Bengkulu – A leading Indonesian environmental group has protested a plan to build a road through Kerinci Seblat National Park, the biggest reserve on Sumatra Island.

Bagus BT Saragih – The ruling coalition will likely still be mired in bickering and internal friction next year, with a member party threatening to coalesce with the opposition to rival

Anita Rachman – An election watchdog has raised concerns about the quality of regional polls, painting a picture of an anything-goes attitude as candidates take advantage of a lack of o

Eddy Pratama & Heru Andriyanto – In a surprise ruling, the Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it had upheld an appeal by former Justice Ministry official Romli Atmasasmita an

Jakarta – Almost half of Jakartans object to the establishment of other religions' houses of worship in their neighborhoods, an NGO survey revealed.

Oktofani Elisabeth – Indonesia, long considered a bastion of religious tolerance, is increasingly reverting to fundamentalism and intolerance, a non-governmental organization observed i

Jakarta – There are thirteen rallies scheduled in Greater Jakarta today, according to Jakarta Police Traffic Management Centre (TMC).

Jakarta – Great Indonesian Movement (Gerindra) Party patron and former vice presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto says he is ready to run for president in 2014.

Jakarta – Activists warn that Indonesian migrant workers will still be highly susceptible to violent treatment without significant improvement in legal protection provided by the govern

Jakarta – Indonesia is getting healthier on the whole, but major concerns remain over poor access to healthcare in remote areas and the persistence of several deadly diseases, the lates

Nurfika Osman – Bunga, a 32-year-old housewife from East Jakarta, has used skin-lightening products since 2006.

Anita Rachman – In response to a legal motion filed by Indonesia Corruption Watch, lawmakers have defended their decision to only allow a one-year term for new antigraft chief Busyro Mu

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) leader Busyro Muqoddas was taking his oath to chair the anti-graft body for the coming year, groups were filin

Adhe Bakti, Jakarta – A district court on Monday handed out sentences of between seven and nine years in prison for six men involved in an outlawed armed group that conducted military t

Shari Nijman – As the United Nation's International Year of Biodiversity draws to a close, Indonesia, home to some of the earth's richest ecosystems, still struggles to protect some of

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – A businessman and a lawyer are the latest to be convicted for their roles in the bribery scandal involving rogue tax official Gayus Tambunan.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Incoming antigraft czar Busyro Muqoddas started his first day on the job on Monday with a pledge to tackle problem cases that have led to charges that the cou

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – A budget watchdog has released a report claiming to show how the central government has hogged much of the state budget to the detriment of development in the r

Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Discrepancies in the sentencing of defendants in two recent cases involving a loss of life have raised questions regarding the sense of justice

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – In its continuing efforts to boost infrastructure development, the government is offering three projects on Java Island to foreign and domestic investo

Neles Tebay, Abepura, Papua – The year 2010 has been very special for Papuans. It is in this year that the central government has turned its attention to Papua.

Nurdin Hasan & Ismira Lutfia, Banda Aceh – An Indonesian military tribunal on Friday began the trial of a former intelligence officer who allegedly attacked a journalist and threate

Anita Rachman – Officials at regional branches of Indonesia's main electoral watchdog are struggling to perform their monitoring duties because of difficulties in obtaining operational

The opposition has called on the federal government to release the details of its proposal for a regional processing centre in East Timor.

Nurfika Osman, Jayapura – While Papua has long had a reputation among many Indonesians for being inhospitable to outsiders, a small island there is proving naysayers wrong.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The chairman of the Democratic Party said on Sunday that despite competing interests within its ranks, the joint secretariat had "performed well" this year and

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Although the 2014 presidential elections are still a few years away, names of possible candidates were already emerging over the weekend.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Budget watchdogs aired their concerns on Sunday over the newly revised Law on Political Parties that has significantly raised the ceiling for companies' donatio

Philip Dorling and Nick McKenzie – The Australian government has quietly blacklisted a prominent Indonesian political figure implicated in the Balibo Five killings while working with In

Jakarta – The Indonesian government downplayed a leaked US embassy cable that said Jakarta used the recent state visit by President Barack Obama as a bargaining tool to force Washington

Arlina Arshad, Indonesia – To most people, Ahmad Mustofa Bisri is an influential Muslim cleric and a respected figure from the country's biggest Islamic organization, the moderate Nahdl

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – After a year of political drama and bickering, members of the House of Representatives have proven that their voices speak louder than action after passing

Olivia Rondonuwu & Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia's selection of less aggressive candidates to head antigraft institutions and failure to make progress on big corruption cases

Arghea Desafti Hapsari – Unlike their US counterparts, Indonesian Military (TNI) members and National Police officers have no official don't-ask-don't-tell (DADT) policy that restricts

Arghea Desafti Hapsari – "Dorian", a 30-year-old brand manager for one of the nation's largest consumer goods companies does not sport the stereotypical attributes of a person with his

Jakarta – The country's prevailing lending growth is still too low to support economic growth targets of 7 percent within the next few years, economic observers say.

As the world's largest Muslim majority nation, Indonesia has long been on the road to embrace tolerance – particularly tolerance of its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) com

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party on Friday eased up on its demand to double the legislative threshold to 5 percent, conceding that it would be content with 4 percent to a

Jakarta – Alfrets Mirulewan, chief editor of Pelangi Weekly in Maluku, was found dead with bruises on a large part of his body on Thursday evening.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Reports that Jakarta threatened to derail US President Barack Obama's visit to the country unless the ban on military training for the Indonesian special f

David Danzig – Among the handful of bombshells one can find in the cables that went back and forth between the US State Department and embassy staff in Jakarta is this: the US is appare

Jakarta – Leaked US State Department cables, made available to the Sydney Morning Herald by WikiLeaks, showed that the US was concerned about "the appearance of Tommy Soeharto at a Kopa

Philip Dorling and Nick McKenzie – Indonesia threatened to derail a visit to Jakarta by President Barack Obama this year unless he overturned the US ban on training the controversial Ko

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government said on Friday that it would begin verifying the eligibility of political parties to contest elections under tough new requirements in mid-J

Jayapura – Andi Rahmat Faisal was found dead on Wednesday, bringing to four the total number of shooting victims in the past three weeks in Jayapura regency.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Legislators lambasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday for stalling the inauguration of the incoming chairman of the antigraft commission, Bus

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Children's magazine subscriptions and a luxury bag are just a few of the purchases made by Indonesian diplomats overseas – and paid for by public funds, acco

Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief made clear Wednesday that he would not prosecute two KPK deputies charged with extorting a graft suspect, defying the lawmakers' recommendation

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A senior Golkar Party lawmaker said on Wednesday that he would support a proposal to hand the tax mafia case of Gayus Tambunan over to the antigraft

Sydney – The United Nations should cut the number of foreign police in East Timor to encourage one of world's newest countries to manage its own affairs, an influential security think t