Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie will be making less appearances on the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa campaign trail because of concerns his presence co

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – An online journalist admitted on Friday to having contributed articles critical of Joko Widodo to a tabloid that was distributed for free in Islamic boardi

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has issued a government regulation that would entitle village heads to a salary.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Indonesian Air Force (TNI- AU) said that their officers were not responsible for the shooting and injuring of five civilians in Palembang, South Sumatra,

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – With only four months left in office, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a presidential regulation that will allow him unlimited access to state funds to p

Empty fishing nets, weeping sores, mysterious deaths and mass dolphin strandings.

Jakarta – A group of educators has warned that failings in the country's education system and curriculum played a role in encouraging violence and intolerance in society, and that unles

Surabaya – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) urged on Thursday the Surabaya administration not to forcibly close Dolly, dubbed Southeast Asia's largest red-light dist

The manner in which presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto was discharged from the military in 1998 has become the subject of contention as the election campaign intensifies.

Jakarta – A group of nongovernmental organizations plan to file a joint lawsuit challenging former special forces commander Prabowo Subianto's presidential candidacy on human rights gro

Jakarta – As international sporting goods brand Adidas sponsors the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, hundreds of workers formerly employed by the company in Jakarta staged a demonstration

Patrick Tibke, Jakarta – An intriguing 10 days of presidential campaigning in Indonesia has culminated in mild disarray for Prabowo Subianto's "red-and-white" coalition as tensions emer

Jakarta – An official of the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa presidential election campaign team says the Democratic Party has joined with the Gerindra Party-led coalition to support the

Hans Nicholas Jong and Sita W.

Jakarta – The Nurjaman Center for Indonesian Democracy (NCID) has said that according to surveys done by Survey Focus Indonesia (FSI), Survey and Polling Indonesia (SPIN) and the Indone

Jakarta – The Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI) has called on the next government to step up efforts to safeguard religious freedom through legal means.

Jakarta – Hundreds of women and children fled their homes when two officers from the police's Mobile Brigade (Brimob) fired shots on Tuesday in Sukmajaya, Depok, in an attempt to drive

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The government bears responsibility for the rise of religious intolerance across the archipelago over the past few years, according to Christian Solidarit

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) deputy chairman Bambang Widjojanto said on Tuesday that the antigraft body had the authority to investigate corruption cases involving

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto reportedly revealed that former president Soeharto ordered him to kidnap pro-democracy activists in May 1998, which saw him dismissed f

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Tuesday it would kick off a preliminary investigation into alleged corruption surrounding the disbursement of

Julia Suryakusuma, Jakarta – Do you like comedy? I love it.

Gabrielle Dunlevy – Indonesia's government has added its weight to a new push to make Canberra and the Thai company behind the Montara oil disaster survey for damage beyond Australian w

Sri Wahyuni and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Muslim leaders and activists in Yogyakarta have expressed regret over the preaching of cleric Ja'far Umar Thalib on Sunday that focused on

Jakarta – The education system needs a drastic shake-up following the transition of government, according to experts in the field.

Meidyatama Suryodiningrat, Jakarta – In the run-up to last night's presidential candidate debate, the conventional wisdom among constituents was that Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was a softly s

Jakarta – Satellites on Sunday detected 227 hotspots across Sumatra – the highest number in three months, after a relative lull – including 37 in the hard-hit Riau province, where blaze

SP/Hotman Siregar & Abdul Qowi Bastian, Jakarta – Indonesia should not be burdened by its dark history, it should be able to close the gloomy chapter in order to move on, presidenti

Rights activists have slammed the national election organizing body for not including human rights as one of the topics to be tabled in a series of debates between the two presidential

Duncan Graham – Kiwis have a marvellously grotesque way of describing the acceptance of unpalatable policy changes: Swallowing dead rats.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – The calm and collected start by former Army general Prabowo Subianto turned into a high-pitched, hoarse speech toward the end of the first televised debate of t

Sita W.

Jakarta – A leaked document circulating on the Internet detailing the reasons behind the dismissal of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto from military service on Aug.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) said on Sunday it had sent reports to the Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) on scores of legisl

Jakarta – A spokesman for the campaign team of presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has denied welcoming the endorsement of a hard-line Islamic group known for attacking religious mi

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – For more than half a decade now the issue has been debated and dissected ad nauseam, only to be swept under the rug for another year: should Suharto, In

Bambang Muryanto and Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Preacher Ja'far Umar Thalib whose followers have been linked to alleged religion-based conflict, told Muslims in a Yogyakarta mosque on Su

Sita W. Dewi, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has pledged to make past human rights abuse cases his priority if he is elected president.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) said Sunday that it had taken disciplinary action against two officers allegedly involved in political canvassing for Gerindra Part

Kornelius Purba, Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto has clearly given the military strong hope that it might regain the political power it lost following the fall of his

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – The investigation held by the army into allegations that a soldier encouraged residents of a Central Jakarta neigborhood to vote for Prabowo Subianto has found t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The campaign team of presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has demanded that the Indonesian Military (TNI) suspend the operation of its village supervisory

Bambang Dwi Marwoto, Karanganyar, Central Java – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto on Sunday visited former president Soehartos cemetery in Karanganyar, Central Java, on Sunday.

Mataram – Dozens of farmers from Central Lombok, staged a protest on Friday at the Public Works Agency office in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), demanding the administration fix the

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Elections Monitoring Agency (Bawaslu) is preparing a summons letter for Indonesian Military (TNI) commander Gen.

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Hashim Djojohadikusumo, the younger brother and economic adviser to presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto, says that Prabowo is committed to the protection of

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – An official from the coalition backing the presidential ticket of Prabowo Subianto and Hatta Rajasa has denied that the latter specifically sought out t

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) on Thursday criticized the lack of integrated anticorruption values in the manifestos of the two presidential candida

Jakarta – In spite of the news that the legislative election attracted more people to exercise their right to vote this year, observers are troubled by the apparent level of vote buying

Jakarta – Presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto is due to visit the tomb of former president Soeharto at Astana Giribangun in Karanganyar regency, Central Java, on Sunday, as part of