Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Great Indonesia Movement Party on Friday added another political party to its alliance, proceeding with its plan of merging with 10 smaller parties as par

Nivell Rayda & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Former Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri won't honor a summons from the Corruption Eradication Commission to testify next week in

Ulma Haryanto – The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal filed by flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and upheld an earlier ruling ordering the airline to pay damages to the widow of slain ri

Ulma Haryanto – The Constitutional Court should now consider the consequences of upholding the 1965 Blasphemy Law, a top human rights watchdog has said, arguing that it should go, based

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has accused the nation's antigraft body of facilitating what it claimed to be the alleged entrapment of a prosecutor who was r

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Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Rizal Adi Syaputra says he is a proud punk, but still prefers to hide his dyed red hair under a cap.

Agus Maryono – The Banyumas Religious Court in Central Java has announced a significant increase in the number of divorce cases in the region, the majority of which stemmed from economi

Camelia Pasandaran, Mamuju, West Sulawesi – In response to concerns over attacks on minority religious groups, the government is drafting a law that will make it easier to disband viole

Hamdhoon Rashad, Washington, D.C. – The Amnesty group called on the Indonesian government to release the man they call a prisoner of conscience.

Zaky Pawas – Police have questioned four security guards from a Bogor hospital after they allegedly dumped a mentally ill man in a field near the North Bogor Police subprecinct station.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The amount of money inefficiently spent by regional administrations to conduct local elections has led to cuts in spending for education and health services,

Dessy Sagita & Antara – The Health Ministry revealed on Thursday that a proposed ban on tobacco advertising would only be imposed in stages, as agreed upon by drafters of the decree

The Supreme Court has rejected national flagship carrier PT Garuda Airlines' appeal in the case of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib's murder.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Friday backtracked on earlier comments that a member of the Ahmadiyah sect had been named a suspect for his alleged role in the religious violence

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Rahmat & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Makassar – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is threatening to disband Ahmadiyah, regardless of the risks, if the government does not take action

Elisabeth Oktofani & Ulin Yusron – About 500 people at an anti-Ahmadiyah rally led by the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Friday demanded the

The Indonesian Council of Ulema says it has no intention of backing down from its position outlined in a 2005 fatwa issued against the Ahmadiyah sect.

Working mothers need longer maternity leave, allowing them to exclusively breast-feed their newborn babies for first six months, activists say.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday inaugurated Budi Susilo Supandji as the new governor of the strategic National Defense Agency (Lemhanas), replacing Muladi.

Idries de Vries – The Indonesian Armed Forces recently announced it had accepted a grant of 24 F-16 jet fighters from the United States, and that during the course of 2014 it plans to b

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Paying for sex and gambling may already be illegal, but lawmakers supposedly need reminding with a souped-up code of ethics.

Camelia Pasandaran – Vice President Boediono has stressed the need to punish ministries and state institutions that do not carry out the government's reform program.

Putri Fitria, Sleman, Yogyakarta – Arief Johar Cahyadi Permana is at a loss for words.

Arief Johar Cahyadi Permana is not the only Indonesian facing jail time for what seems like a minor offense. Such cases have been reported frequently over the past two years.

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Talk of a Cabinet reshuffle to replace underperforming Indonesian ministers is heating up, as the government fends off criticisms that it is faltering in its fig

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government has been told to improve the management of voter lists for the 2014 general elections if it hopes to avoid a repeat of the controversy that pla

A lawyer in Jayapura, Gustaf Kawer, has called on the police to be transparent and explain what happened to Miron Wetipo, who was being held in the Abepura Prison.

Peneas Lokbere, the chairman of SKPHP HAM Papua (Solidarity for the Victims of Human Rights Violations in Papua) has declared that they will continue to press for medical treatment for

Imung Yuniardi, Semarang – A lack of regulation has been blamed for the rampant exploitation of domestic workers in Central Java, where over 40 percent of recruits are teenage girls, a

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two former Bank Century officials facing up to 10 years in prison for improper approval of loans claimed on Wednesday that they were being made to take the fa

Sylviana Hamdani – The sheer audacity with which disgraced former taxman Gayus Tambunan made trips abroad using a fake passport may have shocked many Indonesians.

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Ulma Haryanto – Akbar Ramanda, a 17-year-old standing trial for taking part in an October attack against an Ahmadiyah community in Bogor, showed no regrets when he acknowledged his acti

Farouk Arnaz, Fitri & Antara – The lawyer for two alleged assailants in a bloody attack against the Ahmadiyah in Banten that claimed three lives said on Wednesday that the crime sho

Nurfika Osman – Bowing to intense criticism and pressure from activists and academics, the government has finally decided to recall a series of 10 books on President Susilo Bambang Yudh

Jakarta – More domestic workers in the country will suffer mistreatment unless the government and the House of Representatives counterparts pass a law on domestic workers protection, ac

Anita Rachman – The government has proposed barring relatives of outgoing regional officials from running for the same post in elections, but legislators warn that the policy may violat

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman – Recent attacks on religious minorities in Temanggung, Central Java, and Banten should be reason enough for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoy

Heru Andriyanto & Mohd Adhe Bhakti – The third criminal trial of radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir paints a portrait of the cleric as a man bent on turning Indonesia into an Islamic s

Ulma Haryanto – Former Indonesian Constitutional Court chairman Jimly Assidique said on Tuesday that an imperfect legal foundation should not stop the country's leaders from taking firm

Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has sanctioned 12 prosecutors in response to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's demand that judicial corruption be eliminated in the coun

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Former National Police detective chief Susno Duadji should receive leniency in his graft trial, as he provided leads to unravel a case broker ring operating at th

Dessy Sagita – While a proposal to install condom dispensers in Malang's red-light districts to help prevent the spread of HIV is laudable, it simply won't work in Indonesia, activists

Banjir Ambarita – Hundreds of candidates who failed to gain government jobs took the streets of Manokwari, West Papua, on Wednesday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Dessy Sagita, Amir Tejo & Camelia Pasandaran – The religious affairs minister and the police said on Wednesday that an attack on an East Java Islamic board

Camelia Pasandaran – The government has announced that it would issue new guidelines next month on boosting development in the restive provinces of Papua and West Papua.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Leaders of three major churches in Papua object to the ongoing selection of new members of the Papuan People's Assembly (MRP), which they say fails to represent