SP/Fana FS Putra, Jakarta – Forty-three-year-old Lestari had no choice but to move from her home on the banks of the Sentiong River in North Jakarta's Sunter Agung ward after it was dem

Margareth S.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has finished drawing up campaign schedules for political parties contesting the 2014 legislative election.

Jakarta – With the majority of the public still unaware of the national healthcare program (JKN), the government initiative remains unpopular, two months after being implemented.

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia has called on consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) to stop sourcing palm oil from firms responsible for destroying the natur

Jakarta – Indonesia's Riau province declared a state of emergency on Thursday as haze from raging forest fires, often deliberately set, disrupted flights and marine navigation and autho

Jakarta – The Surabaya District Court sentenced 10 men to six months in prison over their roles in a violent rampage in Jember, East Java, that left a popular Islamic boarding school an

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country's highest Islamic authority, denied on Wednesday accusations that foreign organizations hoping to sell food in Indonesia had be

Cilacap, Central Java – Asylum-seekers who washed ashore in Indonesia have claimed the Australian navy blew up their vessel after forcing the would-be refugees into a lifeboat and turni

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) asserted its readiness to cooperate with any country, including China, to maintain stability in the region.

Novianti Setuningsih & Edwin Firdaus, Jakarta – The country's antigraft body will probe 14 regional heads who are suspected of bribing former Constitutional Court chief justice Akil

Ina Parlina and Margareth S.

Ethan Harfenist, Jakarta – Greenpeace accused Procter & Gamble on Wednesday of sourcing palm oil from environmentally destructive firms, finding the US consumer goods giant complici

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The Indonesian government and legislators have been discussing ways to strengthen monitoring the police force following rampant abuse of power conducted by cops

Yogyakarta – A solidarity rally was organized in Yogyakarta on Tuesday as a mark of protest against an incident in which a petrol bomb was thrown at the house of Frietqi Suryawan, a jou

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – In the first hearing on bringing forward simultaneous elections to 2014 on Tuesday, the Gerindra Party failed to come up with a strong argument against the recent

Jakarta – The Independent Election Monitoring Committee (KIPP) has filed a report against two political parties, the Nasdem Party and the Gerindra Party, with the Election Supervisory C

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – All 12 political parties contesting the 2014 legislative election could face the prospect of being disqualified from the race as none have submitted their

'When I showed my footage to the massacre survivors, many said: you are onto something important, keep filming the perpetrators.'

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Margareth S.

Berni Moestafa & Novrida Manurung, Jakarta – Indonesia officials stepped up warnings of corruption ahead of elections this year, as the anti-money laundering watchdog said the count

Carlos FS Fana & Faisal Maiki Baskoro, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo's immense popularity makes him the most promising candidate to win the presidential election, regardles

Carlos Paath, Jakarta – Amidst controversy surrounding rumors of her resignation, Surabaya mayor Tri Rismaharini rose as another potential presidential candidate for the upcoming electi

Yoseph Kellen – The Kupang immigration office in East Nusa Tenggara has prepared 5,000 square meters of land on the island of Sumba as a temporary shelter to house asylum seekers denied

Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed a draft bill on the ratification of the Nuclear Terrorism Convention into a law in a plenary meeting on Tuesday.

Jakarta – Some 20,000 people have reported respiratory illnesses in Riau as forest fires and the resulting haze continued to worsen on Monday, the local health agency reported.

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Jakarta – Systemic police violence has been highlighted after an assault on the vocalist of a popular band in Bandung, who received at least 20 stitches after allegedly being hit on the

Noviani Setuningsih & Edi Siprianus Hardum, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission has slammed the House of the Representatives for pressing on deliberations on a controver

Jakarta – The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry said on Friday that the moratorium on Indonesian migrant workers seeking employment in Saudi Arabia had not been lifted, despite the s

Ezra Sihite & Hendro Situmorang – A legislator has demanded that the government retake control of foreign-owned stakes in the country's biggest telecommunications companies, followi

The newly-passed Village Law is expected to bring change to the grassroots level, after being neglected for years under the New Order regime, a lawmaker has said.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government and the House of Representatives has ignored the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) demands to drop the plan to amend the Criminal Code (KUH

Jakarta – Graft activists have questioned the government's corruption eradication strategies following the ongoing deliberation of the Criminal Law Procedures Code (KUHAP) bill, which n

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The Bogor Legal Aid Institute (LBH Bogor Raya) has recommended that the case involving the alleged physical abuse and forced servitude of 16 domestic workers by t

Jakarta – Bali is to strengthen its Planned Generation (GenRe) project by establishing teen- and student-counseling information centers (PIK-R/M) to spread information on reproductive h

Jakarta – A new public opinion poll has found that Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's electability rating is sliding while that of his strongest rival, Gerindra Party chief patron

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Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesia posted slower growth in its total foreign debts – in both the public and private sectors – throughout 2013 as the country's economic growth deceler

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – Certain residents in Talang Kelapa subdistrict, Alang-alang Lebar district in Palembang, South Sumatra, were up in arms Thursday over the construction of a Hur

Rights groups have criticised an agreement between Indonesia and Saudi Arabia aimed at giving Indonesian maids more protection in the kingdom, with one saying "justice is still far away

Jakarta – In response to the recent police investigation into a domestic abuse case in Bogor, West Java, the Women's Institute Foundation has urged the House of Representatives to pass

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The Bogor City Police are investigating a domestic abuse case involving the wife of a retired police general who allegedly physically abused and locked away more

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has reiterated its demand for Australia to stop its border operation crackdown on boat people, following Canberra's revelation that

Margareth S. Aritonang and Sita W.

Tony Ng, Jakarta – The United States plans to help modernize Indonesia's military, including provisions for training and equipment, amid heightened tensions in the South China Sea, wher