Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Eradicating the practice of pasung, or shackling the mentally ill, in Central Java is ambitious, but can be done, according to a top official.

Rahmat – The head of a provincial branch of the Islamic Defenders Front and two other members of the hard-line group were sentenced to jail on Tuesday for smashing up restaurants that o

Mindo Rosalina "Rosa" Manulang, a convict in a high-profile bribery case, testified on Monday that Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng and his brother Zulkarnain "Choel" accepte

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Adang Daradjatun, a Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) lawmaker and former National Police deputy chief, claims he had never known of his wife Nunun Nurbaeti's involv

Jakarta – City Police will issue a final summons for the grandson of former president Soeharto, Ari Haryo Wibowo Hardjojudanto, popularly known as Ari Sigit, over his alleged involvemen

Jakarta – When Brad (not his real name), a 33-year-old American citizen, landed a job in Jakarta, he was warned by his colleagues that he might have to deal with the country's infamous

James Balowski, Jakarta – A group of music lovers organising a charity concert in Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh are the latest victims of the province's discriminatory and

Niniek Karmini, Rawagede, West Java – Relatives of men executed by Dutch troops in this tiny Indonesian village fought for six decades to get compensation that was supposed to heal woun

Rizky Amelia – The fallout from a $2.2 million meeting room renovation project at the House of Representatives continued on Sunday as antigraft groups demanded it put down the hammers a

Bayu Marhaenjati – At night, cleared of smog and congestion, Jakarta's flyovers transform themselves into dating hotspots where young couples can park their motorbikes and flirt or enjo

Cikarang, Bekasi – Labor unions have canceled the massive protest scheduled for today after an agreement was reached late on Sunday night with the employers association.

Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal, Medan/Jambi – Calls for settlement to land disputes across the county had hardly died down when two groups of residents were reportedly involved in a de

Ezra Sihite – The National Police racked up more reports of human rights violations during 2011 than any other government institution or private company, a watchdog said on Monday.

Ted McDonnell – Doctor, human rights worker and refugee are just a few of the labels put on Angela Freitas. The next tag may be East Timorese president.

Mainstream Islamic leaders in Yogyakarta are claiming the right to oversee the activities of Ahmadiyah groups after local adherents of the sect were threatened by an angry mob on Friday

Ezra Sihite – A legislative fact-finding team has concluded that the recent deadly shootings in Aceh in the lead-up to local elections are politically motivated and should not be treate

Ismira Lutfia & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Labor unions in greater Jakarta will stage a major rally in East Bekasi, Karawang and Cikarang today to press on their demand for a minimum 1

Armando Siahaan – If law enforcers would go after high-level corruption the same way they handled the kid who stole a pair of sandals from a police officer, just imagine how clean this

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The upcoming gubernatorial elections in Aceh are facing uncertainty following a move by the ruling Aceh Party (PA) to challenge the Independent Election

Vento Saudale & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two legislators who joined the beleaguered GKI Yasmin congregation for Sunday services in Bogor got a firsthand view of the animosity dire

Ade Mardiyati – As a Jakarta resident, I often have the feeling that our public spaces are accident scenes waiting to happen. I never know what to expect next.

Taslim Chaniago, a member of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee, has tendered his resignation from the committee following the widely criticized renovation of a House meetin

Dwi Atmanta – Thousands of protesters, reportedly from various regions across the archipelago, rallied outside the State Palace on Thursday in another push for long-awaited agrarian ref

Agus Triyono – A survey carried out by nongovernmental organizations between July and September last year showed there is a widespread belief among Papuans that the police committed mos

Anita Rachman – Despite mounting calls for an agrarian reform law, especially after the recent spate of violence over land disputes, the House of Representatives appears adamant that it

Tom Allard – On a Thursday morning last year, Sapari, a cemetery caretaker in Bonasari in East Java, made a disturbing discovery.

East Timor will hold its second presidential election as an independent nation on March 17, President Jose Ramos-Horta said, as UN peacekeepers prepare to pull out of the once-restive c

Jakarta – Army Special Force (Kopassus) Commander Major General Wisnu Bawa Tenaya said the force's presence in Papua was to carry out part of the Army's main tasks in safeguarding and u

Jakarta – A survey jointly conducted by the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) and the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) found that torture is a common practice among members of the

Dwi Lusiana, Malang, East Java – A Malang man who says he was attacked by two people in military and police uniforms near a hotel where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was staying on

Ronna Nirmala – The Jakarta Police said on Friday that they had questioned three witnesses about an attack on the Home Affairs Ministry by hard-line Islamic groups.

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Multa Fidrus, Bandung/Tangerang – A number of regional administrations are insisting on keeping bylaws that ban the distribution of liquor despite the government's

Cilacap, Central Java – Judges at the Cilacap District Court sentenced a former warden of Nusakambangan penitentiary on Thursday to 13 years in prison.

Jakarta/Mataram – After a series of deadly incidents and demonstrations across the country, which mostly pitted locals against mining and plantation firms backed by the police and milit

Jakarta – The embattled GKI Taman Yasmin church in Bogor, south of Jakarta, claimed on Thursday that its parishioners had experienced escalating intimidation and threats from detractors

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung, West Java – The Bandung municipal administration has said that it will stick to its alcohol bylaw and continue to carry out inspections on roadside stores and

Keyko Ranti Ramadhani – Women's rights activists have criticized the action of police officers in Tangerang who scolded two girls for wearing shorts prior to a football match.

Jakarta – Experts have made a dire prediction that unless President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets his act together by becoming more decisive, things will only get worse as forces

A Malang man allegedly bashed by two officers in military and police uniforms near a hotel where President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was staying on Wednesday night has been arrested.

East Timor will hold its second presidential election on March 17, as UN peacekeepers prepare to depart.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The House of Representatives (DPR) will begin deliberations over a draft of the national security law despite strong objections from civil society activists

After days of negotiations, the local administration and police in Sampang, East Java, convinced 300 Shiite Muslim refugees to return to their homes on Thursday afternoon.

Hundreds of demonstrators in Ambon, Maluku, came close to blows with members of the provincial legislature on Thursday.

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Bruce Gale – "I just mixed up all the ingredients at random.

Agus Triyono, Ronna Nirmala & Ezra Sihite – Relatives of high-profile graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin allegedly threatened to kill key witness Mindo Rosalina Manulang in an attemp

Ulma Haryanto – Thousands of workers from a Nike plant in Serang, Banten, are due to receive nearly $1 million for forced overtime without payment in a move apparently unprecedented in

Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Around 150 university students, activists and farmers grouped under the People's Coalition of West Nusa Tenggara staged a rally on Thursday

Ezra Sihite & Bayu Marhaenjati – A large rally against the abuse of landowners' rights outside the House of Representatives building in Jakarta turned rowdy on Thursday when the cro

Kupang – After living for 13 years in shelters with no certain future, 15 people who fled East Timor before it became Timor Leste are returning home.