Muhammad Taufik, Mojokerto – The commemoration of May Day in the East Java city of Mojokerto on Saturday May 1 was joined by around 5,000 workers from various parts of the regency who h

Khairul Ikhwan, Medan – Commemorating May Day today, thousands of students, workers and social organisations held a long-march through the main streets of the North Sumatra provincial c

Abd Azis, Makassar – Scores of students from the United Anti-Global Neoliberalism People's Movement for a Makassar Revolution (Makassar Revolutionary Gate, GRM) commemorated May Day wit

Sofian, Jakarta – Loading and unloading activities at the Koja Container Terminal (TPK Koja) in North Jakarta were paralyzed by a strike that began at midnight on May 1 and will continu

Ayu Fritriana, Jakarta – During a break in the labour demonstrations in Jakarta, a rat joined the protest action. Of course it wasn't a real rat.

Muhammad Taufiqqurahman, Jakarta – A clash between hundreds of workers and police broke out during the commemoration of May Day in front of the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Saturd

Violence erupted in Central Jakarta on Saturday as thousands of workers marched on the Presidential Palace to mark Labor Day.

Rofiqi Hasan, Denpasar – Scores of workers and non-government organisation (NGO) activists commemorated May Day with a protest action at the Badjra Sandhi Monument in the Balinese provi

Ahmad Fikri, Bandung – A number of labour and peasant organisations in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung commemorated May Day by holding a protest action in front of the gover

Vivi W – Commemorating May Day, 5,000 workers from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a protest action in Jakarta today against the pro-capitalist administration of President Sus

Ratih P Sudarsono, Bogor – Around 400 workers in the city of Bogor commemorated May Day by spending Saturday afternoon enjoying popular dangdut music at the Bogor Botanical Gardens.

Jakarta – Hundreds of workers in Bintan in Riau Islands literally celebrated the International Labor Day on Saturday.

Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Indonesian authorities have denied medical care to a prisoner of conscience held in Papua.

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A survey institute has predicted only 60 percent of Medan's almost 2 million eligible voters will turn out for the mayoral elections on May 12.

Jakarta – East Timor has rejected a proposal for a floating liquefied natural gas platform in a disputed Timor Sea gas field as a waste of time and money.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Muslim intellectuals are urging lawmakers at the House of Representatives to take steps to revise the controversial 1965 Blasphemy Law.

Xavier La Canna – Woodside Petroleum Ltd will send a high-level team including chief executive Don Voelte to East Timor, after the tiny nation threatened to sink plans for a multi-billi

Sukoharjo – People's Consultative Assembly Speaker Taufik Kiemas visited firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir at the latter's Al-Mukmin Islamic boarding school in Ngruki, Sukoharj

Jayapura – A group of armed men lifted a siege of a gold mine in Indonesia after receiving a payoff of a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of gold and 11,000 dollars, police said Thursday.

Erwida Maulia and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The historic freedom of information law comes into force today with most state institutions, mired in a decades-long culture of secrec

Ronna Nirmala – In the latest outburst by the Islamic Defenders Front, dozens of hard-liners charged into a civil rights training session for transsexuals held by the National Commissio

Adisti Dini Indreswari, Jakarta – Temporary workers at Jakarta International Container Terminal at Tanjung Priok Seaport rallied outside their office in demand for permanent status in w

The number of women leaving Indonesia, legally or illegally, has been steadily climbing over the past decade, according to the National Authority for the Placement and Protection of Ind

Enraged members of the militant Islamic Defenders Front raided a human rights workshop for ladyboys in Depok on Friday in the mistaken belief there was a lingerie contest taking place.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Nivell Rayda, Armando Siahaan & Irvan Tisnabudi – Defying critics who were already furious that antigraft investigators might question him in his own offic

Barbara Surk – Reforms undertaken by governments in the Middle East to protect domestic workers, including from Indonesia, from abuse are insufficient to shield women working as house m

Heru Andriyanto – It would seem obvious that if you need to lie low, you shouldn't go around loudly complaining – something a former official in the eastern province of Maluku failed to

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Various stakeholders have started a round of finger pointing at teachers and students to say who's to blame for the rising number of high school students fail

Fifty people from the Anti-Corruption Youth Action Committee, or Kapak, held a rally in front of the Finance Ministry on Jalan Wahidin, Central Jakarta on Thursday.

Zaky Pawas – The Indonesian Red Cross has exonerated the police of any inhumane treatment of residents in the April 14 Tanjung Priok riots, saying the authorities' conduct was by the bo

Ulma Haryanto – A top government official has condoned the mob attack on a Christian-affiliated building site near Bogor, even as a church council called it symptomatic of the weak law

Camelia Pasandaran – The Constitutional Court has dealt a blow to legislators seeking a judicial review of a law to make it easier for them to begin impeachment proceedings against the

A high stakes dispute between Australian Oil and Gas company Woodside and East Timor's Government has come to a head.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – The election of Miranda Swaray Goeltom as central bank senior deputy governor in 2004 was the "result of a conspiracy" between bankers and businesspeop

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The formation of new regions in Indonesia is growing at an alarming rate, with a new region created every 15 days, Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said Wednesday.

Ulma Haryanto – A class-action suit against the Tangerang administration is in order, academics at the University of Indonesia said on Thursday, over attempts to evict forcibly at least

Muhammad Nafik – The Constitutional Court has upheld the controversial Blasphemy Law, turning down a request for it to review the 45-year old law.

Yessar Rosendar – Faced with declining national oil production and fierce opposition, the government has ditched a controversial proposal to limit the expenses that oil companies can su

Ulma Haryanto – At least 60 workers have been put out of work after Islamic militants mistakenly attacked what they believed was the construction site of a new church.

Mohammad Yazid, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court (MK) ruled Monday to uphold the 45-year-old Blasphemy Law after a judicial review request was filed last October by human rights group

Nurfika Osman – A Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration fact-finding team on Tuesday said the firm at the center of a labor riot in Batam last week was riddled with problems.

Nurfika Osman – Incidents of physical, sexual and psychological violence against Indonesian migrant workers abroad continue as the government abjectly fails at protecting its citizens o

Arti Ekawati & Nivell Rayda – Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan on Wednesday tried to distance his ministry from the rash of illegal logging cases and the so-called logging mafia, sa

Fidelis E Satriastanti – The illegal logging cases in Riau in 2008 are an indicator of widespread forestry-related crimes in a country where for years an estimated four of five trees we

Ivansyah, Jakarta – Residents around a coal power plant in Cirebon, West Java attacked and damaged facilities of the plant in protest over sediments formed at the delta of Warudur River

Arientha Primanita – City councilors on Wednesday admonished the Jakarta administration for the drop in passing rates for the national exam this year, adding pressure to overhaul its ed

Sunanda Creagh – When President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono formed a special taskforce to root out graft in the judiciary, many hoped a House of Representatives commission tasked with over

Jakarta – Legislators' support for Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) legislator Misbakhun, who is being held by National Police on suspicion of forgery related to a Bank Century loan, has

Armando Siahaan, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Nivell Rayda – Even as it rolled out its monitoring team on the Bank Century bailout probe, the House of Representatives remained split o

Putri Prameshwari & Emmy Fitri – Despite government claims that the lower number of students passing the national examinations this year was due to tighter supervision that made che