Jakarta – A former prisoner of Salemba penitentiary in Central Jakarta, Syarifudin S.

Agus dos Santos, Dili – FRETILIN and PUN MPs have called on the Anti-Corruption Commission (KAK) to investigate the implementation of previous annual budgets by the National Parliament

Dofa Fasila & Ismira Lutfia – The Jakarta administration's threat to close the Greenpeace office on Monday fizzled after the environmental group asked for more time to move out of i

Camelia Pasandaran & Rangga Prakoso – The fledgling National Democratic Party vowed on Tuesday to fight any efforts to bar it from the general and presidential elections in 2014.

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Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Local business associations have complained about recent demands by workers for wage increases above the proper-living needs (KHL) standard set by regional lab

Jakarta – Members of the Center for Orangutan Protection protested in front the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Tuesday demanding that the President support the legal protection of or

Usman Hamid, Jakarta – Indonesia and other Asian countries have for better or worse to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The freedom of religious belief and the right to practice one's faith are protected by our Constitution.

Bandung – The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is calling for those convicted of corruption to lose either their head or their hands, depending on the severity of the crime.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia & Ezra Sihite – A Prosperous Justice Party lawmaker said on Monday that the corruption case against former Democratic Party treasurer Muhammad

Ezra Sihite & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives was back in session on Monday, kind of.

Camelia Pasandaran – An Indonesian politician has responded to allegations that poor quality laws passed by lawmakers were due to corruption and vested interests by admitting the claims

Anita Rachman – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has found himself in a familiar position, back on the defensive over the extravagance of legislators.

Ulma Haryanto – More than 30 people claiming to be from the notorious Islamic Defenders Front besieged an Ahmadiyah mosque in the Jatibening area of Bekasi on Monday, demanding it be se

Ulma Haryanto – A draft bill on religious harmony being prepared at the House of Representatives is likely to promote intolerance rather than counter it, a human rights watchdog said on

Jakarta – Vigilante groups in Bekasi, West Java, issued a threatening warning to the local Ahmadiyah community on Monday, claiming that the followers of the Islamic sect had not abided

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has completed a draft of the so-called religious tolerance bill, which observers claim would threaten the very essence of pluralism a

Jakarta – The GKI Yasmin church congregation, which has been deprived of its place of worship after its church was sealed off, says it is seeking protection from the Nahdlatul Ulama Exe

Karlis Salna – Human rights groups have called for Australia and the United States to use meetings at the East Asia Summit in Bali to press Indonesia into addressing concerns of ongoing

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar/Jakarta – Amid growing protests over the government's apparent inability to resolve unrest in Papua, the National Police have carried out raids against Papuan

Anita Rachman – The official announcement that Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie will run as the presidential candidate for Indonesia's grand old party will be made next year, the m

Ulma Haryanto & Lisa Siregar – Over the past few weeks, we have been bombarded with survey after survey about public perceptions of corruption in government, law enforcement and bus

Human rights organization Setara Institute has urged the House of Representatives to cancel a bill that aims to boost tolerance in the country, arguing that it would instead exacerbate

Jakarta – Members of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) congregation were again prevented from holding mass as police officers and soldiers blocked access to their seale

North Maluku students demonstrated outside the Ternate mayor's office on Monday demanding the resignation of Deputy Mayor Arifin Djafar after he was recently photographed clubbing in a

Jerry Omona, Papua – Thousands of Papuans demonstrated in the Papuan provincial capital of Jayapura today demanding that a referendum or an act of self-determination be held immediately

Nurlina Umasugi, Jayapura – Thousands of Papuans from the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) held a 15 kilometer march on Monday afternoon to demand a referendum for the Papuan people

Chazizah Gusnita, Jakarta – Thousands of Papuans from the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) demonstrated in front of the Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) building in the Papu

Jayapura – Thousands of protesters staged a pro-independence rally in Indonesia's restive and resource-rich Papua region Monday demanding a referendum for self-determination.

Farouk Arnaz – Three more people with links to a high-profile terror suspect have been arrested by the police's Densus 88 counterterrorism unit, officials said on Monday.

The government says that it will be more focused on the development of oil and gas reserves in Papua.

Jakarta – A politician asks the central government to grant Papuan people requests as long as the easternmost island stays within the Republic.

Anita Rachman – The country's second-largest Islamic group has thrown its full weight behind efforts to rid Indonesia of its heavy smoking habit.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United States needs to get its own house in order before it can criticize Indonesia on rights abuses, a lawmaker said on Sunday.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) and several Papuan civil society groups have protested against raids on Papuan student dormitories in seve

A new survey says villagers on the Indonesian side of Borneo killed at least 750 endangered orangutans over a yearlong period, some to protect their crops and others for the apes' meat.

Dessy Sagita – Thirteen years after at least 12 university students and other civilians were killed by security forces in a demonstration at the Semanggi cloverleaf in South Jakarta, th

Anita Rachman – The National Social Security Law may have passed, but a troubling question lingers about the fate of the existing health insurance scheme and its beneficiaries.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – As tensions remain high in Papua, rights groups on Sunday said security forces in Jakarta and Bali had arbitrarily raided the dormitories of Papuan students.

Hundreds of Islamists rallied in Central Jakarta on Sunday to protest against this week's visit by US President Barack Obama.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry says Freeport Indonesia's union workers should be more reasonable in their demand for a ra

Tjahjo Eranius, Kuala Kencana – After more than a decade of hard work and long hours driving a truck through the mountains of Indonesia's remote Papua province for US mining giant Freep

Jakarta – International human right watchdog Amnesty International urged the Indonesian government to reveal details concerning the Santa Cruz shooting in Timor Leste that allegedly cla

Constitutional Court (MK) chief Mahfud MD says that he has no objections to the Judicial Commission's (KY) authority to be able to tap into the phone calls of judges, a law which will b

Ulma Haryanto – Legal aid activists and supporters showed on Friday their backing for under-fire environmental group Greenpeace, which is being evicted from its office by the Jakarta ad

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives have been told to immediately review the controversial 2003 Labor Law to better protect labor and revive th

Hans David Tampubolon and Theresia Sufa, Jakarta, Bogor – Religious Affairs Deputy Minister Nasaruddin Umar says the government has been slow to resolve religious conflicts, particularl

Emily Rauhala – A year ago Barack Obama returned to Indonesia, where he lived as a boy, as President of the United States.

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