian civil servant Alexander Aan was taken into custody by the West Sumatra police for his own safe

Ulma Haryanto – Despite international and domestic appeals to the government to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of Ahmadiyah followers in Cikeusik, Banten province, t