New resolutions on Papua by the Australian Labor Party have been described as a shift in discourse in Canberra on issues around Indonesia's eastern region.

Strikers at PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua say they will remain on strike into 2012 if no agreement can be reached with management on new wages.

The central government is proposing an alternative solution to end the GKI Taman Yasmin church-closure case by offering the church options to move to a new location provided by the loca

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – Tony Wenas, the vice chairman of the Indonesian Mining Association, said on Sunday that he was worried a union decision to extend its three-month strike at the

Ismira Lutfia – Analysts have urged the government to shelve a contentious bill on state secrecy that they argue is both open to interpretation and redundant.

Jakarta – Human rights groups have given President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration poor marks with regard to its commitment to upholding human rights.

Antara & Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Arab movies good. Punk rock bad.

Gorontalo – The Indonesian Military says it will shift strategy and deploy troops from Java to areas near the nation's borders as part of a defense rethink.

It has now been four months since workers at Freeport-McMoRan's Grasberg mine in Papua decided to strike, demanding higher pay.

Although during his 2009 election campaign President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged to uphold human rights, the reality over the two years of his administration indicates a different

Ade Mardiyati – Out of love for Indonesia, Dominggus da Costa, along with his wife and children, decided to leave his hometown of Dili, East Timor in 1999, the year that marked the end

Shirley Wibisono – When Indonesia's longest suspension bridge suddenly collapsed last month, killing more than 20 people, allegations immediately surfaced that corruption was behind the

Jakarta – An 22-year-old Indonesian man has died after setting himself on fire near the presidential palace, according to police, in what is believed to be the country's first self-immo

Dofa Fasila & Fidelis E. Satriastanti – Disabled Indonesians are being sent mixed messages on the government's commitment to ensure equal access to transportation.

Candles were lit in a vigil in the grounds of Brisbane's St Stephen's Cathedral to honour five West Papuans believed killed in a recent military attack on crowds gathered for the Third

Markus Junianto – Indonesia is breeding new generations of corrupt officials faster than authorities can crack down on the scourge, a top official has warned.

Ezra Sihite – House of Representatives lawmakers are pressing ahead with plans to summon President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to explain a cabinet minister's decision to tighten up senten

Fitri, Lombok – Siti Fatimah sat in front of a burning stove as a kettle hissed.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Some hundred workers in Medan, North Sumatra staged a rally on Saturday, calling on the government to address their rights and curb human rights violations.

Hangga Brata & Ezra Sihite – In his International Anti-Corruption Day speech on Friday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the government would engage more with antigraft activ

Humans, regardless of their social, economic and ethnic background, hold in high esteem justice, dignity and freedom from persecution, and Papuans, who have faced decades of rights viol

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The struggle for justice for human rights abuse cases in Indonesia could be likened to a broken record falling on deaf ears, as activists have once again rem

Kupang – The Kupang regency administration in East Nusa Tenggara, has offered apartments to refugees from Timor Leste currently staying in makeshift shelters.

Vento Saudale, Bogor – Influential homeowners in Bogor are reportedly preventing the city's administration from acting against 250 dwellings in the Puncak area that were built in breach

Peter Alford, Jakarta – After months of delay during which the Papuan situation has sharply deteriorated, the Yudhoyono administration's last shot at bridging the chasm between Jakarta

Ulma Haryanto, Agus Triyono & Zaky Pawas – Slowly, the identity of the man believed to have set himself on fire in front of the Presidential Palace on Wednesday is being revealed.

Nani Farida, Jakarta – Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum became the target of protesters as demonstrators rallied for World Anticorruption Day in several cities across Indonesi

Jakarta – The first things that came into Sri Warini's mind when she found her house had been robbed were that she must call the police and make a list of all the items that had been st

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The governor of Bank Indonesia (BI) is slamming inefficiency in the country's banking industry that he says pushes up lending rates and blocks the nation from e

Ati Nurbaiti, Canberra – As of September this year, at least 26 regencies and municipalities have passed bylaws restricting or banning the Ahmadiyah sect, 11 of them in West Java alone,

Eddy Pratama – Six people accused of a series of bomb scares across Central Java a year ago were sentenced on Thursday to between five and six years in prison by the West Jakarta Distri

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Commemorating International Anti-Corruption Day, which falls Friday, hundreds of university students in Makassar staged rallies on Thursday, demanding that t

Fakhrurradzie Gade, Aceh – The man known as Indonesia's "green governor" chases the roar of illegal chainsaws through plush jungles in his own Jeep.

Jakarta – Six government coalition political parties appear unwilling to reconcile their divergent views on proposed amendments to the legislative threshold, as legislators begin to del

Rawagede – The Dutch government formally apologized on Friday to the families of victims of a 1947 massacre on Indonesia's Java island, on the 64th anniversary of the executions by its

Olivia Rondonuwu – Indonesia's parliament is likely to pass a long-delayed land bill next week, a move that investors hope will speed up land acquisition to spur infrastructure developm

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – The Kalimantan orangutan population is increasingly under threat, with the discovery of the remains of several of the great apes that had been killed in forests

Farouk Arnaz – The Densus 88 Counterterrorism Unit ran into some luck on Friday when they knocked on a door and a terror fugitive suspect voluntarily opened the door.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The government's initiative to accelerate development in Papua and West Papua through the establishment of a special unit led by Bambang Darmono has met w

Raisa Premiera – A group of vocal supporters continued an overnight vigil outside a Jakarta hospital on Thursday to support a man who dramatically set himself on fire during a suspected

Peter Alford, Jakarta – Indonesia's government is planning to cope with severe financial and economic shocks in coming months, including food shortages, Vice-President Boediono said yes

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly Taufik Kiemas said on Thursday that the government should dismiss the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force

Dessy Sagita – Indonesia's outspoken Constitutional Court Chief Mahfud M.D.

Camelia Pasandaran – The religious-based Prosperous Justice Party says it will evaluate the performance of controversial Depok mayor Nur Mahmudi Ismail after the Corruption Eradication

Jakarta – The East Nusa Tenggara provincial government has set the minimum regional wage for 2012 at Rp 925,000 (about US$102) a month.

Banyumas – Around 400 hawkers protested the decision of railway company PT KAI to ban them from operating inside trains, saying that the decision would foster unemployment.

Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a new promise from the home affairs minister to send a long-delayed bill on village governance to the legislature, village ch

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo says that he has placed his hopes on religious preachers to help reduce the vast spread of HIV/AIDS in the city.

Jakarta – The nation's money laundering watchdog has revealed that dozens of civil servants – still in their 20s or 30s – are thought to have committed graft and stashed their illegal g

Camelia Pasandaran – A Prosperous Justice Party board member said that party lawmaker, Adang Daradjatun, has the right to keep his graft suspect wife's location secret.