Bekasi – A number of traditional "family" market vendors at Kota Harapan Indah, Bekasi, staged a hunger strike in front of the Bekasi municipality office Monday.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Indonesia's twitter users were once again shocked by another statement from Information and Communication Minister Tifatul Sembiring, who said that adu

It doesn't get any lower than this. Or does it?

Trefor Moss – Southeast Asia's sleeping giant has begun to make some surprisingly wakeful noises.

Ririn Radiawati Kusuma & Dion Bisara, Jakarta – The on-again, off-again electricity rate hike for next year is officially off, with the House of Representatives voting on Tuesday to

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Outgoing National Police Chief Gen.

Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia is selling cars faster than it is building roads, increasing gridlock in cities and doing its efforts to attract foreign investment no favors.

Cameron Bates, Ulma Haryanto & Kinanti Pinta Karana, Jakarta – Jakarta Globe readers and Facebook and Twitter followers have shared their stories from Monday, when heavy rains broug

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – In what is becoming an increasingly nightmarish routine, Jakarta was once again crippled as a torrential rainstorm pounded the city on Monday afternoon.

Arientha Primanita, Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Blame it on the rain?

Tim Hannigan – The Jakarta Globe might be Indonesia's newest English language newspaper, but which was its first?

Incidents of church attacks and religious violence are spreading throughout Java, outside of traditional "hot spots" such as Greater Jakarta and West Java, activists said on Sunday.

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Featuring a foreign porn star in a local horror movie was tantamount to "poking fun" at the country's antipornography campaign, Communications and Information T

Jakarta – Activists and agrarian experts agreed on Sunday that the government's effort to distribute hundreds of hectares of land to farmers was still far from a "genuine land reform pr

Ismira Lutfia, Nurfika Osman & Ririn Radiawati Kusuma, Jakarta – Activists expressed hope on Sunday that the advertising restrictions on tobacco and formula milk that they had long

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is continuing to ignore the tide of public opinion firmly against taxpayer-funded overseas trips for legislators, confirming on Mon

Tarko Sudiarno, Mount Merapi, Indonesia – Indonesia ordered thousands of people to evacuate from around Mount Merapi on Monday as it raised the alert for its most active volcano to red,

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says that former dictator Soeharto deserves to be named a national hero.

Paul Cleary – East Timor is continuing to entertain plans to drill for oil in waters as deep as 1900m.

Slamet Susanto, Bantul – Cigarette producer partners (MPS) are earning less than the Rp 1.5 million (US$150) a month they received four years ago producing hand-rolled cigarettes for a

Made Arya Kencaya, Denpasar – Hundreds of employees of state-owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia rallied on Monday in front of the Bali Regional House of Representatives.

Aubrey Belford, Gleno, East Timor – Gastao Salsinha, retired rebel and failed assassin, says it is probably politics that explains why he is free to roam East Timor's cloud-covered hint

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – In the six years that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been in power, he has increasingly failed to make good on his pled

Ismira Lutfia & AFP, Jakarta – Some Papuan activists have called on foreign governments to cease cooperation with the Indonesian military as evidence of torture has come to light, b

Washington – The United States on Friday praised Indonesia as upfront in its investigation of torture of Papuan detainees and said it would not affect a resumption of military ties.

Nivell Rayda & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Ignatius Haryanto, the author of a number of books on press freedom, knows that a police investigation has concluded there was no foul play i

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Antigraft commissioner Bibit Samad Rianto, facing the threat of a criminal trial for bribery, insists the case against him is fabricated and blames the Attorn

Dili – East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta has defended his decision to pardon rebels in the tiny nation following criticism by a UN envoy.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – As eight lawmakers flew to Greece on Saturday to study ethics, the public is left asking: If overwhelming opposition can't stop legislators from jett

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission must look into apparent fraud involved in the renovation of lawmakers' residences, a watchdog said on Sunday.

Bernard Lagan in New York and Yuko Narushima – East Timor has declared it does not want to become a mere transit point for boat people picked up in Australian waters.

Jakarta – Member groups of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations expressed their deep concern on Friday over the continued persecution of Erwin Arnada, the former ch

Jakarta – In an evaluation of the first year's performance of the National Education Ministry, a coalition of activists said it had failed to deal with key problems.

Torture has no place in a modern, civilized society. Period.

Erwida Maulia and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered a "thorough investigation" of a controversial video of the alleged torture of Papuans by Indones

Soekarno-Hatta Airport police dispersed on Saturday dozens of students grouped under the People's Alliance against Legislators' Overseas Outing who rallied to protest House of Represent

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Suharto may be on the verge of being named a national hero, but a survey released on the 1,000th day since his death suggests that most Indonesians far prefer

Jo Adetunji – The Indonesian government today confirmed that a graphic video showing scenes of torture by Indonesian soldiers on native Papuans was authentic and said the soldiers invol

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The controversial new National Police chief, Comr. Gen. Timur Pradopo, said on Friday that his first job would be to gain the public's trust.

Jakarta – Victims of disasters, vulnerable groups in society, still receive inadequate public services during the times of crises, although a law on public service passed last year prom

Adianto P.

Arientha Primanita, Bilhuda Haryanto & Aidi Yursal, Jakarta – Buddhists are the latest minority religious group to feel the heat, being at the center of a festering row over a large

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Allegations that prosecutors leaked sentencing documents during Gayus Tambunan's first trial indicates that the judicial mafia was behind the controversial ac

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Indonesia's burgeoning class of middlemen, ranging from lowly ticket scalpers to the big-game judicial mafia, has welcomed another rapacious entry to its r

Aubrey Belford, Jakarta – To millions, Suharto, the military strongman who ruled Indonesia for 32 years, was a tyrant, a thief and a murderer.

Jerry Omona – The Papuan Caucus in the Indonesian Parliament has strongly condemned the burning down of dozens of houses and churches in the district of Puncak Jaya, Papua.

An international lawyers organisation says it hopes Indonesia will identify and punish those responsible for the torture of two Papuan men which was caught on video.

The New Zealand-based Indonesia Human Rights Committee is again questioning New Zealand's training of Indonesian police in Papua following reports of a village burning earlier this mont

Rina Jimenez-David, Bangkok – From 1975 to 1999, East Timor (or Timor-Leste as the people call their country) was subjected to a harsh and brutal conflict between the Indonesian occupyi

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – The police defended their decision to fire on protesters on Wednesday, saying the demonstration was illegal.