Jakarta – The country's 2009 inflation rate touched 2.78 percent, the lowest full year level (December-to-December) in a decade, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced Monday.

Suherdjoko, Semarang – Rape has topped the highest number of cases of violence against women in Central Java, director of the Semarang Legal Resources Center for Gender Justice and Huma

Ulma Haryanto – More than 7,800 Indonesians laid off as a result of the global economic crisis filed complaints with the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute last year, the institute's director

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) will announce the results of its final investigation on possible gross violations of human rights against thousands of mud

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The Constitutional Court has been praised recently for its efforts to curb corruption in the country.

Secret Cabinet documents from 1979 released by the Australian National Archives on January 1 confirm high tension between Australia and Indonesia over East Timor, as famine spread in th

Police confirmed on Tuesday the arrest of six people for the alleged performance of a "sexy dance" at a cafe in the early hours of New Year's Day.

Bandung – Police said Monday they had named six people suspects for their role in staging a striptease on New Year's Eve at the Bellair Cafe and Music Lounge Paskal Hyper Square, Bandun

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – Praise poured in to honor Indonesia's fourth president, Abdurrahman Wahid, on his death last week at the age of 69.

Jakarta – While calls mount for the government to stop banning books, the Attorney General's Office and the Justice and Human Rights Ministry are not seeing eye to eye over which instit

Many of us are grappling with Twitter and the language of the young, which increasingly resembles an obscure Morse code with a brazen and come-what-may sense of ethics.

Alfian, Jakarta – Pressured by falling oil production and failure to attract enough investors to develop new oil and gas blocks, the government says it will abandon the recently adopted

Paul Maley – Indonesia has rejected a proposal by Tony Abbott to tow seaworthy asylum boats back to Indonesia, saying Australia must deal with boats in its own waters.

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Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The Papua Police says it will not reduce the number of police officers guarding the gold and copper mine of US-based PT Freeport Indonesia in Papua despite the

Port Vila – The West Papua National Coalition for Liberation and National Authority has invited members of all the Indonesian province's resistance organisations to a "reconciliation me

Wisdom cannot be measured by how long one has lived...

An artist on Monday called for a statue of a labor activist to be erected outside the House of Representatives to remind lawmakers about labor struggles.

Febriamy Hutapea – The House of Representatives on Monday opened its first session of the year by calling on the government to pay closer attention to Papua, which lags far behind other

Jakarta - A existence of a human rights court and ad hoc human rights judges needs to be reexamined.

Heru Andriyanto & Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission hinted on Monday that it would name controversial businessman Anggodo Widjojo a suspect for allegedly conspiri

Indonesia's inflation held near a nine-year low in December, providing the central bank room to delay raising interest rates.

Camelia Pasandaran & Muninggar Sri Saraswati – The General Elections Commission was facing growing calls on Monday to order a complete re-audit of presidential campaign donations fo

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Calls have mounted for tighter regulations of election campaign funds, with the controversial newly launched book Cikeas Octopus suggesting "illegal" flows of s

Jakarta – Unfair procurement tenders topped the list of cases reported to the anti-monopoly watchdog throughout 2009.

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Jakarta – Indonesia's forest-based industries remain on the edge of survival after more than a decade of government decentralization that was accompanied by a ser

Justice and Human Rights Minister Patrialis Akbar on Monday said that a special team has been given two weeks to study a number of books that are deemed to potentially pose a threat to

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – What do Robert Tantular and Amir Mahmud have in common? Both of them are convicts.

Jakarta – Every Indonesian child has been told the story of their beloved country being the emerald of the equator, with its breathtaking scenery and vast cultural diversity, and how ot

Evan A. Laksmana, Jakarta – "To defend everything is to defend nothing." There is a lot of wisdom in this old military axiom.

Candra Malik, Solo – With controversy still raging around the bill to extend the special status of Yogyakarta, rival central Javanese city Solo wants to get in on the act.

Amid strong public demand to name the late former President Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid a national hero, the Golkar Party on Sunday called for the same honor to be bestowed on its found

A cluster of organizations and academics is planning a rally this month to demand President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono resign or be forced out of office over a series of perceived shortco

Muhamad Al Azhari, Irvan Tisnabudi & Dion Bisara – Despite the turbulence in financial markets decimating global commerce and nearly toppling trade-driven economies in February, the

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Calls for unity and reconciliation by National Awakening Party chairman Muhaimin Iskandar have been dismissed by members of a splinter group, who claim he is t

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – After the controversial banning of five books last week, the government has added 20 more titles to its evaluation list, citing suspicion the books potentiall

Dewi Kurniawati, Sekutur Jaya, Jambi – Despite its serenity, complete with smiling, laid-back people, a serious problem is weighing heavily upon this remote village in central Sumatra.

Jakarta – The long-standing poor image of Jakarta Police affected legal practitioners' appraisal of its performance in graft investigations last year, experts say.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – As many as 560 legislators at the House of Representatives took their oath on Oct. 1 and pledged to wholeheartedly serve their constituents.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to, within two weeks, declare Anggodo Widjojo a suspect for attempted b

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – After the hectic string of national and presidential elections, residents in the regions will be at the polls again with local direct elections scheduled for t

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree on Wednesday to establish a special team to eradicate judicial corruption, as part of the administration's

Linda Mottram – Secret cabinet documents from 1979 have confirmed the high tensions between Australia and Indonesia over East Timor, as the Fraser government balanced how best to give a

Nivell Rayda – After several high-profile criminal defamation cases in 2009, analysts said on Friday that the House of Representatives must pass legislation to remove articles on defama

Nurfika Osman & Farouk Arnaz – Muhammad Jibriel, who is suspected of having links to the July suicide bombings at Jakarta's JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, claimed in a stateme

Dessy Sagita & Emmy Fitri – A new year, a new decade. But is the country in for better things ahead, or will 2010 be as scandal-filled as 2009?

Jakarta – Festive preparations to part with 2009 quickly turned into mourning on Wednesday as the nation bid farewell to its cleric of pluralism, Indonesia's fourth president, Abdurrahm

Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Breakthroughs are needed in 2010 to successfully fight corruption in the country, director of Gadjah Mada University's School of Law's Center for Anticorruptio

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Cases where hospitals reject patients living in poverty because they cannot pay the advance was a common occurrence in Indonesia several years ago.

Jakarta – While the police should be at the front of enforcing the law, thousands of officers are involved in abuse of power and criminal acts, hampering the much-needed law enforcement