Dicky Christanto and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Political parties trying to put together a jumbo coalition to challenge President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will need to stop shadow boxing

Jakarta – Indonesian Military commander Gen.

Christian Motte & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jayapura – Hundreds of soldiers went after senior officers on Wednesday and damaged their battalion headquarters in Papua after the famil

Jakarta – A Papuan separatist group held a local police officer hostage for seven hours after confiscating his revolver, local police said Sunday.

Benget Besalicto Tnb., Jakarta – The government is pushing liberalization of the railway sector by drafting a regulation on the separation of track management and train service business

Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – US President Barack Obama's 100-day-old administration has "re-energized US foreign policy with a fresh diplomatic approach" in a movement that "re-establishe

Armando Siahaan – On March 28, 2007, hundreds of protesters under the umbrella of Gerakan Anti-Komunis, or the Anti-Communist Movement, arrived at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences i

Khairul Ikhwan, Medan – Thousands of farmers in North Sumatra (Sumut) have threatened to boycott the July 8 presidential elections if the various problems facing farmers are not resolve

Suherdjoko, Surakarta – Up to 80 million Indonesian people are believed to lack private toilets, which means they tend to defecate anywhere, an official said Tuesday.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives finally ratifies the regulation in-lieu-of law on voters list via voting mechanism at the House's plennary session hall in Senayan, South Jakarta,

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Febriamy Hutapea – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P, and the Golkar Party – now clearly relegated to second and third place after Pre

Jakarta – With his almost unlimited financial capacity and increasing popularity, Prabowo Subianto is shaping up to be President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) strongest opponent in t

Lisa Siregar – A feature-length documentary that was shown at the Boston International Film Festival over the weekend is an intergenerational depiction of the 1965-66 anti-Communist pur

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Mark Dodd – East Timor's security forces and civil service are politicised, a situation that has not been reconciled and could trigger a return to instability on the restive half-island

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The manufacturing sector may expand faster in the second quarter from a quarter earlier as firms start producing more than in the first quarter, with the eco

Christian Motte & Nurfika Osman – Papua authorities have decided to close down an immigration post at Skouw-Wutung on the country's border with Papua New Guinea, due to the province

Jakarta – The country's laborers will likely face another difficult period throughout the next five years as none of the presidential candidates or political parties represent their int

Dian Ariffahmi – Political campaigning is being credited with a surge in advertising spending, with figures released on Tuesday showing that total advertising spending in the first quar

Dicky Christanto and Adianto Simamora, Jakarta – Party officials have admitted to placing ideology on the back burner as they move to build the crucial coalitions required to secure pow

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Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The National Mandate Party (PAN) central board finally came to the decision Monday to join the incumbent President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a coalition fo

Depok – In the lead up to the commemoration of International Labour Day or May Day, the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) and the Greater Jakarta Railway Workers Trade Union (SPKAJ) are

Jepara, Central Java – Some 1,500 residents of Balong subdistrict, Kembang district, staged a rally over the weekend protesting against a government plan to build a nuclear powered elec

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Growth in the manufacturing sector may be better in the second quarter this year as companies start producing again after seeing a still-high consumption gro

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – Forty five local firms have been surveyed on this year's business operations amid the continuing global downturn, and the result is hardly a surprise – more t

In the lead-up to the elections, Papua was hit by terror. The OPM was accused of involvement, but its leaders behind bars deny it.

Jakarta Post – The steady rise of Indonesia's share price index and the rupiah immediately after the April 9 legislative election suddenly reversed into a decline last Thursday after th

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has won praise for his tough stance against corruption, but a newly drafted antigraft bill reveals the opposite, a discussi

Jakarta – The chairman of Golkar Party Jusuf Kalla said on Sunday that his meeting with the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party chairman Prabowo Subiyanto was an initial step in f

Five flags of the secessionist South Maluku Republic (RMS) were flown Saturday coinciding with the separatist anniversary in their stronghold Aboru village in Haruku Island district, Ce

Golkar Party chairman and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's attempts to charm former President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her possible running mate, Prabowo Subianto, over the weekend appeare

Tifa Asrianti, Jakarta – Papuan Tineke Rumkabu, along with activists and relatives of human rights victims, met Argentinean human rights icons Lidya Taty Almeida and Aurora Morea of Les

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Recent bomb attacks linked to the legislative elections in troubled Papua province may have been orchestrated by a single group, police said Friday.

Jakarta – State Minister of Women's Empowerment Meutia Hatta called on women to actively encourage their neighbors to register with the polling body Friday in an initiative to improve p

Teguh Prasetyo & Dian Ariffhami – The European Union has taken a firm step against illegal logging by adopting stricter certification rules on timber sold within the bloc's markets,

Jakarta – Political analysts have criticized potential coalitions being discussed for the presidential elections as "superficial and fragile".

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Negotiations began in earnest yesterday after the spectacular split in Indonesia's ruling coalition, as Vice-President Jusuf Kalla held closed-door meetin

Supporters of Megawati Soekarnoputri, the chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI-P), have demanded her to be cautious not to choose vice president candidates with possible t

Ambon – Unlike in previous years, the anniversary of separatist movement Republic of South Maluku (RMS), which falls today, is not marred with violence or deployment of massive security

Denpasar – 23 percent of voters abstained from voting in the April 9 legislative election, or 621,443 voters out of 2,667,065 registered voters did not cast their vote.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – Indonesia's ruling coalition has disintegrated after the Golkar party decided yesterday to run its own presidential candidate against the immensely popular incumbe

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Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The political uncertainty following Golkar Party's decision to abandon a nearly five years coalition with the Democratic Party will not affect the government

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Families of activists missing since 1997 have called on candidates hoping to run in the July presidential election to avoid cooperating with parties led by in

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesia's Golkar party has opened up the national election race by declaring Vice-President Jusuf Kalla will stand against President Susilo Bambang Yudh

Yoga Rusmana – Exports of natural rubber from Indonesia, the second-biggest grower, plunged 32 percent by volume in the first quarter in a bigger reduction than targeted by the country'

The Indonesia office of the International Committee of the Red Cross says the request by Jakarta for it to leave the Papua region is not linked to visits by its officials to separatists

Jakarta – Indonesia boasts the highest consumer confidence index in the world, a survey by the Nielsen Company shows, effectively brushing off any threat to economic activities here fro

Ari Saputra, Jakarta – Around 40 workers from the Workers Challenge Alliance (ABM) held a demonstration on April 24 calling on the political elite – who are in middle of fighting over t