Norimitsu Onishi, Jakarta – From Pakistan to Gaza and Lebanon, militant Islamic movements have gained ground rapidly in recent years, fanning Western fears of a consolidation of radical

High tempers were hard to miss on Wednesday as the Golkar Party made a clear move to cut ties after less than five years in its coalition with the Democrat Party.

Syahrul Hidayat, Spring Exeter, UK – In the recent election the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) failed to keep up its momentum gained from the 2004 election when it saw a 600 percent inc

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – A number of small parties have demanded that an Elections Law stipulation on the legislative threshold be postponed, saying it bars them from having their own

Jakarta – As the global financial crisis continues to hit domestic and international industries, the number of layoffs across the country hit a new level, with the manpower ministry ann

Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – Golkar party officially declared its chairman Jusuf Kalla as presidential candidate to compete in coming election.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati, Muhamad Al Azhari, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Camelia Pasandaran – In a day of hectic political maneuvering, Golkar executives announced on Wednesday that t

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Police dismissed Wednesday a report citing alleged manipulations in the final voter lists used for the April 9 legislative elections.

Sunanda Creagh, Jakarta – Indonesia has ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to leave the politically sensitive Papua region after its officials visited separatis

Lawyers for West Papuan activist Buchtar Tabuni claim he has been assaulted by Indonesian police and three public prosecutors.

In a response to American Samoa's congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin, the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has signalled her support for greater autonomy for the Indonesian region

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh Party, founded by former guerilla fighters from the Free Aceh Movement, or GAM, is the only one of six local political parties in the province to cle

Jakarta – Women's Empowerment Minister Meutia Hatta says Kartini was a heroine and rejects criticism that she did little to fight for her own rights.

Achmad Faisal, Surabaya – Witnesses from 20 small political parties walked out of a plenary session with the provincial elections commission (KPUD) on Wednesday, during the counting of

Mustaqim Adamrah and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia's economic recovery will depend heavily on how reforms in the US and Europe manage to lift them out of the worst downturn in d

Alfian, Jakarta – The government is soon to issue a presidential regulation allowing mining companies to mine underground in protected forest areas, despite a recent report by the Supre

Jakarta – Women legislative candidates added life to the Kartini Day celebrations in West Kalimantan on Tuesday with a possible unprecedented clean sweep of Regional Representative Coun

Suherdjoko and Slamet Susanto, Semarang, Yogya – More than 30 female journalists in Semarang, with the support of Central Java Deputy Governor Rustriningsih, declared Tuesday their oppo

Adianto P.

Dicky Christianto and Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The so-called Teuku Umar Block, led by former president Megawati Soekarnoputri's Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), is consi

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has set up a team to investigate why so many people were left off the fixed voter lists for the April 9 legislative electi

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The pace of Indonesia's economic growth will likely pick up in the last quarter of the year on strengthening consumption while predicted signs of global econ

Purwokerto, Central Java – The prolonged economic crisis has brought about an increase in the number of divorces, Muhammad Farid, an official at Purwokerto's religious court said Monday

Jakarta – Personal problems, laziness and the obligation to help their party achieve its goals have burdened legislators, raising doubts as to whether they can ratify dozens of crucial

Nurfika Osman – The National Commission on Violence Against Women, or Komnas Perempuan, commemorated Kartini Day on Tuesday by presenting awards to three women who have struggled to ove

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says his Democratic Party and Vice President Jusuf Kalla's Golkar Party have so far agreed on maintaining coalition in the go

Janeman Latul & Anita Rachman – Newly installed business representatives in the National Tripartite Agency for Industrial Relations said on Tuesday that during the ongoing two-day m

Jakarta/Bandung/Yogyakarta – The electronic but slow vote counting finally came to an end after almost two weeks on Monday, as the General Elections Commission (KPU) races against time

Jakarta – The Aceh Party, a local party representing former Aceh rebels, is projected to win control of the parliament in Indonesia's northernmost province Aceh, a local poll monitor sa

Christian Motte – Police in Papua Province have arrested seven people in connection with the attack on the Abepura Police station in the provincial capital of Jayapura on the eve of the

Titania Veda – Despite the institute of marriage being the norm in Indonesian society, an increasing number of households are headed by women, both in urban and rural settings.

Roswita Nimpuno Khaiyath – Today is Hari Kartini, or Kartini Day, a national holiday proclaimed by the late President Sukarno in 1964 in recognition of Raden Ajeng Kartini for establish

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The Indonesian capital market has retained its position as the third most optimistic market in the Asia-Pacific region in the first quarter of this year.

Jakarta – With President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's Democratic Party set to form a coalition with the Golkar Party and most of the middle-rank parties, the next executive branch of gove

Adianto P.

Jakarta – The founders of the Democratic Party, together with partisans, have formed a campaign team called "Indonesia Bisa" or "Indonesia Can", to support Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's bi

Muninggar Sri Saraswati – If the July presidential election were held today, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would garner a whopping 87.5 percent of the votes, according to a poll by

Pandaya – Turning up at the polling station on last week's election day was like a great family outing for many people, especially those taking the once-every-five-year political event

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Sunday it was almost certain he would face former president Megawati Soekarnoputri in the presidential election once again, but with di

Jambi – An outbreak of leprosy has reached an endemic stage in Tanjungjabung regency, with one person in six per 10,000 suffering from the disease, which causes legions to form on the s

Jakarta Post, Jakarta – The Indonesian financial intelligence unit reported a sharp increase in suspicious transactions in the country's financial institutions during the election campa

Jakarta – A move to keep the duo of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Jusuf Kalla has gained further ground as Golkar Party leaders agreed Friday to let its provinci

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is said to have failed to push for transparency in the financial affairs of regional administrations, although it has arrested many

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – Bowing to pressure from anticorruption groups, the Supreme Court has revoked its earlier decision to appoint 12 new judges to the Corruption Court.

Idi Rayeuk, Indonesia – The only solace for the almost 200 men living in a squalid refugee camp here is the freedom they now have to pray.

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Former separatist combatants have managed to transform the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) into a major local political force after last week's legislative elec

Jakarta – Although they might not be about "grand narratives" or "bombastic issues", women do have stories to tell.

Sydney – The Australia West Papua Association, Sydney, has asked Australia's Foreign minister Stephen Smith to raise what it says is the continuing deteriorating situation in West Papua

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – The National Police is intensifying the search for those responsible for a string of violent events that rocked Papua around election day.

Muninggar Sri Saraswati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesian voters have made a firm decision on the fate of 29 national political parties that participated in last week's electi