Tom Allard Jakarta and Kirsty Needham – The conduct of Indonesia's security agencies was sometimes "not up to our standard", the head of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs, Denni

Nusa Dua, Bali – Indonesia on Monday called for greater vigilance and cooperation in the fight against terror, as counter-terrorism chiefs from around the world met in Bali.

Peter Alford, Nusa Dua, Bali – Indonesia's military will be "activated" to support police fighting terrorism, says the chief of the government's new National Counter-Terrorism Agency.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – National Police spokesman Insp. Gen.

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Hundreds of farmers in West Lombok have protested against an almost completed water pipeline project, fearing water shortages for crops.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Are education councils effective? Activists on Monday said no.

Jakarta – Indonesian police said Monday they would investigate fresh reports of torture by security forces against civilians in restive Papua province, after a graphic video was posted

Julian Drape – Australia will pay a "significant proportion" of the cost of building a refugee processing centre in East Timor, a senior government official says.

Jakarta – The Islamic People's Forum (FUI) demanded that the National Police do not release pop star Nazriel "Ariel" Irham from detention.

Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Vice President Boediono has received cautious praise after calling on the "silent majority" to take a stand against a growing radicalism tha

Bilhuda Haryanto, Jakarta – The nation's most prominent antigraft watchdog, Indonesia Corruption Watch, says capital punishment is not the way to go in preventing corruption, pushing li

Jakarta – Indonesia harbors nearly a third of the world's neglected tropical diseases, despite there being cures for many of them, largely due to poor sanitation and unhealthy living, t

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Activists have slammed the government for not allocating more funds to aid poor students while preparing to spend billions on its vehicle fleet and laptops.

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Jakarta – The House of Representatives said Monday it would question Indonesian Military (TNI) Chief Adm.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A graphic and disturbing video shows a Papuan man being poked in the genitals with a fiery stick as he is interrogated by a group of men who appear to be members o

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Jakarta – International environmental group Greenpeace is denying accusations that it is waging a foreign-funded campaign aimed at sabotaging the palm oil indust

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Though activists and businesspeople have welcomed a ministerial decree ending a dispute between two bodies with overlapping mandates on migrant workers, many do

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Tantalizing suggestions from the upper reaches of the opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle that it may join forces with the government were shot d

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie insisted on Sunday that the party would stay inside the ruling coalition, despite complaints by some party stalwarts that

Nivell Rayda, Bogor – For the past two weeks, 35-year-old Ahmad Nuryamin has been sharing a four-by-six meter cell with 11 other detainees at the Bogor Police headquarters, some of them

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Angry human rights activists are set to carry their opposition to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's choice of Comr. Gen.

Radicalism is a cancer that is slowly devouring our nation.

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Naming former President Suharto a national hero would spark controversy across the country, as the jury is still out on his role as Indonesia's "Father of Develo

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The Ministry of Women and Child Protection is consulting the National Commission of Violence Against Women as it presses ahead with its bill on gender equality.

Jakarta – A coalition of activists is commemorating World Food Day, on Oct. 16, by demanding that the government shift focus from big food producers.

Jakarta – Indonesians say they want five political parties to vie in the next general election to make the voting process simpler, a recent survey says.

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The nation's oft-maligned regional legislature is trying to claw its way back from obscurity through the revision of a law governing lawmaking bodies, due to

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – After grilling Cabinet ministers and putting Vice President Boediono in the hot seat in plenary sessions, legislators are concluding they can push the Jakarta

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – In a move condemned by critics as totalitarian, the government announced plans to bar the sales of certain books, just days after the Constitutional Co

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The country's main opposition party has denounced plans to topple the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono through street protests, s

Piers Akerman – Tomorrow marks the 35th anniversary of the killing of five Australian newsmen at Balibo in East Timor.

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Jakarta – The Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) called on the government Thursday to immediately take measures to implement the Constitutional Court's ruling, which res

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Regional Representatives Council (DPD) will host a meeting between ministers and Papuan leaders on Monday to break the impasse over the future of Papuan au

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Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura/Timika – Environmentalists insisted Thursday that the fatal flash floods in Wasior district in West Papua were caused by environmental degr

Camelia Pasandaran, Indonesia – The country's largest Islamic organization, the 40 million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, has denied being behind a recent movement seeking to unseat the presid

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – A coalition of watchdogs on Friday redoubled their calls for the next Attorney General to come from outside the AGO, arguing that only an outsider could fix t

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A House commission on Thursday agreed to recommend Comr. Gen.

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Media watchdogs have condemned the Justice and Human Rights Ministry for reportedly ordering private TV station SCTV to drop a sensitive broadcast, and have vow

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is shaping up to be an increasing threat to the Democratic Party in the 2014 elections, a survey shows.

Camelia Pasandaran, Heru Andriyanto & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – In a landmark verdict, the Constitutional Court on Wednesday struck out a law that gave the Attorney General's Office

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Gone are the days when authors in the country had to live in fear of seeing their books outlawed by the government, thanks to a watershed court ruling

Jakarta – Global environmental pressure group Greenpeace said on Thursday that its Rainbow Warrior flagship had been denied access to Indonesian waters, and insisted the government had

Larine Statham – Fresh concerns have emerged that East Timor's economy will be dealt a savage blow, leaving hundreds of people without work, when United Nations forces withdraw from the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A cabinet minister is being targeted for dismissal by members of the political party he leads, who question his ability to take care of both party an

Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A long-awaited church in West Java faces the prospect of not being built at all, following objections by local Muslims.

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – In a move reeking of desperation, the police have resorted to charging former TV host Cut Tari under an antiquated law for her alleged appearance in a homemad

Jakarta – The minister of manpower on Thursday vowed to "eventually" abolish labor outsourcing, starting with restrictions on the scope of the practice.