Jakarta – Following in the footsteps of East Java, West Java and South Sulawesi, Depok Mayor Nurmahmudi Ismail issued on Wednesday a ban forbidding the Ahmadiyah religious sect from pra

Andi Hajramurni and Apriadi Gunawan, Medan/Makassar – Cities in Indonesia saw women voice various concerns from lax law enforcement to poverty afflicting women at International Women's

Medan – Protesters calling themselves the Women's Liberation Progressive Committee (KP3), which is an alliance of the North Sumatra Islamic University (UISU) Islamic Students Associatio

Johannes Nugroho – In spite of the state's stated efforts to combat corruption, Indonesia's record on clean governance is invariably dismal.

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Members of House of Representatives' Commission III on legal affairs and laws, human rights and security opposed the proposal to endorse a bill that would gr

Tom Allard – Indonesia's Vice-President has flagged a drive for reconciliation with the troubled region of West Papua, revealing plans to create a agency to facilitate talks with disaff

The head of the Nusakambangan narcotics detention center has been detained for allegedly receiving money from drug transactions.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Several interfaith leaders who criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration have rebuffed Cabinet secretary Dipo Alam's accusation that they pol

Heru Andriyanto – Two men accused of channeling funds to firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir to set up a paramilitary camp in Aceh firmly maintained their innocence in two separate hearin

Australia sees no need to intervene in the dispute between oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd and East Timor over how to develop the vast Greater Sunrise gas field, Resources M

Dessy Sagita – Christian leaders recently lambasted by Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam for "politicizing" violence against the Ahmadiyah have defended their position as proponents of divers

Heru Andriyanto & Ismira Lutfia – Three men were acquitted on Wednesday of the murder of a TV journalist in Maluku, prompting protests from media observers.

The young nation's application to join Asean should be approved despite the problems it may cause to the grouping's integration plan

Semarang – Central Java Governor Bibit Waluyo said he failed to understand schools in the province that refused to follow his instruction that every school should play patriotic songs e

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – In a sign of animosity toward the nation's antigraft body, lawmakers have refused to acknowledge a decision by the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to clear t

Elisabeth Oktofani – Although the nation's antigraft agency has arrested more corruption suspects in 2010 than in the previous year, it has been unable or unwilling to pursue cases invo

Jakarta – No parties have registered for the 2014 elections since the Law and Human Rights Ministry opened its doors for the verification process more than six weeks ago, an official sa

Several hundred people attended a demonstration in Jayapura on Tuesday 8 March, mostly from the Central Highlands Students Association, urging the provincial legislative assembly, the D

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The country's antigraft body has been named one of the most accountable state bodies in 2010, the year in which activists said it worked incredibly slow in the fi

Jakarta – The institutionalisation of discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion and beliefs is causing women, particularly those from minority groups, to progressively lose th

Yuli Krisna & Dofa Fasila, Bandung – A military commander in West Java has warned against using brute force against the Ahmadiyah, saying there were more "elegant" methods to suppre

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has urged the government to place a ban on Ahmadiyah to prevent further problems from flaring up.

Indonesian women remain susceptible to gender-based violence due to the state's protracted weakness and unwillingness in providing adequate protection for them, activists say.

Arientha Primanita – Sitting on the wooden plank next to the railroad tracks that has become her home, 55-year-old Kariyah offers an apology.

Iman Herdiana, Bandung – International Women's Day (IWD) was marked by a protest action by hundreds of workers from the Indonesian Trade Union Congress Alliance (KASBI) in the city of C

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – Commemorating International Women's Day today, global capitalism became the target of sharp criticism.

Andi Aisyah, Makassar – Scores of women activists held an action commemorating the 100th International Women's Day (IWD) in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar today.

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Hundreds of woman activists in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta from the Indonesian Women's Movement (Gerpari) commemorated International Women's Day (I

Heru Andriyanto – Firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir told a court on Monday that the government's actions against him and the paramilitary training in Aceh were tantamount to banning Isl

Camelia Pasandaran – Desperate schools in Tangerang have resorted to borrowing money from students and teachers after the district government halted the distribution of operational aid

Elisabeth Oktofani – After accusing the government of spreading lies at the beginning of the year, the same group of religious leaders on Friday urged the nation's antigraft body to inv

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) fears a police move to name three police officers suspects in a planned attack on Ahmadiyah followers in C

Zaky Pawas & Vento Saudale – After nearly a decade-long legal battle against hard-line Muslims and officials in the province, a group of Christians were finally able to reclaim thei

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The government has said that Indonesia would support Timor Leste's full membership in ASEAN – despite opposition from other countries.

Jakarta – Lawmakers from the Golkar Party are more competent than their fellow lawmakers at the House of Representatives, a survey concluded.

Jakarta – A shake-up of the ruling coalition is no remedy for the ailing relationship among political parties that have exercised transactional maneuvers at the House of Representatives

Juba, Sudan – Indonesia must reposition non-ministerial agencies to eliminate overlap that leads to gross bureaucratic inefficiency, according to experts.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – While the nation has been focused on religious violence and corruption scandals, the House of Representatives has been moving ahead with a plan to build a Rp

Aubrey Belford – Chaotic street protests, bickering elite and swirling allegations of corruption – it all looks like another typically unsavoury episode of politics in Indonesia.

Zubaidah Nazeer – Madam Wilus lives in a ramshackle dwelling by the railway track in Central Jakarta.

Heru Andriyanto – The Press Council is warning that misleading information in the investigation into the murder of a television journalist have caused prosecutors to demand a much too l

Vincent Lingga – This week was abuzz with wide speculation that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would rebuke and oust the Golkar Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) from his

Marcel Thee – The latest national sex video scandal involves a clip of Iwan Fajarudin, a National Mandate Party lawmaker from the Purworejo Legislative Council and a woman he claims is

Farouk Arnaz – The future of the National Police's proposed antianarchy unit appeared less clear after police told lawmakers on Thursday that the highly criticized new unit would utiliz

The Democratic Party has secured a commitment from four ally parties that they will support President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono until 2014.

In another twist in the Indonesian Football Association saga, a nongovernmental organization reported chairman Nurdin Halid to the Jakarta Police on Sunday alleging he was guilty of bri

Farouk Arnaz – Recent violence targeting the Ahmadiyah community in the Cikeusik subdistrict of Banten only erupted because the Ahmadis wanted it to happen, the National Police's chief

Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam has struck back at Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, which has been critical of the government's inability to resolve the "Ahmadiyah problem."

The United States on Friday called for religious tolerance in Indonesia after several provincial governments banned followers of a minority Islamic sect from practicing in public.