Jakarta – A group of victims from the 1984 Tanjung Priok tragedy say they will meet members of the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) in efforts to help them restore their righ

Jakarta – Indonesian delegates brought the case of slain human rights activist Munir Said Thalib into the spotlight at the 6th Dublin Platform – the world's largest forum of rights acti

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – London-based rights group Amnesty International has brought under the spotlight the arbitrary and excessive use of force and firearms by law enforcers in Lang

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Almost 100,000 people in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province were facing a serious food crisis, an official said on Tuesday.

Jakarta – State Intelligence Agency (BIN) chief Sutanto has refuted a leaked Jakarta United States Embassy diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks.

Arientha Primanita – The House of Representatives has urged the electoral commission to present data on 21 disputed polling results, including those affecting four House legislators.

Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita – Despite being picked by his colleagues to run for president in 2014, Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has yet to agree, a deputy chairman s

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Lawmakers criticized on Monday over accusations that the Health Ministry has yet to allocate sufficient budgets for basic health services for women and chi

Farouk Arnaz – Police on Tuesday raised the death toll of Sunday's clash in Ambon to seven.

Nurdin Hassan – An incestuous relationship between a brother and sister in sternly religious Aceh is the newest unconventional relationship to test the limits of the province's Shariah

Jakarta – Lawmakers have denied that they are secretly revising the bill governing the nation's intelligence agencies that is currently under deliberation at the House of Representative

Ulma Haryanto – When Ade Pujiati started a learning center, all she wanted was to be able to provide free education for the poor.

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) says bringing the Indonesian Military (TNI) in to Ambon to restore order after the recent riots will only

The dry season in Indonesia has triggered a massive water crisis on many islands, including Java, where thousands of people have been forced to use muddy water for consumption.

Jayapura – Mufriadi, a journalist with TOP TV Papua, was reportedly beaten by the South Sorong regent while he was covering a rally involving local residents outside of the regency admi

Jakarta – Golkar Party has come up with a consensus during the national consolidation meeting in Denpasar, Bali, to support party chairman Aburizal Bakrie in his run for the 2014 presid

Stephen Coates – East Timor's fragile stability will be tested in coming months as the country's political and business elite manoeuvre ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections

Jakarta – University of Indonesia's Student Executive Body with the Faculty of Economics (BEM FE UI) threatens to hold strike and refuses to go for lecture in protest to unending contro

Dessy Sagita, Ulma Haryanto & Febriamy Hutapea – If the sudden eruption of mass violence in Ambon over the weekend seemed sudden, it surprised few analysts, many of whom said it had

Hundreds of security personnel have been sent to the eastern Indonesian island of Ambon after sectarian clashes claimed at least three lives and left more than 80 people injured.

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – The treatment of political economic issues in Indonesia is "uneven, with no evidence of systematic improvement" since at least four years ago – hampering develo

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Most Indonesians insist on rejecting any form of religiously motivated violence and are worried that recent violent incidents against certain minority religi

Vento Saudale – Human Rights Watch visited the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor on Sunday to make first-hand observations of the congregation conducting its service on the sidewalk due to the

The Corruption Eradication Committee (KPK) Ethics Council says graft suspect M. Nazaruddin has committed slander by accusing KPK deputy chairman Chandra M.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A number of Friday prayer congregation members forcefully ended a sermon being delivered by a khatib (preacher) and dragged him down from the podium beca

Investing in conflict-affected and high-risk areas is a growing concern for responsible businesses and investors.

Nivell Rayda – In many ways, Jakarta was a bit of a culture shock for Afghan Fatimah (not her real name) when she arrived in 2004.

Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia has complained to Indonesia about land-clearing fires in the neighboring country that have led to a blanket of pollution and poor air quality.

Jakarta – Members of the executive board of the Islamic Student Association (PB HMI) submitted on Saturday a document detailing the dispute between the GKI Yasmin church and the Bogor a

Police in Southeast Sulawesi have arrested 11 suspects after a clash at Kendari's Haluoleo University that killed two students, an officer said on Sunday.

Bengkulu – Bengkulu province's education office is planning to include Koranic reading as part of its elementary school curriculum.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Police have named three suspects, including a local councilor, in Friday's attack on a Muslim preacher and have detained two of them, an officer said on Sunda

Jakarta – Indonesia is set to boost military ties with Germany, France and Spain, deputy defense minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said in Jakarta on Saturday.

Jakarta – Activists from various human rights NGOs urged Attorney General Basrief Arief to challenge a Supreme Court ruling that acquitted the alleged mastermind of the murder of rights

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Nurfika Osman - Recently leaked US diplomatic cables about the murder of human rights campaigner Munir Said Thalib could help authorities uncover the truth and implicate the real perpet

Camelia Pasandaran & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono used the occasion of his 62nd birthday – and his party's 10th – on Friday to reaffirm his administ

Jakarta – The ruling Democratic Party has expressed its disapproval of the rally by activists in front of the State Palace on Friday who presented a mock buffalo head to President Susil

Seven couples, including three Indonesian soldiers, were arrested for illegally being in close proximity to unmarried members of the opposite sex during raids in Banda Aceh, Aceh, early

Jakarta – Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) coordinator, Haris Azhar, has criticized Attorney General Basrief Arief for "giving up", after he pronounced t

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Law and Human Rights Ministry has begun to verify 14 new political parties that have registered for the 2014 elections, but it is estimated that only thr

Khairul Saleh, Palembang – Forest fires continued to spread in South Sumatra on Friday, while nearly 900 hot spots were reported in several regencies in the province.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Army Special Forces (Kopassus) is currently conducting a two-week joint training exercise with the Australian Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) in the Pulau S

Ronna Nirmala – Most Indonesians oppose the use of violence against the minority Muslim sect Ahmadiyah and think its followers here are their compatriots and should not be facing oppres

Ulma Haryanto – Graft suspect Muhammad Nazaruddin finally ended his silence on Thursday and submitted his first corruption allegation to antigraft investigators – against one of their o

Ronna Nirmala – Several prominent anti-corruption activists are sporting new looks today after publicly shaving their heads to express support for the Corruption Eradication Commission

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar on Thursday sought to distance himself from a rapidly growing corruption scandal in his ministry.

Dion Bisara – After a long wait for the introduction of the country's tax holiday system, foreign and domestic investors can now take relief with the announcement of the decree on Frida

Kupang – Domestic violence connected to economic hardship tops the list of violence reported by women in Kupang regency, East Nusa Tenggara, according to a report.

Dili – The new monetary authority of East Timor will be called the East Timor Central Bank and will be inaugurated on 13 September, according to information published on the Central Ban