Jakarta – Prita Mulyasari, Khoe Seng Seng and Tukijo are ordinary people who have been branded criminals under the defamation law simply because they complained, a human rights report s

Titania Veda – Seen from Jakarta's glass-walled towers, the government's reform drive is bearing fruit, with rising economic growth and foreign investment promising an even brighter fut

Ulma Haryanto & Nurfika Osman – The chief of the Jakarta branch of the Islamic Defenders Front said on Wednesday that he would urge members of the hard line group to watch "Menculik

The Vanuatu Free West Papua Association and the leader of the opposition have asked the Foreign Minister, Joe Natuman, not to meet the Indonesian government.

Nurfika Osman & Arientha Primanita – Social Affairs Minister Salim Segaf Al Jufri has provoked the ire of commuters and officials alike after barreling down a restricted busway lane

Camelia Pasandaran – Politicians should quit interfering with police and prosecutors, and regional governments must stop charging businesses and investors "illegal fees," President Susi

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday called on politicians to stop interfering in law enforcement matters as the resulting conflict of interest could f

Sara Webb – In what could be a setback to a crackdown on graft and tax evasion, it was announced on Wednesday that key reformer Sri Mulyani Indrawati was quitting her job as finance min

Kuala Lumpur – Palm oil producers from Malaysia said on Wednesday they had formed a coalition with their counterparts in Indonesia to counter intensified campaigns that blame the indust

Aditya Suharmoko and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati for six hours on Tuesday, her second

Markus Makur, Timika – More than 500 elementary school teachers are needed in Mimika, Papua province, to prevent remote areas of the regency from lagging behind in education, Mimika Edu

Camelia Pasandaran & Nivell Rayda – A day after 18 inmates escaped while guards and their chief ran amok at a Jayapura prison on Monday, Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis

Ismira Lutfia & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia's credentials as a democratic success story are under threat from a worrying trend toward litigation in response to free speech

Jakarta – Three days after the unruly Islam Defenders Front (FPI) stormed a human rights training workshop for transgender individuals in Depok, West Java, police seem reluctant to purs

Jakarta – The Public Works Ministry denied a main building at the House of Representatives is leaning 7 degrees, which had compelled the House to seek Rp 1.8 trillion in funds to demoli

Mataram – At least 500 tobacco farmers in East Lombok staged a rally at the West Nusa Tenggara administration office Monday demanding continuity in kerosene subsidy and price hikes in t

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – Farmers and exporters in Lampung who had secured loans with coffee from Bank Tripanca are now demanding the return of their collateral after the bank's

Jakarta – Indonesia's shoe exports could reach US$3 billion per year in the next three years thanks to the recent relocation of several branded footwear factories from other Asian locat

In a recent drive to quell tax crimes, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati unveiled Monday an all-out investigation into three cases that have caused state losses of more than Rp 600

The Federal Government has told East Timor it cannot invite another company to develop the Greater Sunrise gas fields in the Timor Sea.

Jakarta – An NGO calls for the Judicial Mafia Taskforce and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to start looking into widespread corruption in the fisheries sector.

Purwokerto – In a country were illegal logging and forest conversion is rife, a central Java teenager is facing the prospects of 10 years behind bars after he was arrested for allegedly

Dessy Sagita – An Indonesian transsexual organization has criticized the Depok public order agency for failing to prevent dozens of hard-line Islamic activists from charging into a civi

Heru Andriyanto – Recent scandals involving law-enforcement officials are further eroding public trust in the police force and judiciary in a trend that has become apparent over the pas

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The lawmakers' recent move to criticize the antigraft body's decision to name key local government officials as suspects has raised the question as to whethe

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The race to chair President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party has become more heated as negative campaigning enters the picture and candidates hurl ac

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Despite a recent setback in the Constitutional Court, lawmakers are moving forward with their initiative to use the House of Representatives' right to express

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Irvan Tisnabudi & Dion Bisara – Threats by opposition lawmakers to block passage of the government's 2010 budget revision bill proved hollow as the measure

The leaders of the National Mandate Party have rejected a bid by the party's East Java branch to nominate actress and singer Julia "Jupe" Perez as a candidate for district office, leadi

Jakarta – Indonesian journalists took the opportunity of Press Day on Monday to affirm their commitment to fight against all forms of repression towards journalists that have been hinde

The House of Representatives on Monday officially adopted the revised 2010 state budget, despite opposition lawmakers walking out of proceedings to protest the appearance of Finance Min

Dina Indrasafitri, Jakarta – As the country celebrated National Education Day, which falls every May 2, critics are lamenting what they call an "authoritarian standardization" of educat

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Pasuruan – The quality of groundwater flowing to Surabaya and Gresik in East Java is likely to drop and will be contaminated with heavy metals from the mudflow in

Anung Wendyartaka – To this day there has yet to be any visible sign of a breakthrough in the improvement of workers' standard of living.

Jakarta – Street thugs run a virtual monopoly of Jakarta's on-street parking spaces, taking the lion's share of fees paid by motorists and ruling over the city's parking division.

Indonesia's consumer confidence was little changed in April, a survey by the Danareksa Research Institute (DRI) showed, with those polled saying the economy was improving but that risin

Jakarta – Thousands of workers from various different labour organisations and alliances arrived in waves at the State Palace on Jl.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Police have not arrested any members of a hardline Islamic group who stormed a human rights training session for transgender individuals, but instead plan to

Ulma Haryanto - As workers around the world marked May Day, they once again drew public attention to the shoddy way in which many companies treat their staff.

Irvan Tisnabudi & Ardian Wibisono – Indonesia posted a 41 percent rise in foreign direct investment in the first quarter of 2010 over the same period a year ago, but domestic invest

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives' proposal to build a new office building at the cost of Rp 1.8 trillion ($200 million) was met with criticism on Sunday, with two

Nivell Rayda & Ismira Lutfia – Taking note that today is World Press Freedom Day, activists and experts said on Sunday that journalists in Indonesia still faced intimidation and the

Aidi Yursal & Dessy Sagita – The May Day banners have been put away but protesters in Jakarta plan to hit the streets again this week because the president did not show up on Saturd

Jakarta – A number of labor union activists burned down a giant mouse effigy during a rally to commemorate the International Labor Day outside the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Sat

Triono Wahyu Sudibyo, Semarang – Hundreds of workers and activists in the Central Java provincial capital of Semarang commemorated May Day by calling for improved welfare and labour con

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – May Day was also commemorated by hundreds of workers in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta with demands for the abolition of contract labour, wage increas

Rohman Taufiq, Surabaya – Students in the Central Java provincial capital of Surabaya enlivened a protest action when they joined workers commemorating May Day on Saturday May 1 in fron

Muchus Budi R., Solo – Hundreds of workers in the Central Java city of Solo commemorated May Day by holding a cultural action and free speech forum, in which they rejected the ASEAN-Chi

Ambrosius Harto, Samarinda – Around 100 worker and student activists commemorated May Day with a demonstration at the East Kalimantan governor's office in Samarinda on Saturday May 1.

Arif Ardiansyah, Jakarta – Journalists from the print and electronic media in the South Sumatra city of Palembang commemorated May Day on Saturday May 1 expressing concerns about union