Jakarta/Sidoarjo – The government is organizing a national team to address the hot toxic mud that is flooding Sidoarjo, East Java.

Bekasi – Thousands of workers at Japan-based electronic goods producer PT Sanyo Indonesia went on strike Tuesday following the suspension of the management of their union.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Sutinah's chores start early and end late, day in and day out.

Jakarta/Batam – Warned they were unwelcome in Singapore, the site of an upcoming World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual conference, hundreds of NGO activists from 40 countries ch

Muhammad Nur Hayid, Jakarta – Two years after Munir's murder the case remains a mystery but demands for the case to be resolved are continuing to be raised.

M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta – Although the government has agreed that military personnel should be tried for misdemeanors in civilian court, it is not likely to happen anytime soon.

Andreas Harsono in Jakarta and Nathaniel Heller and Susannah Hamblin in Washington – The Indonesian national intelligence agency used a former Indonesian president's charitable foundati

Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti, Jakarta – Around 500 activists from a number of non-government organisations held a demonstration at the national police headquarters on Thursday September 7.

Samantha Brown, Jakarta – The Bali bombings brought the horror of September 11 to Asia, but Indonesia took a different approach to the United States in tackling the Al-Qaeda threat whic

For Suciwati, Soultan Alif Allende and Diva Suukyi Larasati, the widow and children of the late Munir Said Thalib, today (Thursday) is a time of sorrow and remembrance.

Aleksius Jemadu, Bandung – How many innocent people have been killed during Indonesia's delicate transition to democracy? There have been many.

Rudy Prasetyo, Jakarta – Around 500 people from the Solidarity Alliance for Munir demonstrated at the national police headquarters in South Jakarta today.

Fadli, Bintan – Foreign and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) insisted Tuesday they would go ahead with plans to hold a protest meeting in Batam called the International People

Hamish McDonald – Political leaders in Canberra and Port Moresby want the voices of a diplomatically awkward rebellion buried in East Awin, Papua New Guinea, a settlement in a vast and

Marianne Kearney, Jakarta – Papuans claim that Indonesian riot police have used an ongoing tribal warfare in eastern Papua to kill at least three Papuan villagers.

Indra Subagja, Jakarta – After two years the Munir case remains unsolved.

Lindsay Murdoch – The East Timorese rebel leader Alfredo Reinado has obtained weapons since he led a mass escape from Dili's main jail last week, his lawyer said yesterday.

John Martinkus – What appear to be written orders from East Timor's President Xanana Gusmao to rebel former soldier Alfredo Reinado confirm the close relationship the now escaped crimin

A quick visit to Dili has sobered the Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer.

Jakarta – Indonesia's attractiveness as an investment destination is slipping compared with its more competitive regional rivals, according to a report released Wednesday by the World B

Banda Aceh – A study by the World Food Programme (WFP) has found that primary school children in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and Nias suffer from insufficient nutrition, inadequate healthc

Adisti Sukma Sawitri and Indra Harsaputra, Jakarta/Sidoarjo – Legal and environmental activists are threatening to take the government and Lapindo Brantas Inc.

Putting decades of armed conflict and the devastating tsunami behind them, the people of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam are now preparing to hold landmark elections on Dec. 11.

Veronika Kusuma Wijayanti, Jakarta – In the lead up to the second anniversary since the murder of human rights activist Munir on September 7, police are being called on to question the

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Ending religious violence and promoting peace will take concrete measures, according to the Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace (ICRP).

Hasrul, Kendari – A group of students protested in front of the Southeast Sulawesi legislative council Sunday, demanding an investigation into illegal logging on Buton Island.

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Kupang – Hundreds of university students here rallied Monday to demand their rector be fired for incompetence.

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Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court began reviewing Monday whether articles in the Criminal Code concerning defamation of the President and Vice President are unconstitutio

Adisti Sukma Sawitri, Jakarta – After wrapping up a national gathering last week, women's rights activists say they are planning to educate themselves politically and seek a bigger role

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Australia will continue providing military support to help maintain security in East Timor, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Monday, amid renewed concerns about stability in th

Timika – An unidentified group of people shot Sunday a security car of PT Freeport Indonesia, the giant gold and copper mine, in the country's easternmost province, a police officer sai

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Arfi Bambani Amri, Jakarta – The investigation into the assassination of human rights defender Munir has reached a dead end even though former Garuda Airlines pilot Pollycarpus Budihari

Leaders of the country's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and other moderate clerics gathered in Jakarta over the weekend to draw up a common strategy to counter growing

Lindsay Murdoch in Dili and agencies – East Timor's Prime Minister, Jose Ramos Horta, has warned that voters' hostility towards the ruling Fretilin party could make his country difficul

A higher level of poverty in the country was expected after the 126 percent hikes in fuel prices last October and the inflationary pressures they generated in other sectors.

Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) leader Hasyim Muzadi said Sunday that the central board of the country's largest Muslim organization would not give its blessings to a new political party that seni

Tony Hotland, Nusa Dua, Bali – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono called on the international media Saturday to play a mediating role in conflicts rather than fanning animosity.

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – In a bizarre twist to the continuing mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, a local television station claims the company at the center of the mess has agreed to mak

Lindsay Murdoch, Dili – Australian security forces hunting Alfredo Reinado, who led a mass escape from Dili's jail this week, should know he has XXX tattooed on the back of his neck.

Mark Dodd – Eight East Timorese refugees were injured yesterday by thugs using police-issue pistols and machetes in Dili, in an attack diplomats fear was designed to trigger a new wave

Indra Harsaputra, Sidoarjo – Residents of Sidoarjo, East Java, vented their frustration at the handling of the mudflow disaster in a violent protest Friday, but Vice President Jusuf Kal

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Jakarta – There is no need to make controversial major changes to the labor law, as proposed by the government, according to a study by a group of state universities assigned to review

Women gathered in a national meeting in East Jakarta this week, focusing on how they could better advocate for women's issues.

Ary Hermawan, Jakarta – Military Police chief Maj. Gen.

Farid Muttaqin, Athens, Ohio – It is important to begin any discussion on homosexuality in Islam with a look at how some hegemonic cultures and traditions before Islam influenced Islami