Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) said on Friday it would investigate the controversial Supreme Court ruling that exonerated a high-profile graft fugitive after it rec

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The package of economic measures announced by the government on Friday to overcome the growing current account deficit and avert further economic slowdown woul

Jakarta – Three wives of imprisoned terror suspects filed a report on Friday with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) claiming they were sexually harassed by police whi

Wahyu Sudoyo & Tito Summa Siahaan – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono plans to revise the negative list of investment among other policies he promises to reveal on Friday, in a mov

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Golkar Party is becoming increasingly polarized over the nomination of chairman Aburizal Bakrie as the party's presidential candidate in the 2014 electio

Phelim Kine – It's degrading, discriminatory, not to mention junk science – so why does the notion of "virginity tests" keep rearing its ugly head?

Jakarta – As of mid-August this year the number of discriminative regulations has risen two-fold, from 154 in 2009 to 342.

Rights groups have lashed out at the government for not doing enough to end discrimination against women, warning that women and girls face a continued risk of rights abuses and questio

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – Agriculture Minister Suswono has admitted that he discussed Indonesia's beef shortages with the former Prosperous Justice Party chairman early this year in Med

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism squad arrested eight more suspected militants, including a former convicted terrorist, in connection with a plot to bomb the Burma

Observers claim that the fairness of an ongoing court martial of a group of elite soldiers who gunned down four detainees in a police jail in Yogyakarta in March is being compromised by

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Army chief of staff Gen.

An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the Chief of the Indonesian Police, Gen. Timur Pradopo.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – An official with a municipal religious affairs agency has been arrested for possession of methamphetamine, police in East Kalimantan revealed on Wednesday.

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – A reduction in land devoted to agricultural use is to blame for Indonesia's increasing imports of staple foods and other products, a presidential

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Activists are demanding the police solve the 17-year-old case of murdered Yogyakarta journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin, widely known as Udin, before it mu

Coordinating Minister for People's Welfare Agung Laksono has ordered Education Minister Mohammad Nuh to strongly reject and stop South Sumatra's Prabumulih education board head from car

Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta administration says it will not bow to pressure from a group of South Jakarta residents requesting the dismissal of their local ward chief for being a

Farouk Arnaz & Camelia Pasandaran – A hard-line Islamic group notorious for its violent raids and vigilantism has filed a complaint with the Press Council against a slew of national

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Aris Cahyadi – Legislators vetting Gen.

David Wroe and Paddy Doulman – Indonesia still faces significant terrorism threats despite the dismantling of major Jihadist networks after the Bali bombings, a top expert says.

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Made Arya Kencana, Denpasar – Several elementary school students in Denpasar were left suffering the pain and trauma of a tear gas attack on Monday after getting caught up in an evictio

Jakarta – A coalition of education-focused NGOs have strongly rejected a plan by the Prabumulih municipality administration in South Sumatra to conduct virginity tests on female student

Ansyor Idrus and Margareth Aritonang, Palembang/Jakarta – A plan to conduct virginity tests on female students entering high school in the town of Prabumulih, South Sumatra, has drawn c

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – The Surabaya city administration's plan to close down the Klakah Rejo red light district in the western suburbs has raised concerns among social activists who have

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The ruling Democratic Party is facing another huge blow to its electability in the wake of the SKKMigas graft scandal, which may implicate one of its top pol

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Alsadad Rudi, Jakarta – The Cross-Factory Labour Forum (FBLP) disputes the claim that four South Korean companies have left Jakarta.

Camelia Pasandaran – A plan by the Education Agency of Prabumulih, South Sumatra, to include virginity tests as part of its high school admission requirements has drawn the ire of legis

Bali Governor I Made Mangku Pastika has revoked a controversial decree that granted a license to a private company to develop Benoa Bay into a tourism facility.

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Phelim Kine – In early June, the Indonesian government erected a 16-foot gleaming white statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, on Washington's Embassy Row.

Surabaya, West Java – The Indonesian Marine Corps and the United States Marine Corps (USMC) have carried out a joint exercise at the Baluran Combat Training Center of Marine Corps in Ka

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Hundreds rallied at the II-11 Yogyakarta Military Court on Monday in support of 12 Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) operatives on trial for the alleged mu

Raras Cahyafitri and Tassia Sipahutar, Jakarta – Indonesian stocks traded in the red zone on Monday as equity assets were dumped, while the rupiah took another dive, and remained defens

SP/Edi Hardum – Jakarta Govenor Joko Widodo is the most talked-about Indonesian political figure on social media, according to a new study by Prapancha Research, a private group recentl

Pallavi Gummalam – Indonesia has a large talent pool, but when it comes to a qualified workforce, this is where the country is lacking because of its underdeveloped education system, ac

Carlos Paath, Ponorogo – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has been enlisted by his party to campaign for its candidate in the upcoming East Java gubernatorial election, in what analysts are

Slamet Susanto and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Slain journalist Fuad Muhammad Syafruddin alias Udin, who was murdered 17 years ago allegedly because of his reports, was named a natio

Farouk Arnaz – Anti-terrorism police arrested a member of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Sunday in connection with last week's fatal shooting of two police officers in B

Novianti Setuningsih, Ezra Sihite, Rizky Amelia, Robertus Wardi & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indications are growing stronger that senior officials at the Energy and Mineral Resourc

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Jakarta – Rights activists in Yogyakarta have urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to instruct the police to get to the bottom of the murder of Bernas Daily journalist Fuad Muhammad

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Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought on Friday to defend Indonesia against accusations that the republic was descending into greater religious intolerance.

Jakarta – The National Police reported that at least 686 people had died in traffic accidents during the annual Idul Fitri exodus as of Wednesday.

Jakarta – Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) politician Rieke Diah Pitaloka has criticised President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) state of the nation speech as being no

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) has called on the government to recall its Ambassador to Egypt, Nurfaizi Suwandi, as a form of protest for the violence against demonstrato