Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Two 43-metre Chinese-made navy patrol boats mounted with 30-millimetre cannon, initially to be crewed by Chinese sailors, will be launched in East Timor this w

A military parade and blessing ceremony is planned in East Timor later this week to formally mark the arrival of two patrol boats purchased from China.

Nivell Rayda – The National Police on Monday maintained that there was so far no evidence that businesses linked to Golkar Party Chairman Aburizal Bakrie had bribed an allegedly crooked

Jakarta – The Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) alleges that land grabs by large-scale plantation companies are leading to rapid environmental degradation in West Kalimantan.

Papua's Forestry Office says the forested areas in the Indonesian province are shrinking even further.

Jakarta – Due to a misunderstanding, a group of people in Nabire regency, Papua, vandalized Topo police headquarters on Monday. Papua Police spokesman Adj. Sr. Comr.

Jakarta – Lawmakers have acknowledged there are numerous problematic articles in the intelligence bill that require further deliberation.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Golkar Party proposal to allocate Rp 15 billion (US$1.64 million) from 2011 state funds for each legislator as "aspiration funds" is likely to grow into ano

Relations between Indonesia and the United States are probably at their historic best, and the planned visit of President Barack Obama to Indonesia this month, which is now postponed, w

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The Golkar Party's "pork barrel" spending proposal will likely prove far less beneficial to underdeveloped regions that produce few legislators, data shows.

A number of senior police officers were reported for conducting suspicious financial transactions.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle faction at the House of Representatives said Sunday that the party would support the "aspiration fund" for legislators to develop t

Putri Prameshwari – Life for Uni is a little different than most kids her age; at 16 years old she already frequently visits a gynecologist.

Jakarta – The Golkar Party said on Sunday it would continue to fight for higher parliamentary threshold of 5 percent to reduce the number of political parties at the House of Representa

Nurfika Osman – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry has set up a task force to curb the number of migrant workers heading to Malaysia in breach of a government moratorium on sendin

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran – Following a series of bruising defeats in local elections, Golkar leaders have exhorted local party officials to work harder to win t

Elaine Pearson, Jakarta – As US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized in a speech last year, Indonesia has now "embraced democracy."

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – East Timor has accused Woodside of "grandstanding" over its plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas platform above the Timor Sea's Greater Sunrise fiel

Farouk Arnaz & Irvan Tisnabudi – In an about-face on Friday, the National Police said they had no plans to investigate claims that Bakrie Group companies paid bribes to avoid taxes,

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III on law and human rights has proposed a revision of a law that will give more power to the Witness Protectio

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The ruling coalition's controversial joint secretariat has backed a divisive proposal to grant each House of Representatives legislator a Rp 15 billion ($1.6

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Hardline Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir had a direct line to al-Qa'ida around the time of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US because his

Fidelis E Satriastanti & Ismira Lutfia – Ineffective law enforcement and heavy-handed tactics by logging companies are the main causes of the intimidation suffered by journalists wh

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The joint administration of the pro-government parties has agreed on the disbursement of the so-called "aspiration fund" worth Rp 15 billion (US$1.63 mi

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Every three months at least 500 Indonesians travel to Malaysia and start work illegally, despite Indonesia's ban on allowing informal workers to migrate to t

Jon Gorvett – Hopes for a change in Indonesia's restrictive rules on foreign ownership of property were dashed when a major conference of real estate agents on Bali ended last week with

Ulma Haryanto – The chief of an open learning center for the poor and a city councilor have joined critics who say that international-standard schools not only widen the gap between the

Matt Chambers – Woodside Petroleum expects development of the Greater Sunrise gasfields through a floating liquefied natural gas platform to cost more than $US11 billion ($13 billion) –

The Supreme Court on Friday joined the chorus of legal experts fingering the Attorney General's Office as the primary reason antigraft deputies Chandra M Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto w

Nivell Rayda, Heru Andriyanto & Farouk Arnaz – The Attorney General's Office said on Friday that it had three possible responses to the High Court ruling rejecting its decision to h

Farouk Arnaz & Nivell Rayda – The National Police plan to summon a number of companies owned by business tycoon and political heavyweight Aburizal Bakrie after former tax official G

Fresh allegations that companies linked to Indonesian tycoon and politician Aburizal Bakrie bribed an official to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes are baseless, a spokesman sai

Armando Siahaan – Lawmakers pledged on Thursday to support revisions of the 2006 Law on the Protection of Witnesses and Victims in the wake of a dispute between the National Police and

Jakarta – The selection committee for the new leader of the KPK will seek advice from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono about prolonging the selection process if it fails to find promi

Yogyakarta – Demonstrators from the People's Challenge Alliance (ARM) held a protest action at the University of Gajah Mada (UGM) traffic circle in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta o

Reza Yunanto, Jakarta – Anti-Israeli demonstration will continue to rock the capital city today.

Semarang (Central Java) – Dozens of students protested against the humanitarian aid group attack, demanding the UN Security Council stop Israeli aggression.

Peace in Aceh was Tengku Hasan Muhammad di Tiro last wish before he died at the age of 84 on Thursday, his trusted aide Farid Husain said. "He asked for peace to be developed in Aceh.

Farouk Arnaz – Poor coordination among authorities, weak laws and a prison climate conducive to recruitment are allowing regional terrorist networks to thrive despite a recent crackdown

Ulma Haryanto & Fidelis E Satriastanti – In defiance of a Supreme Court ruling, Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Wednesday that the city would proceed with a major sea reclamatio

Indonesia is a democracy. But many Papuans do not want to be part of it.

Armando Siahaan – A Protestant congregation in Bogor, which has been forced to hold services on the street after its half-finished church was sealed by the city administration in April,

Greenpeace on Thursday said a promised moratorium on deforestation would have little impact on Indonesia's huge carbon footprint unless it is extended to existing concessions.

Anita Rachman – Lawmakers on Wednesday said that after meeting with the National Police, they were increasingly convinced that the country's law enforcers were dragging their feet in in

Nivell Rayda – Corruption Eradication Commission deputy chairmen Bibit Samad Riyanto and Chandra M Hamzah now face the possibility of being suspended after the Jakarta High Court on Thu

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite objections from the new minister of finance to a proposal that would give each House of Representatives lawmaker a Rp 15 billion ($1.6 million) develo

Niluksi Koswanage, Yogyakarta – Contrary to previous statements, the government will not revoke existing forestry licenses for palm oil firms as part of a deal with Norway to preserve r

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday called on the Indonesian people to end the debate on the place of Pancasila as the country's state ideolog

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the official national ideology, Pancasila, by calling on all Indonesians to put country before race and religion.

Irvan Tisnabudi – Tax reform and infrastructure development are among the keys to achieving the economic growth target in 2011, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo told lawmakers on Wedn