Makassar – A police officer charged with beating the 17-year-old boy accused of stealing his sandals was sentenced to 21 days behind bars by a police tribunal on Thursday.

Ezra Sihite – Indonesia's House of Representatives (DPR) has been urged to pull the plug on a scheme to renovate toilets in the Nusantara 1 building, which houses the offices of the pol

Anita Rachman – Siti Jamilah, a scavenger who lives in Jakarta, doesn't think the mainstream media pays enough attention to poverty issues and poor people like her.

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Government agencies say that several provinces in eastern Indonesia cannot provide basic public services – despite rich natural resources and trillions o

Zaky Pawas – Police have arrested 18 men following a fresh clash between two organizations with a long history of hostility, the Betawi Rempug Forum and the Pancasila Youth, police said

Jakarta – Djubaidah had to charter a public minivan to help her carry a sack of 80 pairs of rubber sandals that she collected to the National Child Protection Commission's (KPAI) office

Rahmat – A 17-year-old boy at the center of a legal and public relations storm was found guilty on Wednesday of stealing a pair of sandals from a policeman and released into the custody

Farouk Arnaz – Feeling the heat following a public campaign to collect 1,000 pairs of sandals to mock a policeman who took a juvenile to court for petty theft, the National Police is no

Ulma Haryanto – A sharp increase in the attacks on the country's police offices and facilities st year is an indication of the public's growing discontent toward law enforcers, a watchd

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – As an Indonesian citizen who happens to be a Shiite Muslim, Ahmad Jamali says he does not know why the police are stopping him from returning home after a g

Brendan Brady, Dili – The sleeves of his button-down shirt rolled up, standing on an open-air stage before an audience of hundreds, the man read his poems with dramatic pauses, varied i

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Despite the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) finding nothing major in its audit of the government's bailout of Bank Century in 2008, numerous lawmakers say they wi

John McBeth – When the United States and Australia recently announced that US Marines would begin regular training in the Northern Territory, all that some Indonesian legislators could

Jayapura – The Papua office of the National Commission on Human Rights looked into 58 alleged violations of human rights in 2011, and was anticipating investigating at least that many c

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – A senior lawmaker from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) lambasted the government failing to protect a migrant worker left to die in fron

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Dozens of employees laid off by PT Riau Airlines rallied at the Riau Manpower and Transmigration Agency in Pekanbaru on Tuesday, demanding severance pay, holi

Jakarta – Hundreds of PT Freeport Indonesia workers have returned to work after a three-month strike, but a workers' union official predicts that it will take three or four weeks before

Anita Rachman – Far from hurting Golkar chief Aburizal Bakrie's potential chances in the 2014 presidential election, the Lapindo mudflow disaster would be a boon, a party official said

Alex Munro – A Chadstone resident has been leading a team of volunteers spreading light throughout some of the most remote parts of East Timor.

Anita Rachman – Disappointment greeted the preliminary conclusions of the government's fact-finding mission on the killings in Mesuji, with victims calling them shallow and unsatisfacto

Ronna Nirmala – The National Commission on Human Rights concluded on Tuesday that police violated their own procedures in the violent, deadly crackdown on an anti-mining rally at Sape p

Farouk Arnaz – Two more officers were named as suspects on Monday for beating protesters in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, last month, but no one has yet been charged in the shooting deaths

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights says that any police officers found guilty in a recent Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, clash deserve more than disciplinary sanctions for the

Ulma Haryanto – More than two weeks after shocking allegations from the district of Mesuji in Lampung came to light, the government's fact-finding team has declined to say whether human

Ivan Thomas Brecelic – The full moon is overhead as we arrive in Banyuwangi, East Java, at 3 a.m.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – First Brig. Simson Jones Sipayung is paying a high price for beating a 15-year-old boy who allegedly stole a fellow police officer's sandals.

Anita Rachman – With 2011 now behind us, pundits looking ahead to 2012 see a year of intense political battles and legal struggles ahead for Indonesia.

Jakarta – Police have named 56 Bima residents and five West Nusa Tenggara Police officers suspects in a clash that took place between protesters and authorities at Sape port on Dec.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) warned the government that social unrest may arise from natural resource conflicts in 2012 if the government refuses to "liste

Farouk Arnaz – An internal investigation by the National Police has led to three officers being named suspects in the violence in Bima, West Nusa Tenggara, but for assaulting protesters

Ezra Sihite – Thirteen days into their protest against paper firm Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper outside the House of Representatives, demonstrators say they will stay put until at least t

Jakarta – From issues such as Timor Leste's struggle for independence to Papua, Australian Cabinet papers have revealed that Australian policies in the region have always taken Indonesi

Dessy Sagita – The Indonesian Council of Ulema on Monday said that the legal process against a teenager accused of stealing a pair of sandals is excessive and not in line with Islamic v

Dozens of women in the city of Palu, Central Sulawesi, collected hundreds of pairs of sandals, which they presented to the local police headquarters on Saturday.

Greg Ansley – Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke's new Labor Government abandoned the party's tough stand on the annexation of East Timor under threat of huge retaliation by Ind

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Indonesia is facing significant social changes, as is demonstrated by the trend of marriages among young people as they encounter a growing number of rel

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The atmosphere heated up again around the GKI Taman Yasmin church in Bogor, West Java, when a group of people tried to prevent the church's congregation from cond

Jakarta – Bureaucratic dysfunction – and sometimes greed – human errors and a lack of capabilities have hampered disaster risk management operation throughout 2011, National Disaster Mi

A mob has looted the home and shop of a Shiite family in Sampang, East Java, after an attack on a nearby Shia Muslim boarding school a day earlier.

The head of Freeport Indonesia's workers' union has said there will be no further strikes despite growing concern over the issue in Timika, Papua.

Jakarta – Despite disruptions to labor agreements last year, Indonesians working abroad managed to send home US$6.1 billion in 2011.

Vento Saudale, Bogor – A bumper sticker prompted members of the hard-line Islamic Reform Movement to attack several members of the GKI Yasmin church on Sunday.

Ahmad Pathoni, Banda Aceh – Four people were killed in two separate armed attacks on New Year's Eve in Indonesia's Aceh province, police and a resident said on Sunday.

East Timor's first feature film revisits the tiny nation's tortured struggle for independence, writes Natalie Craig.

Three decades, you're entitled to think, is a long time in politics.

Ezra Sihite – The general elections are two years away, but political parties are already courting public figures they think will help bring them votes.

Nurhayat Indriyatno – The past year offered up a bounty of prime headline fodder, with plenty of people stepping into the glare of the public spotlight, willingly or not, to capture the

Rangga Prakoso – During 2011, the Attorney General's Office dropped prosecution of three major corruption cases: that of state coal miner Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam, pulp and paper fir

Rahmat & Agus Triyono – Sandals of all colors and sizes are rapidly accumulating as part of a nation-wide protest against a police officer who took a teenager to court for allegedly

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) acknowledged on Friday that it had failed to take the lead in the country's bureaucratic reform and had not performed well in law enforceme