Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has been detained for four months, but his trial on charges of funding a terrorist training camp in Aceh seems to be

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – A recent poll claims that public acceptance of government plans to build a nuclear power plant has increased.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The National Police will send officers to Surabaya, East Java, to hunt down the mystery man who allegedly worked as a go-between for rogue tax official Gayus Tam

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A diner was killed on Saturday in the latest in a series of shooting incidents that have swept Papua in the past week.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A man was shot dead and eight others arrested Friday in an operation by the Jayapura Police and Wira Yakti Military Command to apprehend the perpetrators

Arientha Primanita, Nivell Rayda & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A group of about 50 people, dressed in white robes and wielding weapons, attempted to attack an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Ja

Arientha Primanita – Following howls of protest from consumers and vendors alike, the Jakarta administration distanced itself on Friday from a plan to impose a 10 percent tax on food st

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police have been changing their tune on opening their investigation of the Gayus Tambunan case, while the antigraft body is observing as a passi

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The Australian and US governments have urged Indonesia to bring to justice soldiers who tortured two Papuan men in May, in a case that has emerged as a key test of

Jakarta – The Supreme Court and the Attorney General's Office (AGO) should administer better information systems to disclose online statistics of cases they handle to pave the way for j

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) urged the Forestry Ministry to close 17 loopholes in its regulatory set-up to anticipate further abuse of forestry licenses and illegal loggi

Peter Alford, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's officials insist that soldiers responsible for a vicious torture incident in West Papua will be brought to justice.

Camelia Pasandaran, Bandung – Many of the nation's governors have agreed that the people shouldn't get the chance to vote them into – or out of – office, saying regional legislators sho

Erwida Maulia and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Jakarta – In the name of democracy, the government is pushing for direct elections of the Yogyakarta governor, disregarding grievances among those de

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar, Bali – An Indonesian tax official who claims he helped some of Indonesia's most powerful companies reduce their tax bills through millions of dollars in bribes p

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A Bandung professor garnered the most votes on Thursday as the House of Representatives selected seven hopefuls, dubbed "the best of the worst," to sit on the J

Nine Papuans arrested and charged in Jayawijaya in Indonesia's Papua last month on subversion charges are experiencing difficulties in finding a defence lawyer.

Jakarta – In the latest example of religious intolerance in Indonesia, a group of unknown people attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque in South Jakarta early on Friday morning.

Jakarta – The National Police on Thursday began reconstructing the flow of illicit money going to Gayus Tambunan, in a move that could lead police to naming businessmen who bribed the r

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Just weeks ahead of its first anniversary, the Judicial Mafia Eradication Task Force is facing mounting calls for disbandment amid criticism that it has done

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government has blamed the increase in HIV/AIDS infections across the country partly on reticence about condom use that is the norm here.

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon, West Java – Fishermen and conservationists have expressed outrage at the widespread damage to ecosystems on the northern coast of Cirebon, blaming the damage on i

Jakarta – Australian Ambassador Greg Moriarty has been ordered to raise his nation's concerns about Indonesia's stalled investigation into the alleged torture of two Papuans by members

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Hundreds of inmates at the Abepura Penitentiary in Papua rioted on Friday to protest over the shooting of a fellow prisoner who escaped and was killed in a r

Jakarta – Thousands of workers in and around an industrial estate in East Jakarta went on a daylong strike on Friday over the new monthly minimum wage announced for the capital.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As talk of a possible cabinet shake-up continues, there are now calls from the House of Representatives for the president to replace members of his s

"God will punish us by sending another great earthquake and tsunami if we don't uphold and enforce sharia [Islamic law] in this land," says a resident of Banda Aceh.

Nurdin Hasan & Nivell Rayda, Banda Aceh & Jakarta – Aceh's deputy governor and Shariah Police chief have dismissed a critical report on the province from an international human

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday that although progress had been made in the fight against corruption, it was not en

Imung Yuniardi and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Semarang/Bandung - A number of HIV/AIDS activists boycotted on Wednesday the commemoration of the World AIDS Day on Dec.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's antiterror police detachment is coordinating with its Malaysian counterparts on the recent capture in Johor of an Indonesian militant suspected of pl

Rahmat, Makassar – Dozens of panicked transvestites were sent fleeing for safety after Indonesia's militant Islamic Defenders Front raided a drag-queen contest to mark World AIDS Day on

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Francezka Nangoy, Jakarta – Businesses gave a thumbs down to the plan to cut fuel subsidies revealed on Thursday, with most warning that a ban on cheap gas

Nivell Rayda & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – At least one person has been reportedly killed in raids in Papua as the military steps up its search for members of the separatist Free Pap

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Analysts and government officials on Thursday accused the environmental group Greenpeace of fabricating its data on environmental

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch on Thursday chastised the media for propagating misleading news that five soldiers caught on tape torturing two Papuan men had been summarily

Kupang – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers from East Nusa Tenggara have fallen victim to human trafficking practices given the fact that they were recruited through illegal proced

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – House of Representatives leaders on Wednesday defended what critics said was a half-baked revamp of the body's widely derided Ethics Council, saying that factio

Rita A. Widiadana – It has been almost 10 years since the Indonesian government imposed Law no.

Jakarta – Two local Shariah laws in Indonesia's Aceh province violate rights and are often enforced abusively by public officials and even private individuals, Human Rights Watch said i

Singapore – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday it would be symbolic if his fledgling country gained ASEAN membership next year when former occupier Indonesia takes ove

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Press Council on Wednesday said it could not find evidence that bourse journalists had blackmailed Krakatau Steel in exchange for shares, but they did find

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Two years after the Freedom of Information Law was passed, the vast majority of state institutions have still not complied by making their budget imp

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The task of helping migrant workers who suffered abuse at the hands of their employers does not end after they've been brought back home, women's rights activis

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Authorities in West Lombok district have formed a special team to supervise and relocate members of the Ahmadiyah sect, an official said on Wednesda

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Freed from the threat of volcanic eruptions, Merapi's refugees must now face the ordeal of rebuilding their lives.

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Female sex workers are often blamed for the HIV/AIDS epidemic, but in reality many of them become champions of safe sex by encouraging patrons to use condoms, s

Candra Malik, Yogyakarta – In their own unique way, the people of Yogyakarta, an ancient Javanese cultural hub, expressed on Tuesday their resistance to the government's efforts to requ

Jakarta – Anyone who wishes to submit information about corruption allegations to Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission can now do it discreetly using the antigraft agency's new

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Scores of Jakarta's youth have adopted a more liberal view of pre-marital sex, confirming findings by the National Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) that t