The increasingly bitter political battle over the House of Representatives special committee investigation into the Bank Century bailout grew more heated on Wednesday as Golkar Party Ch

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A case review on the 2004 murder of rights activist Munir Said Thalib will open up the possibility of charging the National Intelligence Body (BIN) wit

Heru Andriyanto & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A sensational murder case that combined high-wire politics, sex and dark rumblings of conspiracy ended on Thursday in the South Jakarta

Padang – More than 2,000 people, most of whom were affected by the Padang earthquake in September, stoned the mayor's house to protest their mistreatment.

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – The East Timor government said on Thursday that it still has not awarded a contract to any company to develop a pipeline or LNG facility from its lucrative Gre

Ahmad Pathoni – Siti Maemunah says her son has been delusional for more than seven years, often talking to himself and sometimes becoming angry for no apparent reason.

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – A hundred activists and domestic workers in Yogyakarta staged a rally Tuesday, protesting a governor decree that allegedly contravened a bylaw on domestic work

An East Java hospital has been accused of denying a family the right to take home and bury the body of their deceased newborn baby because the infant's parents could not meet their medi

Golkar Chairman Aburizal Bakrie said on Wednesday that he did not have any new political deals with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and denied rumors that his condemnation of the Ban

Febriamy Hutapea – Indonesia's House of Representatives special committee investigating the Bank Century scandal has claimed the country's money-laundering watchdog is hindering attempt

Jakarta – Hundreds of people rallied outside the Constitutional Court (MK) building in Central Jakarta on Wednesday, urging the court to refuse a judicial review of the blasphemy law.

From its inception we understood that the House of Representatives' inquiry committee into the Bank Century bailout would be a political process rather than an attempt to unearth legal

Ulma Hariyanto – A prominent senior journalist, author and cultural expert appeared as a witness at the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to speak about his experience with a law that s

Febriamy Hutapea – Most of President Susilo Bambang Yudoyono's coalition partners lined up against him on Monday, with seven out of nine factions on a House of Representatives special c

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono attended the commemoration of the 64th National Press Day in Palembang, South Sumatra, on Tuesday, however prior to his arrival, police detained a gro

In what may have been a warning shot at Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie over the investigation into the Bank Century bailout, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday ordered

Nurfika Osman – A spate of crimes targeting Indonesian teenagers using social networking site Facebook has raised questions about whether parents should monitor their children's online

Nivell Rayda – Strict implementation of the 2004 National Social Security System Law is needed to prevent millions of Indonesians from slipping through the cracks in the health insuranc

Camelia Pasandaran – A noted forum of religious leaders became the latest in a line of organizations supporting the judicial review of the 1965 law on religious blasphemy, pointing out

Adi Warsidi, Jakarta – Thousands of female protesters took to the streets in Aceh Province on Monday (8/2) to demand the release of remaining political prisoners in government prisons,

Anton Septian, Jakarta – A group of students from at least six universities rallied outside one of Bakrie & Brothers' property on Monday (8/2) to urge authorities to complete tax ev

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Malaysia and Indonesia are close to signing a comprehensive agreement on migrant workers that will better protect Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia from

The upcoming bylaws that discriminate against women and limit their freedom are mostly copies of existing bylaws of similar nature, Masruchah, from the National Commission on Violence a

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – Regional elections across Central Java province are two months away but many regencies and municipalities are allegedly not ready due to problems such as lack

Arghea Desafti Hapsari, Jakarta – A Cabinet reshuffle could backfire on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, contradicting his earlier claims that his administration's first 100-day prog

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – Residents of Pondok Timur Indah housing complex ran a massive rally against the Bekasi Protestant church congregation.

Putri Prameshwari – One out of every four ships operating in Indonesian waters does not have a safety certificate, the chief of the Indonesian Classification Bureau said on Monday.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The military on Monday said the promise of 130 blocks of flats by the State Ministry of Public Housing was not enough to overcome an acute housing shortage th

Camelia Pasandaran – Constitutional Court chief Mahfud MD on Monday warned the government and the House of Representatives against using government regulations in lieu of law, or perppu

Ulma Haryanto – It's thirsty work for residents in Muara Baru, North Jakarta, who on Sunday said they felt trapped between a city water operator reportedly able to provide them with reg

Putri Prameshwari, Cipayung – The room is not big, but there's just enough room for Fariba to let her four children run around with dolls in their hands.

The country's easternmost territory has been a bane of security and development for a long time.

Nurfika Osman – Noted political dissident George Junus Aditjondro and his book alleging Bank Century bailout money was siphoned off by the Democratic Party are in trouble with the law b

A far cry from 2006, when thousands took to the streets to protest George W.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Delegates at the People's Conscience Party's first national conference in Surabaya over the weekend wasted no time in re-electing former general Wiranto as pa

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Politicians and observers apparently are talking about something this weekend: Is the cabinet reshuffle proposal from the Democratic Party a bluff or a real thr

Bagus Budi Tama Saragih, Jakarta – More than a decade after the fall of Soeharto, Indonesia's fledgling democracy is yet to fully benefit its people, an expert says.

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Rob Taylor, Canberra – High-profile prosecutions will not end widespread corruption in East Timor and a long public re-education campaign will be needed to fight graft and nepotism, the

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – One of the first rules of being in the public eye is not to give away free kicks – especially when your public is already disposed to seizing any opportun

Hudaiva gazed into the distance as she spoke about her son Arif, who disappeared in Jakarta in May, 2008.

Tom Allard – The notorious Indonesian people smuggler Abraham Louhenapessy, better known as Captain Bram, is likely to receive only a fine for attempting to bring 254 Sri Lankans in an

A coalition of some of the country's well-known NGOs has called on the Corruption Eradication Commission to investigate cases of alleged corruption in the forestry sector.

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Indonesia will file a demand to Australia asking for compensation after the latter's oil rig leaked in Indonesian territory in Timor Sea, says the Indonesian

Rumbadi Dalle, Jakarta – A group of fishermen in Riau Islands, Sumatra, have launched a legal complaint against and demand for compensation to an Asian consortium-owned mining equipment

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's increasingly flustered Democratic Party says it plans to hold a meeting with the leaders of

Putri Prameshwari – A film deemed suitable by the country's censor was reportedly pulled from distribution on Thursday night after the Islamic Defenders Front threatened its producers a

Muninggar Saraswati & Antara – Declaring that he would not back down in the race to assume the chairmanship of the Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-P), Guruh Sukarnoput

Jakarta – Former president Megawati Soekarnoputri and former vice president Jusuf Kalla were among political bigwigs who turned up for the opening of the People's Conscience (Hanura) Pa

Febriamy Hutapea, Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Camelia Pasandaran – Top leaders of the Democratic Party, obviously exasperated by the antics of members of the ruling coalition in the C