Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant Care, an organization providing advocacy for troubled migrant workers, has recently been at loggerheads with labor exporter associations over labor

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Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The government has announced plans to overhaul the air transportation sector in an effort to address the country's patchy record for flight safety and avia

Armando Siahaan & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A top official on Wednesday confirmed speculation that the sole candidate to head the National Police was chosen to prevent pol

Irwan Firdaus, Jakarta – An environmental group has released video footage of a bulldozer buzzing trees in a protected forest that is home to endangered Sumatran tigers, but the governm

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – The 2006 Witness and Victim Protection Law has been in force for almost four years, but implementation is still poor, the Witness and Victims Protection Agency

Dili – East Timor has many problems of its own and is not ready to accept thousands of asylum seekers under an Australian plan to build a refugee hub in the tiny country, a lawmaker sai

Jakarta – The administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono is already facing a heavy challenge as it approaches the first year of its second te

Jakarta – With 3,000 candidates vying for just 164 positions at the Indonesian Ministry of Trade, answering as many of the questions on the recruitment test correctly was always going t

Abdul Khalik, Ambon – A young Ambonese, Hendrik Pohwain is occupied with feeding his family, while Maluku's economy is just starting to get back on its feet after earlier conflicts in w

Kirsty Needham – East Timorese and Australian officials will develop jointly a proposal for a refugee processing centre to be put to both governments by early 2011, Immigration Minister

There is nothing more worrisome in a sovereign, rule-based state than the absence of legal certainty to ensure that laws and regulations are imposed and justice is upheld.

That religious conservatism, or more precisely Islamic conservatism, is creeping into our state affairs comes as no surprise.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights says that National Police chief candidate Comr. Gen.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A senior government official said on Tuesday that any attempt to force the president out of office through street protests would be unconstitutional.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Indonesia's formula for decentralized administrative regions has again come under fire as indigenous people in Papuan and Kalimantan continue their dem

It is no wonder that the government is having to respond to criticism about its tardy response to the flashfloods that swept across Wasior area in West Papua.

Farouk Arnaz, Nivell Rayda & Susilo Wardhani, Jakarta – Human rights activists on Monday objected to a new National Police regulation allowing officers to use live ammunition to con

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Banjir Ambarita, Jakarta – After denying that the deadly flash floods in Wasior, West Papua, were caused by illegal logging, For

Jakarta – The Indonesian Red Cross have blamed "miscommunication" among emergency authorities for sending relief aid to the devastated town of Wasior in West Papua, despite the fact tha

Muh Taufiqurrohman & Suharsana Aji – With just a day remaining before Comr. Gen.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Opposition by ulema and councilors in Aceh to a woman becoming district head is reportedly weakening.

Jakarta – The hardline group Islamic Defenders Front are planning to protest the upcoming release of an Indonesian horror movie starring American porn star Tera Patrick.

Armando Siahaan & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Legislators vetting the candidate to lead the National Police said they would question him over his statement that he would not

Farouk Arnaz & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The National Police have unveiled a new bureau within the detectives division to deal with public complaints of unprofessionalism and miscond

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – The level of intolerance among the Muslim community toward the Ahmadiyah sect has more than doubled during the six years of President Su

Heru Andriyanto & Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Journalists, lawyers and even Hugh Hefner over the weekend rallied around jailed former Playbor editor Erwin Arnada, who this week will at

Farouk Arnaz, Anita Rachman & Agencies – The National Police on Sunday played down the level of military involvement in the fight against terrorism following the recent use of soldi

Bagus Tama Saragih, Jakarta – Observers are wary of institutionalized efforts to debilitate the fight against corruption, citing recent setbacks that have weakened the Corruption Eradic

Jakarta – The Directorate General of Taxation said on Monday it raised Rp 444.2 trillion ($49.74 billion) in tax revenues in the first nine months of this year, up 18 percent from the s

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A Papuan tribe fighting over its customary rights to land in court against US mining giant Freeport McMoRan on Monday dismissed an intervention lawsuit filed by

Madura, East Java – Manpower Minister Muhaimin Iskandar is calling on the education sector to equip students with skills that will help them in the job market.

Karlis Salna – Prime Minister Julia Gillard's vision for a regional refugee processing hub has been dealt a blow with East Timor's President insisting it will only be considered as a te

Jakarta – Jakarta's unprecedented traffic congestion sees millions of cars burning gas as they sit stationary, and millions of residents choking their lives away in plumes of thick poll

Candra Malik, Solo – The family of late former Indonesian dictator Suharto gathered at his grave in Karanganyar, Central Java, on Monday to mark the 1000th day since his death.

Jakarta – The mechanism of checks and balances that should be carried out by the House of Representatives (DPR) over the government is progressively disappearing.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – There is something gravely wrong about a justice system that would let a 55-year-old housemaid languish in jail for stealing just a few plates and pieces of clo

Fitri, Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara – Two villagers on Monday told the Praya District Court in Central Lombok that American national Gregory Lloyd Luke, 64, deserved to remain beh

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – A district head in West Nusa Tenggara announced plan to relocate 20 Ahmadiyah families to a deserted island, a move many say is both discriminatory and inhumane.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decision to pick Comr. Gen.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prepares to evaluate his Cabinet ministers' performance this year, members from his coalition are nervously anticipating a

Arlina Arshad, Jakarta – The vaunted Reformasi era of democratic change in Indonesia is coming to a dead end under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's leadership, if his candidate for

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen says he won't return from East Timor this week with a final deal to address people smuggling and the offshore processing of asylum seekers.

Margie Mason, Oe-cusse enclave, East Timor – If there really was a place so remote it could be called the end of the earth, Adelino Quelo's shabby little hut would be prime real estate.

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Some in civil society have begun to question the validity of the fit-and-proper tests given to political appointment candidates in the House of Representative

Binsar Bakkara, Hamparan Perak – Muslim militants wearing black masks stormed the tiny police precinct in western Indonesia and unloaded their assault rifles – riddling officers' bodies

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The former editor of the now-defunct local version of Playboy magazine, Erwin Arnada, turned himself in on Saturday.

Jakarta – Regional administrations will have greater local tax potential following the implementation of a new law on regional tax and levies that would give them the authority to colle

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – More than a year since their legal nightmare started, two antigraft commissioners will likely still stand trial for what many believe is a fabricated corrupti

Jakarta – The former editor of the now-defunct Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine, Erwin Arnada, surrendered to the South Jakarta District Court on Saturday, and has prepared a judi