Indonesia's religious ministry says there are errors in the direction worshipers face, or qibla, at 20 percent of the country's mosques.

Ahmad Fikri, Bandung – Police arrested two university and a high school student at a protest action commemorating the first 100 days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) second

Emmy Fitri – Some media pundits had predicted that Thursday's rallies marking the end of the first 100 days of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's second term would be as powerful and

Anita Rachman, Dessy Sagita & Nurfika Osman – About 7,000 protesters from a number of little-known organizations, each with a shopping list of demands, were outnumbered by police an

Jakarta – About 200 drivers of three-wheeled public transportation locally known as bemo, staged a rally in front of City Hall, Central Jakarta, on Wednesday, demanding the administrati

Emmy Fitri & Kinanti Pinta Karana – The government faced criticism on Wednesday for its decision to increase the salaries of state officials while millions of people live in poverty

Jakarta – A damning report on freedom of worship in Indonesia has blasted state agencies and government officials for complicity in violating this fundamental right.

Don't be deceived by the loud protests and criticisms that we have been hearing these days as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono marks the first 100-days of his second term in office on

Anita Rachman – Anti-government demonstrators brought a water buffalo to Jakarta's Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Thursday morning.

Febriamy Hutapea – In a potentially devastating blow to the fortunes of Vice President Boediono and Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, two political parties indicated on Wednesday

Hans David Tampobolon, Jakarta – Former police chief detective Comr. Gen.

Chaidir Anwar Tanjung, Pekanbaru – A protest action by hundreds of students and workers in Pekanbaru, Riau, to commemorate the first 100 days of the Yudhoyono administration ended in a

Markus Makur, Timika – Around 1,500 Papuans in Mimika staged a rally Wednesday to support the registration of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua and the International Law

Stephanie March for PM – Indonesian authorities are accusing two Australian refugee advocates of breaching their visa conditions by trying to make contact with a group of asylum seekers

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Women's tight trousers and men's short pants have become the focus of Aceh's Shariah Police, who have intensified their patrols to get the shameful articles o

Anita Rachman – Some observers say today's anti-government rallies are not as big as last month's World Anticorruption Day demonstrations. But they disagree on the reasons why.

Arientha Primanita – During Thursday's demonstrations in the capital, the Jakarta Globe sat down with street vendors and scavengers making the most of about 7,000 people raging against

Jakarta – The Indonesian Migrant Workers Union (SBMI) lambasted the government for failing to protect Indonesian workers overseas, saying more than 1,000 of them had died while doing th

Yogyakarta – Demonstrators from the People's Challenge Alliance (ARM), who held protest action in the vicinity of the Gajah Mada University traffic circle on January 28, also brought tw

Muh Syaifullah, Yogyakarta – Around 300 students demonstrating at several different locations in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta gave Yudhoyono and Boediono a red report card.

Rohman Taufiq, Surabaya – Protest actions commemorating the first 100 days of the Yudhoyono administration in Surabaya were also joined by demonstrators from other nearby cities such as

Ukky Primartantyo, Surakarta – Demonstrators from a number of different groups held a protest action at the Gladag Surakarta traffic circle in the Central Java city of Solo on Thursday

Sohirin, Semarang – Around 300 demonstrators from the Central Java People's Democratic Party (PRD) held a protest action today in which they called on the public to boycott tax payments

Bekasi – The Bekasi branch of the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) announced Tuesday it had received reports from 15 companies about their plans to lay off a total of 30,000 em

Maire Leadbeater – My introduction to West Papua was flying for many kilometres over the vast grey tailings deposition area created by the infamous Freeport McMoran gold and copper mine

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Remember Johnny Castle?

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The first 100 days of the Yudhoyono administration have seen it flagging in the fight against endemic corruption and falling short in strengthening law enfor

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Wednesday vowed to present a friendlier face to the public, including abandoning terminology associated with the military.

Jakarta – While it is an unspoken truism that most penitentiaries in the country face the enduring problem of overcapacity and lack of funding, the arrival of certain inmates is having

Bernard Lane – Max Lane is multiplying. There was a young Australian diplomat by that name, posted to Jakarta in 1980.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Recruited protesters are paid to shout, crowd public minibuses and carry banners defaming figures related to the Bank Century saga, all for a tidy sum of Rp 2

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – Students held a demonstration against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in Makassar on Wednesday, criticizing him for not delivering his cam

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – The source of conflicts in the country has shifted from ethnic, racial and religious issues to those concerning politics, natural resources and corruption, a

Ismira Lutfia – After five years of deliberation, media practitioners on Tuesday agreed to endorse journalists' competence standards as guidelines to improve professionalism in the indu

As President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prepares to go into overdrive to trumpet the successes of his first 100 days in office, political observers are not viewing the government's allege

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The North Sumatra Pro-Democracy Movement says that the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and Vice President Boediono, as well as the rotten political elite, hav

Ulma Haryanto – Indonesian Corruption Watch has found that some hospitals still discriminate against poor families who are entitled to free medical treatment, the watchdog group's publi

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The House of Representatives' investigation of the Bank Century bailout was unlikely to result in the impeachment of Vice President Boediono, political analyst

Anita Rachman – Police are forever the friends of industry, and never of labor organizations, much less any single laborer, representatives of the nation's unions told National Police C

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Zaky Pawas – Amid rising tension, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Monday issued a strong defense of the controversial Bank Century bailou

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – As the administration approaches its 100th day in office, yet another polling body has given the President a middling approval rating amid a slew of controversy.

Febriamy Hutapea – The Corruption Eradication Commission on Monday contradicted earlier statements by several government officials over the source of the Rp 6.7 trillion ($710 million)

We bet most people are not happy about the burning of churches in North Sumatra on Friday night. As a Muslim-majority nation, we are a proud democracy.

Jakarta – The coordinator of the politics, law and human rights division of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), Edwin Partogi, said Kontras was questio

Dessy Sagita – Religious leaders on Tuesday criticized the Ministry of Religious Affairs for being against acknowledging religions and faiths other than the six major religions currentl

Farouk Arnaz & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Free Papua Movement on Tuesday rejected an accusation by the National Police that it was behind Sunday's ambush in which nine people we

Nethy Dharma Somba and Markus Makur, Jayapura/Timika – The latest attack against mining firm PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua, weeks after the shooting death of separatist leader Kelly Kw

Indonesian police are hunting for the gunmen responsible for a shooting near the Freeport mine in Indonesia's majority-Melanesian Papua province.

Cunding Levi, Jayapura – Linked to terror acts that often happen around the mining area of PT Freeport Indonesia in Tembagapura, Mimika Regency, the Papua Traditional Council and the Pa