Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Sex education will be "integrated" into Indonesian classrooms for the first time as the nation faces up to an increasing number of HIV/AIDS cases in the country

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) plans to investigate the disbursements of general and special allocation funds by local government administrations, following repor

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A survey published Monday has confirmed a widely held assumption that religious intolerance is rising in the Greater Jakarta region.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While students of Islamic universities in Indonesia are embracing liberalism, their counterparts in science schools feel apparently more appeal to fundamentalis

Jakarta – Habib Umar Salim, the head of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front advisory council defined the criteria for pornography while organizing a protest against the arrival in Jak

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Women are not only more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection, they also face greater risks of violence and discrimination when they become infected by the deadly vi

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Lawyers for former Peterpan vocalist Nazril "Ariel" Irham have asked the Bandung District Court to drop all the charges against him and his music editor, Rez

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – A promised shake-up of the House of Representatives' beleaguered Ethics Council was unveiled on Monday, but the only significant change was the withdrawal of it

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – You know things are really bad when the military is called in, and that is exactly what the Jakarta administration did Monday when it established a new

Jakarta – A study by the Indonesian Legal Roundtable has found that less than half of the candidates proposed to form the Judicial Commission (KY) were unqualified.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The social security programs for workers need to be overhauled to provide social protection to the majority of people as well as to speed up economic devel

Ade Mardiyati – For more than half a century, a neighborhood in Menteng, Central Jakarta, has become known as a haven for prostitutes.

Jakarta – House Commission V overseeing public housing would issue a formal reprimand to legislators who neglected Indonesian domestic workers in Dubai International Airport, should any

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Controversial pornography actress Maria Ozawa, also known as Miyabi, is due to land in Jakarta on Monday night according to her movie distributors despite the th

Anita Rachman, Indonesia – The seemingly renewed national commitment to law enforcement that last week saw the appointment of an antigraft czar and an attorney general will continue thi

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Newly appointed Attorney General Basrief Arief vowed on Monday that the notorious criminal case against two antigraft agency deputies would be his top priorit

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Israel and Taiwan on Monday became the only two countries with no diplomatic links with Indonesia, after the government and House of Representatives agreed on

Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Members of the Ahmadiyah sect reported an attack on their homes in Gegerung village to the West Lombok Police on Saturday.

Mohammad Adhe Bhakti, Jakarta – Firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was definitely involved in the operation of the now outlawed militant group training in Aceh, a witness said at

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives has taken the manpower minister to task over the government's apparent lack of protection for migrant workers and called for a free

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – More than half of the teenagers in Jakarta have had pre-marital sexual intercourse, according to a National Family Planning Agency (BKKBN) survey.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – A man was shot dead and four others, including a child, were injured by unidentified armed men on Sunday in Nafri village, Abepura, outside the Papuan cap

Reports from Papua in Indonesia say unidentified gunmen have shot at traffic outside Jayapura, killing a motorcyclist and injuring six others, including a nine-year child in a public bu

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Teachers and education activists have called on the House of Representatives to repeal a law obliging all districts to have at least one international-standard s

Jakarta – The country's top antigraft and auditing bodies called for a review of asset forfeiture and corruption court laws to grant them more authority to prosecute graft suspects.

Elisabeth Oktofani, Indonesia – Although prostitution is technically illegal in Jakarta, it is common knowledge that it can easily be found throughout the capital.

Nivell Rayda & Fitri, Indonesia – A hundred police officers armed with assault rifles and pistols were not enough to dissuade Tuti (not her real name) from walking barefoot for a ki

Elisabeth Oktofani, Jakarta – Among the millions of who flock to Jakarta in search of jobs each year, many will tell you they can subsist on minimum wage, but it's unlikely to be any fu

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – The Jakarta administration on Friday said the increase in the new minimum wage for next year would be 15.8 percent, a move that labor unions lambasted as t

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Islamic boarding schools, called dayah in Aceh, are not just for the pious.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Leaders of the two largest political parties, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party and the Golkar Party, met Thursday amid a series of polit

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Some residents of coastal settlements in East Lampung and Tanggamus regencies say they are at risk from huge waves due to erosion.

Jakarta – A group of election watchdogs has called on legislators to revoke their decision, taken through voting, to allow politicians to become members of the General Election Commissi

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The House of Representatives believes the government's legislative performance is poor, saying the government has yet to submit important bills for deliber

Mataram – The government continues to provide counseling to the Ahmadiyah sect and ensuring that Ahmadis are not disseminating their teachings, says an official.

Jakarta – For the average Joe on the streets of Indonesia, a simple party system is just a matter of convenience, or a bit of nostalgia.

Jakarta – Indonesia's population will jump to 255.6 million people by 2015 if the contraception rate remains constant, a senior demographic researcher says.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Administration has increased the provincial minimum wage (UMP) for 2011 to Rp 1,290,000, (US$120) or an increase by 15.38 percent from the 2010 minimum wage of Rp

Jakarta – "Corruption is a crime against humanity." It may be that these words uttered by outgoing Judicial Commission leader Busyro Muqoddas during Wednesday's grilling by lawmakers pr

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has urged its new chairman to quickly fine-tune the commission's system to foster corruption eradication.

Apriadi Gunawan and Jon Afrizal, Medan/Jambi – Hundreds of private school teachers from various regions in North Sumatra held a rally at the provincial legislative building in Medan on

Erwida Maulia and Dicky Christianto, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono appointed former deputy attorney general Basrief Arief as the new attorney general, a surprise decision

Jakarta – Migrant Care, an NGO that focusing on the welfare of Indonesian workers abroad, says the government's initiative to provide migrant workers with cellular phones is an "irrelev

Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Fransiska Nangoy, Jakarta – With economic opportunity knocking on Indonesia's doors, the freshly formed board of the country's chamber of commerce has called

Florence Tan, Singapore – Indonesia's crude imports will keep rising over the next few years as its economy rebounds and a delay in getting peak output from the giant Cepu oil field def

Jakarta – More than 100 former employees of the McDonald's fast food restaurant chain held a rally in front of the Jakarta Police on Jl. Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta.

Liputan6.com, Yogyakarta – Scores of workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta from the Security Employees Union (SPK) and the United Indonesian Labour Movement (PPBI) demonstrated

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government must take action to curb rising religious intolerance triggered by struggles between evangelical Christians and hard-line Islamists, a think t

Jakarta – A number of journalists were threatened, and several others were attacked, while reporting on a Indonesian migrant workers' shelter in Condet, East Jakarta, on Tuesday.

Ismira Lutfia & Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie on Wednesday reported a number of Indonesian media organizations to the Press Council for allegedly def