Banda Aceh – An Indonesian court on Thursday jailed two Islamic policemen for gang-raping a young woman in custody, a case that has sparked outrage in the deeply religious province of A

Armando Siahaan – The Golkar Party has protested key points in a money-laundering bill that would have granted unprecedented powers to the agency in charge of flagging violations, warni

Putri Prameshwari – The number of Indonesians working illegally in Malaysia could spiral out of control after a long-awaited agreement on workers' protection was indefinitely delayed ag

Nivell Rayda – A report published by an Australian university this month warns that massacres such as those alleged to have occurred in East Timor are likely to occur in Papua.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A blockade of the giant Arun liquefied natural gas plant in northern Aceh by more than 500 villagers demanding the company honor 36-year-old promises entered

Usman Hamid, a coordinator from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, or Kontras, and activists from other non-governmental organizations met with National Police

Dessy Sagita – The country's highest Islamic authority is refusing to take the blame for issuing an incorrect edict in March, which stipulated that worshipers had to face westward in or

About one hundred lawyers from the Indonesian Advocate Association, or KAI, held a demonstration at the Supreme Court building on Wednesday.

Pontianak, West Kalimantan – The number of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia, particularly in Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang, has experienced rapid growth, a Chinese Muslim leader said.

The national congress of the Indonesian Farmers Association on Tuesday night reelected incumbent chairman Prabowo Subianto by acclamation for the 2010-15 period.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police should no longer tolerate religious hard-liners such as the Islamic Defenders Front, which are using violence and intimidation under the guise of piet

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Golkar stalwart Priyo Budi Santoso's call for a cabinet reshuffle was rebuffed by other lawmakers from the ruling coalition as political grandstanding on Tues

Arti Ekawati – Manufacturers are up in arms over the recent electricity rate hikes, with some saying their rates have doubled and accusing the Energy Ministry and state utility PT Perus

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – A group of men relaxes in a coffee shop in Lamkabeu village, Aceh Besar, chatting about the breaking news of terrorism in their village.

Camelia Pasandaran & Banjir Ambarita – If the broad autonomy accorded to Papua had not raised the region's prosperity it was the local authorities' fault, government ministers said

Zaky Pawas & Ulma Haryanto – In the latest attack on the rights of minority religions, hundreds of public order officers in Bogor on Monday demolished the foundations for a planned

Farouk Arnaz & Ismira Lutfia – Under mounting public pressure to quickly solve the violent attack on an antigraft activist last week, the National Police on Monday promised rights a

Nivell Rayda – The Anti-Corruption Court on Tuesday ordered the National Police to disclose wiretapped recordings between a Corruption Eradication Commission official and a suspected ca

Talek Harris, Sydney – Australia said on Tuesday it remained in talks with East Timor over a regional asylum seeker center despite a rejection by the tiny country's Parliament, which de

Nivell Rayda – Muchtar Pakpahan, who as a union organizer was jailed by former strongman Suharto's regime, has won the most public support for his bid to chair the country's top anticor

Ulma Haryanto & Made Arya Kencana – The recent cases of low-income women selling their babies in order to pay for their medical bills highlights the need for a comprehensive nationa

Jakarta – According to the National Commission for AIDS (Komnas-AIDS), "good" housewives make up 59.9 percent of women living with HIV in Indonesia.

Johannes Nugroho – The government is moving steadily toward a sizeable reduction in fuel subsidies, arguing that budgetary discipline mandates it.

Embattled Minister of Justice and Human Rights Patrialis Akbar has jumped to the defense of his colleagues pictured nodding off during a briefing at the State Palace and blamed the medi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Young revelers weren't the only ones struggling to drag themselves out of bed the morning after the late-night World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlan

Rheza Andhika Pamungkas, Jakarta – Around 80 workers from the Indonesian Labour Movement Union (PPBI) held a demonstration today demanding the cancellation of basic electricity rate (TD

Nelson da Cruz, Dili – Timor's parliament voted Monday to reject an Australian proposal for the impoverished country to become a regional refugee processing centre for Australian-bound

Armando Siahaan, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Antara – Long forgotten as a political vehicle until it resurfaced behind Prabowo Sugianto in his failed bid for the presidency last year

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Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The usually sedate national congress of the Indonesian Farmers Association has suddenly become a who's who of political heavyweights thanks to a string of

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Several correctional officers were injured when dozens of prisoners at Abepura Penitentiary rioted on Sunday in revenge for a previous incident in which offi

Jakarta – A government spokesman said Sunday he had never heard of a grave at Tanah Kusir cemetery in Jakarta, believed to be the final resting place of five foreign journalists killed

Gerhard Hoffstaedter – Indonesia has recently been in the thrall of its first celebrity sex-tape scandal.

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Residents of Sebalang village, Lampung, have urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to immediately name suspects in what they allege to be a

Nivell Rayda – Badly beaten antigraft activist Tama Satrya Langkun on Sunday highlighted inconsistencies in the sudden reappearance of a key witness to his attack.

Constitutional Court Chairman Mahfud MD says the attack on Indonesian Corruption Watch activist Tama Satya Langkun was the manifestation of resistance to the national antigraft drive.

Jayapura – Tolikara district on Saturday afternoon succeeded in ending a tribal war that erupted in the small hour of the morning.

Indonesian statesman and Muslim cleric Dr. Idham Chalid passed away on Sunday at his home at the Darul Ma'arif education complex in Cipete, South Jakarta.

One of the daughters of deceased dictator Suharto, Siti Hediati Hariyadi, says she is running for the leadership of the Association of Indonesian Farmers to help her realize her father'

Jakarta – Several regions have objected to proposals that public order officers be allowed to carry guns, even if they only contain blank rounds.

Ulma Haryanto – A law allowing road tolls to rise every two years is unfair, transportation activists said on Sunday as the government raised the tolls on two major roads.

Australian officials will travel to East Timor this week to continue discussing plans for a regional asylum processing centre.

Jakarta – Most political prisoners in Papua refused to ask for a pardon from the President as they claimed not guilty for their separatist movement.

Indonesian police have been praised for showing restraint in their handling of a massive demonstration in the capital of Papua province.

Sydney – Australia's new prime minister Julia Gillard on Friday talked up her plan for a regional refugee centre to tackle people smuggling but backed away from suggestions it should be

Farouk Arnaz – Indonesian celebrities Luna Maya and Cut Tari have been named suspects for their alleged starring roles in the Peterporn sex tapes scandal, National Police said on Friday

Karishma Vaswani – Hundreds of protesters in West Papua have continued their demonstrations rejecting the province's special autonomy status.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – A quarter of 45 ministries and state institutions have been given "red marks" for failure to implement dozens of national development priority programs in the f

Nurfika Osman – Two mothers who were left no option but to sell their newborns to pay hospital bills could have avoided their plight had they been informed they qualified for insurance

The widow of one of the Balibo Five has paid her first visit to his grave, 35 years after the death of the five newsmen in East Timor.