National – The General Elections Commission (KPU) has decided not to allow legislative candidates to use billboards in their political campaigns.

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced on Tuesday former National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) chief Insp. Gen.

Indra Wijaya, Jakarta – Commandant General of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) Major General Agus Sutomo said he was formulating several formats for the planned armed forces (TNI)'s

Fikri Zaki Muhanmadi and Sita W.

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Thousands of workers staged a demonstration in front of City Hall to demand a monthly minimum wage increase of 68 percent in the Jakarta area

The Archipelago – Dozens of activists of the Domestic Workers Protection Network (JPPRT) staged a rally in front of the Yogyakarta State Palace Gedung Agung on Tuesday to demand that th

Jakarta – The Indonesian Military (TNI) should be given a greater role in the war against terror to back up the National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism squad, a top official says.

Jakarta – A senior United Development Party (PPP) politician defended the decision from party chairman Suryadharma Ali to walk off stage after his speech was cut short by a call for pra

Carlos Paath – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has come under fire for reportedly getting riled by the call to prayer, or adzan, that interrupted a speech he was giving at a

Made Arya Kencana & Farouk Arnaz, Denpasar/Jakarta – The government is still weighing its decision on holding the Miss World Beauty Pageant amid opposition from several Islamic grou

Anggi Kusumadewi, Erick Tanjung – Indonesia's newly appointed military (TNI) chief, General Moeldoko, will deploy TNI forces to maintain state security and protect investments in Indone

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – As the trials of 12 soldiers accused of slaying four inmates in a Yogyakarta prison draw to a close, human rights defenders say they have little confidence in the

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Thousands of Indonesian migrant workers marched through the streets of Hong Kong on Monday in protest at the Indonesian government's migrant worker identifica

Palmerah – The number of farming households over the last 10 years has declined by 5.04 million. Over the same period, the number of agribusinesses has grown by 1,475 companies.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Carlos Paath – The country's main opposition party has given its strongest indication yet that it may nominate Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo as its preside

Dessy Sagita – Despite the government's commitment to allocate one-fifth of the state budget to the education sector, there is still a long way to go before all children receiving a qua

Yuliasri Perdani and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Following the disclosure that a close friend of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, identified as Sengman Tjahja, could have played a ro

Novianti Setuningsih & Carla Isati Octama – By making proactive use of money laundering and anti-corruption laws, Indonesia's graftbusters are managing to snare a greater number of

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court sentenced Insp. Gen.

Phelim Kine – My preparation for a news conference in February launching a Human Rights Watch report on Indonesia's rising religious intolerance included an emergency escape drill.

Farouk Arnaz & Made Arya Kencana – Islamic hard-liners intensified their protests against this year's Miss World beauty pageant on Tuesday as contestants started to arrive in Bali f

Yeremia Sukoyo – The new chief of staff of the Indonesian Army has made a strong commitment to ensure a smooth and peaceful national election next year.

Jakarta – Recent research conducted by The Habibie Center has revealed that violence has occurred during direct regional administrative elections in most provinces and regencies in nine

Bali's mystically beautiful rice fields, watered by an intricate, centuries-old subak irrigation system, are near collapse as farmers sell their properties to developers for villas and

Raras Cahyafitri and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Several manufacturers are considering delaying the importing of their raw materials while others are having to increase the prices of thei

Satria Sambijantoro and Amahl S.

Jakarta – A lawmaker has blasted a proposal to change the name of one of the capital city's main thoroughfares, Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat, to Jl.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The country's more assertive role in the regional and global arena, on top of its rich natural resources, have turned the country into a magnet for foreign e

Worshipers from displaced church congregations took their anger to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's door on Sunday, calling for him to take a leaf out of Jakarta Governor Joko Widod

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Calls are mounting for antigraft investigators not to cease in expanding their probe into a corruption scandal that a witness claims reaches as high as the na

Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Despite mounting calls by state officials and mass organizations for the upcoming Miss World beauty pageant to be canceled, Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pas

Carlos Paath – Election fever has gripped the political establishment as parties busy themselves with finding presidential candidates – but the bug has conspicuously not spread to the n

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A Palembang businessman who is said to have played a key role in President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's political career and who has now been dragged into a

Made Arya Kencana – Several academics, doctors and nongovernmental organization activists gathered in Bali on Sunday to petition the government to halt the World Tobacco Asia Forum, sla

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A plan to name a main thoroughfare in the heart of Jakarta after former President Suharto has drawn both support and muted criticism, with Jakarta Governor Jo

Jakarta – Intelligence, military and high-ranking police figures, both retired and active, have gathered at Hotel Borobudur in Lapangan Banteng, Central Jakarta.

Fransisca Ria Susan, Jakarta – The kidnappings, forced disappearances and killing of more than 1 million Indonesians between 1965-1967 were not a tragedy, because they did not occur as

Jakarta – The long fight to uncover and moreover reconcile the 1965-66 affair is slowly starting to show results.

Fikri Zaki Muhammadi, Jakarta – The Jakarta Workers Forum on Friday urged the central government to cancel the presidential instruction (Inpres) that regulates wage rises, saying that i

Jakarta – In a move that has surprised many, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) has named the Indonesian Military (TNI) as press enemy number one this year.

The number of cases involving teachers resorting to violence when punishing errant students indicates a lack of awareness of the impact of such action on students' psyche, and is ground

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The fight against corruption has come up against yet another hurdle with the Supreme Court admitting it struggles to recruit quality judges for corruption cases.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Novianti Setuningsi – A man said to be a close aide to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been implicated in the beef quota corruption case, suggestin

Jakarta – Jama'ah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) has become the latest hard-line Islamic organization to condemn the 2013 Miss World pageant, which is to take place in Bali from Sept.

Ni Komang Erviani, Denpasar – Bali Police, with support from the military and pecalang (Balinese traditional security guards), said it would ensure the Miss World pageant in Bali in Sep

National – House of Representatives Commission X member Reni Marlinawatin said the Miss World pageant, set to take place in Bali in September, would encourage sexual harassment against

Jakarta – The Indonesian government is being called on to ratify the International Convention on Enforced Disappearance of Persons.

National – The House of Representatives celebrated on Thursday its 68th anniversary with a dismal legislative record and poor attendance by its members.

As people around the world mark the International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian President to stop delaying the establishment of a Human Rights Co