Jakarta – Recent attacks on minority groups instigated by groups such as the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) and the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) reveal the government's failure to accomm

Dion Bisara, Singapore – Indonesia's economy grew at a better-than-expected 6.2 percent in the second quarter of 2010 from the same period a year ago, thanks to strong investment, expor

Jakarta – The Indonesian Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) will conduct a joint exercise with its Australian counterpart SAS next month, Kopassus Commander, Maj. Gen.

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Flexible policy implementation in the field is required to handle tension in Papua, a natural resources-rich province plagued by decades of separatist movem

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

West Papuan activists have voiced disappointment that the issue of West Papua was not brought up at the Forum Leaders Summit in Port Vila.

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – Journalists have criticized Thursday's "vague" court ruling that upheld the government's ban on the controversial film "Balibo" as an indication of the governme

Ismira Lutfia, Jakarta – The Jakarta Administrative Court on Thursday rejected the Alliance of Independent Journalist's appeal to overturn the ban on the Australian film "Balibo."

The release of the International Crisis Group's latest report again highlights the important – yet often neglected – issues surrounding our easternmost province.

A leaked video clip from Indonesian controlled West Papua should be as unsettling for Indonesia as the Wikileaks 2007 video showing a helicopter strike in Baghdad was for the United Sta

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Prison failed to discourage some 100 poor housewives in Makassar, South Sulawesi, asking the authority to lock them up so they could get a free place to stay

Nethy Dharma Somba and Yemris Fointuna, Jayapura, Kupang – Papuan journalists called on police Tuesday to thoroughly investigate acts of intimidation and violence against them, believed

Dili – East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta said Wednesday he was waiting for the new Australian government to be installed before talks about a regional refugee centre could "re-op

Jakarta – Ahead of an audit of Papua's special autonomy regional development fund, an NGO has urged the government to recognize that the root of problems causing resentment among Papuan

Nivell Rayda – Corruption cases handled by law enforcement agencies in the first half of the year cost the state nearly 25 percent more in losses than those in the same period last year

Arientha Primanita, Jakarta – Governor Fauzi Bowo is today about Rp 9 billion ($1 million) richer than when he ran for office in 2007, with a total fortune of Rp 50 billion, while his d

Dion Bisara, Camelia Pasandaran & Reuters – Jakarta – The days when small shops give change in sweets instead of contemptible Rp 100 or Rp 200 coins will be a thing of the past – so

Jakarta – The number of corruption cases in the first semester of this year doubled to 176, with state losses estimated at about Rp 2 trillion (US$222 million), from the corresponding p

Heru Andriyanto, Jakarta – Disgraced tax official Gayus Tambunan said on Tuesday that one of the sources of the extraordinary Rp 28 billion ($3.14 million) found in his bank accounts wa

Jakarta – Following Tuesday's explosive testimony from rogue Indonesian tax official Gayus Tambunan that a company controlled by the family of controversial politician and businessman A

Robin McDowell, Jakarta – The jumpy video shows a prisoner lying in a jungle clearing in eastern Indonesia moments after troops allegedly sliced open his abdomen with a bayonet, sending

Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian Muslims are still vulnerable to being radicalized, according to a national survey by the Indonesian Survey Institute and Lazuardi Birru, an independent organi

No official decision was made at a special sitting of the upper house of the Papua provincial parliament to formally return special autonomy status to the Indonesian Government in Jakar

Dessy Sagita – Culturally entrenched gender inequality and a lack of bargaining power has kept much of Asia, and Indonesia in particular, from meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal

Jakarta – Indonesia is letting radical Islamists trample the constitutional rights of minorities, leading to inter-communal violence, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.

Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – It is the political relationship that has long mystified Indonesia's chattering classes, one whose ups and downs regularly send tremors throughout the capita

Nivell Rayda & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The National Police could be charged with contempt of court should they fail to present key evidence in the case against two Corruption Eradic

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The government must shift its policy approach on Papua away from the welfare model and toward one focused on resolving the political turmoil there, a leading sec

Djoko Widodo, Jakarta – The fugitive former co-owners of Bank Century stole hundreds of millions of dollars from their own bank before stashing the cash in at least 13 different territo

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence criticized the police Monday for being slow in handling the case of Tama S.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A group of activists attempting to obtain details about the National Police's internal investigation into the suspiciously large bank accounts of several pol

Anita Rachman, Jakarta – In a third headline-grabbing protest against Indonesian politicians in five days, a middle-aged man stormed into the House of Representatives in Jakarta on Tues

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Tensions are high ahead of the Merauke regional election in Papua province, with the police currently investigating the death of a TV journalist and death

Rebecca Henschke, Jakarta – Papua's most well-known pro-independence leader, Filep Karma, is serving 15 years in jail for rebellion.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The legitimacy and legal power of the judicial commissioners may be called into question by the judges they supervise as a presidential regulation exte

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The prevailing violence being committed by police and military personnel to quell separatist sentiment in resource-rich Papua would cease if the centra

Bambang Djanuarto & Yoga Rusmana, Indonesia – Workers at the Indonesian unit of Newmont Mining Corp., the largest US gold producer, began a strike today at the Batu Hijau gold and c

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – Despite a spate of recent criticism over lack of action in the House of Representatives, a House budget committee on Monday pro

Jakarta – In a major embarrassment for Indonesia's House of Representatives, journalists and House staff members were exposed to hard-core pornographic images broadcast on an internal l

Aubrey Belford, Indonesia – As one of the heads of the Indonesian Internet Service Provider Association, Valens Riyadi knows he has his work cut out for him.

Fifty members of the United States Congress have called on President Barack Obama to hold Indonesia accountable for what they call slow motion genocide in the Papua region.

Lima, Lampung – There is no such thing as bad publicity – even for a form of coffee bean excreted by a civet cat for human consumption.

Zaky Pawas, Jakarta – Legal and human rights activists say the government now has enough evidence to ban violent hard-line groups following a street brawl involving members of the Betaw

Zaky Pawas, Arientha Primanita & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Legally recognized civilian organizations had no right to resort to anarchy, House of Representatives Speaker Ma

Jakarta – Several cases centering on leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have greatly influenced its performance in probing major cases, especially highly political o

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Ibrahim has become the first Indonesian judge to be jailed for corruption after the respected Anti-Corruption Court jailed him for six years in prison for accept

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Human rights activists and a lawmaker have voiced concerns over the new antiterrorism agency, saying the agency may hold too much power that could mimic the

Despite remarkable strides in the last 11 years after the economic, social and political chaos of the Asian financial crisis, Indonesia remains to some extent caught in the coils of Suh

James Balowski, Jakarta – At around 2.30am on June 28, a group of men arrived at a major news distribution outlet in Central Jakarta.

Banjir Ambarita, Ismira Lutfia & Antara, Merauke, Papua – Police in Merauke, Papua, have tightened security for a journalist who received a death threat just a day after another rep