Cillian Nolan, Jakarta – A draft law for reworking Papua's special autonomy contains potentially far-reaching proposals that need broader debate – within Papua, between Papua and Jakart

Jakarta – All convicts in the country, including former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chairman Antasari Azhar – who was found guilty of orchestrating a high-profile murder whe

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has demanded that two soldiers implicated in the murder of a family of four in North Sum

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Haeril Halim, Jakarta – In what appears to be the court proceedings of the country's biggest corruption case, former Bank Indonesia (BI) deputy governor Budi Mulya is being indicted on

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – From the homeless to street vendors trying to eke out a living, Jakarta's pedestrians have long learned to share their sidewalks, and with the increasi

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Hipolitus Yolisandry Ringgi Wangge, Evanston, Illinois – Why are populist figures in Indonesia being challenged to operate in a corrupt political system?

Ivan Aditya, Sleman – A group of students calling themselves the Yogyakarta Indonesian Student Union (SMI) held a theatrical action opposing the 2014 elections at the Sunan Kalijaga Isl

Ina Parlina, National – Two judges from a lower court in Jambi, one of whom is a religious court judge, were dismissed on Tuesday by a joint ethics panel, which found that the judges ha

Deti Mega Purnama & Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has announced the city of Jakarta and Governor Joko Widodo as the most progressive pr

Kanupriya Kapoor, Blitar, East Java – As Indonesia gears up for twin elections this year, the pivotal figure is a woman in her late sixties who has been trounced all three times that sh

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Associations and experts have warned the public of dubious surveys ahead of the 2014 elections.

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Michael Bachelard – Schapelle Corby locked herself in the toilet for an entire day and was still on "heavy medication" her brother-in-law has revealed on Wednesday as he begged the medi

Ezra Sihite, Novy Lumanauw & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – The move to put together a new presidential security detail, or Paspampres, to guard the family of a former presiden

Mette Bjerregaard – The Act of Killing may have lost out on this year's Oscar for best documentary, but it has instigated a spectacular change within Indonesian society.

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has indicated that the city's water provision, handled by two private firms PT Aetra Air Jakarta and PT PAM L

Frans Sudiarsis, Headlines – The 2014 legislative election will see around 200,000 candidates competing for 20,257 seats at the Regional and Provincial Legislative Councils (DPRD), the

Jakarta – Indonesia's top Islamic clerical body has issued a religious fatwa against the illegal hunting and trade in endangered animals in the country, which the World Wildlife Fund ha

Jakarta – The government has agreed to a proposal on the establishment of an agency tasked with managing the haj fund independently from the Religious Affairs Ministry in order to give

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Andrew Pulver – On an Oscar night of few surprises, one award that didn't quite go the way pundits may have hoped was way down the bill in the best documentary category.

Fadli, Batam – Hundreds of workers of the Indonesia Metal Workers Federation (FSPMI) staged a rally in front of the Batam office of state power firm PT PLN and demanded it cancel the pl

Sita W.Dewi, Jakarta – Deputy Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama said on Tuesday he had been touted as a potential 2014 vice presidential candidate.

Helen Brown in Jakarta, staff – More than 80,000 women will be running for office in this year's presidential election in Indonesia, encouraged to be part of the country's plan to have

The nomination and possible victory of Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing" at today's Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood will put immense pressure on Indonesia to confront and s

Jakarta – The Indonesian co-director of "The Act of Killing," hopes the Oscar-nominated documentary will continue to inspire conversation about the 1965 communist killings, calling the

Jayapura – Fiji's opposition has accused an Indonesian delegation planning to visit the Pacific country next week of intervening in Fiji's internal politics by supporting Prime Minister

Markus Junianto Sihalolo, Jakarta – The Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) are engaged in a tug-of-war over the right to issue Halal certificates an

Jakarta – More than 2,400 people have signed a petition urging the Jakarta Police to charge Sitok Srengenge, a notable poet who allegedly raped a University of Indonesia (UI) student.

Jakarta – The 12 political parties to contest the legislative election next month have submitted their second financial reports, the final report prior to the election; with the Gerindr

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Yanto Soegiarto & Albertus Weldison Nonto, Jakarta – Aburizal Bakrie is busy shuttling around Indonesia to consolidate his powerful Golkar Party base ahead of the upcoming legislati

Jakarta – Women's ability to breastfeed is a national asset, and hence the state has a great responsibility to fully support the breastfeeding mothers' movement, a breastfeeding mothers

Balikpapan – The world's largest population of proboscis monkey, locally known as bekantan, and its natural habitat in Balikpapan Bay is in danger due to the expansion of oil palm plant

Indra Harsaputra and Ina Parlina, Surabaya/Jakarta – As part of an ongoing attempt to heal an internal rift, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soek

Phelim Kine – Indonesia has a problem with Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary "The Act of Killing." The groundbreaking film, nominated for best documentary at this year's Academy Awards,

Jasmin Ramsey, Washington – Watching former gangsters and paramilitary leaders proudly reenact scenes from Indonesia's military-led mass killings of 1965-66 in the Oscar-nominated docum

Jakarta – The Jakarta Post ranked second on a list of Indonesia's most popular newspapers compiled by 4 International Media and Newspaper, as published on its website www.4imn.com.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Four months before the implementation of a regulation requiring pictorial warnings on the dangers of smoking on cigarette packaging, efforts to comply appear to

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – The national antigraft body has denied that it deliberately neglected to name a potential presidential candidate in its indictment of Akil Mochtar, th

Jakarta – The National Police on Friday announced that Comr. Gen. Badrodin Haiti would take over as the country's deputy chief and replace outgoing deputy chief Comr. Gen.

Andreas Harsono, Jakarta, Indonesia – I grew up in the shadow of the Indonesian massacres exposed in Joshua Oppenheimer's extraordinary documentary, "The Act of Killing," which has been

Kanupriya Kapoor & Jonathan Thatcher, Jakarta/Madiun – A chilling documentary about one of the worst massacres since World War Two is up for an Academy Award this weekend.

Brad Simpson – In The Act of Killing, one of the nominees for an Academy Award for best documentary, a group of elderly Indonesian men re-enact their role in the killing of alleged Comm

Alina Musta'idah, Jakarta – Indonesia's palm oil industry has denied green activists' claims that it was behind the deforestation that has driven the highly endangered orangutan from it

Reports in Papua New Guinea say the government has details of incursions across the border by armed Indonesia soldiers earlier this month.