Jakarta – The House of Representatives team responsible for the "anti-pornography and pornoaction bill" have changed its name to the "pornography bill".

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) has unveiled a new set of guidelines for soldiers as part of its efforts to conform to a 2004 military reform law.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – In the latest – and somewhat populist – take on the politically sensitive issue of foreign borrowing, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia no longer

Janet Fyfe-Yeomans – Indonesian troops were recorded by a previously unknown top secret Australian listening station discussing the execution of five young Australian journalists.

Max Lane, Jakarta – Around 200 pick-up trucks and cars comprised the long snake of a protest caravan making its way along Jakarta's main thoroughfare, Jalan Thamrin, after a rally outsi

Yogyakarta – Dozens of disabled people reported Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University (UGM) on Tuesday to the National Commission on Human Rights for discrimination.

Ruslan Sangadji, Poso – Police continued their hunt for suspected militants in Poso on Tuesday, a day after 13 people and one policeman were killed in a bloody clash between police and

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – High-ranking figures in Jemaah Islamiah have opened a new front in their terrorism campaign on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where nine of their fighters

Adi Warsidi, Banda Aceh – The Acehnese government will continue to struggle for the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR) even though the Constitutional Court has put

Jakarta – The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) representative to Indonesia, Gianfranco Rotiglioni, asked the Indonesian government Tuesday to continue efforts to advance gender e

Peter Boyle, Yogyakarta – Intimidation by armed right-wing thugs and police harassment failed to disperse the January 18-20 founding congress of Indonesia's new National Liberation Part

Ika Krismantari, Jakarta – The Development Finance Comptroller (BPKP) has found indications of irregularities worth about Rp 18 trillion (about US$2 billion) in cost-recovery claims sub

Jakarta – Forty-five-year-old Melawai market trader Suradi finds it difficult to imagine what the future holds for his business with the construction of a trade center going up all arou

Anissa S. Febrina, Jakarta – Imagine Jakarta in 2015.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives and the Defense Ministry reached an agreement Tuesday to alter a bill to enable military personnel to be tried in a civilian court for criminal of

Jakarta – The Trade Ministry has issued a regulations banning the export of sand, soil and topsoil in order to protect the environment from degradation and maintain the nation's current

Hopes were high last September that peace would last in Poso after police executed three Christian men convicted of carrying out a series of killings in the Central Sulawesi town in 200

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Jakarta – Indonesia's economy would be poised for higher economic growth this year were it not for inability of the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to deliver, accordin

Palu – Indonesia has deployed an additional 200 paramilitary police reinforcements to the restive town of Poso after a shootout during a hunt for suspected militants left 11 people dead

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – A man was shot with a rubber bullet and at least three people were injured Monday in a battle between military officers and residents of Cikoleang in Rumpin distr

Yemris Fointuna, Kupang – East Nusa Tenggara legislative councillors have quietly pocketed a total of Rp 6.5 billion (about US$723,000) in questionable attendance and communications all

Jakarta – While the next general elections are just two years away, political parties are still yet to agree on the minimum electoral threshold.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employers will be able to breathe easier, the government can hope for more investors in the future and workers need no longer be quite so worried about bei

Jakarta – The first conference of Islamic parliamentarians ended Sunday calling for a peaceful solution to conflicts in the Middle East and a better economic future in Muslim countries.

Dili – Two youths were hacked to death in Dili Sunday as violence involving disciples from rival martial art schools erupted, witnesses said.

Yogyakarta – The founding congress of the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) that took place on 18-20 January in Kaliurang, Yogyakarta, Central Java, succeeded in reaching a

Lindsay Murdoch, Jakarta – Whoever poisoned Munir Said Thalib, Indonesia's most respected human rights lawyer, on a Garuda flight to Europe underestimated the determination of his wife,

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – In a joint conference on the major problems plaguing the nation, leaders of the nation's two largest Muslim organizations agreed Thursday to promote a mode

Bagus Kurniawan, Sleman – The National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) Congress has been unable to start because the national police have failed to issue a permit.

Bagus Kurniawan, Sleman – The National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) plans to sue the national police for obstructing the issuance of a permit for their congress.

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta Anti-Communist Front (FAKI) has made good their threat to 'attack en masse' the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) Congress sayin

A rally was held in Jakarta earlier this week to denounce the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Banten – Students at the State Islamic Institute of Sultan Maulana Hasanudin (IAIN SMH) staged a rally Thursday at its Serang campus to demand improved education quality and the elimina

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Employees of state-owned insurance firm PT Jamsostek renewed calls Thursday for the dismissal of the company's government-appointed president director.

Bambang Nurbianto, Jakarta – The polemic in the media over the sale of shares by two foreign-owned water companies in Jakarta ended after Governor Sutiyoso approved the proposal of RWE

The HIV/AIDS harm reduction program at Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java, has been operating now for more than two years.

Urip Hudiono, Jakarta – Microsoft Indonesia has spoken out on a controversial recent deal with the government, arguing that the deal was initiated by the government as part of its effor

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court rejected Thursday a request to strike down five laws restricting active police and military officers from voting or running

Jayapura – Four refugees who were among thousands fleeing their village have reportedly died of illness.

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Threats and intimidation still find fertile ground in Indonesia.

Alvin Darlanika Soedarjo, Jakarta – A noted lawyer filed a judicial review with the Constitutional Court on Wednesday calling for the abolishment of capital punishment.

Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi – Hundreds of students from various universities in Southeast Sulawesi protested at the provincial council building Wednesday, demanding council members reje

Imanuddin Razak, Jakarta – Human rights abuse victims expressed hopes Wednesday that a new National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) lineup would be more responsive to their hard

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – An increasing amount of blood donated at the Jayapura Red Cross' transfusion unit in Papua is being found to be contaminated with HIV, an official said We

Bagus Kurniawan, Yogyakarta – Confronted by the threat of being broken up by the Anti-Communist Front (FAKI), the Congress of the National Liberation Party of Unity (Papernas) is truly

Dili – East Timor and the US today launched an appeal for $US16.6 million ($21.13 million) to help resettle and reintegrate about 100,000 people displaced by violence which wracked the

John Aglionby, Jakarta – ExxonMobil must respond to a lawsuit alleging Indonesian soldiers under its control at a natural gas plant in Aceh province abused and murdered local people, a

Mark Dodd – Rebel army major Alfredo Reinado is in negotiations to give himself up to face murder charges over the deaths of five people during a gun battle.

Jakarta – A hotel in Cebu, the Philippines, where the President recently stayed, denied Wednesday reports that Indonesians in the presidential entourage had attempted to have the hotel