Putri Prameshwari – Employees who were recently laid off by several companies without prior discussion must be taken back, Minister of Manpower and Transmigration Muhaimin Iskandar said

Febriamy Hutapea – Just two weeks before the House of Representatives is scheduled to wrap up the ongoing probe into the Rp 6.7 trillion ($710 million) Bank Century bailout, the special

Nivell Rayda – Analysts are predicting rising political tensions when the House of Representatives special committee investigating the Bank Century bailout presents its findings.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to have clear-legislation to curb collusion and conflicts of interest among its leaders, which is also a cause for concern for Presiden

Batam – Muslim legal arbiters in this Riau Islands city on Tuesday rejected a recently floated idea to levy a tax on prostitution to increase the local government's income.

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – Days after news broke that the Communications and Information Technology Ministry was mulling a regulation to curb Internet-related crime, online oppos

Ismira Lutfia – The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology is facing growing objections to its plan to create a monitoring team with the power to order Internet service pr

The Alliance of Independent Journalists has slammed the Communication and Information Ministry's draft regulation on multimedia content, stating that it threatened freedom of the press.

Anita Rachman & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court chief on Sunday threw his weight behind a forthcoming bill to fine or jail men who failed to register their marria

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – The percentage of female legislators at the parliament has reached its highest level in history, but many parties, particularly women's rights activis

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government has promised to provide more attention on reviving manufacturing, service sectors, among the hardest hit by the global crisis last year, in or

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Commemorating what they called domestic worker national day, which falls on Feb.

Police are investigating whether separatists are responsible for the fatal shooting on Monday of a policeman who was guarding a gas station in the restive Indonesian province of Papua,

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Participants were met with applause, but also taunts when they stepped on the catwalk during a Miss Transvestite Aceh pageant on Saturday evening.

Sara Everingham – Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over an alleged plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new evidence has come to light that further

Lawyers for a Timorese-born Australian woman standing trial over an alleged plot to assassinate East Timor's President say new evidence has come to light that further undermines the pro

Hundreds of supporters of 16 Islamic social organizations in Bekasi, West Java, threatened to forcibly close Galileo Church, located in Taman Galaxy, South Bekasi, on Monday, alleging t

Jakarta – The Supreme Court has selected ad hoc justice candidates with questionable competence, a member of the Court Monitoring Coalition says.

Jakarta – Democracy activists have accused a group affiliated with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party of attacking the office of Bendera, a rival group associated wit

A statue depicting US President Barack Obama as a boy was Sunday removed from a park in Indonesia's capital, officials said.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta branch of the Alliance of Independent Journalists' (AJI) has called for the reopening of the murder case of journalist Fuad Muhamad Syafruddin,

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – In their best Acehese costumes, kitsch jewelry and towering hair buns, 40 transsexuals sashayed down a stage on Saturday to loud club music, disco lights and

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's prayers of late have likely been dominated by wishes that the PT Bank Century bailout probe might die an unholy death, but

Febriamy Hutapea, Ardian Wibisono, Amir Tejo & Made Arya Kencana – Despite their own great expectations, four groups of legislators probing the Bank Century scandal dispatched to th

Febriamy Hutapea – An analyst has criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's use of implied "political threats" against his coalition partners over the Bank Century bailout inquiry

Anita Rachman – At least four million of 58.8 million children across the nation are in employment, and of those at least 1.7 million are considered child laborers, according to a 2009

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The government remains optimistic economic growth will accelerate to 5.5 percent this year but warns of downside risks caused by domestic and external factor

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The former head of Indonesia's anti-corruption watchdog, Antasari Azhar, has been found guilty of masterminding the murder of a business executive and rival for th

Jakarta – The conservative Indonesian Ulema Council in Tasikmalaya, West Java announced a ban on Valentine's Day on Friday, citing its Roman legacy that contradicts Islamic law.

Jupernalis Samosir, Jakarta – A coalition of mainly environmental groups in Riau province staged a protest on Friday outside the provincial legislative council's office to the demand th

Jakarta – A number of sex workers returned to the street after undergoing a rehabilitation program at Bina Karya Wanita Harapan Mulia rehabilitation center in Kedoya, West Jakarta.

Locals unwittingly forced two women into a same-sex marriage in Labuhanbatu, North Sumatra, because they thought the pair were having premarital sex, however after it was revealed that

Nurfika Osman – Devout Muslims should not spend Sunday gazing at their sweethearts across a romantic, candle-lit dinner, the Indonesian Ulema Council has recommended, declaring celebrat

Emmy Fitri & Ismira Lutfia – Nine years ago Bambang Suryono rediscovered his passion for journalism when he began working for a Chinese-language newspaper, a dream he never thought

Camelia Pasandaran – The country's courts top the list of at least 268 public complaints received by the presidentially-appointed judicial mafia task force since its establishment in De

Jakarta – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD told prosecutors to kick their habit of extorting money from defendants for preferential treatment.

Nurfika Osman – The head of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Palembang, South Sumatra, has warned people, especially women, not to wear sexy and tight attire when they undertake ae

Heru Andriyanto – Police documents released for the first time reveal how the JW Marriott Hotel suicide bomber was able to talk his way into a lounge hosting a private event for foreign

Amir Tejo & Fidelis E Satriastanti – In response to new report by British geologist Richard Davies that said the Sidoarjo mudflow was caused by human error, East Java Police on Frid

Paris – Drilling firm PT Lapindo Brantas, owned by Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie, was to blame for unleashing a mud volcano in East Java that claimed 14 lives and displaced tens

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Adam Gartrell – One of Australia's top forensic pathologists has added to doubts about the official account of the alleged attempt to assassinate East Timor's top political leaders.

Febriamy Hutapea – In an increasingly hostile political environment, a number of lawmakers on the House of Representatives special committee investigating the Bank Century bailout are i

Former anticorruption agency chief Antasari Azhar has been found guilty of ordering the murder of state firm director Nasrudin Zulkarnaen and was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Noordin Mohammed Top would have been pleased to have died a "martyr" in a hail of gunfire but his terrorist network is now seriously degraded, according to his per

Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission pledged on Wednesday to release the names of all the lawmakers who allegedly received a total of Rp 24 billion ($2.5 million) in bri

Tobias Basuki, Jakarta – Indonesia, the third-largest democracy in the world, may be facing gloomy days ahead.

Ulma Haryanto – A coalition of civil society organizations led by Indonesia Corruption Watch is set to report to the Attorney General's Office a Rp 1 billion ($107,000) embezzlement cas

Arientha Primanita & Ulma Haryanto – The days of the pollution-belching, three-wheeled bemo may finally be numbered, the Jakarta city administration said on Wednesday.

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