Arya Dipa, Bandung – More than 1,000 people attended an anti-Shia declaration on Sunday at the Al Fajr mosque in the West Java capital of Bandung, in what appeared to be the first organ

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A number of prominent politicians may lose their seats in the House of Representatives after early results based on quick counts conducted by a number of pol

Ati Nurbaiti, Jakarta – A 25-year-old woman died after delivering her only child.

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Shia followers in Bandung, West Java, have filed a protest with local authorities over a planned declaration by the Anti-Shia National Alliance, schedule

Jakarta – The United Development Party's (PPP) national leaders meeting (Rapimnas), which concluded early on Sunday, resulted in the decision to temporarily dismiss Suryadharma Ali from

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Proponents of religious schooling are clamoring for a larger slice of the public education budget, even as government struggles to fund secular state sc

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – A planned declaration in Bandung to denounce the Shiite community turned into a fiery call for jihad, or holy war, against the much-maligned minority group.

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Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Attempts to legislate alcoholic beverages to reduce fatalities from alcohol-related poisoning in Malang, East Java, have been in vain as nine more people di

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The April 9 legislative election has brought two surprising results.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali pledged his party's support for Gerindra Party presidential nomin

Haeril Halim and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has yet to clearly state its stance over the upcoming declaration by the National Anti-Shia Alliance at

SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Forming a coalition of Islam-based parties may be difficult, following a meeting late on Thursday during which parties appeared

Hasyim Widhiarto, Jakarta – A coalition claiming to represent Islamic mass organizations has called on Islamic-based political parties to form an alliance and endorse their own candidat

Australia will be asked to "share the burden" of asylum seekers with Indonesia, where detention centres are overcrowded with people stymied by the Abbott government's hardline border po

SP/Robertus Wardi, Jakarta – Indonesia's oldest Islamic party was in turmoil after United Development Party (PPP) chairman and serving Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali expelle

Paul Farrell, Perth – The chief of the Australian navy has sacked a senior commanding officer involved in one of the incursions into Indonesian waters.

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – Upholding the rule of law remains a serious challenge in Indonesia.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) called on the government to raise the legal minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18 years old for females.

Jakarta – For the first time in history, the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) issued late on Wednesday a survey that measured the level of happiness among Indonesians.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – With a next round of political campaigning due for the presidential election, experts have called for stricter regulations to ensure fairness in televised polit

Bagus BT Saragih, Ina Parlina and Margareth S.

Jakarta – Climate change experts have said that stronger law enforcement was needed to prevent future disastrous wildfires in susceptible areas such as the peatlands of Riau, Sumatra.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Governor Joko Widodo has been criticized for losing focus on running Southeast Asia's largest city because the of the amount of time he has been forced to spend

Syamsul Huda M.Suhari, Gorontalo – Gorontalo Governor Rusli Habibie has issued a new policy requiring Muslim civil servants to hold mass prayers and attend Islamic religious lectures ev

Jakarta – The Parks and Cemeteries Agency intends to force lovebirds caught in compromising positions in public parks to get married.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A hard-line Sunni Islamic group says it will host an anti-Shiite declaration in Bandung on Sunday, to be attended by the West Java governor, in the latest

Theresia Sufa and Sita W.

SP/Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's much-hyped presidential candidate convention, underway since September, has ended, following the party's drubbing at the recent legisla

Arya Dipa, Bandung – An association of human rights abuse victims' families said it hoped voters would take presidential hopefuls' background of human rights violations into serious con

SP/Yoseph Kelen, Kupang – Failure to secure seats in the recent election has begun to impact some legislative candidates who spent exorbitant amounts of money to buy votes, to the exten

Jakarta – Islamic-based political parties have remained key players in politics but never as prime movers, as indicated by their ability to garner a significant share of the legislative

Jakarta – The Eyes on the Forest (EoF) environmental group published their latest investigative report on Tuesday into deforestation in Sumatra, especially Riau, following environmental

Jakarta – A top graft buster has urged the country's highest court to end the House of Representatives' monopoly on selecting leaders for the national antigraft body, calling the move u

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The 15 percent of the popular vote garnered by the Golkar Party in the April 9 legislative election quick count appears to have failed to stop clashes betwee

Jakarta – Research institute Freedom Foundation predicts the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which nominated Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo as its presidential c

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo said on Saturday that reports of a rift within the party were untrue and that sugge

Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo and his Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, or PDI-P; former general Prabowo Subianto and his Great Indonesia Movement Party, or Gerindra; an

Hasyim Widhiarto and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – United Development Party (PPP) chairman Suryadharma Ali is on the verge of losing the top job in the country's oldest Islamic-based party fol

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Unmoved by friction within his party, Jakarta Governor and Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo s

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – Media mogul Surya Paloh's National Democratic Party (Nasdem) has announced that it has thrown its support behind Joko Widodo and the Indonesian Democ

Hasyim Widhiarto, Margareth S.

Emily Mitchell – Last year, during a visit to Kupang, in West Timor, I met a fisherman with a 12 year old daughter and a seven year old son.

Satria Sambijantoro, Jakarta – Investors dumped Indonesian assets a day after the country's legislative election resulted in an unexpected weak showing for the political party behind po

Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Thursday Ahmad Jauhari, a former senior official at the Religious Affairs Ministry, to eight years in prison for his role in rigging

Jakarta/Makassar – Australia's military-led operation to prevent boats carrying asylum seekers from reaching its shores has been hailed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as a success, with

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Internal rifts within the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in the wake of the party's poorer-than-expected results in Wednesday's legisla

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Indonesia's first presidential aircraft finally arrived at Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in Jakarta on Thursday after years of controversy and delays since i

Josua Gantan & Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Negative campaigning directed against the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, and the limited ability of the party, better known

Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – An analyst attributed the significant vote increase for the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) to party founder and presidential candidate Prabowo Subia