Karlis Salna – Indonesia says the Bali Process remains the best forum for achieving a regional agreement on how best to deal with asylum seekers.

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia has agreed to step up cooperation in solving border problems with East Timor, its former territory, an Indonesian presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.

Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – Lawmakers and activists said a news report aired on Tuesday alleging senior retired generals had been supporting hard-line groups to incite religious

Scavengers, street vendors and other informal workers are falling further behind as the global economy recovers, amid rising competition from hordes of new working poor, a study release

Repeka Nasiko – The Australian West Papua Association (AWPA) in Sydney has written a letter to Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) leaders urging them to discuss and speak out against the

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The National Intelligence Agency (BIN) is planning to monitor accounts on social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook that they deem suspicious

One of the hard-line organizations implicated by Al Jazeera in a movement to overthrow President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and install an Islamic-based government says the allegations ag

Camelia Pasandaran – A senior cabinet minister on Wednesday rejected allegations that hard-line Islamists backed by senior retired military generals were attempting to overthrow the gov

Ulma Haryanto – Activists on Tuesday called for urgent state action against attacks on Ahmadiyah, saying authorities had failed to follow up on National Commission on Human Rights probe

Ina Parlina & Rizal Harahap, Jakarta/Pekanbaru – Representatives of the Ahmadiyah congregation skipped a government-initiated dialogue with officials on Tuesday, a closed-door meeti

Camelia Pasandaran – A top judge says the Bogor administration is clearly in the wrong in defying a Supreme Court ruling to unseal a church it had previously closed down for a building

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Anita Rachman & Nivell Rayda – Although the idea had previously been rejected by legislators, the government decided on Tuesday to revive the controversial

Pushing back plans to reduce subsidized fuel usage because of worries about rising inflation is risking the country's fiscal health, analysts say.

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia and East Timor on Tuesday agreed to step up cooperation in solving border problems, said an Indonesian presidential spokesman.

The Indonesian government has expressed an interest in investing in oil and mining infrastructure, among other industries, in East Timor.

Nurfika Osman – The chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) says he disagrees with an article published by a MUI leader that says Muslims should not salute the national flag a

Ina Parlina and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Jakarta/Bandung – Jamaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia is refusing to attend a meeting spnsored by the Religious Affairs Ministry scheduled for Tuesday, saying t

Camelia Pasandaran – Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud M.D.

Ismira Lutfia – The widow of slain Sun TV journalist Ridwan Salamun has lobbied the Press Council and the Judicial Commission for justice following the acquittal earlier this month of t

Anita Rachman – As allegations of unapproved polygamous marriages were leveled against three members of the Prosperous Justice Party on Tuesday, one embattled legislator from the Islam-

Francezka Nangoy – Beef may become increasingly scarce next month as the government rushes its efforts to reach self-sufficiency, the Indonesian Meat Importers Association said on Tuesd

Al Jazeera is reporting that "senior retired generals" are supporting the Islamic Defenders Front and other hard-line groups to incite religious violence and overthrow Indonesian Presid

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has turned down an offer from the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) to join his coalition of political parties.

Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives said on Monday that revisions affecting the national antigraft agency's sweeping powers could be in the works.

Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman – An ousted co-founder of the Prosperous Justice Party reported the party's second-highest official to the antigraft commission for embezzlement on Mon

The Prosperous Justice Party has asked that the current spate of terror attacks in the greater Jakarta region not be associated with Islam.

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma – In a widely expected move, the House of Representatives approved a government proposal to indefinitely postpone a scheme to cut subsidized fuel usage.

Heru Andriyanto – Firebrand cleric and terror defendant Abu Bakar Bashir has accused National Police's elite counterterrorism unit, Densus 88, of masterminding recent bomb scares in ord

Jakarta – Threats against workers, democracy and human rights activists have increased in 2010.

Apriadi Gunawan and Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD says that injustice in Indonesia is rife – partly due to unprincipled implementation of the la

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Hot on the heels of its campaign against the dissolution of Ahmadiyah, the hard-line Muslim group Islam Defenders Front (FPI) is now setting its eyes on under

Vento Saudale, Bogor – Some 100 members of a Christian congregation conducted services on the sidewalk in Bogor Sunday after police prevented them from using a contested church site tha

Nivell Rayda – When 55-year-old Joni Jailani became the leader of Ciaruteun Udik village in Bogor two years ago, it never crossed his mind that he would be mentioned in newspapers, let

Slamet Susanto and Jon Afrizal, Yogyakarta/Jambi – Demands to ban Ahmadiyah have increased in a number of regions amid recent calls from some US congressmen asking the Indonesian govern

Three subdistrict heads were caught on camera watching a pornographic video on a smartphone while they were supposed to be listening to a speech by the district head of Malang, East Jav

Armando Siahaan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will be remembered for a lot of things, but being a bastion of pluralism is definitely not one of them.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – More than 250,000 children under the age of five suffers from malnutrition in West Java's impoverished northern coastal regions, an official says.

Bagus BT Saragih – Lawmakers have proposed delegating the supervision of Constitutional Court justices, along with other judges, to the Judicial Commission.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Human rights groups are worried about the wiretapping provisions of the House of Representatives' draft bill to regulate the State Intelligence Agency (BIN).

Camelia Pasandaran – Collecting taxes is a bit more challenging this year in the wake of the Gayus Tambunan tax mafia scandal, the finance minister said on Friday.

Farouk Arnaz – Police suspect that the small bomb that exploded in Bogor on Friday is linked to the recent book-bomb threats despite the packaging being different.

Farouk Arnaz – House of Representatives deputy speaker Anis Matta can breathe a sigh of relief after the National Police on Friday declared that the sex tape posted on Twitter last mont

Elisabeth Oktofani & Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian Christian Church and the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation on Thursday reported the Bogor administration to the national Ombud

Kupang – Amnesty International (AI) asked the government to form an independent body to investigate allegations of torture that led to the death of one person and to severe injuries for

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) might be allowed to drop cases and facing stricter wiretapping rules, as the House of Representatives deliberates

The chairman and the secretary general of the Prosperous Justice Party have been reported to the House of Representatives' Ethics Council for alleged embezzlement.

Socratez Sofyan Yoman, Jayapura – The people of Indonesia outside Papua are clearly confused and keep asking: Why have indigenous Papuans never recognized and accepted the Act of Free C

Bruce Gale – "We shall not ignore democratic values.

Nurfika Osman – A men's organization advocating gender equality was launched in Jakarta on Thursday, giving women an unlikely ally in the battle against male dominance.

Greg Sheridan, Foreign Editor – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is a force working against corruption and poor governance in Indonesian society.