Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party will select its new chairman based on wealth, access to the government and desire to bring the party closer to President Susilo Bambang Yudho

Bekasi – It has been seven years since community policing was adopted in Bekasi, but the concept has yet to penetrate the lives of all residents there.

Aditya Suharmoko – Prices accelerated in September due to higher demand in the fasting month and Idul Fitri holiday, according to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), prompting predicti

Nivell Rayda – A lawyer for the embattled Corruption Eradication Commission said on Friday staff members had received death threats from a senior police officer, fanning the flames of a

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – State worker insurance company PT Jamsostek announced Thursday it had registered 4,200 more companies in Jakarta as members during the first eight months of

Timika – Members of two warring tribes in Timika, Mimika regency, Papua, the Amungme and Kei tribes, clashed at around 2:30 a.m.

Jakarta – Some 550 Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officials voiced their concern on Thursday over recent attempts to weaken the Commission.

Syofiardi Bachyul and Jon Afrizal, Padang/Jambi – The death toll from Wednesday's powerful earthquake in West Sumatra is believed to be in the thousands, as rescue teams struggle to dig

Irwan Firdaus, Padang – Rescue workers used excavators Thursday to pull out victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that kill

Nivell Rayda – The Corruption Eradication Commission and the Supreme Court have welcomed the newly passed Anti-Corruption Court bill and are preparing to handle cases outside of the nat

Emmy Fitri – In response to the simple question of how they would rate the performance of the 550 lawmakers who served the country over the past five years, political analysts and polit

Febriamy Hutapea – In the end, the House of Representatives failed in its legislation-producing aims, even by its own, much-vaunted yardstick.

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives ended its mandate on Wednesday much as it did on most days during its five-year term – with hundreds of em

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Saifuddin Jaelani, the man who has emerged as the most wanted terrorist in Indonesia, may have been planning a wave of monthly attacks, Indonesian police say.

Pandaya, Jakarta – Their main job has been to make laws but while they were doing it the House of Representatives legislators often stirred bitter controversies that ended up with the n

Nurrohman, Bandung – Allowing adulterers to be stoned to death is not just improper but is generally perceived as uncivilized nowadays.

Jon Lamb – During August and September, Australian and international media outlets ran numerous articles, opinion pieces and commentaries marking the 10 years since the people of East

Danielle Sabao – The year 2009 has been a significant one for elections in Indonesia. In April, 171 million voters participated in national, provincial and district assembly elections.

Max Lane, Jakarta – In the immediate aftermath of the July 8 Indonesian presidential election, the two losing sets of candidates alleged that there was widespread ballot fraud.

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Putri Prameshwari – Scores of flights to and from Sumatra had been delayed or cancelled as thick haze still covered parts of the island, forcing airports to suspend operations, airline

Usman Hamid and Yati Andriyani, Liquisa, East Timor – Mentioning Timor Leste not only brings to mind a state that was once Indonesia's 27th province, but also a place where gross human

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle said on Wednesday it never intended to discredit controversial former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto by

Fidelis E Satriastanti – A climate expert says the country is far from ready to deal with the harmful effects of climate change on crops, with droughts or floods likely to threaten food

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Residents of East Java's capital are preparing for another water crisis, as October – the transition month from the dry to rainy season – is considered the worst m

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – Indonesia's president is pressing the country's 234 million people to wear batik clothes to celebrate a triumph over neighbour Malaysia in a poisonou

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed into law what is considered to be a vague version of the controversial Anti-Corruption C

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Six national commissions criticized the police on Tuesday for criminalizing two deputy chairmen from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Angus Hohenboken – Two Indonesian suicide bombers were filmed discussing martyrdom and being instructed to target Australians, just weeks before they blew up two Jakarta hotels, killing

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Aceh Governor Irwandi Yusuf has refused to sign the controversial Qanun Jinayat Code, or Islamic bylaw, and asked newly installed members of the Aceh legislat

Camelia Pasandaran – The head of the Constitutional Court criticized the House of Representatives on Tuesday, labeling the outgoing crop of legislators as being beholden to political in

Jakarta – Labor unionists criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's performance in the past five years, saying that the majority of workers have not experienced improved monthly m

Jakarta – Media associations and NGOs will draw up their own version of the controversial state secrecy bill to present to the government, after the latter withdrew its version followin

Jakarta – Parliament has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to form a human rights court to try the cases of rights activists kidnapped in 1997.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – In what critics say is a blow to attempts to reform the military, the House of Representatives on Monday abandoned deliberations of the military tribunal bill

United Nations – East Timor's government is defending its policy of not pursuing war crimes trials for Indonesian officials responsible for thousands of deaths during their 24-year occu

Putri Prameshwari & Eras Poke – Concerns over a damaged well leaking crude oil into the Timor Sea near East Nusa Tenggara have prompted the government to dispatch a team to monitor

A group of West Papuans and their supporters have called on the Australian government to help mediate a settlement over the province of West Papua.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed the hospital bill into law yesterday, granting the government authority to oversee private hospitals and abolish their licen

Thousands of West Papuans have turned out in rallies in Indonesia's Papua demanding international help in mediating a political settlement between Jakarta and a new so-called West Papua

Alwan Ridha Ramdani, Jakarta – The Indonesian airforce began on Tuesday a joint military exercise with the US Airforce at the Husein Sastranegara Airbase, in Bandung, West Java.

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Muklis Ali, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who begins a second five-year term next month, may create new ministerial posts to spur development of the natural r

Jakarta – Hunched over in brightly lit assembly lines, 300 women churn out 60,000 pairs of sports shoes a month at a factory in Tangerang, an hour's drive from Indonesia's capital.

Candra Malik, Solo – Tensions over the burial of a terrorist are not over, with hundreds of residents protesting over the weekend at the two cemeteries near Solo considered for the inte

Camelia Pasandaran – A nationwide survey released on Sunday by the Institute for Studies on the Free Flow of Information showed that nearly 90 percent of respondents wanted the Golkar P

Febriamy Hutapea – Candidates for the Golkar Party chairmanship are scrambling to secure the support of regional leaders as the competition heats up ahead of the party's national congre

Timika, Papua – Vice President-elect Boediono, making his first ever visit to troubled Papua, said here on Monday that development in the region would be given special attention by the

Nethy Darma Somba, Jayapura – Dozens of paramedics across Jayapura staged a rally on Monday at the Papua Governor's Office to demand the local administration increase their allowances,

Nivell Rayda – The government encountered its first setback in its bid to find temporary replacements for three suspended leaders of the Corruption Eradication Commission, after most of