Jakarta – The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) has pulled two television shows off the air amid complaints that the programs clearly favored the party of owner and vice presiden

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Democratic Party's (PD) presidential convention seems to be going nowhere with a senior party member admitting the ruling party might not be able to fiel

Jakarta – Secretary-general of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Tjahjo Kumolo denied on Wednesday that there was division within the party's central board over a plan

Jakarta – Indonesia's justice minister has played down a set of recommendations drawn up by the Corruption Eradication Commission in response to ongoing deliberations in the House of Re

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – The governments of Indonesia and Saudi Arabia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide better working conditions for Indonesian workers in the

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Act of Killing was projected on the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.

East Manggarai – Hundreds of residents of Elar, Sambirampas and Lambaleda districts demonstrated in front of the East Manggarai Council building, East Manggarai regency in East Nusa Ten

Ina Parlina and Margareth S.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – A minister has threatened to punish Indonesian telecommunications companies if found to be complicit in allowing US and Australian intelligence agenc

Ainur Rohmah and Suherdjoko, Semarang – Radicalism among senior high school students is on the rise, teachers of Islamic education in Semarang, Central Java, have warned.

Jakarta – The number of hotspots of forest, plantation and peatland fires in Riau reached 256 on Wednesday morning, more than double the 126 of the previous day.

Benjamin Soloway & Josua Gantan, Lebak, Banten – As we make our way from Jakarta to the heart of Banten province – which stretches from Tangerang, the capital's sprawling western su

Tony Ng, Jakarta – Greenpeace Indonesia and local communities in Batang, Central Java, have alleged alarmingly high figures for greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants from a coal-fired

Nicole Jade Millane, Jakarta – Encouraging men to become involved in anti-violence campaigns can help minimize gender-based violence, activists say.

SP/Novianti Setuningsih, Jakarta – Indonesia's outspoken House of Representatives speaker Marzuki Alie accused the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of political cherry-picking in

Margareth S.

Jakarta – The apparent controversy surrounding a book on independence fighter and former communist party member Tan Malaka grew on Monday after protesters in Central Java attempted to s

Jakarta – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is also chairman of the ruling Democratic Party, to use his executive power

Haeril Halim – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has given assurances that the eruption of East Java's Mount Kelud will not hamper the distribution of logistical materials for the

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – When the documentary film The Act of Killing, which portrays the 1965 massacres of people accused of having ties to communism, was internationally relea

In its distinguished mandate, the Constitutional Court is granted a privilege that eludes the legislative and executive branches of power in the country's governance system.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya/Jakarta – Last Thursday's eruption of Mount Kelud in Kediri, East Java, has inflicted tremendous financial losses in the aviation, ma

Tangerang – Dozens of people claiming to be residents of Sindang Jaya district, Tangerang, have rejected the assignment of Endang Sulistyawati as district head because she is a woman.

Jakarta – Life is slowly returning to normal in east Java after Thursday's volcanic eruption killed at least four people, closed airports and caused flight cancellations.

Oliver Laughland and Bridie Jabour – Indonesia has said Australia and America need to "clean up their mess" to salvage relations with Indonesia after revelations that Australia spied on

Prodita Sabarini, Contributor, Washington, DC – Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer on Tuesday called on the US to acknowledge its role in Indonesia's communist pur

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – They danced, sang and shared stories for one purpose: To end violence against women.

Shaun Tandon, Hong Kong – Anwar Congo makes no secret of the fact that he killed about 1,000 people with his bare hands, boasting about the methods he used to murder alleged communists

Gorontalo – The Boalemo administration has been slammed for naming two new bridges – in the capital of Boalemo regency Tilamuta in Gorontalo – after late president Soeharto and Tien Soe

Jakarta – Six have died so far in the wake of Mount Kelud's forceful Thursday eruption, which drove tens of thousands of Central and East Java residents from their homes and scattered a

Kate Lamb in Jakarta and Oliver Laughland in Sydney – Australian naval ships entered Indonesian territorial waters often and with ease before the incursions sparked a diplomatic inciden

Jakarta – As couples the world over celebrated Valentine's Day on Friday, vocal opposition to the holiday mounted in Indonesia over concerns of morality and religion, as it does every y

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Constitutional Court on Thursday overturned President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's October 2013 regulation in lieu of a law, or Perppu, which was directed t

Jakarta – More than 100 Islamic hard-liners slammed the Indonesian government Friday for approving Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby's parole from jail, saying the convicted dr

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Jakarta – In a sign of intensified relations between the two nations, Indonesia and the United States will sign two agreements during US Secretary of State's visit to Jakarta, a ministe

Harriet Conron & Kennial Caroline Laia – Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa reiterated on Thursday that Australia's "Operation Sovereign Borders" policy, under which asylum-seeker bo

Jakarta – Amnesty International condemned Indonesia's parliament Friday for "dragging its feet" on the protection of domestic workers, despite the recent brutal abuse of an Indonesian m

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the Head of Bukittinggi District Court

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Malang – Security officers in the East Java town of Malang rounded up 13 commercial sex workers during a raid on Tuesday night, highlig

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party is mulling whether to pair chief patron Lt. Gen.

Neil Chatterjee – Indonesia's anti-corruption agency predicted an increase in graft in the run-up to elections this year, with its vice chairman anticipating the rise will land major ca

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Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Election Supervisory Committee (Bawaslu) is due to summon officials from 10 ministries over allegations of the misuse of social aid funds for election

Haeril Halim, Nurfika Osman and Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – The electoral prospects of the nation's official Islamic parties have taken a turn for the worse with the Corruption Eradi

Tangerang – Workers from car component producer PT Putra Bangun Reberindo in Cikupa Industrial Estate went on strike Wednesday to protest outsourcing at the company.

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Twenty-six high-ranking bureaucrats in the Jakarta administration were removed from office and replaced on Wednesday as part of a sweeping re

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Brushfires continued to rage on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, blanketing the troubled Riau province in heavy haze and prompting calls of c

Jakarta – Two of three children with HIV/AIDS in Tanah Sereal, Tambora, had to be treated at house while the other child, a 6-year-old, who was in critical condition was treated at the

Max Lane, Melbourne – It would appear that at least three times in recent weeks, the Australian navy and also the customs service has detained Indonesian and other foreign citizens trav