Jakarta – The number of floating voters is tending to increase.

Jakarta – Hundreds of mudflow victims in the East Java town of Sidoarjo staged rallies on Sunday as part of the 5th anniversary of the disaster and are demanding compensation.

Esther Samboh, Jakarta – After two meetings in as many days, parties backing both sides of Jakarta's ban on trucks on sections of the inner-city toll road agreed to suspend the ban as o

Elisabeth Oktofani& Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office indicated on Friday that it would continue pursuing a teenager accused of stealing a Rp 10,000 cellphone voucher,

Elisabeth Oktofani – For Indonesian transgenders, practicing religion in public is not an easy thing, but that doesn't stop some from trying.

Dion Bisara & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – The government on Friday outlined its blueprint for the country's development over the next 14 years, presenting a series of startling numbers,

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – As the House's debate on the general elections bill heats up, two parties want the electoral threshold be upped to 5 percent from the current level of 2.5

Indonesia's claim to having the second-largest number of Facebook users in the world – 30 million accounts as of this year – may not be all it's cracked up to be.

Sidoarjo – The Sidoarjo Transportation Agency in East Java has ordered truck owners to remove all erotic paintings and provocative slogans from their vehicles because they are considere

Ronna Nirmala, Zaky Pawas & Arientha Primanita – They may have fought bigger battles when they were in uniform helping Indonesia gain independence from the Dutch or battle domestic

Anita Rachman – The Golkar Party will not get its way on the contentious legislative threshold, officials from smaller political parties have vowed.

Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) advisory council member Permadi has alleged that the Democratic Party has kept Rp 47 trillion (US$5.5 billion) in bank deposits accumulated fro

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Aceh has decided to hold its provincial, district and mayoral elections on Nov.

Anita Rachman – The Golkar Party lashed out on Monday against a decision by the House of Representatives to propose raising the legislative threshold to 3 percent.

The Democratic Party's House of Representatives faction leader explained on Friday that the party gave embattled lawmaker Muhammad Nazaruddin permission to go to Singapore for medical p

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Dessy Sagita – Two years into drafting the 2009 Health Law's implementing regulations, the Health Ministry announced on Friday that the expected blanket ban on cigarette advertisements

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Eighteen men and one woman were caned in the eastern Aceh town of Langsa on Thursday, less than a week after Amnesty International called for an end to the pr

An Indonesian human rights group on Friday condemned the use of caning in staunchly Islamic Aceh province, saying the punishment violated the country's constitution.

Rebecca Lunnon – Jemaah Islamiyah is still often the first name associated with terrorism in Indonesia.

Farouk Arnaz – The specter of an active Islamic terror campaign in Indonesia resurfaced on Thursday as police revealed that two suspects seized hours after a deadly attack on a police p

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Surabaya – Mangrove conservation forests along the east coast of Surabaya (Pamurbaya) face threats not only from indiscriminate land clearing for fish or shrimp po

Anita Rachman – Although House Speaker Marzuki Alie has suspended all activities related to the construction of a new legislative office building, the project has not been completely dr

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – A lack of transparency surrounding the procurement of 15 passenger aircraft produced by China's Xi'an Aircraft Company (XAC) has led to allegations of misconduct

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – M. is a member of the Wilayatul Hisbah, Aceh's Shariah Police, and he is proud of it. But the athletically built 33-year-old is no ordinary officer.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – City officials said on Thursday that they would stick to their threat to name and shame members of a banned sect who had not yet repented before the deadline

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Dwi Lusiana, Malang, East Java – The 40-meter minaret outside Sabilillah Mosque looks like any other in this Muslim heartland.

Camelia Pasandaran – Senior government officials on Wednesday defended the country's human rights record against recent criticism about it gaining a seat on the United Nations Human Rig

Jakarta – Ahead of the party's national congress in early July, competition is brewing at the United Development Party (PPP) as several members engage in a fierce battle to head the Isl

Jakarta – The tales of the New Order regime's success, which are being used as a selling point for the Golkar Party, are misleading.

Jakarta – Foreign penetration through multi-national companies in the food sector is increasing and spreading.

Olivia Rondonuwu – Islamist cleric Abu Bakar Bashir used his final defense against charges of funding a militant group on Wednesday to denounce the United States for trying to stop Isla

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Wednesday officially charged six Islamic Indonesian State (NII) members that were detained in Central Java on Monday evening.

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Ronna Nirmala – Oppressive laws adopted since the fall of Suharto are threatening to erode long-held women's rights, activists warned on Wednesday.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police's chief detective said on Monday that there were no plans to probe firms linked to alleged bribes paid to Gayus Tambunan despite questions lingering o

Ulma Haryanto – Antigraft activists testified on Monday that Busyro Muqoddas should serve out the full four years as head of the anticorruption commission, rather than the one year mand

Camelia Pasandaran & Arientha Primanita – In response to rising radicalism in Indonesia, the heads of eight state institutions agreed to strengthen Pancasila within the country.

Anita Rachman – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi and Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar on Monday said the country's election organizers should be free from any politi

Arientha Primanita – The Democratic Party's dismissal of Muhammad Nazaruddin as party treasurer does not illustrate Yudhoyono's seriousness in eradicating political corruption in the co

Heru Andriyanto – An Indonesian court has awarded Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra more than Rp 12.5 billion ($1.5 million) in damages after a magazine described the youngest son of former

Elisabeth Oktofani – Activists said on Monday that violence against women still dominated reports on women's issues in the print media and that other angles and themes needed to be expl

Dessy Sagita – Homosexuality continues to be seen as a mental disease in Indonesia despite two decades of formal recognition to the contrary, activists said on Monday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ulma Haryanto – After weeks of being dogged by graft allegations, Muhammad Nazaruddin has been dismissed as treasurer of the ruling Democratic Party, a se

Farouk Arnaz – A disagreement over who was elected chairman of the United Development Party's Papua branch at a meeting last weekend was brought to the attention of the police on Monday

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono finally signed a long-awaited new agreement Monday with members of his sometimes-frayed ruling coalition.

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party seems to be at a loss in the face of the ever-widening scandal its treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin is entangled in, pol

Ulma Haryanto – Activists have urged the government to improve the country's questionable rights record in the wake of its selection for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Counci

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