East Timor's prime minister said an Australian consortium is trying to steal his country's natural resources from a gas field it's developing in the Timor Sea.

Jakarta – Indonesia's minority and religious groups remain vulnerable to violence and discrimination, says an Amnesty International report released Wednesday in Indonesia.

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – Can a nation protect its own children if so many of them are unaware of their own rights?

A journalist was badly wounded after his head was beaten with a bottle by a member of Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in Petamburan, Central Jakarta on Wednesday night.

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Armando Siahaan – Sri Mulyani Indrawati left Indonesia to take up her new post at the World Bank on Wednesday leaving behind words of caution for the country's ability to continue finan

Heru Andriyanto – Lawyers and Muslim groups went to the National Commission for Human Rights on Wednesday to lodge complaints about abuses in the police's antiterror drive and demand ac

Perth – Australia's Woodside Petroleum has not successfully lodged a proposal to East Timor's government to develop the Sunrise gas project using a floating liquefaction plant, the tiny

Ismira Lutfia – Press advocacy groups are pushing for a public trial for a military officer accused of beating up an Acehnese journalist, despite sanctions already imposed on the office

James Paton – East Timor's petroleum regulator has refused to accept Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s plan to develop the Sunrise gas project, insisting on more detailed analysis of alternativ

Armando Siahaan – If you go by her most recent statements, Sri Mulyani Indrawati clearly fingered the Golkar Party and its chairman, businessman Aburizal Bakrie, as the primary drivers

Arti Ekawati – Red tape, conflicting regulations and legal uncertainties keep US companies from investing in clean-energy projects in Indonesia that could help reduce carbon emissions a

Former Indonesian finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati believes democratic reforms in Indonesia are being "hijacked" by powerful reactionary forces, a report said on Wednesday.

Amir Tejo, Mojokerto (East Java) – Activists involved in a protest last week in Mojokerto, East Java, claim that the organized mob that turned the rally violent and attacked police and

Indonesia's powerful provincial governors will soon undergo regular performance reviews as part of the government's push for bureaucratic reforms nationwide, the head of the presidentia

Jakarta – A French journalist who was recently deported after filming a rally in Jayapura, Papua, is questioning his expulsion by Indonesian authorities'.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – Deforestation on the slopes of Mt.

Markus Makur, Paniai (Papua) – The move to involve women in community development has gained momentum in Painai regency, Papua, with a training program specifically targeting women.

Dessy Sagita & Zaky Pawas – As the National Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday told police to investigate hard-liners from the Islamic Defenders Front for raiding and forcefull

Nurdin Hasan – If you are a Muslim woman who likes wearing tight jeans or miniskirts, then the West Aceh district may not be the place for you.

Ade Mardiyati – After the devastating tsunami in 2004, Aceh – then in the midst of an armed rebellion – entered a new era.

Jakarta – The Judicial Mafia Taskforce says the lack of protection for whistle-blowers involved in cases they expose, is one core problem perpetuating rampant corruption across the coun

Nivell Rayda – Local members of the media have condemned Tuesday's detention of two French journalists in Papua, saying the move undermined freedom of the press.

Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – Police in Mimika regency, Papua, on Monday detained four people following a conflict stemming from the death of a resident in an attack on Mimika Baru dist

Two French television journalists were arrested by immigration officers in Jayapura, Papua on Tuesday.

Nurfika Osman – Calling on the government to listen to the cries of children across the country, a coalition of nongovernmental organizations on Tuesday detailed horror stories ranging

Nivell Rayda & Nurfika Osman – The Witness and Victim Protection Agency on Monday said it would protect whistle-blower Comr. Gen.

Amir Tejo, Dessy Sagita & Anita Rachman – Transvestites on Monday lambasted a religious ruling banning them from cutting or styling Muslim women's hair unless they were spouses or b

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Activists rejected a government's plan to centralize the collection and management of alms or zakat, arguing the move would end privately run alms inst

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A special committee tasked with selecting a chairman for the antigraft body officially opened registration for candidates Monday, but criticism over it

Armando Siahaan – The House of Representatives' household affairs committee on Tuesday vehemently refuted allegations by a budgetary watchdog that the renovation of the official houses

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia's population is continuing to grow rapidly, expanding by 30 million in the past decade, preliminary results of the national census show.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – An East Aceh district councillor was hospitalized after an angry mob that suspected him of committing adultery attacked him while he was trying to escape from

Selma Milovanovic – One-year-old Mayuri wriggles out of her father's arms and flops to the ship's deck.

One hundred and twenty-five Islamic boarding schools or pesantren from Java and Madura island issued a fatwa banning transvestites from cutting and/or styling Muslim women's hair unless

Timika – A violent tribal conflict in Timika, Papua, has prompted scores of women and children to flee their homes to the safety of a nearby military base, a witness said on Monday.

Surabaya – A preacher and former chairman of the Reform Star Party (PBR), a splinter of the United Development Party (PPP), Zainuddin MZ, said politics was "no place for clerics".

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The pre-trial hearing to contest the National Police's decision to arrest its former chief of detectives Comr. Gen.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Often sneered at as a paper tiger, the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) is seeking stronger legal basis and more decent facilities to improve its

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A probe by a panel of experts has found that gold miner PT Newmont Minahasa Raya did not do harm to the environment over years of dumping mine tailings into Buy

Ulma Haryanto – Hard-line groups that convinced or intimidated Bekasi authorities into ordering the destruction of an imposing statue of three women in a private residential complex hav

Ridwan Max Sijabat and Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Tension heightened Saturday in Bandung as the three candidates contesting the Democratic Party's top post launched an all-out campaign

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Anita Rachman, Bandung – Two months of intense, often-bitter campaigning ended on Sunday as the ruling Democratic Party finally chose as its new leader a

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Bandung – The congress of the Democratic Party proposed Saturday the establishment of a body within the party that will allow its chief patron,

Markus Makur, Timika, Papua – A Papuan figure from native Amungme tribe, Silas Natkime, has secured support from influential Papua People's Assembly (MRP) to lead US-based gold mining f

Markus Makur, Timika – Puncak Jaya Regent Lukas Enembe says that intellectual activists might be behind a series of attacks by armed civilians in the regency and has urged the military

Stephen Coates – A dozen years after the dawning of Indonesia's Reformasi movement, there are fears the country is on a slippery slope backwards.

Anita Rachman – Members of the Democrat-led ruling coalition are broaching the need for a stronger, more solid grouping that would last beyond 2014, based on the Malaysian National Fron

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Democratic Party congress began on Friday as tensions grew between rival can didates for the chairmanship, with both Anas Urbaningrum and Andi Mallarangen