Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) highlighted four key issues that require the nation's attention in his state speech to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the Indones

Bambang Muryanto, Bantul, Yogyakarta – The team of lawyers representing five of the defendants in the case of the prison attack that killed four detainees in Sleman, Yogyakarta, have as

Sherr Rinn – Between 2010-12 there was an awakening of the Indonesian labour movement that can be seen in the writings of people such as Danial Indrakusuma, Rahmat, Tarikh, Hidayah and

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Jakarta – The ruling Democratic Party has begun selecting its candidates for the 2014 presidential election, but analysts doubt that the process – inspired by the US presidential primar

Senior officials have sought to play down suggestions that the Golkar Party will re-evaluate its decision to name its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie, as its presidential candidate for next y

Andreas Harsono – The plight of the Al-Mujahadah Foundation madrassa in southern Aceh illustrates the perils of rising religious intolerance for Indonesia's religious minorities.

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Claims by the Australian government that its new policy of sending asylum seekers arriving by boat to Papua New Guinea or Nauru is a success have been met with condemnation by several I

Ezra Sihite – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi said he did not believe recent reports that Shia Muslims in Sampang district, East Java, were subjected to forced conversions by local

Farouk Arnaz – A ranking member of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) was charged on Tuesday with leading an early morning attack on local residents in Lamongan, East Java, in

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Farouk Arnaz – The government's reluctance to act against a hard-line Islamic group following its third violent skirmish in the space of two months has ex

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Yogyakarta Police have been handed a new avenue of investigation in the murder of journalist Fuad Muhammad "Udin" Syafruddin, whose case has remained

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Former National Police Traffic Corps (Korlantas) chief Insp. Gen.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government awarded Bintang Mahaputera Adipradana medals on Tuesday, the highest civilian honor after the Bintang Republik Indonesia medal, to 11 figures, incl

The investigation into the gruesome murder of Franceisca Yofi took a dramatic turn on Tuesday as allegations of a failed love affair with a married West Java Police officer surfaced.

Jakarta – A 17-year-old boy accused of stealing a motorcycle in Toboali, South Bangka, has claimed that five police investigators gave him electric shocks during questioning at the Sout

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Erwin Sihombing – Anti-corruption activists and human rights groups are threatening to sue President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over his recent decision to

Kanupriya Kapoor, Jakarta – A deadly lava flow at the weekend that killed five people and sent hundreds fleeing illustrates the formidable challenges Indonesia faces in coping with the

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The police in Lamongan, East Java, arrested 42 Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members and confiscated weapons after they clashed with a group of people in Deng

Camelia Pasandaran – Many Shiite Muslims returning to Madura for Idul Fitri last week were given an ultimatum that forced them to convert to Sunnism or leave the troubled East Java isla

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Jakarta – The National Police intends to crack down on the illegal possession of firearms nationwide to prevent the illegal distribution of arms.

Dessy Aswim – A backlash is building against Muslim TV clerics who aren't afraid to use their religion to garner business investors or demand hefty speaking fees.

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Hotman Siregar – Only by boosting economic opportunities outside Jakarta can the annual influx of people into the capital following Idul Fitri celebrations be

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National – The Election Organizers Ethics Council (DKPP) has fired 95 members of the Regional General Election Commissions (KPUD) across the country over ethics violations.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The government has cut prison terms of 182 graft convicts during this year's celebration of Idul Fitri, a controversial move that activists say could hampe

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says that most of the 756 people convicted on graft charges in the last three years received lenient punishment, ranging from 18-month to two-

Forty-two members of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) were arrested early Monday morning following a clash with local residents in Lamongan, East Java.

Jakarta – A clash erupted between Lamongan Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members and local residents in Lamongan regency, East Java, injuring one resident and damaging two motorcycles and

Camelia Pasandaran – As millions of Muslims flocked to mosques across Indonesia on the morning of Idul Fitri last Thursday, a small group braved the early morning chill, considerable di

Jakarta – Din Syamsuddin, the chairman of Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, said on Saturday that there should not have been any forced belief in the process

The Hague – The Dutch government said Thursday that it had compensated 10 women whose husbands were executed by its army between 1946 and 1947 on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla warned that forced conversion imposed on members of the Shia community in Sampang, East Java during the reconciliation p

Jakarta – The Indonesian Labor Institute has announced its estimates that approximately a million newcomers, most of them are unskilled workers, will seek work in the capital after the

Shesar Andriawan/FMB, Jakarta – According to Budi Wardoyo, the national secretary of Politics of the People and the Joint Labour Secretariat (Sekber Buruh) working body, complaints [by

Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi rejected accusations centering on the government's alleged ultimatum to the displaced Sampang Shiites – convert to the "true"

Ezra Sihite – The lawyer of gang leader Hercules Rozario Marshal said on Wednesday that he would file a pretrial motion against the chief of the West Jakarta police for arresting his cl

Andreas Harsono – This week fresh violence erupted against some of Indonesia's religious minorities.

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Bayu Marhaenjati – Two fuel bombs were hurled into the backyard of St. Fransiskus Assisi Catholic private high school in Tebet, South Jakarta, at around 1:00 a.m.

Two terror suspects arrested and later released by the Densus 88 Counterterrorism Unit last month are known to be members of Muhammadiyah, the second largest Muslim organization in the

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists from the Indonesia Legal Roundtable (ILR) are planning to challenge the legality of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's decision to appoint former law

SP/Nathasia Christy Wahyuni – The new school curriculum has many abstract and irrelevant benchmarks that students cannot possibly be tested against, a teachers' body has said as it urge

An official with the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) has criticized the Jakarta Police's call to curb the amount of Idul Fitri prayer convoys in the capital, alleging it as an attempt

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – A number of political parties, taking advantage of the annual Idul Fitri exodus to gain support ahead of the 2014 election, are providing rest facilities along C

A graft watchdog criticized the government for spending Rp 2.57 trillion (US$194 million) on procurement of cars, saying that it undermines the government's efforts to cut fuel spending

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said the perpetrators of Sunday's bombing of Ekayana Buddhist Vihara in West Jakarta did not respect the sanctity of the Muslim holy