Jakarta – Two pulp and paper companies denied allegations human rights violations recently occurred at their forestry concession areas in Riau.

Jakarta – Three nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have threatened to destroy illegal villas built in the Ciater water catchment areas if the Subang government fails to do so.

Jakarta – residential candidate Jusuf Kalla on Sunday refused to sign a political contract proposed by university students in Central Java.

Dalih Sembiring – On Friday, at 5 a.m., Nia Dinata temporarily abandoned her role as mentor at a documentary film workshop in Yogyakarta to head east in a rental car.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang, East Java – The Indonesian Workers' Union of East Java is demanding PT Bentoel International Investama explain what will become of its 19,000 workers after

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Anitgraft watchdogs are accusing the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of applying double standards in its handling of the central bank's Indonesian Ban

Jakarta – "Dear Bapak Bambang, I do not like it here, I would rather be at home, pak, I want to go to school again, pak; I miss my parents, I promise I will not do what I did again, pak

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – It is sarcastically known as a "three-in-one" event – a reference to Jakarta's pointless peak-hour traffic regulation prohibiting cars with fewer than thr

Salim Osman, Jakarta – It was supposed to be the first face-to-face debate between presidential candidates in Indonesian electoral history.

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Most victims of the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, have expressed disappointment that none of the candidates in the presidential e

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Rupiah lending has continued to grow up to the end of April, following a rising trend in the previous two months after slumping in January when the impact of

Metinaro, East Timor – On a sweltering day at a camp for displaced people outside East Timor's capital, children play excitedly in the dust as their parents pack their meagre possession

Rendi A. Witular, Jakarta – We now have more and more hospitals to choose from.

Jakarta – The government must take concrete measures to improve the skills of migrant workers in Indonesia and abroad, and put an end to the increasing number of labor abuses, say civil

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – A traditional forest in the western part of Lampung province is threatened by extinction due to the rampant illegal logging of forests in the area, war

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Indonesian migrant workers in South Korea, previously laid off due to the global economic downturn, have managed to find new jobs and thus postpone an early retu

Prodita Sabarini, Jakarta – A legal aid institution advocating the protection of women and children called Thursday for public institutions to pay closer attention to domestic abuse vio

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The Indonesian Foreign Ministry said the United States House of Representatives had scrapped from the country's foreign relations bill approved last week a provi

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Scholars attending a conference discussing the 1965 mass killings agreed on Friday that the Indonesian government had done very little to address the devast

Nivell Rayda & Camelia Pasandaran – There was little real discussion or argument on Thursday night as candidates for the presidential election spent most of the time agreeing with e

A new film about the killing of five journalists by Indonesian troops in East Timor in 1975 fails to depict the true cruelty of their deaths, East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta sa

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – Vice presidential candidate Boediono's perceived lack of religious credentials remains a continuing source of attention, even by his coalition allies.

Pontianak – Supporters of presidential aspirant Jusuf Kalla have talked up his talents as a peace broker, saying it makes him fit for the office of president.

Angela Flassy, Jayapura – Prosecutors told the district court in Jayapura, Papua, on Wednesday that pro-independence activist Bucthar Tabuni should be sentenced to 10 years imprisonment

Christian Motte – Charges were filed on Thursday against 17 Papuans arrested during an initially peaceful pro-independence rally that degenerated into violence in the Papua town of Nabi

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Muslim organizations Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah played a significant role in the Indonesian Armed Forces' execution of alleged communists in the 1965-

Jakarta – Prosecutors are continuing to hinder the release of five Australians detained in Papua for the past nine months, even though Indonesia's Supreme Court has cleared them of wron

Jakarta – A legal aid foundation has accused the government of ignoring migrant workers by not ratifying the United Nations (UN) Convention on the protection of migrant workers, a conve

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Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The State Ministry of Environment and the Supreme Court signed an agreement on Thursday to enforce law on environmental cases in the country.

Anita Rachman& Farouk Arnaz – Victims of domestic violence do not just come from less educated families, a prominent legal aid agency said on Thursday, pointing out that wives of go

James Van Zorge – When I think about how to describe the current crop of Indonesian presidential hopefuls, I have a vision of the past.

Febriamy Hutapea & April Aswadi – The government has accused lawmakers of dragging their feet and not taking deliberations seriously for the long-awaited anti-graft court bill, desp

Tom Allard, Jakarta – A relative of Indonesia's President will spend up to four-and-a-half years in prison for his role in a scandal involving two of the country's pre-eminent instituti

Patrick Guntensperger, Jakarta – Once dominant under an authoritarian regime, Indonesia's Golkar party is losing its popular appeal in a more democratic era.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – More National Mandate Party members on Thursday denounced their party's backing of Democratic Party candidate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and pledged t

Dili – East Timor began emptying its last remaining camp for thousands of internally displaced people on Wednesday, more than three years after unrest drove an estimated 100,000 people

Armando Siahaan, Singapore – Western governments supported the mass murder of more than half a million alleged communist supporters in the wake of the 1965 coup, a noted historian said

The death toll from a massive explosion in an Indonesian coal mine has risen to 27, with around a dozen men still trapped and feared dead deep underground, officials say.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives will likely increase Indonesia's defense budget to Rp 36.5 trillion (US$3.6 billion) in 2010 from Rp 33.7 trillion allocated for this year.

Jakarta – Legislators have expressed concern the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) could be misused during the election as the state body is under the command of the President who is camp

The State Intelligence Agency says it is monitoring friction between supporters of the three rival presidential campaign camps but adds that the situation is under control.

Jakarta – National Mandate Party (PAN) secretary-general Zulkifli Hasan says his party will punish members who do not support their coalition with the Democratic Party (PD) and the reel

More than 20,000 East Timorese live in dire poverty over the Indonesian border

Jakarta – Hundreds of thousands of new residences in the country are left without electricity as the state power firm, PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), defaulted on its commitment to

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Amid mounting opposition from the public and NGOs, the state electricity firm PLN has temporarily shelved plans to set up a nuclear power plant.

Fidelis Satriastanti – The National Commission on Human Rights criticized on Monday the Riau Police for failing to properly investigate the deaths of three villagers who were found afte

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's economy may grow by as much as 7 percent in 2011 as it recovers from the impacts of the global financial crisis, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Ind

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Overseas debts have continued to increase in recent years, but the government guarantees prudent debt management, using the loans mostly to help spur growth,

April Aswadi – Under pressure from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to halt a wave of crashes involving military aircraft in the past two months, the Defense Ministry has been ordered