Adianto P. Simamora, Jakarta – The government called on developed nations to buy carbon credits from Indonesia, rather than push for a moratorium on forestry activities.

Dili – The advantages of Cuban basic reading and writing teaching method Yes, I Can, which combines the student's basic learning primer with video classes, outstood here Saturday on occ

Medan – Hundreds of protesters from the National Liberation Front (FPN) demonstrated at the North Sumatra Regional House of Representatives building and the offices of the North Sumatra

Jakarta – Homosexuality is not a disease but a social reality that the public should learn to respect, the executive director of the Women's Journal Foundation (YJP), Mariana Amiruddin,

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Leaders of several major factions in the House of Representatives will confirm their opposition to the government's plan to increase fuel prices during a consu

Jakarta – A seminar on university student militaristic training clubs, held Wednesday, addressed the clubs' relevance in response to their fading popularity in the wake of political cha

Paul Toohey – Xanana Gusmao, his Australian wife Kirsty and their kids haven't been back to their home in the hills overlooking the East Timorese capital, Dili, since the morning of Feb

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Lower income families urged the government on Friday to ensure proposed fuel price hikes would not cause the prices of other basic commodities to increase.

Aditya Suharmoko, Jakarta – The economy grew by 6.28 percent in the first quarter of 2008 from the same period last year on robust growth in investment, exports and spending, the Centra

Hardline Islamists like Abu Bakar Bashir have joined forces with powerful government agencies pushing for minority Ahmadiya sect of Islam to be formally banned.

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Laura MacInnis, Geneva – Indonesia's police, armed forces and intelligence services routinely torture and degrade criminal suspects to extract confessions, with almost total impunity fo

Nazry Bahraimi – Horrified by the bloody riots that left some 1,200 people dead in Jakarta at the height of the Reformasi movement, human rights activist Rafendi Djamin decided to play

Sara Webb – Indonesia's powerful military, pushed out of politics a decade ago when Indonesians embraced democracy, must soon relinquish another prize: a motley array of businesses incl

Nograhany Widhi K, Jakarta – Devide et impera.

M. Rizal Maslan, Jakarta – The government doesn't need to be concerned about the massive demonstrations by students opposing planned fuel price hikes.

Nograhany Widhi K, Jakarta – A former director of the State Intelligence Coordinating Body (Bakin), Dr. A.C.

Jakarta – Workers in the 1-3 million rupiah per month wage group will be further squeezed if the planned fuel price increases come into effect.

Ramadhian Fadillah, Jakarta – Fifteen protest actions will rock Jakarta today, Thursday May 15, all of which have the potential to create traffic congestion.

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Paul Toohey – The UN will wait until February to consider whether it will continue its peacekeeping mission in East Timor, despite President Jose Ramos Horta asking it to commit until a

Stephanie March – The United Nations in East Timor is on the defensive after being lambasted by its own top lawyer in New York for hiring disgraced former defence minister, Roque Rodrig

Tony Iltis – A realignment of political forces appears to be underway in East Timor, with the signing of an agreement for a strategic alliance for future elections between the largest p

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – While welcoming the government's newly launched book regulation for schoolchildren, critics say the policy lacks clarity, sets wrong targets and failed to invol

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – West Java Police announced Monday they had raided the separatist group Indonesian Islamic State (NII) in West Java and arrested 17 people on subversion charg

Jakarta – With national elections around the corner, the House of Representatives has limited time to meet its legislation target.

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office has sparked controversy by resisting a court order to reopen a Bank Indonesia liquidity support (BLBI) case involving tycoon Sjamsu

Evi Mariani, Jakarta – Six middle-aged women stood on a stage while dozens watched them take turns in reciting a poem about their family members who died in riots a decade ago.

Rizal Harahap, Pekanbaru – The Indonesian Environmental Forum's (Walhi) Riau branch urged the government Tuesday to revise numerous controversial industrial forest concessions issued co

Achmad Syafriel, Analyst – Many problems need to be solved before Indonesia can increase food production and mitigate food prices.

Dicky Christanto, Denpasar – An alliance for religious freedom protested the government's ambiguous stance toward violence committed by some religious-based groups following a recommend

Over the last few days good news has come in on the formation of a new Left united front formation, called the National Liberation Front (FPN).

Ken Yunita, Jakarta – Protest actions will again colour Jakarta today, Tuesday May 13.

Jakarta – Around 2,000 students from universities across the country rallied in front of the State Palace on Jl.

Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) questioned lawmakers Wowo Ibrahim of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and Syarfi Hutauruk of the Golkar Party on

Jakarta – Thousands of students across the country took to the streets Monday in opposition to fight the government's plan to raise fuel prices.

Jakarta – Participants at a defamation seminar hosted by ARTICLE 19 and the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Yogyakarta are calling on countries in the region to abolish cri

High food and oil prices will put thousands in the Pacific at risk this year and could spark fresh violence in East Timor, an economist has found.

The family of the lover of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado has called on the Australian government to withhold aid to East Timor until she is "charged or exonerated".

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – The controversial Morning Star flag has again created tension between the central government and Papuans, who are now at loggerheads over the province's p

Jakarta – Only 25 of 139 state enterprises managed to book profits last year, although overall profits had risen significantly from a year earlier, according to an NGO report released S

What a mess greeted air travelers to Jakarta last Thursday when for the third time in the past six months the toll road to Soekarno-Hatta International Airport became impassable because

Presi Mandari, Jakarta – As Indonesians prepare to mark the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Suharto regime this month, the terrible first act of that historic drama is almost too sh

Abdul Khalik, Jakarta – Major political parties are throwing their support behind the government's unpopular plan to raise fuel prices early next month.

The government's draft regulation on compensation, restitution and assistance will obstruct victims of human rights violations in their quest to gain compensation, observers have said.

It is the duty of the State security forces to anticipate any expression of any aspiration for independence or any rejection of special autonomy which has shown greater development now

Hotli Simanjuntak, Banda Aceh – Despite peaceful conditions, the reintegration of ex-combatants and victims of human rights abuses in the once-restive Aceh province has stalled on polit

Kediri – Protest actions against the government's planned fuel price hikes continued in a number of cities around the country.

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – State oil and gas company PT Pertamina is struggling to control the distribution of subsidized fuels as panic buying has followed the government's announcemen

Our founding fathers hit it on the nail when they declared that one of the goals for establishing the state of the republic of Indonesia was to "enlighten the life of the nation" (mence