Fabio Scarpello, Denpasar – The death of Teungku Hasan Muhammad di Tiro, the founder of the former pro-independence Free Aceh Movement (GAM), could intensify existing divisions in Indon

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – About 200 activists of Islamic groups rallied outside the National Police Headquarters in South Jakarta on Friday, demanding dissolution of the counterterror

Farouk Arnaz – Members of the hard-line Islamic People's Forum (FUI) on Friday accused the National Police of planning to fabricate terrorism charges against cleric Abu Bakar Bashir.

Anita Rachman & Armando Siahaan – The Golkar Party has no plans to leave the ruling coalition led by the Democratic Party, it said on Thursday.

Camelia Pasandaran & Anita Rachman – Just a day after rumors began spreading that the Golkar Party was considering pulling out from the ruling coalition, President Susilo Bambang Yu

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The communications and information technology minister said sex videos allegedly featuring celebrities made him "feverish", adding that the country needed a

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – An internet porn scandal involving a starlet who once interviewed Hillary Clinton on live television, another celebrity with links to Australia and the ma

Joe Cochrane – Could it be that the country's most popular model/presenter/actress was in a racy homemade sex tape with her pop-star boyfriend?

Anita Rachman – The government body tasked with supervising elections warned on Friday of more riots during the "peak season" for local elections from June to July.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A group of 17 lawmakers are set to fly to the Middle East this month in attempt to help Palestine gain independence, but critics have blasted the trip as a w

Anita Rachman – The Golkar Party's follow-up proposal to allocate Rp 1 billion ($108,000) for development in each of the country's villages and subdistricts, after its earlier plan to g

Lia Harahap, Jakarta – Three people wearing masks with pictures of pigs on them brought a clay earthen pitcher. They also waved monopoly money in the air.

The Golkar Party is threatening to quit the government's coalition government after two controversial proposals were embarrassingly rejected by the House of Representatives.

Jakarta – Indonesia and the United States said on Thursday they had signed a defence framework arrangement to pave the way for further cooperation in military training, defence procurem

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Representatives of nongovernmental organizations grouped under the Solidarity for Riau Farmers held an art performance outside the National Police Headquarte

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday acknowledged his country lacked credibility as it seeks billions of dollars in foreign aid to battle climate change.

Neil Chatterjee & Gde Anugrah Arka – The International Monetary Fund on Thursday forecast Indonesia's economic growth will accelerate this year amid improving investment and said th

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia has issued a new presidential regulation that increases foreign ownership limits for certain local businesses and properties.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) announced Thursday that most anti-terrorism raids conducted by police force have violated human rights.

Jakarta – Drug offenders account for 30 percent, or about 40,000 of the 132,000 Indonesian prisoners, the director general for correctional institutions, Untung Sugiyono, said Wednesday

Jakarta – Sex education has been in place in many schools across the country, but Education Minister Muhammad Nuh expressed on Thursday his objection to the extra curricular subject.

Simon Roughneen – East Timor's government has declined a proposal by Australian oil and gas company Woodside to process gas drawn from the Greater Sunrise field on board a floating liqu

Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – The Corruption Eradication Commission told the House of Representatives on Wednesday that it had not yet found any indications of corruption in the Ba

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the Attorney General's Office said they had not yet found any indication of corruption after questioning

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta has attacked international aid agency AusAID for forcing the closure of what he says is one of his country's few succes

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A judge at the Constitutional Court suggested Wednesday that the trial of Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairmen, Bibit Samad Rianto and Chandra M.

East Timor's government is emphatic it would rather leave the Greater Sunrise gas deposits under the Timor Sea than drop its demand the gas be piped to East Timor for processing.

Ismira Lutfia – While more cities and towns were honored with the central government's annual Adipura clean-city awards this year in recognition of their improved waste-management effor

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has confirmed the April 26 riot in Mandailing Natal regency, North Sumatra, was violent and has recommended

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – A Golkar Party senior politician says that the current leadership under Aburizal Bakrie has sunk the party into deeper pit of bad public image.

Armando Siahaan – After having attracting the ire of government officials, lawmakers and analysts, Golkar Party's proposal to allocate Rp 15 billion ($1.6 million) to each legislator to

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The big and medium-sized parties are pushing for a 5 percent parliamentary threshold at all levels of government and a full district system in the 2014 leg

Arientha Primanita – The recent localized street flooding caused by unseasonal rains across Jakarta highlights the need to seriously improve the city's poor drainage system, an academic

Agus Maryono, Cilacap – More than 90 percent of the country's 15.5 million fishermen are living below the poverty line due to an underdeveloped local fishing industry, an official from

Jakarta – Eight under-performing state firms face liquidation under a state enterprises consolidation program, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Mustafa Abubakar says.

Anita Rachman & Irvan Tisnabudi – The Golkar Party's controversial proposal to give each lawmaker Rp 15 billion ($1.6 million) to development their constituencies looks all but dead

Farouk Arnaz – A National Police brigadier general accused by the force's former top detective of receiving bribes will be officially replaced and brought before an ethics tribunal, a p

Nivell Rayda – The country's most prominent antigraft watchdog officially lodged a complaint with the Corruption Eradication Commission on Wednesday linking a bank account containing Rp

A witness in a bribery case implicating two Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairmen testified in the bribery trial of Anggodo Widjojo that he was forced by the businessm

Nurfika Osman – Activists and nutritionists have urged the government to adopt an international code that bans the unethical promotion of breast-milk substitutes in a bid to increase br

Baudoin Koening – As a French journalist, I came to Indonesia to draw the portrait of the greatest emerging power of the G20 members and largest Muslim state in the world, in the contex

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said Wednesday that it had yet to find any indications of corruption after questioning 111 witnesses in connection with the Bank Ce

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – More than 80 Ahmadiyah members who have taken refuge in the Wisma Transito shelter, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), did not cast votes in the Mataram mayoral

Anita Rachman – House of Representative's Speaker Marzuki Alie, a member of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party, has labeled a Golkar proposal that legislators be give

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – The rivalry between a leading taxi operator and a local taxi association on Bali turned ugly on Monday, with hundreds of drivers attacking and vandalizing

Pork barrel politics is as commonly practiced and proved effective in its country of origin the United States as in other countries like the Philippines, but it may not be the case in I

Heru Andriyanto – The Attorney General's Office has found itself ensnared in complications arising from a legal case involving two antigraft officials whom prosecutors had eagerly pursu

Irvan Tisnabudi – The newly appointed finance minister held out an olive branch to lawmakers on Monday, telling them he needed their "trust" and cooperation if he was to succeed in refo

Titania Veda – "My parents told me to stay here until the baby was born," says Diana, not her real name. "I wanted an abortion, but when I found out it was already too late.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian police have moved to treat all asylum-seekers passing through the country on their way to Australia as potential terror suspects.