Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – More than 1.2 million children in North Sumatra are forced to drop out of school every year for financial reasons.

An Indonesian court began hearings on Monday on a 500 billion rupiah ($A62.06 million) civil suit filed by state prosecutors against the youngest son of former President Suharto.

Jakarta – Jakarta lacks concern for its residents in many ways, particularly in the commercial sphere, with the city administration paying little attention to the ordinary people, a pro

Ben Terrall – "Counterterrorism" has become Indonesia's latest slogan for avoiding military reform while simultaneously strengthening its apparatus of repression.

Theresia Sufa and Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Bogor/Jakarta – A mob went on the rampage on the western outskirts of Bogor early Sunday, attacking cafes, brothels, small hotels and other busin

In East Timor, the Truth and Friendship Commission has wound up its public hearings.

Andreas Harsono – Clad in a sarong and cotton shirt, Chief Sergeant Ukas seemes like an ordinary shopkeeper.

Jakarta – Although the Home Affairs Ministry said it would look into Jakarta's newly endorsed public order bylaw, Home Minister Mardiyanto said there was nothing stopping the city imple

Pacific Islands leaders are being asked to consider the plight of the nearly two million Melanesian people in the Indonesian region of Papua when they meet in Tonga in two weeks.

A group of pro-independence Papuans said it has asked Indonesia's government to meet to discuss greater democracy and self-determination as well as the withdrawal of troops from the tro

Sarah Smiles, Canberra – The 17-year-old daughter of a prominent Papuan activist has been kidnapped, drugged and assaulted at gunpoint by a group allegedly linked to Indonesian security

Sultani – The positive tone of the reaction to the announcement by the United Nations and the World Bank in which they rated Suharto as the biggest corruptor of state assets in the worl

Ramdhan Muhaimin, Jakarta – Around 50 people from Humanist Solidarity for Myanmar (SKUM) held a demonstration in Bali on Sunday October 30 against the violence by the military junta in

Bramantyo Prijosusilo, Ngawi, East Java – The end of September has always been a time of questions throughout Indonesia's political history.

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – After performing the asyar afternoon prayers in a small mosque, Syahidin, 38, returned to his quarters and took his daughter from his wife, Senah, 30.

Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara – Indonesia and Timor Leste still have to settle the cases of 81 children who were separated from their parents after the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNH

Jakarta – Attorney General Hendarman Supandji, National Police chief Gen.

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Following the recent release of 13 Navy officials involved in the May shooting spree of villagers in Pasuruan, East Java, Indonesia's main NGO human rights gro

We accept the reality that our economic development lags behind Asian peers such as Malaysia, Thailand and China.

Jakarta – Senior education expert Mochtar Buchori told the Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday the city administration failed to help residents during February's flood disaster a

Jakarta – Strong commodity exports and an influx of foreign funds into the local capital markets pushed Indonesia's balance of payments during the second quarter to a surplus of US$3.63

Garry Maddox – Anthony LaPaglia will star in a film telling the story of the five newsmen who were shot dead in East Timor in 1975.

Jakarta/Yogyakarta – Constitutional Court President Jimly Asshiddiqie said Wednesday's arrest of Judicial Commission member Irawady Joenoes on bribery allegations was a reminder of the

Jakarta – Constitutional Court chairman Jimly Asshiddiqie said Thursday people should not expect too much regarding the UN and World Bank's scheme to uproot former president Soeharto's

Jakarta – More than 500 residents blockaded the entrance to Koja container terminal in North Jakarta on Thursday, hampering activities at the terminal owned by state port operator PT Pe

Irawaty Wardany, Jakarta – The National Commission for Human Rights last week established a new ad hoc team to investigate the 1989 shooting at Talangsari village, Lampung, a commission

Jakarta – The AGO handed over Thursday the dossiers of former Garuda Indonesia president Indra Setiawan and former secretary to Garuda's chief pilot Rohainil Aini to the Jakarta Central

Bill Guerin, Jakarta – Indonesia's richest man last week lost a drawn-out legal tussle over his 40% ownership claim to the country's second-largest coal-mining company, PT Adaro Indones

David Crawshaw – Australia broke international law and endangered the lives of five Papuan asylum seekers by secretly sending the men back to Papua New Guinea, refugee advocates say.

It will be a miracle if, in the next five to 10 years, Indonesian school children can learn about another Timor Leste story.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Another survey – this time from the World Bank – has confirmed that starting a business in Indonesia has become more difficult due to additional red tape, despit

Jakarta – Indonesia's local television stations have been accused of airing "indecent elements" in programs during Ramadhan and the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) has asked them to sto

New York – A joint mission of the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will visit Indonesia in December to set up specific programs under the new Stolen A

Desy Nurhayati, Jakarta – Indonesia scored worse on the latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI), but the figure is still better than five years ago, an annual global survey by Transpar

Jakarta – Laws that permit polygamy for a man experiencing an infertile marriage or insist on the arrest of a woman seen outside after 7 p.m.

Ninin Damayanti, Jakarta – The Committee to Eliminate Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) urged Indonesia to regulate that the female circumcision ban be included in a state decree.

Jakarta – The terrorisation of the Papuan chief representative of the National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM, Albert Rumbekwan, could have an impact on Indonesia's image as a me

Rob Taylor, Canberra – Australia secretly deported five separatist asylum seekers from Indonesia's Papua province, in what rights groups said on Thursday was an attempt to appease Jakar

Ninin Damayanti/Sutarto, Jakarta – As many as 13 trade unions have sent letters rejecting the Government Draft Bill on Severance Pay being passed, to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,

Agung Yudhawiranata, Jakarta – The Commission of Truth and Friendship (CTF) involving Timor Leste and Indonesia is organizing the fifth in its series of public hearings in Dili from Sep

Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – A former pro-integration leader told a public hearing here Wednesday that many Timorese civilians were forced by poverty to join pro-Indonesian militias.

Nani Afrida, Banda Aceh – Deputy Governor of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Muhammad Nazar is upbeat regarding the implementation of sharia law in Aceh, denying it hindered reconstruction eff

Ati Nurbaiti, Dili – A Timor Leste government official who said he was once a "double agent" in East Timor's resistance movement and the Indonesian Military, claimed offers of financial

Muhammad Nafik, Jakarta – During the fasting month of Ramadhan in Indonesia, it seems everything is focused on the country's Muslim population.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – The effort to speed up the registration of businesses by delegating powers to the local level appear to have backfired, as the process of starting a business in

Jakarta – Transsexuals are opposing the Jakarta regional government bylaw on public order that will soon be coming into effect.

Dili – An East Timorese who was a pro-Indonesia activist during the tiny nation's 1999 independence vote said Wednesday that Indonesia's military should be held responsible for violence

Indonesia was responsible for the bloodshed surrounding East Timor's independence vote in 1999, a former pro-Jakarta militia chief told a commission set up to investigate the violence a

Jakarta – Non-governmental organization International Animal Rescue held a demonstration in front of the Japanese Embassy on Tuesday, urging its government to protect the dolphin.

Jakarta – In relation to his duties and responsibilities as a representative of the National Human Rights Commission or Komnas HAM in Papua, Albert Rumbekwan is a state official and can