New film breaks Indonesian media ban on images of West Papuan rebel camps

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Critics say the House of Representatives is out of step with and failing to follow through on popular public opinion of the alleged incrimination of the

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Calls for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to sack the National Police chief and the attorney general have intensified, with threats of a "people powe

Jonathan Pearlman – As dawn was breaking across the Indonesian province of Papua on a Saturday last July, an Australian mine worker, Drew Grant, set out with friends along the winding r

Jakarta – Bunga (not her real name) never imagined the nightmare she would go through on her first night as a prostitute in a Malaysian brothel, when she lost her virginity to the highe

Jakarta - Hundreds of Greenpeace activists rallied Saturday in support of a commitment by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by defo

Mataram – Dozens of students and local leaders from Bima regency rallied outside the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Police headquarters in Mataram on Thursday to demand a trial of top officer

Dessy Sagita& Candra Malik – The case of a grandmother of seven who was charged with stealing three pieces of cocoa fruit and subjected to 18 days of house arrest before being dragg

Nurfika Osman – Despite the raft of killings, abductions and other violence carried out by unidentified groups in Papua, the nation's eyes remain elsewhere, an activist said on Thursday

April Aswadi, Febriamy Hutapea & Antara – A cabinet minister on Thursday strongly denied months of rumors in the media that the controversial bailout of PT Bank Century had led to s

Liam Fox, Papua New Guinea – More than 100 people who fled the Indonesian province of Papua to neighbouring Papua New Guinea have returned home.

Nurfika Osman – Anew book by the National Commission on Violence Against Women should be used as a tool by judges, prosecutors and police in dealing with women's issues, a Supreme Court

Gary LaMoshi, Denpasar (Bali) – The honeymoon ended for Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono less than a month into his second term.

Attempts to shed light on the controversial bailout of a private bank got a minor boost Tuesday after legislators asked a plenary session to set up a special inquiry committee.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must take action to complete internal reforms of the National Police and at the Attorney General's Office to restore public confidence in th

Ulma Haryanto – At least a quarter of Jakarta would be underwater by 2050 if current rates of development projects and groundwater harvesting continued unabated, a climate expert warned

Camelia Pasandaran – In the wake of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's calls for a crackdown on the nation's "judicial mafia," new evidence has emerged that allegedly shows staff from

Cunding Levi, Jakarta – Papua New Guinea repatriated on Thursday 141 Papuans on Thursday as part of the program to return about 700 Indonesian citizens in the Papua New Guinea territory

Pandaya, Jakarta – The hurly-burly among the 200-plus House of Representatives members seeking an inquiry into the Rp 6.7 trillion (US$700,000) Bank Century bailout is putting their sin

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Wednesday that he would not bow to public pressure and order the National Police and Attorney General's Office to halt the prosecution of two

Nivell Rayda – Former members of the Team of Eight said on Wednesday that they were confident that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would accept the fact-finding team's recommendation

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Niken Prathivi, Jakarta – For Rp 25,000 (US$26) each, hundreds of people staged a rally at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle and area near the Presidential Palace on Wednesday to suppo

Rallies supporting the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have been a constant fixture of protest schedules for weeks now, following the arrest of deputies Chandra M Hamzah and Bib

Foreign journalists based in Indonesia have condemned the deportation of two reporters from Italy and India who had covered a recent Greenpeace demonstration.

Jakarta – The government should cease sending low-skilled labor abroad to prevent the continued abuse of Indonesian migrant workers by their employers, a coalition of civil society grou

Nine rallies are scheduled for Jakarta on Thursday and will likely cause traffic delays.

Suherdjoko, Semarang, Central Java – Thousands of workers staged a rally in front the Central Java Gubernatorial Office in Semarang on Thursday, demanding the administration regulate th

Ten Sri Lankan women and children who came off the Oceanic Viking yesterday say they are locked up and unable to leave an Australian-funded detention centre in Indonesia.

Tom Allard in Jakarta and Ben Doherty in Tanjung Pinang – The Indonesian Government has reversed its policy to swiftly deport Sri Lankan asylum seekers refusing to get off a boat in Mer

Jakarta – Indonesia should release three men imprisoned for raising a banned separatist flag because the harsh punishment undermines the country's democratic values, a prominent rights

Indonesia still faces a key risk of new militant attacks as Islamic radicals have set up new cells in recent years and some bomb experts remain at large, the head of the country's antit

Jakarta – Indonesia's counter-terror chief called Thursday for greater power to hold suspects, warning that Islamist extremists remained active despite the death of terror mastermind No

David Coady – An international charity focussed on safe water and sanitation says children are dying needlessly in East Timor due to poor toilet facilities.

Fabio Scarpello, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is widely expected to use his strong electoral mandate to push reforms in his second term to attract foreign inv

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono blamed Tuesday the state utility firm PT PLN monopoly for the power shortages across the archipelago.

Jakarta – Despite some progress in coping with the impacts of the global financial crisis, labor and social trends in the country this fiscal year will likely remain gloomy, the Interna

Jakarta – Experts urged the government to consider human rights when making policies to avoid rights violations, and to establish better social conditions in the country.

Emmy Fitri – Farmer Kamsari Turahim, from Santing, Indramayu in West Java, said he could no longer rely on the traditional patterns of rice cultivation because the rain was now much les

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Several regional branches of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country's highest self-proclaimed Islamic authority, say the doomsday-themed Hollyw

The local rent-a-mob tradition continued on Wednesday during a demonstration allegedly in support of the National Police and Attorney General's Office in Central Jakarta.

Farouk Arnaz – Businessman Ary Muladi on Tuesday was interrogated by Indonesia's National Police, a day after he was questioned at length by investigators from the Corruption Eradicatio

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should heed the recommendations of his fact-finding team into the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) debacle, sc

Despite a damning report from the presidential team established to investigate Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) scandal, an unrepentant Comr. Gen.

The fact-finding team presented 31 pages of recommendations to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday as part of their investigation into the scandal facing the Corruption Eradic

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Former political prisoners raised the separatist bintang kejora (morning star) flag Monday at the Papua People's Council in Jayapura to protest the failur

Harlyne Joku – A West Papuan Independence leader in the United Kingdom, Benny Wenda has described 2009 as a vital year for the indigenous people of West Papua.

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Key Golkar Party member and media magnate Surya Paloh was rumored on Tuesday to be considering jumping the political fence and joining the Hanura Party, possibly

Nivell Rayda – Indonesia's efforts to eradicate corruption have started to bear fruit, after the country moved to 111th spot in a worldwide study conducted by Transparency International

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – During the year ending September 2009, more than 1 million people have joined the state workers' insurance firm PT Jamsostek's list of non-active members as the i