Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Jakarta is heading toward "ecological suicide" if it doesn't stem overpopulation, an urban planning expert warned on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie said Sunday his party would retain members who had been named suspects in a high-profile bribery case centering on the 2004 election of a

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – In the minds of human rights activists in Indonesia, two events stand out as reprehensible examples of the impunity enjoyed by human rights violators in the coun

Buol, Central Sulawesi – New evidence of alleged human rights abuses by Indonesian security forces in Buol, Central Sulawesi, has emerged.

Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – As the weekend saw protests in different parts of the country against an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning

Jakarta – The editor of the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine refused to come out of hiding on Monday to face a two-year jail sentence, as his lawyers pledged to challenge his conv

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono assembled leaders of tiny political parties at his residence on Sunday evening, in what one observer said was an attempt to g

Ulma Haryanto, Bogor – Hitting back at the Bogor administration's unexplained decision to again seal off their half-built church last week, members of the GKI Yasmin congregation broke

Agus Maryono, Cilacap – It has been more than a year since any significant projects have been launched in Cilacap regency, Central Java.

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – New research by a prominent watchdog reveals an alarming trend in the fight against graft, showing that well over half of corruption suspects tried in court in

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Leading human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the government to establish a fact-finding team to probe last Tuesday's deadly shooting of eigh

Alie Usman, Jakarta – Scores of social and non-government organisations that are part of the Friends of Munir movement gathered today to commemorate six years since Munir's death, a hum

Taufik Darusman – It is only a matter of weeks or even days before the Corruption Eradication Commission ushers in a new chairman.

Jakarta, Indonesia – Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the US Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terr

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Opposition is growing from within the House of Representatives about the controversial plan to build a lavish new office building for lawmakers, but

Farouk Arnaz, Anita Rachman & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – National Police Chief Gen.

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – In the face of what appears to be a public relations nightmare, the Democratic Party on Friday blamed the media and political exp

Palu, Indonesia – Indonesian police said Friday they had arrested 11 colleagues over the killing of six people when officers opened fire on a violent mob earlier this week.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Condemnation greeted the President's "feeble" speech on mounting tensions between Indonesia and Malaysia, while a major party in the ruling coalition dropped pl

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The President's popularity has declined in the first year of his second tenure, but voters are apparently reluctant to switch their support from the President's

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Labor exporters have rejected a revision to a bill that intends to empower the National Agency for Overseas Labor Placement and Protection (BNP2TKI) and en

Sydney – A Thai-owned firm Friday rejected Indonesia's 2.4 billion US dollar compensation claim over a major oil spill off Australia's north which campaigners say hit the livelihoods of

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle officials on Friday demanded answers from antigraft investigators who have named 14 current and former party lawmakers as

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Nongovernmental groups are urging the government to participate in the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, in a bid to combat corruption and minimize po

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Lawmakers on Friday gave tacit support to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights' request for an additional Rp 3.5 trillion ($389 million) to build

Activists have described the need for dialogue between the central government and Papuans as "urgent" and "critical" if Jakarta hopes to save the country's easternmost provinces from po

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Warnings to improve televisions stations' programing during the fasting month seem to have fallen on deaf ears as violence, obscenity and mysticism continue to

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The guilty verdict for businessman Anggodo Widjojo should lead prosecutors to drop charges of extortion leveled against two deputy leaders of the Corru

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Watchdogs on Wednesday said they were still not satisfied with the draft revision to the 2003 Money Laundering Law, even after lawmakers agreed to expand acce

Nivell Rayda & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday named 26 former and current members of the House of Representatives suspects for allegedly

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Two surveys have shown that the public largely agrees with the view of the major political parties that a reduced number of factions in the House of Represent

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – A survey released on Wednesday by a political research institution confirmed what many already believe to be true: that the public sees current lawmakers as h

Jakarta – The development of a recreational center within a new parliamentary building, the construction of which is due to begin in October, was never decided on by any House of Repres

Jakarta – Far from the glamor connected to international commemorations, families of victims of forced disappearances and gross human rights violations gathered to mark the Internationa

Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – The law on freedom of information received its first major test on Wednesday when an antigraft watchdog reported the education minister for failing to discl

Palu, Central Sulawesi – Indonesian police opened fire and killed five people when an angry mob attacked their station with firebombs in a protest over the death of a man in custody, po

Jakarta – The Golkar Party's initiative to interpellate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his handling of a recent dispute with Malaysia received a cold response from other parties

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The National Network for Domestic Workers Advocacy is pushing lawmakers to pay attention to the welfare of millions of domestic workers in the country by making

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission announced on Wednesday that they had named an unprecedented 26 former and current members of the House of Represent

Jakarta – The Corruption Court sentenced Anggodo Widjojo to four years in prison on Tuesday for attempted bribery – a punishment one observer said was "too lenient".

Jakarta – The House of Representatives and the National Police have played their roles in concerted efforts to weaken the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), a seminar heard on Wed

Vivi Widyawati, Jakarta – Around 800 demonstrators from the National Movement for the Cancellation of Basic Electricity Rate Hikes and the Reduction of Prices held a protest action at t

Zoe Kenny, Yogyakarta – The beach-side town of Parangtritis, on the southern coast of Yogyakarta, is currently the site of a protracted and bitter struggle over land between the local g

"The greatest threat facing the US is the tyranny of the majority," penned nineteenth-century French writer Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Human rights activists have described Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali's proposal to disband the Ahmadiyah congregation as a "setback" and a

Ulma Haryanto & Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – A police division that deals with crimes against women and children is being criticized for its handling of a rape involving a minor.

Ismira Lutfia & Putri Prameshwari, Jakarta – Following the public support he gained for his efforts to eliminate access to pornography on the Internet, the communications and inform

Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Aghast by Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali's controversial statements advocating the banning of the Ahmadiyah sect, a number of non

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Nearly two months after the brutal attack on anticorruption activist Tama Satrya Langkun, police have been unable to track down the perpetrators and seem to have

Maire Leadbeater – New Zealand's diplomacy with respect to Indonesian-controlled West Papua, especially in light of its aid to the Indonesian military and to the police in West Papua, h