Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) arrest of former Bank Indonesia (BI) deputy governor Budi Mulya for his alleged role in

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The electability of Golkar Party presidential candidate Aburizal Bakrie remains below 10 percent and is very unlikely to improve before next year's election,

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Indonesian businessman Rudi Gunawan, 44, is a premium carmaker's prime target.

Jakarta – Dozens of women gathered at Plaza Senayan not long after dawn broke last Saturday.

The head of Indonesia's largest union organization has announced a new strike across several regions of the archipelago to pressure provincial governments into making greater concession

Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata – Members of the Muara Angke fishing community in North Jakarta make their living from the sea, but it is a living that many residents say is increasingly at

The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and the Great Indonesia Movement Party have reportedly signed a political pact in 2009 – dubbed the Batu Tulis Pact – that included a point w

Despite rejecting allegations that he was gay, Second Sergeant S.N.F.

Michael Bachelard – Indonesia will call back its ambassador to Australia and "review" Australian diplomatic positions in Jakarta as anger rises in Indonesia over revelations that Austra

Kanupriya Kapoor & Randy Fabi – An inspector general of Indonesian police had just withstood eight hours of interrogation on the night of October 5, last year at the Jakarta headqua

Indonesia's vice president, Boediono, has shrugged off suggestions that recent disputes with Australia regarding asylum seekers and espionage claims have damaged the countries' relation

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – The Bali Wage Council's decision to set the 2014 minimum wage for the province at Rp 1.3 million (US$111) per month triggered protests from unions that say

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Indonesia has the fastest rate of deforestation in the past 12 years, according to a new global map on deforestation.

A large demonstration allegedly initiated by palm oil company Kallista Alam, which is accused of illegally destroying some of the world's most important remaining orangutan habitat on t

Carlos Paath, Bandung – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said on Friday that religious tolerance in Indonesia is among the best in the world, despite some issues he said still

Jakarta – Champions of pluralism urged the government to heed their call to counter the rise of religious intolerance.

Syamsul Huda M.Suhari, Manado – Fishermen in Manado, North Sulawesi, have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to immediately stop land reclamation to develop a commercial distr

Novy Lumanauw – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought on Thursday to reinforce the merit of his administration's policy to boost sales of low-cost green cars in Indonesia in respons

Bayu Marheanjati, Ezra Sihite & Farouk Arnaz – A week to the day after directly contradicting the law on general elections, the new chief of the Constitutional Court has said he pla

Andrew de Sousa, Bangkok – This Nov.

Diana Parker – The one-horned Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus), which once ranged through South and Southeast Asia, is now extinct in all but one rare lowland forest in western Java,

Farouk Arnaz & Camelia Pasandaran – Police in the predominately Sunni province of West Java have refused an application by Shiite Muslims in Bandung to mark the religious day of Ash

Bambang Muryanto and Jon Afrizal, Yogyakarta/Jambi – Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwo X said that the minimum wage in the province (UMP) 2014 would be increased by around 10

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Just weeks into his new job, Constitutional Court chief Hamdan Zoelva has come under fire for supporting a position completely at odds with both Indonesian el

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The United Development Party (PPP) on Tuesday said it would actively approach other major Islamic parties to form a coalition to support a presidential candid

Jakarta – Labor intensive industries are predicting a gloomier business outlook next year, with an increase in minimum wages and growing labor rallies hurting business.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Copies of a national newspaper featuring a half-page tobacco advertisement on its front page was given away at an event held by the Health Ministry to com

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government rebuffed on Tuesday Australia's claim that Indonesia was responsible for the fate of a group of asylum seekers at the center of a maritime standoff

Hotman Siregar – The Jakarta Transportation Agency's ongoing war on illegal parking accelerated on Wednesday as parking officers announced the latest weapon aimed at punishing parking s

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – National Police chief Gen.

Headlines – One truck driver appeared to believe that he still lived in the era of former president Soeharto, when the military ruled Indonesia.

Further information on 336/12 Index: ASA 21/036/2013

Bayu Marhaenjati – A two-week operation by police and public-order officials at the National Monument has "trained and advised" 28 couples for reasons unknown, although Monas's head of

Jakarta – Businesses are urging the Indonesian government to take measures to reduce logistics costs in a bid to increase the country's competitiveness ahead of the ASEAN Economic Commu

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The Jakarta Labor Forum has demanded a revision to the 2014 minimum wage, which was set on Nov.

Erwin Sihombing – None of the rulings passed in cases overseen by Akil Mochtar, the disgraced former chief justice of the Constitutional Court, passed muster, according to a survey of 2

Jakarta – A survey published by the Setara Institute, a democracy watchdog, has found that the public wants the creation of a separate court to handle local election disputes and remove

James Balowski – Tens of thousands of Indonesian workers held a nationalstrike on 31 October and 1 November.

Fadli, Batam – The Maritime Security Coordinating Board (Bakorkamla) says it rejects being dictated to by Australia in deciding the way it handles boat people wanting to enter the count

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The East Java administration has denied claims that it tried to relocate a group of Shia refugees by force from a housing block in Sidoarjo district to the much mo

Hotman Siregar & Deti Mega Purnamasari – With hordes of cheap, new cars and motorcycles continuing to hit the city's streets, and the two rail-based public transit networks not expe

Neles Tebay, Jayapura, Papua – The central government and the provincial government of Papua have taken the initiative to produce another new policy for Papua under the name of "special

Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla said half of the country's mosques were equipped with poor quality sound systems and that such subpar sound meant they caused noise pollution

Jakarta – A public opinion poll conducted by the Indonesian Voters Institute (LPI) has found that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is considered the most lenient government official w

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – The number of eligible voters who are not exercising their voting rights continues to rise, with many analysts believing the number will increase in next year'

SP/Deti Mega Purnamasari & SP/Daurina L.

Yuliasri Perdani and Nurni Sulaiman, Jakarta/Balikpapan – Calls have mounted for the Indonesian Military (TNI) to review its primary weapons and other defense equipment in the wake of t

Berni Moestafa – Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesia's forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers from 2007 to 2011, costing the gover

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives has been urged to take concrete action to revise a regulation that allows legislators to receive a pension even after they have b

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The latest government survey has found that the number of Indonesian teenagers who think virginity is important is declining.