Ezra Sihite – The newly selected leadership of the national antigraft commission was approved at a plenary session of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, with deposed chairman Busy

Ezra Sihite – The proposed fingerprinting system intended to more accurately gauge attendance at official meetings was again criticized during a plenary session on Tuesday where only 30

Ezra Sihite – A hearing on the contentious new policy to deny sentence cuts to corruption convicts turned ugly on Wednesday with a legislator losing his temper at Justice Minister Amir

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Demonstrators representing 27 Muslim groups rallied in Bandung on Monday, demanding that the West Java governor remove the Garut regency secretary for his al

Representatives from Amnesty International met with the coordinating minister for legal, political and security affairs on Tuesday, urging him to free political prisoners incarcerated f

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – About 500 inhabitants of Dagouto village in Paniai Regency, Papua, have opted to leave their homes and seek refuge following the deployment of 150 Mobile Bri

Vento Saudale, Bogor – Human trafficking remains a serious problem for Indonesia, according to a government official who said underage and West Java women were disproportionately repres

Agus Triyono – Papuans from the Paniai district on Wednesday reported National Police chief Gen.

Amnesty International is urging the Indonesian government to respect human rights when dealing with unrest in Papua.

Last week thousands of Papuans rallied to mark the 50th anniversary of the first raising of the Morning Star flag.

Jakarta – A police officer who was assaulted by villagers in Papua died after being treated in hospital, the police said Monday, two days after two other officers were shot dead by unkn

Farouk Arnaz – Police officer Ridwan Napitupulu died on Monday morning, nearly four days after he was wounded during an attack in Jayapura, the capital of Papua.

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia says it has ratified a global treaty banning nuclear test explosions.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yu-dhoyono and his Democratic Party will face an ugly battle in the lead up to the 2014 elections as politicians,

Jakarta – At least four groups of House of Representatives (DPR) members are traveling abroad this month for what they claim are "comparative studies".

Dessy Sagita – Thirteen-year-old Sefritania Salsabilla cringes and looks away every time she sees people kissing and hugging on television.

Medan – Hundreds of drivers of motor-powered tricycles, locally known as becak motor, staged a rally at the municipal office against what they claimed was discriminatory treatment by th

Fitri, Mataram – Hundreds of villagers in East Lombok have attacked and set alight a hut used by a small group deemed to be a deviant sect, forcing police to evacuate and save the sect

Joni Nunas Lestari, 31-years-old, was sentenced to two years in jail on Tuesday after disguising herself as a man and tricking another woman, Nur Aslim Velayati, 22, into marrying her.

Dion Bisara – Indonesia is one step closer to slashing a number of zeros from the rupiah after the government on Tuesday said it would submit a currency redenomination bill to the House

Ulma Haryanto – The year 2011 has been yet another period of abject failure by the government to protect human rights, according to the results of a survey released on Monday.

Mike Corder, The Hague – The Dutch government will pay compensation and apologize to relatives of men killed by Dutch troops in a notorious 1947 massacre of villagers during Indonesia's

Vento Saudale – The continued blockade of the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor by the local administration and hard-line Muslims has drawn the ire of the World Council of Churches, which warn

Brigid Andersen – Reports from West Papua claim Indonesian anti-terrorist police have torched a remote village in the Papuan highlands amid clashes with guerrilla rebels in the region.

Jakarta – The regent of Puncak Jaya wants to know who is supplying civilian groups with bullets in the wake of the fatal shootings of two police officers in the regency on Saturday.

A member of the Jayapura police who was attacked by an unidentified group in Jayapura, Papua, died on Monday morning.

Jakarta – In spite of the continuous government program against HIV/AIDS, for many of Jakarta's poor the program remains elusive, with many impoverished residents still not receiving co

Dessy Sagita – A school that earned the ire of the nation for rejecting, on World AIDS Day last week, a 6-year-old student because her father was HIV positive apologized on Monday but c

Banjir Ambarita & Ulma Haryanto – The temperature in the restive province of Papua rose again after an armed attack over the weekend left two police officers dead and prompted villa

Banjir Ambarita & Ulma Haryanto – Fighting in the violence-wracked district of Puncak Papua resulted in three deaths on Saturday, bringing the death toll from a long-simmering polit

Leaders of various worker's unions and movements say they will group together into a more organized front, and establish a joint committee and local branches in cities to oppose the pol

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – During the 32-year rule of military strongman Soeharto, the Golkar Party prospered on the back of military power.

Nurdin Hasan – Three people died and five were injured during a shooting in Lhokseumawe, Aceh on Sunday.

Theresia Sufa, Jakarta – President of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Michelle Natalie – Thousands of village chiefs protesting at the House of Representatives say they won't leave for at least a week to force the government

Bayu Marhaenjati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono stressed on Sunday the importance of preserving religious harmony in Indonesia and condemned religious groups' intimidation of othe

Half a century ago, the Dutch encouraged the people of Western New Guinea, now generally known as Papuans or West Papuans, to look forward to independence.

Denpasar, Bali – Indonesia Sunday released a 14-year-old Australian boy convicted of drug possession on the resort island of Bali after two months in detention.

Dewi Kurniawati – It has been seven years since Suciwati, a petite, soft-spoken yet bravely determined woman, lost her activist husband to a poisoner.

Adelaide – A media academic specialising in Asia-Pacific affairs condemned New Zealand news coverage on West Papua and other Melanesian issues at a journalism education conference in Au

Jayapura – Security forces say they are hunting separatist rebels in Indonesia's restive Papua province after two police were killed in an attack.

Ulma Haryanto – More than a few eyebrows were raised when a relatively unknown young legal activist and lawyer from Makassar, South Sulawesi, emerged as the country's new antigraft czar

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has elected the next four leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), prompting angry cries from critics who say that the victors were

Laura Jones – Freedom campaigner Benny Wenda raised the West Papua flag with Lord Mayor of Oxford Elise Benjamin to call for independence.

After months of interviews and auditions, which included a tug-of-war within the House of Representatives over trivial procedural technicalities, the House's Commission III on legal aff

Nethy Dharma Somba and Nani Afrida, Jayapura/Jakarta – The Jayapura Police have questioned four Papuan people in connection with the separatist flag-raising ceremony during the "West Pa

Two Indonesian policemen were shot dead on Saturday in the latest deadly attack in eastern Indonesia's restive Papua province, police said.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Political tensions in Aceh have begun to rise again with a grenade blast on Jl. Daud Beureueh, Lampriet, Banda Aceh, at around 7:30 p.m.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Police officers were forced to deploy to Central Jakarta on Friday in response to an unusual public order issue caused by a flock of superstitious enthu

Sean Parnell – The Queensland Parliament has called on Indonesia to investigate and act on humans rights abuses in Papua.