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Anita Rachman – Four districts and a municipality in West Java have submitted reports estimating the total damage caused by the Sept. 30 West Sumatra earthquake at Rp 6 trillion.

Jakarta – While President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has promised a more prominent role for women in his next Cabinet, one of his aides says it is still too early for women to hold more s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – Despite calls from some former lawmakers to stop the debate over the controversial deletion of a section identifying tobacco as an addi

Jakarta – A series of attacks on followers of the Ahmadiyah religious sect has once again drawn criticism, with an expert in religion and democracy urging the government to exercise its

The Indonesian embassy in Papua New Guinea has denied that West Papuan refugees who are repatriated to Indonesia will be in danger at the hands of the security forces when they return.

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri now faces a bigger task than merely to determine her party's political stance, since her deci

Aditya Suharmoko and Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – Economic ministers held their last meeting Wednesday and left plenty of homework for their successors, with unresolved problems ranging

Jakarta – The much-awaited presidential regulation on the takeover of military businesses drew criticism due to the lack of detailed information, raising concerns on whether the transfe

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Jakarta – Indonesia has indefinitely suspended the traffic of domestic helpers to Kuwait due to concern over widespread abuse and exploitation by their employers, the labour ministry sa

Purbalingga – Half of all workers in Purbalingga regency in Central Java are not registered with the state social security company, PT Jamsostek, an executive said Wednesday.

Jakarta – Some 200 Indonesian workers gathered peacefully in front of the worker's quarters of the YP Plantation Holdings in Rompin, Malaysia, on Wednesday to protest against attempts b

Jakarta – Activists have accused the National Police of intentionally burying major cases, particularly graft-related, under chief detective Comr. Gen.

Indraswari, Kuala Lumpur – On Wednesday, Sept.

Luh De Suriyani – Thousands of people took part Monday evening in the Gema Perdamaian (Echo of Peace) at the Bajra Sandhi Monument in Renon, south Denpasar.

Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa, better known as Miyabi, will not be arriving in Indonesia.

Nurfika Osman & Antara – A Central Java court on Tuesday threw out child abuse charges against self-proclaimed Islamic cleric Sheikh Puji over his marriage to a 12-year-old girl.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Bank lending will grow at a slower pace than expected this year, but will accelerate next year as the economy recovers, says the central bank.

Dili – East Timor's first joint military exercise with the United States began Wednesday with the arrival of the USS Bonhomme Richard assault ship.

Sidoarjo – About 100 mud flow victims from Besuki Timur village, Jabon district, Sidoarjo, East Java, staged a rally on Tuesday, blocking one of the alternative roads connecting Kaliten

Jakarta Police's Traffic Management Center has warned drivers that there may be traffic snarls in Jakarta on Wednesday due to several planned protests.

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Although not counting out the possibility of an independent team to probe the National Police chief of detectives, Comr. Gen.

Anticorruption groups have asserted that the naming of two activists as suspects in a defamation case against the Attorney General's Office is simply a step to distract the public's att

Sydney – About 260 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers detained in Indonesia have threatened to blow up their wooden boat if the navy forces them to disembark, an Australian report said on Wednes

Luthfiana Mahmudah, Jember – Every month at the Jember administration-owned RSUD Dr.

A recent survey conducted on two islands in the Thousand Islands regency painted a bleak picture of poverty and neglect.

Hundreds of people buried by landslides in Indonesia two weeks ago have been registered as dead, raising the death toll from last month's earthquake to 1,115.

Ulma Haryanto – Although the state health insurance system has been widely criticized for its shortcomings, millions of poor people across the country still depend on it for much-needed

The hardline Indonesian terrorist group founded by slain militant Noordin Mohammed Top has been left in complete turmoil by the killing of its new leader, analysts say.

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Antigraft activists Emerson Yuntho and Ilian Deta Sari have been summoned for questioning by police in a libel case filed by the Attorney General's Office (A

Dessy Sagita & Ulma Haryanto – About 16 million people are likely to lose their state health insurance, known as Jamkesmas, due to a reported decline in the number of people living

Dili – East Timor's opposition stayed on the offensive Tuesday after the government survived a no-confidence vote over its decision to free an Indonesian militia leader accused of crim

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government's plan to place the management of the military's cooperatives and foundations under the Ministry of Defense was criticized on Tuesday for not g

Camelia Pasandaran – The government has allowed individuals and groups to exploit Indonesian migrant workers by failing to provide them the necessary legal protection, according to a no

Dion Bisara & Muhamad Al Azhari – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is expecting the country's annual growth to rebound in the third quarter, supported by global economic recov

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The government and the House of Representatives were under strong pressure on Tuesday to investigate how a section in the newly enacted

A new law mandating death by stoning for adulterers in Indonesia's deeply Islamic Aceh province advocates "torture" and should be overturned, US-based group Human Rights Watch said Mond

Jakarta – The names of political party elites who President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono may appoint to fill slots in his next Cabinet have begun to circulate.

Nurfika Osman – The People's Democratic Defense, a fringe nationalist group that had announced plans to invade Malaysia, may think its fighting for its country and compatriot workers ov

Students set fire to women's underwear on Monday during a protest at an Islamic university against Japanese porn star Maria Ozawa, or Miyabi, who is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta to st

Jakarta – A group of Jakarta locals will form a group to defend Japanese porn movie star Maria Ozawa, or Miyabi, who will visit Indonesia to shoot a comedy film.

Nivell Rayda – Ali did not expect to be solicited for bribe money from the "religious" office that was supposed to take care of arrangements for his marriage, but that was exactly what

Irvan Tisnabudi – The recently passed law on regional taxes should be welcomed by business because it sends regional governments a clear signal to stop levying unreasonable or illegal t

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Counter-terrorism authorities in Indonesia and across South-East Asia will redouble efforts to find two men who have been at large since the first Bali bombings th

Jakarta – Indonesian villagers said on Monday they had rejected a request by the family of two terror suspects killed by police to bury the bodies in their village, saying they were unw

Candra Malik – Radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir said police committed murder when they killed suspected terrorists Muhammad Syahrir and Saefudin Jaelani during a raid in Ciputat,

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia and East Timor are trying to work out disputes over their territory by agreeing on an exact border between the two nations, a government official said on

Guido Goulart, Dili – East Timor's government faced a no-confidence vote Monday over the release at Indonesia's request of an alleged militia leader accused of war crimes in the slayin

Fidelis E Satriastanti – The newly installed members of the House of Representatives only start work today, but already they have "homework" in the form of a comprehensive green agenda