Jakarta – Police have denied allegations by NGOs that they were aware of a possible attack on Tama S.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ismira Lutfia – The government has acknowledged it needs to run more development programs in Papua and Aceh provinces, saying the existing programs are no

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman, Jakarta – Legislators should be ashamed of their poor attendance record at plenary sessions, and must strive to live up to their billing as

Farouk Arnaz – Police have still not arrested any suspects a month after Muslim hard-liners broke up a meeting because they claimed it was a communist gathering, a legislator said on Fr

Fidelis E Satriastanti, Sanur, Bali – Conservationists from around the world have concluded their meeting in Bali with a declaration of support for Indonesia's limited logging moratoriu

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Isn't it inevitable that a life of excess brings with it big problems?

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono decided to ring in National Children's Day on Friday by giving a speech to hundreds of children about pornography.

Jakarta – Working People's Association (PRP) activists demanded police order a thorough investigation into the death of a university student in Garut, West Java, who died Monday after b

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto, Jakarta – Transparency on the part of the city administration is key to improving education and teaching facilities, the chief of a learning cent

Dessy Sagita – Women's renewed focus on their careers and a dearth of information have been blamed for fewer mothers breast-feeding their newborns, an official said on Friday.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Australia might be asked to fund detention centres in Indonesia to help Jakarta deter asylum-seekers from using the nation as a staging point.

Banjir Ambarita & Nurfika Osman, Jayapura – The separatist Free Papua Movement, which has been engaged in a low-profile armed resistance against the Indonesian presence in the provi

Human rights groups reacted angrily on Friday to the US military's resumption of ties with Indonesian special forces accused of ongoing human rights violations in the young democracy.

Jim Lobe, Washington – Thursday's announcement in Jakarta that Washington will resume training for the Indonesian military's controversial special forces unit Kopassus has been denounce

Jakarta – The National Commission for Children's Protection says it had recorded 1,826 cases of violence, sexual assault and incest against children across Indonesia in the first five m

Washington – A key United States senator voiced regret Thursday at the resumption of ties with Indonesian special forces and said the unit must expel officers linked to abuses before th

Farouk Arnaz & Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – Despite catching flak last week for failing to follow through on an internal probe into suspicious money dealings by senior officers, the Nati

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring on Wednesday stressed that he would not back down from his decision to block Internet access

Jakarta – Indonesian Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring says he hopes all pornographic Web sites will be blocked before Ramadan – and is warning that ev

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Aceh's Sharia Police censured hundreds of women for wearing tight pants and jeans in Wednesday's raid in Banda Aceh.

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office has launched an internal probe against several senior Indonesian prosecutors who allegedly met with media mogul Hary Tanoesoedibyo,

Stephanie Riady, Jakarta – On the fateful Tuesday morning last week, an LPG gas cylinder explosion claimed the life of Muhammad Sofyan's beloved wife and left him fighting for his life

A decision that was adopted at a recent congress of the OPM (Organisasi Papua Merdeka) along with its armed wing, Tentara Papua Nasional/TPN, made it clear that the organisation would c

Armando Siahaan, Jakarta – The House of Representatives team monitoring investigations of the Bank Century scandal threatened on Wednesday to reduce the budget of law enforcement agenci

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – The United States announced Thursday it will resume cooperation with Indonesia's special forces after ties were severed more than a decade ago over alleged hum

Elisabeth Bumiller, Jakarta – The Defense Department said on Thursday that it was lifting a ban of more than a decade on contact with the elite Indonesian special forces, Kopassus, and

Jakarta – Indonesia will seek compensation from a company operating a Timor Sea oil rig that last year leaked into Australian and Indonesian waters and caught ablaze, President Susilo B

Ridwan Max Sijabat – One reason behind the various flaws in the election body – in the words of its own chief – is that the body is staffed by people with partisan agendas.

With the ongoing second wave of local elections, will regular polls bring a better public awareness of voting and improved competence of election bodies, or merely a means to gain power

The Industry Ministry said Tuesday that the government planned to expand the pulp and paper industry to eastern Indonesia, including Papua, because of its vast tracts of forest.

Nurdin Hasan, Aceh – Authorities in West Aceh have told three Americans accused of converting local Muslims to leave the district for their own safety, while three of their alleged conv

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Indonesia is experiencing growing Islamization both at national and regional levels with the enactment of laws and regulations many believe are inspire

Camelia Pasandaran – Massive graft at the tax department was "extraordinary crime beyond comprehension," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday.

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – An independent investigation team led by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, has come to the conclusion that the attack on an

Nivell Rayda, Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights pledged on Tuesday to launch its own investigation into the beating of an anti-corruption activist in early July.

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Two high-ranking police officials implicated in the Gayus Tambunan case, Brig. Gen.

Jakarta – The National Police have dispersed its independent team to investigate possible judicial mafia within the force.

Jakarta – The stellar performance of Indonesia's financial market in recent years has made investments in securities and also currencies a top choice for money laundering, the Financial

Jakarta – National Awakening Party (PKB) leaders are embroiled in a political tug-of-war over how to thwart major political parties' plans to double the parliamentary threshold in the 2

Camelia Pasandaran & Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The highly divisive 2008 Anti-Pornography Law will be back in the Constitutional Court today.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Some 400,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Yogyakarta province face collapse due to electricity rate hikes that have made them less competitive, ac

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The government was criticized on Tuesday for not taking the spate of gas cylinder explosions seriously, as a planned meeting on t

Jakarta – Indonesia's target to achieve economic growth of 7 percent a year within the next few years will be difficult to reach if no significant improvement is made in the country's t

Dessy Sagita, Indonesia – In the face of a suggestion by the nation's main Muslim organizations that a fatwa, or religious edict, be placed against the lauded luwak coffee, the Indonesi

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The country's leading financial watchdog is conceding to legislators' rejection of its proposal to investigate suspicious transactions, settling for the authori

Mark Dodd – Negotiations for an offshore refugee processing centre in East Timor appear to have stalled.

Jakarta – A lack of legal protection – and a culture that excuses casual verbal and physical sexual abuse – makes obscene behavior an everyday experience for women on the streets and bu

Ismira Lutfia & Putri Prameshwari, Indonesia – The Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) said in a statement on Tuesday that it regretted the recent suspension of private broadca

Jakarta – International news agencies and newspapers around the world have pounced on an embarrassing mistake by the Indonesian Ulema Council, which was forced to admit last week that i

Nivell Rayda & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – A key piece of evidence that served as the basis for charging two deputies of the Corruption Eradication Commission with extortion does not ap