Jakarta – The food and beverage sector will be one of the business sectors to directly benefit from the general elections, with producers expecting the five-yearly event to generate Rp

Lindsay Murdoch, Darwin – Jose Ramos-Horta has intervened to delay a controversial $400 million deal to buy three highly polluting second-hand power stations for East Timor.

Dili – A call for more lenient abortion legislation in this predominantly Catholic country is renewing friction between the Church and pro-abortion activists.

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has come under fire from human rights groups as being execution-happy, with campaigners pointing out that 19

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – Once considered a threat by some, political Islam is now under threat.

Jakarta – A Muslim cleric whose marriage to a 12-year-old girl triggered controversy in Indonesia has been detained for violating child protection laws, police said Wednesday.

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Papuan voters have expressed a desire for young indigenous legislative candidates to represent them at a provincial level and address the major issues of

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Malang – Hundreds of companies in Malang regency have yet to pay their workers based on the new minimum wage as required under the 2009 regency/municipal minimum w

Mustaqim Adamrah and Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – Indonesia has proposed to world's big economies a kind of facility that will help companies extend their matured debts to cope with the

Jakarta – The settlement process of transferring the management of Indonesian Military (TNI) businesses to the state will not be affected by this year's elections, Defense Minister Juwo

Muhammad Al Azhari – The country's chief economic minister and a top banking official are apparently at odds about the risks that private sector debt, which is due to roll over this yea

Banda Aceh – Achievements toward the Millennium Development Goals in Aceh remain far from the expected target of 2015, national program coordinator Ivan A. Hadar said Monday.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The President's recent assurance that public officials taking leave to campaign would not affect government activities has come under fire.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – The killing of an Indonesian soldier in Papua, allegedly by separatist guerillas, has highlighted the risks of violent outbreaks undermining the country's election

Hera Diani – Over 11,200 candidates are vying for 560 seats up for grabs in the House of Representatives, or DPR, in the April 9 elections.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Leaders of the Democratic Party and the National Awakening Party (PKB) met Monday to discuss the possibility of forming a coalition for the presidential electi

Oyos Saroso H.N, Lampung Barat – In the last few months six people have died after being attacked by Sumatran tigers while logging illegally inside a national park in Jambi.

Sally Piri – The government will allow 400 Rohingya boat people in Aceh to stay in the province until a decision is made on where they will settle, presidential spokesman Dino Patti Dja

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Sally Piri – Despite increasing security disturbances in Papua Province, the military does not plan to deploy additional troops to the country's easternmo

Alfian, Jakarta – Muslim-based parties may have seen a significant decline in their popularity, but they can still determine who will win the presidential election, observers say.

Jakarta – The Army is planning to increase its personnel at security posts in Papua province, particularly in the Tinggi-nambut area in Puncak Jaya regency, to counter separatist attack

Despite the school operational fund program (BOS) and the increase in the education budget, the government has responded too late to the crucial child labor issue in the country's least

Alfian, Jakarta – The open election system, which will see legislative seats going directly to candidates who win the majority of votes, has led to great expectations for better public

Yogyakarta/Malang – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has made it clear he will look beyond Golkar Chairman and Vice President Jusuf Kalla for a suitable running partner in the upcomin

Jakarta – Papua police chief Bagus Eko Danto reiterated on Sunday that local police would chase after members of the Papuan separatist group, the Free Papua Movement (TPN/OPM), followin

Ismira Lutfia – Victims of the mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java Province, tried a new tack on Sunday in their efforts to claim full compensation by offering gifts to the mother o

Jakarta – Indonesia's state news agency says separatists in the easternmost Papua province have killed a soldier.

Mariani Dewi, Jakarta – Twenty-five days before the legislative election takes place, the candidates have been doing everything possible to win over voters.

Jakarta – Education and Sport Minister Adhyaksa Dault revealed Saturday evening that 15,000 Indonesians die of drug-related illnesses each year.

Arientha Primanita – A director of a state-owned company died in a hospital on Sunday after being gunned down the previous day in a well-executed, mafia-style hit in Tangerang, Banten P

Hera Diani – Neither heat, humidity nor even a national holiday can deter the Indonesian voter, it seems.

Bandung – University students are often regarded as future leaders but they are jaded in the face of the political climate in the lead-up to next month's legislative elections, an elect

Jakarta – The Office of State Enterprises (SOE) Minister pledges no layoffs by its companies this year although the global crisis is worsening.

Jakarta – On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of workers from trade unions in Jakarta and the satellite cities of Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi (Jabodetabek), held a protest action opp

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta – Five Australians trapped in Papua are in a "race against time" to escape by charter plane before "arrogant" Indonesian prosecutors pounce to overturn thei

Febriamy Hutapea – National legislatures come and go, but the outgoing House of Representatives will be long remembered for its handling of a series of bills and vital issues that criti

Joe Cochrane – With his long, bushy hair and 1960s guitar rock ringtone on his Blackberry, it's not a stretch to say Alvin Lie has a little bit of jaman dulu, or the old days, in his so

With great hope and fanfare, the reform era that began in 1998 and the democratic elections in 1999 were intended to usher in a new climate of accountable government after decades of au

Jakarta – Election hopefuls are pulling the wool over the public's eyes with their outdated campaign methods, a communications expert said Friday.

Jakarta – The Democratic Party remains seemingly unperturbed about a possible coalition between the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and the Golkar Party.

Tom Allard, Jakarta – For many Indonesian villagers, the first signs that an election is around the corner are the posters, colourful flags and bunting affixed to every structure in the

Jakarta – West Lombok regency has decided forbid members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect, who have been living in uncertainty at a refugee center in West Nusa Tenggara for three years, to

Nivell Rayda – On the surface, the halls of the great imposing compound are lavish and dignified, with imported marble walls and expensive leather sofas.

Anita Rachman – A coalition of non-governmental organizations and human rights groups is preparing a draft bill calling for the protection of migrant workers' rights in a bid to push th

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Defense Ministry and the military are committed to eliminating corruption and nepotism, and current management practices are 90 percent better than past m

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – Major parties are set to spend huge amounts of money on ads ahead of the upcoming elections, but they remain divided over how much this will help them to win

Jakarta – The upcoming elections will see millions of wasted votes because many small and new parties are likely to fail in their bids to meet the new electoral threshold.

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Lilian Budianto, Jakarta – Everybody is affected by the present global financial crisis. But not Indonesians Michael Hartono and brother R.

Putri Prameshwari – Hundreds of Sidoarjo mudflow victims staged a rally along Jakarta's main roads on Thursday, demanding the government settle compensation owed to them by PT Minarak L