Arientha Primanita – The new Jakarta Legislative Council was sworn in on Tuesday afternoon, with more than two-thirds of the council comprised of new faces, reflecting widespread disenc

Anita Rachman – Malaysia has agreed on a minimum monthly wage for Indonesian maids and other migrant workers in the informal sector, a key demand of Indonesia during ongoing negotiation

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The Attorney General Office's (AGO) latest admission that a prosecutor was involved in a mediating attempt to save PT Masaro president director Anggoro Widjo

Jakarta – The 30-year-old woman stuttered as she tried to tell the story of when she had been arrested by a group of police officers in 2005.

East Timor's president says corruption is still a serious problem in his country but he is committed to stamping it out.

Dessy Sagita – City planning experts called on the Jakarta administration on Monday to tighten supervision of land use, building permits and development to prevent worsening floods and

Dili – Ten years after East Timor's historic independence referendum, victims are still waiting for justice for crimes and rights abuses committed during Indonesia's brutal 24-year occu

Jakarta – The National Police have decided to drop a widely criticized plan to monitor sermons given at mosques and mass gatherings, after a number of political parties and Islamic orga

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – An Islamic group says recent raids on terrorist safe houses and comments by the governor of Jakarta about neighborhood alertness could lead to racial profili

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's top naval official said on Sunday that Indonesia would provide training and possibly sell equipment to East Timor's Navy as part of a broadening

The Jakarta office of the International Committee of the Red Cross says as far as it knows negotiations are ongoing over the agreement under which it operates in Indonesia, covering its

Jakarta – Strong reasons for their involvement must be provided before the Indonesia Military (TNI) is given a bigger role in fighting terrorism, experts said Sunday.

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police chief as well as the Ministers for Religious Affairs and Communication and Information Technology on Monday quickly moved to quash public worries that

Nivell Rayda, Abe Silangit & Camelia Pasandaran – A corruption watchdog on Friday urged the chairwoman of a House of Representatives committee deliberating the Anti-Corruption Court

Jakarta – Jakartans are viewing the city administration's future progressive tax scheme for private vehicles with apprehension, saying that it will create an unnecessary burden and be i

Fadli, Batam – Subsiding in both Aceh and Maluku, and taking root in Papua, a separatist movement has emerged on the oil- and gas-rich island of Natuna in Riau Islands province.

Romanus Ndau Lendong, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives (DPR) are committed to passing the state secrecy bill this month.

HS Dillon, Jakarta – To the country's first president, Sukarno, freedom was political independence in its entirety.

Australian governments, both Labor and Coalition, knew what was happening.

Paul Stewart recalls the day in 1975 when a newspaper banner shouted "Five Newsman Missing In Timor".

Jakarta – Indonesian officials have warned radical Muslim groups not to attack nightclubs and other businesses deemed sinful in Islam during the Ramadan fasting month, which started yes

Teguh Prasetyo – While senior officials regularly make well-meaning noises about the need for food diversification, both experts and the food processing industry say what is really requ

Kim Knight – Felled trees, burnt stumps. Once tropical rainforest, now palm plantations spread across this Indonesian island like a plague.

John Pilger – On August 30 it will be a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum and vote for th

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A lawmaker taking part in the discussion on the state secrecy bill urged the government on Sunday to pass the bill before the current House of Representative

Heru Andriyanto – Religious leaders are warning that the National Police's plan to monitor sermons during Ramadan to prevent the spread of extremism will offend and anger Muslims, and b

East Timor voted for independence 10 years ago, but its people await a better life, writes Lindsay Murdoch in Dili.

Salim Osman and Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja – Indonesian police will start clamping down on Islamic clerics who are suspected of having links to militant groups, in a reversal of its past pol

Jakarta – The proposed involvement of the Indonesian Military (TNI) in the ongoing war on terrorism has to be closely monitored and based on a clear-cut job description with the Nationa

Ronna Nirmala – As food prices continued to climb on the eve of Ramadan on Friday, state-owned pawnshops across the nation began to experience the seasonal surge of customers looking to

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The granting of special autonomy to the Papua region has not proven sufficient enough to quell the ongoing internal struggle of its people for independenc

The city warned private organizations Friday not to attack nightclubs and other controversial businesses during Ramadan.

Camelia Pasandaran – After weeks of confusion, the General Elections Commission has finally decided on a method of allocating legislative seats based on the results of the April 9 elect

Jakarta – Dozens of anti-corruption activists in South Sulawesi on Thursday launched a movement to defend the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), which they said was in danger.

Ismira Lutfia – For hundreds of Indonesians in Saudi Arabia, being locked up and deported back home holds its own attraction.

Hundreds of people rallied and burned down tens of houses in the Sepakat red light district in Pelalawan, Riau, on Thursday as part of an anti-vice campaign ahead of Ramadan.

Tommy Suharto, the controversial son of former dictator Suharto, is free to contest the chairmanship of Golkar, party deputy general chairman Agung Laksono said on Friday.

Febriamy Hutapea & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday hit back at critics of his decision to give the Armed Forces an increased role in fighti

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Defense Ministry said on Thursday that the military had the authority to take action against terror suspects.

Nivell Rayda – Terrorism experts on Friday urged Indonesia to increase its monitoring of convicted terrorists who had been released from jail.

Dessy Sagita – An uneven HIV/AIDS budget that favors preventive measures over treatment programs, and an inability to involve civil society in the policy-making process have contributed

Abe Silangit & Camelia Pasandaran – The graft eradication fight in Indonesia may be weakened by the hesitancy of the House of Representatives to pass the Anti-Corruption Court Bill

Australia's government has sent a quiet signal to Indonesia about mounting concern over human rights conditions in Indonesia's restive Papua region The Rudd government – facing accusati

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The recent attacks in Papua, especially those around the Freeport mining complex, were aimed at provoking the military into committing human rights violations

Ismira Lutfia & Putri Prameshwari – The Indonesian government on Friday reiterated its position that the International Committee of the Red Cross would not be allowed to open an off

The Australian upper house has supported a motion to urge for the International Red Cross to be granted full access to Indonesia's restive Papua province.

Jakarta – If passed into law, the state secrecy bill could lead to abuses of power by unscrupulous government officials, activists and experts warn.

Paul Monk – Robert Connolly's film Balibo graphically reconstructs the murder by Indonesian special forces, on October 16, 1975, of Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Tony Stewart, Malco

Jakarta – Secretary of the state enterprises ministry, Said Didu, has expressed concern that many state enterprises are yet to provide protection for their employees as required by the

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