Camelia Pasandaran – The central government on Tuesday supported moves by the East Java governor to ban Ahmadiyah in the province.

Jakarta – Twenty percent of District III of Kerinci Seblat National Park in Bengkulu and South Sumatra has been destroyed by farming and the local administration's construction projects

Nivell Rayda – The roads of Cipacing in West Java are lined with small shops selling air guns.

Jakarta – The splinter group of the Association of Indonesian Farmers (HKTI) filed on Saturday a report to the Jakarta Police against the organization's original group chairman, Prabowo

With four more small parties set to join the Great Indonesia Movement Party and the ruling coalition warming to it, party chairman Prabowo Subianto's road to the presidency in 2014 is l

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Groups condemned bans issued by local administrations on the followers of Ahmadiyah following a fatal mob attack in Cikeusik village, Banten.

Suciwati, the wife of murdered human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, is planning to issue a case review request to the Supreme Court on her civil case against PT Garuda Indonesia, th

Keith Loveard – The government is finding out the real cost of a free press: Nobody's reputation is safe, particularly if a media owner decides to take sides politically.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Amid the unfortunate recent outbreak of what is now called "mob justice", groups are pushing legislators to issue a new law to define such violence and disorder c

Farouk Arnaz – Police investigating the deadly attack on members of the Ahmadiyah community in Cikeusik, Banten, have made another two arrests, taking the total number of suspects to 12

Banjir Ambarita – Jayapura – Three officers from the Jayapura Police have been jailed for 21 days for repeatedly forcing a female detainee to perform oral sex over a three-month period.

Nivell Rayda – When Gatot received a call on his cellphone from the hospital where his wife was being treated, he naturally assumed it would be about her condition.

Taufik Darusman – Didik Setyo Handono, a judge at the South Jakarta District Court, deserves a medal: He is the first judge to apply the legal principle of reverse burden of proof since

Heru Andriyanto – Less than two weeks after declaring the arrest of a Tangerang prosecutor a clear case of entrapment, the Attorney General's Office has backed off from its comments, sa

The government has targeted $80 billion in foreign and domestic investment in the manufacturing sector in the next five years, Antara reported, citing an Industry Ministry official.

Faisal Maliki Baskoro – For several days, hundreds of frustrated truck drivers have had to eat and sleep on the road to the port city of Merak, Banten.

Francezka Nangoy – State power utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara plans to cut industrial electricity rates for late-night use, it said on Sunday, but the plan does not sit well with som

Geradi Yudhistira, Jakarta – The government has responded to the impending food crisis by developing a food estate in the Papua regency of Merauke (MIFEE).

Jakarta – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is calling for Muslims to take part in a long march in Jakarta on March 1 to demand disbanding of Islamic minority sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Senior Democratic Party officials on Friday urged their two biggest partners to leave Indonesia's ruling coalition because they no longer

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After its failed push for a special inquiry into corruption in the tax office, the Golkar Party has come up with a new issue: the leadersh

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has declared itself ready to become an inclusive political party and embrace all groups of society, a party executive say

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The fallout from a proposed tax graft inquiry has triggered a change in the nation's political landscape, with the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra

Fitri, Eras Poke, Heru Andriyanto & Antara – Regional chiefs in some Indonesian provinces are moving ahead with plans to either ban completely or restrict the activities of Ahmadiya

Hamish McDonald – With popular uprisings turfing out rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and perhaps elsewhere in the Arab world, a lot of analysts have focused on fears of "contagion" in other re

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam's derogatory attacks on religious leaders and media outlets were aimed at diverting the public's attention from the nation's real

Jakarta – Local administrations are preventing community forestry projects from being enacted and are instead awarding access to forests to businesses, a study reveals.

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – The United Nations Security Council has urged East Timor to stop granting impunity for serious crimes as it extended the stay of the UN mission in the country.

Bandar Lampung – A new satellite image shows that about 96 percent of total mangrove forests in Lampung have disappeared, a mangrove conservation working group from Lampung Province say

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Panca Nugraha, Bandung/Mataram – An alliance of Muslim hard-liners once again called for Ahmadiyah disbandment in Bandung on Friday and threatened anarchic movement

Drew Ambrose, Dili – The United Nations has said it will extend its mandate for peacekeepers in East Timor for another year.

Elaine Pearson – Last July, violence erupted when municipal police and hundreds of people organized by militant Islamist groups tried to break into an Ahmadiyah mosque in Manis Lor vill

Vento Saudale & Ulma Haryanto – Ahmad Nuryamin, an Ahmadi accused of wounding a 15-year-old boy, told the Cibinong District Court on Thursday that he had panicked and "accidentally"

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Bekasi District Court sentenced the suspended leader of the Bekasi branch of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), Raya Murhali Barda, to five-and-a-half

Jakarta – Anti-Ahmadiyah protesters planned to move their demonstration to the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) headquarters after demonstrating in front of the Hotel Indon

West Jakarta Mayor Burhanuddin has called for premarital sex between teenagers in big cities to be combated by building more mosques and educating youths on matters of religion and mora

Jakarta – The National Police expressed Thursday its joy in welcoming back their former chief detective, who is currently undergoing a trial for alleged graft, Comr.

A West Papuan student activist says the dialogue over self-determination aspirations is still very much alive among young West Papuans through social media like Facebook.

An academic specialising in Papua affairs says it's unlikely effective popular uprisings like those in the Middle East and North Africa will take place in Indonesia's Papua region.

Ismira Lutfia – The Press Council is appealing to media companies to better champion the safety of their journalists covering risky beats in the wake of what it deemed was injustice in

Central Jakarta Police late on Thursday night dispersed a group of people protesting the city's plan to build a block of apartments in Rawasari, Central Jakarta, on land that was suppos

Heru Andriyanto – Firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Bashir on Thursday attacked Ahmadiyah as being "poisonous" to Islam.

Vento Saudale – A religious figure told a court on Wednesday that the government's failure to outlaw Ahmadiyah was to blame for a 2010 attack on the Islamic sect in Bogor's Cisalada vil

Ronna Nirmala – The Constitutional Court on Thursday partially revised a law governing how juvenile offenders should be tried in court, but child rights campaigners say it is not enough

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – As the House of Representatives continues to work on a new code of ethics for its members, nongovernmental organizations say the current draft lacks tough pun

Ulma Haryanto – Despite being found guilty on Thursday of inciting violence, suspended Islamic Defenders Front leader, Murhali Barda, is set to walk free on Sunday.

Anita Rachman & Ismira Lutfia – Despite a massive backlash, Cabinet Secretary Dipo Alam on Wednesday stood by his call to boycott certain media organizations and added that he was r

Heru Andriyanto – Radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir lambasted the United States and its allies for their relentless attempts to convict him of terrorism when he appeared in the South Jaka

Arientha Primanita – The Constitutional Court on Thursday struck down a contentious decree governing the use of wiretaps, calling it a violation of human rights and making it more diffi

The ramifications of the fast moving events in Libya and the middle east could be felt as far away as Papua in Indonesia, a Sydney Conference has been told.