Michael Bachelard – Indonesia is destroying its tropical rainforests faster than Brazil, and the rate is soaring despite a five-year moratorium on new clearing.

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Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Indonesians must brace for an even weaker rupiah if Prabowo Subianto wins the presidential race, global investment bankers said.

Eko Priliawito – A protest action by hundreds of PT Super Steel Indah workers in the West Cakung area of East Jakarta was forcibly broken up by officers from the Metro Jaya regional pol

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Yeni remembers the day in 2011 when police stormed her home and arrested her brother on trumped-up charges.

Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama executive council (PBNU) chair, Slamet Effendi Yusuf, said that the NU would remain neutral in the upcoming presidential election on July 9 and that NU members

Ina Parlina and Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta/Malang – As the country readies for the holy month of Ramadhan with the election just two weeks away, presidential candidates and their support

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie said on Saturday that he was behind a letter sent to teachers asking them to support Prabowo Subianto's presidential bid, Indonesian medi

Jakarta – The National Police replaced on Friday Yogyakarta Police chief Brig. Gen. Haka Astana Mantika Widya with Brig. Gen.

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo is holding on to his strong lead in the race to become Indonesia's next president though it is narrowing ahead of the July 9 vote, a new

Benedict Rogers – A nation "at the crossroads" is a well-worn and overused phrase, but it is one that befits Indonesia today.

The closure of an Ahmadiyya place of worship by local authorities in West Java is a disturbing and arbitrary move, and just the latest example of ongoing repression of religious minorit

Eveline Danubrata and Heru Asprihanto, Jakarta – To attract Indonesia's army of young voters, one presidential candidate is hoping a "Two Finger Salute" will do the trick.

Jakarta – Despite apologizing earlier this week for dressing up like a mass-murdering Nazi war criminal for a Prabowo Subianto campaign video, Indonesian Idol judge Ahmad Dhani went on

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Ten people were injured on Wednesday in a clash between hundreds of farmers and thousands of police officers south of Jakarta over a land dispute between f

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Ciamis regency administration in West Java banned members of the Ahmadiyah community from undertaking religious activities at Nur Khilafat Mosque in Ciamis on T

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Despite logistical problems and reported cases of vote manipulation, voters consider the General Elections Commission (KPU) to have done a good job in orga

Erwida Maulia & Made Arya Kencana, Jakarta/Denpasar – The US ambassador to Indonesia has come under fire after calling for a probe into presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto's hum

Jakarta – A 10-year old boy, Markus Yernirkolaus, suddenly appeared in the middle of a Kamisan (Thursday Action) and gave a speech about human rights violations by presidential candidat

Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – Delays in a number of gas field development projects may result in imports being the only answer to growing need, a senior official at the Energy and Mineral

General Prabowo's campaign said today that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) are ready to capture me, and claimed that I am part of a US government/business conspiracy against Prabowo.

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Hotman Siregar & Erwin Cristianson, Jakarta – Indonesia's electoral supervision body said on Wednesday that former army chief of staff General Wiranto had not committed a campaign v

Benjamin Soloway, Jakarta – American investigative journalist Allan Nairn, who made a name for himself covering the Indonesian military's killing of civilians in East Timor during Suhar

The campaign team behind Indonesian Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has asked supporters to pull-down a video which uses Nazi-era images to promote him.

Laurencius Simanjuntak – Experienced US journalist Allan Nairn has spoken up over accusations by the Prabowo Subianto camp that the Indonesian military (TNI) once wanted to arrest him b

Andrea Wijaya, Jakarta – The controversy surrounding American award-winning journalist Allan Nairn and his 2001 off-the-record interview with Prabowo Subianto ratcheted up a notch on Th

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Josua Gantan, Jakarta – New polls suggest presidential candidate Joko Widodo's initial lead over Prabowo Subianto has narrowed, or possibly even disappeared, with some pollsters choosin

Jakarta – International coverage of Indonesia's presidential election campaign took a worrying turn on Wednesday after the German weekly Der Spiegel published a story on the disgraceful

Dessy Sagita, Jakarta – A teachers association reported presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto to the Election Supervisory Body, or Bawaslu, after several schools received a letter urg

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Yenni Kwok – As the candidate who it was made for, Prabowo Subianto, once said, "Do I have the guts, am I ready to be called a fascist dictator?"

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Margie Mason, Jakarta – Tobacco companies on Tuesday largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs, another setback for anti-smoking effor

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Former military strongman Prabowo Subianto has for the first time pulled level or even slightly ahead of the previous favourite, Joko Widodo, in the Indones

Jakarta – The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), a regional network of anti-tobacco advocates, says it fully supports the Indonesian public health community in its fight

Jakarta – Indonesia's disaster agency warned Wednesday that haze could return to neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia after a huge jump in forest fires in a province at the centre of a s

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court handed down a lenient five-year prison sentence on Monday to Tubagus Chaeri "Wawan" Wardana, the politically wired Banten businessma

Dita Alangkara, Surabaya, Indonesia – The mayor of Indonesia's second-largest city has officially shut down "Dolly," one of Southeast Asia's biggest red-light districts, but the world's

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Denpasar – Environmentalists lamented that neither of the presidential candidates contesting the July 9 election had mentioned plans to manage the issue of climate

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Indonesia is preparing to receive the first batch of armored vehicles it procured from Germany – from an order of 164 units – as the archipelagic nat

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Australia has a "phobia" about Indonesia and is to blame for the poor relationship between the two countries, strong-man presidential candidate Prabowo Subi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Migrant workers' advocacy group Migrant Care on Monday accused presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto of trying to score easy political points by ta

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – During the 20 months of their tenure, acting Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and non-active governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo have made many breakthrou

Haeril Halim, Headlines – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle's (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gave an impressive performance during the third televised debate

Jakarta – A number of NGOs, united under the Coalition Against Forgetting Movement, have filed a report with the Elections Supervising Agency (Bawaslu) against the General Elections Com

On July 9 the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia, will hold an election that could result in General Prabowo Subianto becoming president.