Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Democratic Party leaders have shrugged off criticism as they appointed Edhie "Ibas" Baskoro Yudhoyono as secretary-general of the country's largest part

Two official Papuan representative bodies in Indonesia's Papua region have announced they're "handing back" Special Autonomy status to Jakarta.

Sali Pelu, Manokwari (Indonesia) – Three people were killed and hundreds of homes damaged Wednesday when a series of strong earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warni

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairmen Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M.

Jakarta – Indonesia's communications minister said Wednesday a celebrity sex video scandal showed the Internet was a threat to the nation and vowed to issue a decree to curb its use.

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The Indonesian and US governments signed a defense agreement last Thursday that may help mend bilateral ties after a US military embargo but excluded specifi

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A new government agency expected to take a more comprehensive approach to eradicating terrorism will be officially established in July, an official said, ami

Jakarta – Chairman of the National Commission of Human Rights Ifdhal Kasim said Wednesday that the Attorney General's Office (AGO) should not have the right to ban books on the basis of

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite weeks of controversy that seemed to kill off the idea, the Golkar Party's proposal to provide billions of rupiah in pork barrel fu

On 14 June 2010, East Timor community figure Joao Quintao (57), a retired Indonesian military senior sergeant, said that the thousands of refugees from East Timor living in refugee sett

Adam Gartrell – An Australian woman cleared of plotting to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders intends to sue the country's president for defamation.

Paul Toohey – East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has taken in recent weeks to heavily bagging Australia, including a strange speech in which he, seemingly apropos of nothing, du

Ulma Haryanto – Humala Tambunan was feeling ambitious on Monday morning.

The deputy chairman of the Corruption Eradication Commission, Chandra M Hamzah, denied knowing businessman Anggodo Widjojo, as well as receiving anything from him.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party is considering recruiting two prominent human rights activists, Usman Hamid and Rachland Nashidik, to sit on its national leadership boar

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – An officer of a police elite unit charged with hunting down members of the outlawed separatist group Free Papua Movement was shot and killed while on patrol

Human Rights Watch Indonesia says a humanitarian crisis is worsening in Puncak Jaya in West Papua's Highlands amid escalation of military and police activity across the remote region.

Nivell Rayda – Lawyers, including some who have made a name representing corruption suspects, accounted for almost a third of the applicants to head the powerful Corruption Eradication

Australia's government says it's seeking more information about claims of poor conditions and ill treatment of asylum seekers – including the use of a stun gun – at Indonesia's Tanjung

Jakarta – Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a police officer in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, state media reported Tuesday.

Jakarta – Indonesia is progressing on its gender development, but not fast enough, a minister said Monday.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Incompetence and a lack of independence at every level of several election bodies has led to polling violence, says a watchdog group.

A Greenpeace forest campaigner says immediate action is needed to stop the destruction of forests in Papua.

Jakarta – The government does not feel that it needs to get concerned about military cooperation with the United States, including over assurances about continued restoration of joint t

Armando Siahaan – The country's various Islam-based political parties must consolidate their splintered ideologies and find a strong figurehead if they are to bounce back from their poo

Nurfika Osman – Almost half of Indonesian overseas workers – or three million people – are victims of human trafficking, according to an annual report released on Tuesday by the US Stat

Jakarta – Some asylum seekers in an Indonesian detention center are on a hunger strike, saying immigration officials use stun guns and threaten to kill them.

Jakarta – Indonesian teen heart-throb Nazril Ariel and his model girlfriend Luna Maya expressed shock Monday over an X-rated video that has appeared on the Internet apparently showing t

Jakarta – Indonesia's political parties and legislators have not strongly supported women in politics, despite a law that requires that women comprise 30 percent of all candidates, say

For discussing surgery on female organs, allowing a racy performance by dangdut singers and promoting an aphrodisiac, a number of broadcast stations were reprimanded for violating gover

Ismira Lutfia – Domestic workers' advocates have lashed out at the House of Representatives for bumping a bill on protecting their rights from the list of priority legislation for delib

The chief editor of an independent newspaper in Indonesia's Papua region has denied a claim by Papua's police commander that journalists covering regional stories focus only on negative

Jakarta – Dozens of activists from various cities staged a rally at the Proklamasi Monument in Central Jakarta on Saturday to oppose a government plan to build nuclear power plants.

Jakarta – The widespread use of political image projection, including in the recent elections of regional heads, is further driving up the cost of competing in elections.

Irvan Tisnabudi & Muhamad Al Azhari – The finance minister and experts are pressuring lawmakers to deliberate the latest draft of a bill on protocols for handling a financial crisis

Nivell Rayda – Several activist groups on Sunday urged the Anti-Corruption Court to summon 11 people to testify in a bid to unravel the alleged attempt to frame two deputies from the Co

Farouk Arnaz – An Islamic organization said on Sunday it would file a complaint against the antiterror police at the National Commission on Human Rights this week over the police's fata

Arientha Primanita – The Jakarta administration's insistence on continuing with its reclamation project off its northern coast is an insult to the nation's highest court, legal and nong

Niniek Karmini, Jakarta – Indonesians grappled with their first-ever celebrity sex-tape scandal, casting aside social taboos as they swarmed around office computers and mobile phones to

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Major political parties called on the House of Representatives on Friday to accelerate revision of the regional administration law, make local elections le

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Detained former National Police chief detective Comr. Gen.

Adianto P.

Camelia Pasandaran & Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office on Thursday announced that it would mount an extraordinary challenge to a High Court ruling that overturned its

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission II on home affairs and regional autonomy has called for revision of the law on election administration after finding 30 out of 45 elec

Vincent Lingga, Jakarta – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) charted out Thursday a rosy outlook for Indonesia's economy for the rest of this year with an estimated growth of 6 perce

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Migrant Care is one of the NGOs providing legal advocacy for troubled migrant workers.

A Balinese teenager caught in the act of intercourse with a cow passed out on Friday when he was forced to marry the animal in a ceremony witnessed by hundreds of curious onlookers.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The law championing access to public information was implemented a month ago is almost impossible to enforce because the government has not made available mu

M Zaid Wahyudi – The growing number of ordinary people's votes that are needlessly lost is a direct consequence of the application of an increasingly higher parliamentary threshold.

Damien Kingsbury – Teungku (Lord) Hasan di Tiro, who led the bloody independence movement in the troubled Indonesian province of Aceh for three decades, has died of complications from l