Dalih Sembiring – East Timor, officially known as Timor-Leste, is experiencing an economic boom.

Camelia Pasandaran – Despite having detained 26 politicians as suspects in a bribery case linked to a 2004 election of a central bank senior executive, the anti-graft body remained clue

Jakarta – A machete-wielding mob of Muslims on Sunday attacked the home of a minority sect leader in central Indonesia, killing three and wounding six others, police and witnesses said.

Dion Bisara – After months of pressure from the market and economists, Bank Indonesia on Friday raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point to 6.75 percent, citing

Zaky Pawas – With the number of Internet users across the country continuing to rise rapidly, the Jakarta Police revealed the incidence of Internet-related crimes in the city last year

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the National Police for "tolerating" hate crimes in South Sulawesi during the attack on an Ahmadiyah congregation recently.

Nurfika Osman – Embattled celebrity Luna Maya went to the country's top rights body on Friday for help in what is becoming an increasingly bitter battle with the justice system.

Jakarta – Seven ad hoc corruption judges complained that the Supreme Court had not paid their salaries and housing allowance for two months.

Heru Andriyanto – The guilty verdict for former tax director Bahasyim Assifie has set a new precedent in the country's justice system because for the first time judges applied the legal

Camelia Pasandaran – Corrupt former taxman Gayus Tambunan on Friday backtracked on comments in which he alleged that companies controlled by Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie had br

Mahfiroh, Jakarta – Women's activists including the Women's Legal Aid Foundation (LBH APIK) and the Free Women National Network (JRPM) are supporting television host Luna Maya as a vict

Rachael Fulton – What do you do when a child's face appears at your car window begging for money?

Armando Siahaan – The largely toothless National Police's and Public Prosecution Commission's watchdog commissions will be given new powers to conduct joint investigations into their re

Jakarta – The government should be more serious about controlling the rising rate of inflation.

Jayapura – Although the three members of the armed forces who were sentenced for acts of violence against civilians have accepted the verdict and are now serving their sentences in a mi

Paul Maley and Peter Alford – Failed asylum-seekers processed under Julia Gillard's East Timor plan would be transferred to partner countries who would then swap them for prospective re

Heru Andriyanto & NYT – The National Police have named him as the figurehead of an Al Qaeda-style terrorist network in Aceh and prosecutors accused him of mobilizing people to condu

Nurfika Osman & AFP – Environmentalists have demanded that the government crack down on mining and plantation firms operating illegally in the country, following a startling officia

Mathew Pennington, Washington – The US military is concerned over the light jail sentences given to Indonesian troops caught on video torturing men in the restive eastern region of Papu

Dessy Sagita & AFP – Although the sentences handed down to soldiers found guilty of torturing indigenous Papuans have been roundly criticized for being too light, observers are now

Gillian Terzis, Tokyo – Social stigma, cash-strapped NGOs, and moralising politicians are stopping Indonesia taking necessary action to prevent an epidemic.

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar, Bali – After three decades of unchallenged rule, the president clings to power amid massive street protests calling for his resignation and reform.

Erik Jensen – East Timor would be responsible for the legal processing and resettlement of asylum-seekers trying to reach Australia, using its laws and diplomatic relationships, accordi

Jakarta – Twenty five families or 67 people of Indonesian citizens from East Timor who had lived in East Nusa Tenggara for 11 years had left for Timor Leste under the repatriation progr

Adam Gartrell – The federal government's plan for an asylum seeker processing centre in East Timor has come under fresh attack after a document outlining details of the proposal leaked

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Respected Corruption Eradication Commission officials Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Alliance of Religious People's Harmony in West Java objected to Tuesday's mobilization of Sirnamiskin Muslim boarding school (pesantren) students against the co

Peter Alford – Inflation topped 7 per cent in Indonesia last month, its highest level in 22 months.

Stevy Maradona – On 1 February 2011, Commander of XVII Military Area Command (Kodam XVII) Major General Erfi Triassunu vehemently denied that Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) Border Securi

The governor of Papua New Guinea's National Capital District is accusing the government of using a security operation along the Papua border to do Indonesia's dirty work.

Indonesia admitted on Tuesday that hundreds of mine and plantation companies are operating illegally in Central Kalimantan, and promised to beef up law enforcement to protect forests an

Camelia Pasandaran – Seemingly unfazed by implied political threats, the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continued detaining former lawmakers in connection with the Rp 24 billio

Arientha Primanita & Obey Wibinnov Sianipar – Hipolitus is worried about his job, and for good reason: He's working on borrowed time.

Yuli Krisna & Kinanti Pinta Karana – Few, if any, seem to have been pleased by Monday's verdict that found pop star Nazril "Ariel" Irham guilty of "giving other people the opportuni

Nurfika Osman – A medical expert has warned that many Indonesian doctors may be putting major pharmaceutical companies ahead of their patients' well-being when it comes to prescribing d

Adianto P.

Ismira Lutfia – Migrant Care says it has raised almost Rp 100 million ($11,000) in less than a month to help repatriate hundreds of Indonesian migrant workers languishing under a bridge

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – South Sulawesi Police used force to evacuate around 40 Ahmadiyah followers from their mosque on Jl.

Indonesia Corruption Watch has asked the Corruption Eradication Commission to refuse to attend any hearings at the House of Representatives without the presence of its deputies, Bibit S

Max Lane – In hindsight, there was a great deal of beauty in the scene.

State Secretary Sudi Silalahi on Tuesday slammed lawmakers for wrongly interpreting President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's statement about his salary and for starting the 'Coins for Presi

Nick Chatterjee – A booming economy, falling debt and market-friendly reforms could see Indonesia secure an investment grade credit rating as early as this year, putting it on a par wit

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced plans to look into the trial process of former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief and murder convict

Jakarta – Thousands of honoree staff of state schools staged a demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Monday, causing traffic jams in the area.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists find that the one-stop service for issuing a business license, imposed to prevent red tape, still leaves opportunities for corruption.

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Political corruption is reaching alarming new levels, depriving people of better social welfare and jeopardizing the country's democra

Al Araf, Jakarta – The Jayapura Military Court sentenced three Army soldiers to between eight and 10 months of imprisonment for their role in the torture of civilians in Puncak Jaya, Pa

Irawaty Wardhany, Jakarta – The city government is defending its environmental record following a report from the central government that named Jakarta the city with worst environmental

An Indonesian pop star who rocked the nation when sex tapes he made with celebrity girlfriends appeared online has been sentenced to 3-and-a-half years in jail.

Farouk Arnaz – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen. Anton Bachrul Alam said on Monday that they will speed up the investigation of celebrities Luna Maya and Cut Tari.