Farouk Arnaz – The National Police, which has long been the target of widespread allegations of human rights abuses, on Thursday issued a new set of law enforcement standards meant to m

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Preparations for the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Indonesia and New Zealand under the ASEAN framework have been progressing well despite the economic do

The three vice presidential candidates debated national identity live on television last Tuesday.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Human Rights Watch has urged Australia to cut ties with Indonesia's feared special forces group Kopassus after new evidence that it is terrorising civilians in Wes

Ferry Irwanto & Camelia Pasandaran – After a listless first debate more than a week ago, presidential candidates on Thursday gave a much livelier performance during their second nat

Anita Rachman – The government has suspended sending more maids and other informal sector workers to Malaysia until the two countries meet to settle problems with their current labor ag

Gabrielle Dunlevy, Brisbane – Climate change is worsening the hunger problem in Indonesia's West Timor province, which is already rivalling Africa.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Reuters – The military struck back bitterly on Thursday against accusations that members of elite special forces had acted with impunity in Papua to detai

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Amir Tejo – An activist claimed on Wednesday that the majority of Chinese-Indonesians believed Prabowo Subianto, who is currently running for vice preside

Melbourne – Five Australians made an emotional return after a nine-month ordeal in which they were detained by Indonesian authorities for flying their light plane into a sensitive provi

Farouk Arnaz – A hit-and-run ambush on a group of elite Mobile Brigade police officers has left one officer dead in the latest violence to hit troubled Papua.

Adam Gartrell – A new report calls on Australia to cut off ties with Indonesia's feared special forces group Kopassus over new evidence it is terrorising civilians in Papua.

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Members of Indonesia's elite military special forces, Kopassus, have acted with legal impunity in Papua to detain, torture and beat up ordinary citizens, Human

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The Indonesian Survey Institute (LSI) has found in its latest study that even though the popularity of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is on the decline, h

An Indonesian mother-of-two has been cleared of defamation charges after emails she wrote about poor treatment at a local hospital appeared on social networking website Facebook.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Febriamy Hutapea – The campaign team for Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Boediono's presidential ticket demanded on Wednesday that r

Dili – The government of East Timor says it plans to establish a national park to protect a bounty of dolphins and whales – some of them endangered species – recently discovered minglin

Nurfika Osman – Activists for women's rights intend to hit each presidential candidate with a list of demands related to gender discrimination with the expectation that these demands wi

Nurfika Osman – The increase in the number of women in the House of Representatives for the 2009-14 term to 17.68 percent of all lawmakers does not guarantee that the rights of women wi

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Dozens of delman (traditional buggies) staged a protest in front of the City Hall on Wednesday, demanding officials remove the ban that forbids them to operat

Jakarta – Fifteen days ahead of the presidential election, millions of voters are still yet to be registered on the electoral roll (DPT), depriving them of their constitutional right to

Pandu Anugrah, Analyst – The term macet, meaning traffic gridlock or deadlock, is synonymous with Jakarta.

Jakarta – Research into the nation's television viewing habits has revealed most people regard news and talk show programs to be the best in terms of education, but the majority still p

Jakarta – Thirteen-year-old Isak Pesakot, a Papuan resident who was reportedly shot by an Indonesian Military (TNI) soldier near the Papua New Guinea (PNG) border in Papua on Monday, is

Jakarta – Indonesia is investigating the shooting of a teenager at a military post on the Papua border, but dismissed allegations of police abuse during recent raids in the province, of

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has handed down a verdict confirming election fraud did take place in South Sulawesi and ruled in favor of the People's Conscience Party (Hanura).

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran – Despite attempts to spur more lively discussions and avoid a repeat of the snoozer that marked last week's first debate, the first vice president

Frank Jordans, Geneva – East Timor's president said Wednesday that venture partners in a vast underwater oil and gas field would be better served if they choose to lay a deep sea pipeli

Stephen Coates, Jakarta – Indonesian police commonly beat and torture people in custody and offer better treatment in exchange for money and sex, Amnesty International said in a report

Adam Gartrell – Indonesian police routinely bash and torture criminal suspects and demand money and sex in exchange for better treatment, a new report says.

Jakarta – Indonesians are in a better legal position to file a law suit against state and private institutions if they fail to provide adequate public services, as a result of a newly p

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – Smoke from forest and land fires has again blanketed most parts of Riau province, disrupting flight schedules and affecting the quality of human health, local

Amir Tejo & Ismira Lutfia, Surabaya – In a rarely seen community backlash against Muslim radicals, residents in a Surabaya neighborhood took a somewhat vigilante tack, physically ba

Katrin Figge – Wati is 23 years old and already a mother of five. She carries her youngest child in her arms, a 5-month-old girl who has a slight fever.

Camelia Pasandaran – The number of people watching television news programs and political talk shows has jumped in the past three months, monitoring company AGB Nielsen Media Research s

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia could expect a significant jump in investment, in particular coming from overseas, as foreign investors have shown more confidence in the country's

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's powerful anti-corruption agency has taken new steps to sideline its disgraced former head, with a senior commissioner giving police testimony

Arientha Primanita – Dozens of Jakarta residents protested in front of City Hall on Tuesday demanding that the city administration pay more attention to the needs of the poor.

Jakarta – Haze triggered by forest and plantation fires has continued to blanket Pekanbaru, Riau Province's capital, over the past month.

Adam Gartrell – Five Australians trapped in Indonesia's Papua province for more than nine months expect to fly home on Wednesday after authorities thwarted their plans to leave on Tuesd

American Samoa's US Congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin says he drove moves to drop provisions on Indonesia's Papua from a Foreign Relations Bill in the US House of Representatives.

An Australian-based NGO is calling on Pacific Island leaders to go public over the intimidation of the indigenous people of the Indonesian region of Papua.

Jakarta – A thirteen year old resident of Keerom Regency in Papua Province was shot to death by Indonesian military personnel patrolling the border between Indonesia and Papua New Guine

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – While the government appears to uphold human rights at the policy making level, it fails to actually implement the laws it makes, a study has found.

Vanimo – Members of the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation have called for peaceful dialogue with Indonesia as the only viable way to settle the conflict in the Indonesian pro

Filmmaker Frank Smith travelled with Rageh Omaar across Indonesia to see a struggle between two very different visions of the country's future.

Jakarta – With billions of rupiah up for grabs, the 2009 presidential election has set the stage for a "survey war" among polling institutes as the lucrative business of political consu

Jakarta – While still the front-runner in the presidential race, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has seen his popularity drop days after the official campaign period began, with Vice

Dion Bisara – Legislators and businessmen on Monday criticized the government for the slow disbursement of stimulus funds, and argued that the delay could jeopardize national economic g

An NGO, the West Papua Advocacy Team, says it's sad that the US House of Representatives has scrapped provisions, highlighting the conditions of Indonesia's Papua, from a Foreign Relati