Jakarta – A group of unidentified gunmen attacked police and military troops who were evacuating two injured soldiers from a military post in Yambi area in the Papua highland regency of

Amir Tejo, Mojokerto (East Java) – At least 19 people were injured, 22 vehicles destroyed and a meeting room at the district legislature burned in organized rioting here on Friday that

Radot Gurning & M Irham, Papua – Indonesia is often hailed as the country with the greatest freedom of speech in Asia.

B. Herry-Priyono, Jakarta – Unlike most accounts these days, this note is not a paean to Sri Mulyani Indrawati; neither is it a swan song for her departure.

Jakarta – The United States on Friday clarified that a recent Indonesian media report of an impending restoration of a cooperation between the US armed forces and Indonesian Army Specia

Ulma Haryanto – The National Commission on Human Rights on Friday blasted the Bogor Police and administration for failing to protect the rights of the GKI Yasmin congregation to practic

Jakarta – After 12 years of reform following the fall of Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia still faces many barriers in its efforts to uphold human rights, observers say.

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – A West Aceh district bylaw banning Muslim women from wearing short skirts or tight jeans is unclear and could lead to chaos, a female activist said on Friday.

ID Nugroho, Surabaya – Five candidates in Surabaya's upcoming mayoral election participated in the first of a planned series of debates on Tuesday, the first campaign day leading up the

A mob set cars alight and damaged the Regional Legislative Council (DPRD) building in Mojokerto, East Java on Friday.

Yogyakarta – Activists from the United People's Movement (GRB) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta held a protest action by placing flowers on a grave at the zero kilometer point nea

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Pingit Aria, Jakarta – The likelihood that the police will commit human rights on suspected terrorists will increase if their detention period is extended to more than seven days.

Armando Siahaan, Irvan Tisnabudi & Anita Rachman – New Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo today begins the tall task of filling in the big shoes left by Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

Hen Hen, Jakarta – A number of social and student organisations held a protest action in front of the House of Representatives (DPR) building on May 21 to commemorated 12 years of refor

Armando Siahaan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's choices for finance minister and his deputy reflected a good combination of the best political options available, analysts said on

Nivell Rayda – Freeing political prisoners would not address the key problems in Papua, Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

Nurfika Osman – The number of divorces registered by the country's Islamic courts has been rising sharply in recent years, despite a costly ongoing government program that provides coun

Matt Crook, Dili – East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta said his young country had finally achieved peace and could look forward to prosperity as it celebrated eight years of indepe

Armando Siahaan, Faisal Maliki Baskoro & Irvan Tisnabudi – In a move seen as trying to please political and economic circles, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday night n

Nivell Rayda – Muhammad Amari, who was recently appointed deputy attorney general for special crimes, was criticized on Wednesday by antigraft groups after he promised to follow in the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ismira Lutfia – Crumbling support among coalition parties to invoke the legislative right to express an opinion on the PT Bank Century bailout has opposit

Faisal Maliki Baskoro, Irvan Tisnabudi & Armando Siahaan – Lawmakers on Wednesday turned up the pressure on the tax office, encouraging companies to take legal action it they felt t

Jakarta – After 12 years of reform following the fall of authoritarian ruler Soeharto in 1998, Indonesia still faces many barriers in its efforts toward better human rights enforcement.

Anita Rachman – Seeking a media outlet free of the chains of corporate ownership, a group of journalists is planning to develop a Web site that will carry stories conventional news orga

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – Some 200 employees of cement company PT Semen Kupang are angry they have still not been paid their pensions and allowances after being made redundant by the co

Apriadi Gunawan and Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The Indonesian Forum for the Environment (Walhi) declared on Wednesday that it would reject all agreements made during the Governors'

Armando Siahaan – A meeting between the House of Representatives' team monitoring the Bank Century bailout investigation and the National Police ended in farce on Wednesday, after angry

Jakarta – The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) supports the idea of amnesties for political prisoners with a specific criterion from Papua.

The Indonesia military is reportedly waging a campaign of fear throughout the Puncak Jaya region of West Papua in Indonesia over a looming deadline.

Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Thousands of protestors in Jayapura, Papua, demanded on Tuesday that the government implement a decree that would require that candidates in Papua's regional el

Rana Akbari Fitriawan, Bandung – A hundred students staged a rally in front of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) campus on Jl.

Ismira Lutfia & Putri Prameshwari – Despite the optimism aired by Manpower and Transmigration Minister Muhaimin Iskandar that the president would sign a long-awaited agreement on In

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Members of the government's ruling coalition have agreed to disagree on the touchy issue of invoking the House of Representatives' right to express a further

Nurfika Osman & Ismira Lutfia – As Indonesia called for calm, Muslim scholars expressed outrage over a page on the social networking site Facebook that encourages people to draw ima

Ismira Lutfia – In his latest call for more stringent Internet controls, Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring has unearthed more statistics on teenage sex that are s

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's departing Finance Minister has taken a sharp swipe at the forces she believes made her position untenable, describing them as rapacious and "j

Irvan Tisnabudi – With Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati's term close to an end, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday denied that her move to become managing director of t

The Attorney General's Office on Tuesday rotated five deputies, in a move seen as another bid to sweep controversial officials under the rug.

In early May violence once again struck in Papua.

Putri Prameshwari – A shocking survey that found more than 9 out of 10 teenagers in major cities engaged in sexual activity has been disowned by the agency that supposedly carried out t

Elin Yunita Kristanti – None of the countries in the European Union supports the Papuan independence.

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Kuala Lumpur – The Indonesian government's bans on sending migrant workers to Malaysia will remain in force after both countries failed to agree on a minimum wage.

Jakarta – A Javanese tradition that holds that domestic workers must be considered as part of the families that employ them is a major hurdle for passage of a House domestic worker prot

Ardian Wibisono, Muhamad Al Azhari& Dion Bisara – The departure of Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati for Washington and allegations made against top tax officials in the House

Dessy Sagita, Armando Siahaan & Ismira Lutfia – With four lawmakers convicted on Monday for their part in the Rp 24 billion ($2.6 million) Bank Indonesia bribery scandal, all eyes a

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian authorities are red-faced after admitting their primary terrorism fugitive, a 32-year-old believed to have replaced slain mastermind Dulmatin a

Putri Prameshwari – A child protection group is shocked by the results of a survey in which 94 percent of the teenagers polled said they have engaged in oral sex.