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Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – The Presidential Palace will not issue any further comments on the WikiLeaks scandal, a spokesman for Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Sunday.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Pidie, Aceh – Uncontrolled illegal logging has been blamed for a flash flood in Tangse district, Pidie regency, Aceh, on Thursday evening.

Jason MacLeod – Just as Indonesia's president Susilo Bambang Yudhuyono was being feted globally for being a democrat, the Indonesian government was entrenching Papua's reputation as Ind

Heru Andriyanto – Controversial cleric Abu Bakar Bashir stormed out of his court hearing after his lawyer on Monday was expelled for contempt of court.

Indonesian Vice President Boediono has taken the opportunity of a visit to Australia to again deny allegations of corruption against his President.

Camelia Pasandaran, Bogor – In his first public response to the WikiLeaks scandal that surfaced on Friday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday said that he did not want to be "

A Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) lawmaker in the Gorontalo Legislative Council has been fired by the party following his arrest for illegal gambling.

Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) said any opportunity it had to join the ruling coalition was closed, for now.

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Ulma Haryanto & Elisabeth Oktofani – Police and military officers in West Java have coerced Ahmadiyah members into renounce their faith through bribery and intimidation, two groups

Vento Saudale – Authorities in Bogor barred members of the GKI Yasmin congregation from entering their own church on Sunday in their latest brazen violation of a Supreme Court order.

Nivell Rayda – The small Al Khasanah Mosque in East Jakarta was half-full when Farid Okbah took to the podium to deliver his sermon.

Armando Siahaan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should consider himself a lucky man.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta/Surabaya – Another WikiLeaks document on Indonesia appeared in The Age on Saturday, revealing the reasons for the US Embassy in Indonesia's decision to tur

Apologies for Wikileaks are not enough, a top Democratic Party leader says, after an Australian newspaper, citing a leaked cable, alleged that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono abused

The National Awakening Party (PKB) is targeting 100 seats in the 2014 legislative election and is counting on religious leaders (kiai) to help them reach their target.

Nurdin Hasan & Antara, Pidie, Aceh – At least 11 people were killed and more than 100 homes destroyed in a flash flood that struck Pidie district in Aceh on Thursday night.

Ulma Haryanto – Legal aid foundations on Friday condemned the fatal shooting of Shakira, a transvestite, and demanded that the police launch a comprehensive investigation.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia demanded, and received, an expression of regret from the US ambassador in Jakarta yesterday as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono emphatically denied all

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The prolonged transfer of Indonesian Military (TNI) businesses to the government is proof of the TNI's lack of transparency and poor willingness to reform, a

Philip Dorling – The US has blackballed one of the closest advisers to the Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for alleged involvement in East Timor war crimes, say leaked U

Anita Rachman – If senior political figures, including President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, plan to fight explosive allegations about them in US cables leaked on Friday, they had better

Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was said to have been shocked and unhappy, and the first lady, Ani Yudhoyono, in tears, following the publication of an article i

The Department of State does not comment on materials, including classified documents, which may have been leaked.

Philip Dorling – When Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won a surprise victory in Indonesia's 2004 presidential elections, the Unites States hailed it as "a remarkable triumph of a popular, arti

The leaders of a number of churches in Papua have called on the central government to hold a dialogue with indigenous Papuans, stressing that it should be mediated by a neutral third pa

Camelia Pasandaran – The Presidential Palace has strongly denounced as unsubstantiated gossip the allegations published on today's The Age that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ab

Heru Andriyanto – A militant known as a close aide to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was sentenced to four and a half years in jail on Friday for raising funds to finance paramilitar

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In September 2008, Indonesia's judicial system was ranked the worst in Asia by a Hong Kong-based consulting firm that dubbed the country's judiciary as one of "th

Jakarta – State Secretary Sudi Silalahi said that the reports of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's alleged abuse of power published by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald have injured

Former Vice President Jusuf Kalla admitted on Friday that there was some truth to an allegation, released by Wikileaks and published today in Australia's The Age newspaper, that he had

Wimar Witoelar, Jakarta – The brouhaha surrounding the trouble in the ruling coalition between the Democratic Party, the Golkar Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) might seem c

Elisabeth Oktofani, Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto, Bogor – Members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect came under attack again on Friday when a mob vandalized four of their homes, prompt

Yuli Tri Suwarni – West Java officials are bearing down on the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect to open their mosques to the public on Thursday, while in Tasikmalaya, six Ahmadis reportedly left

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Heads up – the morality police have their eye on you. Or at least they will if you happen to be in Surabaya's Bungkul Park.

Rahmat & Ismira Lutfia, Makassar – Journalists in Makassar and Jakarta demanded justice on Thursday for two colleagues killed in Maluku in separate incidents.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Today, 85-year-old Mbah Pujiati will do what she has done every Thursday since Jan.

Slamet Susanto and Arya Dipa, Yogyakarta/Bandung – Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X stance against banning Ahmadiyah has received pros and cons.

Joe Cochrane – I see nothing wrong with people changing their minds about an important issue. Nobody's perfect and a bit of self-reflection and calm, cool reasoning is healthy.

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Indonesia said on Wednesday it was scaling back plans to float several state-owned companies on the stock market, and would carry out just one initial public offering in 2011.

Camelian Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – Prospects for a cabinet reshuffle fizzled out on Wednesday with the State Palace denying there would be a shake-up anytime soon or that opposit

A treaty between Australia and East Timor covering the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas development is at risk, according to a report in The Australian, with East Timor threatening

Ina Parlina – The acquittal of three suspects in the death of a journalist in Maluku is "shocking" and ignored eyewitness testimony, according to activists.

Heru Andriyanto – If all goes according to plan, prosecutors suspected of corruption will not simply face disciplinary sanctions but could end up on the wrong side of the courtroom as d

The Student Executive Board of the Cenderawasih University Law Faculty has called on the Papuan branch of Komnas HAM, the National Human Rights Commission, to take firmer action regardi

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – A ban imposed by several provincial administrations outlawing the Ahmadiyah religious sect has been described by a prominent human rights activist as a failure o

Camelia Pasandaran – None of the regional bylaws banning the activities of Ahmadiyah followers contravene the Constitution or law, a Home Affairs Ministry official said on Wednesday.

Ronna Nirmala & Anita Rachman – Tuesday may have been the 100th celebration of International Women's Day, but in Indonesia the struggle for gender equity still has a long way to go.