Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives and the Ministry of Defense on Wednesday agreed to prioritize the deliberation of bills on state secrecy, military tribunals and

Jakarta – Muslim women would be banned from wearing tight pants in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province under proposed regulations to take effect Jan.

Zal Gibran – Hundreds of university students in Makassar, South Sulawesi, celebrated Youth Pledge Day on Wednesday with protests demanding that the government fulfill its promises, incl

Amir Tejo – Surabaya is famous, or infamous, for having the largest prostitution complex in Southeast Asia, a distinction the local government would rather not have.

Camelia Pasandaran – Undeterred by previous failed efforts to sack the General Elections Commission, lawmakers and officials from the Elections Supervisory Board on Monday said they hop

Anita Rachman – Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said on Tuesday that pushing for clean toilets at the nation's ports was going to be one of his priorities for his first 100 days

Markus Makur, Timika – Hundreds of employees at PT Freeport Indonesia refused to resume work Monday in protest at the deteriorating security situation on road from Timika to Tembagapura

A political analyst has labeled a plan to raise the salaries of government ministers as "insensitive." The controversial proposal to raise salaries has divided opinion in the House of R

Jakarta – The Development and Financial Comptroller Agency (BPKP) must look into the use of the Defense Ministry's budget to make sure budget allocation for low-ranking military officer

Camelia Pasandaran – A book published on Tuesday paints a picture of widespread corruption and power-sharing agreements between Indonesia's political parties.

Hotli Simanjuntak and Jon Afrizal, Banda Aceh, Jambi – Deforestation in Aceh has continued to worsen despite the signing of a logging moratorium that prohibits anyone from felling fores

Farouk Arnaz, Heru Andriyanto & Camelia Pasandaran – Tensions worsened between the country's prosecutors and police, and the anticorruption agency on Monday with the release of a tr

Kinanti Pinta Karana – Deputy Attorney General Abdul Hakim Ritonga said he only followed orders and procedure when processing the alleged bribery case involving two antigraft officials

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang (East Java) – The illegal trade of protected animals remains widespread, despite relevant institutions carrying out regular raids against such practice, an

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Hundreds of victims affected by the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, have renewed calls for the government to compensate them for their land and houses threa

Irawaty Wardany – The fanfare of legislative and presidential inauguration ceremonies have already passed, but there remain many flaws in the electoral system and related laws, detailed

Baban Gandapurnama, Bandung – Workers from the Preparatory Committee for the Indonesian Labour Movement Union (KP-PPBI) are demanding a minimum wage increase across all regions in 2010

Jakarta – The Indonesian and Australian governments have agreed to put their bilateral defense cooperation on a firmer basis and to continue it in the future.

Agus Maryono, Purwokerto – The presence of more than 5,000 bylaws and draft bylaws is a major hindrance for potential investment in provinces across the country, says an Investment Coor

Budi Otmansyah – Greenpeace activists will live in the heart of the Kampar forest area in Riau for several weeks to draw attention to the impact of deforestation on climate change.

Roselyn Ellison – Seventy-six people from the West Papuan community in Manus province will move back to their homeland, as part of the nationwide repatriation of refugees from the Indon

Aditya Suharmoko, Alfian – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's new administration, backed by the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), is working on an economic road map for the n

Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) says that it aims to build a more business-friendly, open and pluralist image under a new leadership in the future in order to gain politica

Iman D. Nugroho, Jakarta – A short afternoon trip that Dandhy Dwi Laksono took recently turned out to be the key to opening a kind of Pandora's box.

Carmel Budiardjo, London – As Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono begins his second term as President, it is worth considering the prospects for dialogue to resolve Indonesia's most intractable co

Jayapura – Around 200 people blocked a road in front of Papua Police Headquarters in Jayapura on Friday, as part of a protest against a decision to transfer the Jayapura Police chief.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono held on Friday the maiden Cabinet meeting of his second term, consolidating relations with new members and underlining his in

The new Australian Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in East Timor says there are many signs of progress in the country.

Blontank Poer, Surakarta – Bloggers and online community groups have urged lawmakers to scrap an article on libel from the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction Law.

Farouk Arnaz – National Police have dispatched 150 officers, including antiterror police, to Timika, Papua, to support local officers and the military in their hunt for suspects followi

Markus Makur, Timika – The wives and children of PT Freeport Indonesia employees rallied at the Mimika legislative council office in Papua on Thursday, demanding the giant US-based gold

Jakarta – The House of Representatives this term is unlikely to provide a strong checks-and-balances mechanism against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's new administration even thoug

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – The newly inaugurated members of the Aceh Legislative Council are set to revise the sharia bylaw passed by former legislators that stipulate, among other

Jacqueline Hicks, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's announcement late on Wednesday of his government's new cabinet was a function of a complicated political calc

Sara Schonhardt, Jakarta – Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday took the presidential oath of office before Indonesia's 240 million people, marking the beginning of his second term in of

An investigation conducted by Indonesia Corruption Watch and the Asia Research Center has uncovered major points of concern regarding the allocation of money used to fund regional gover

Tapaktuan, Aceh. The Sumatran tiger population has continued to decline as the animal is pushed to the brink of extinction.

Erwida Maulia and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The government's new economic team has set its goals for the next five years, focusing primarily on breaking through obstacles to revive th

April Aswadi – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday reminded the new cabinet that he expected all his ministers, whatever their political affiliation, to be loyal to him.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Wives and women's rights activists have raised concerns over the recent formation of the Global Ikhwan polygamy club in Bandung, West Java, condemning it for

Febriamy Hutapea – Stung by sharp criticism of some of the selections for the new cabinet, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democrat Party on Friday leapt to defend some of the appo

Anne Barrowclough Kepuhsari (Java) – Until his death in a police shoot-out last month he was South-East Asia's most wanted man; an Islamic militant responsible for countless atrocities

Jakarta – People living around campuses should be wary of any activities that may aim to recruit terrorist cadres, an official said Thursday.

Ardian Wibisono – The Attorney General's Office announced on Friday that the Rp 6.7 trillion ($710.2 million) bailout of PT Bank Century was above board and involved no wrongdoing.

New York – The European Union concurred with the United Nations Friday on the need to strengthen East Timor's capability to handle its own security before the UN mission there can be w

Sophie Black – The 255 asylum seekers docked at the port in Merak in West Java are still refusing to leave their boat and be processed by Immigration Officials.

Ismira Lutfia & Dessy Sagita – Local journalists had mixed reactions to a recent report from France-based Reporters Without Borders that indicates press freedom in Indonesia improve

Camelia Pasandaran – One basic problem in the long list of problems related to campaign finance irregularities is bad legislation, according to an antigraft watchdog report released on

Nurfika Osman – Labor activists said on Wednesday they were wary that overseas internships offered to vocational high school students could be used as a cover for female trafficking, an

Irvan Tisnabudi & Muhamad Al Azhari – The government had spent less than a quarter of the Rp 11.55 trillion ($1.22 billion) allocated to infrastructure projects this year as of the