Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) have become the latest to jump on the bandwagon of Joko Widodo, the Jakarta governor and front-runner

A number of NGOs grouped under the Coalition against Forestry Mafia reported on Friday five alleged cases of graft in the natural resources sector in three provinces to the Corruption E

Camelia Pasandaran – The last vestige of one Indonesia's oldest and largest Jewish communities is now just a pile of rubble.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) said on Friday that if President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono decided to remove one of the party's representatives from the Cabinet

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The country's oldest Islamic party has a bee in its bonnet about a prohibition on female police officers wearing an Islamic headscarf, or jilbab.

Jakarta – A group of indigenous people said the government should apologize for neglecting their rights following the Constitutional Court ruling last month that annulled the government

Hayat Indriyatno & Diska Putri Pamungkas – Environmental activists have responded with alarm to new data showing Indonesia has the third-biggest area of land in the world given over

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, who leads popularity polls for Indonesia's presidential election next year, affirmed his allegiance to the party of former leader Megawati Soekarnoputri an

Farouk Arnaz – Despite questioning 15 police officers as witnesses in the graft case of the "trillion rupiah cop," First Adj. Insp.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – A recent report released by a number of NGOs grouped under the Coalition against Forestry Mafia claimed that corruption in the natural resources sector ha

A grass-roots campaign to snuff out Indonesia's ubiquitous tobacco advertising is gaining traction online as thousands of anti-smoking advocates urged the Ministry of Technology and Com

Natasia Christy Wahyuni – A prominent physicist has decried the country's new school curriculum as being scant on science, in the latest criticism leveled against the Education Ministry

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) claimed on Wednesday that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono kicked the party out of the ruling coalition for rejecting the upc

Amir Tedjo, Surabaya – A small group of religious hard-liners backed up by police disrupted an interfaith dialogue on Tuesday night, claiming that the event was conducted without a perm

Jacob Zenn, Jakarta – Driven by strong exports and buoyant domestic markets, Indonesia is projected to be among the world's top 10 economies by 2025.

A NGO wants the government to scrap its plan to introduce mandatory military service, which could burden the state budget.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Amid speculation that Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) chairperson Megawati Soekarnoputri could still run for president in 2014, political ana

Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), notorious for its violent raids supposedly in support of sharia, is diversifying.

Bambang Muryanto and Yuliasri Perdani, Yogyakarta/Jakarta – The Yogyakarta military prosecutors are keeping the public in the dark on the prison raid by commandos in which four detainee

Asian universities have gained significant ground on their Western counterparts and could overtake them within two decades, but Indonesian universities are being left behind, according

James Balowski – The Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) – a US-based interfaith organisation of business leaders – presented Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono with the Wo

Jakarta – National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) commissioner Siane Indrani spoke on Monday of the shooting chronology of an alleged terrorist in Poso regency, Central Sulawes

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo would emerge an easy winner if Indonesia's presidential election were held today, a political analyst said on Sunday.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The death of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) patron Taufiq Kiemas will leave the party more centered on his widow, former president Megawati

Novi Lumanauw & Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has embraced foreign nongovernmental organizations as valuable partners in the development process, in a marked brea

An Indonesian legal expert has described a lawsuit filed by the Ahmadiyah against the mayor of Bekasi over the shuttering of their mosque as a "very interesting development" that could

Imron Rosyid Taufikur – Thousands of people attended prayers to celebrate what would have been the 92nd birthday of the late President Suharto in Solo, Central Java, on Saturday.

Slamet Susanto – The Grand General HM Soeharto Memorial, chronicling the life of the second Indonesian president, opened on Saturday.

Jakarta – Agriculture Minister Suswono said that Indonesia would likely experience a year-long wet season, a condition that could have an impact on the country's food production capabil

Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy – Analysts have predicted that the Prosperous Justice Party's tough stance against the government's plan to increase the price of subsidized fuel will not bo

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – Human rights groups have called on the United Nations special rapporteur on housing rights, Raquel Rolnik, to demand that the Indonesian government immedi

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle Party (PDI-P) patron and People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Speaker Taufiq Kiemas died at a hospital in Singapore on Saturday eve

Jakarta – Fans of the scantily dressed Miss World contestants will be disappointed this year as the bikini category will not be included.

National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo has decided to replace 76 middle- and top-ranking officials within the National Police, citing tours of duty as the sole reason.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – All community elements in Yogyakarta have been told to remain in control during the planned trial of members of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus).

Aboeprijadi Santoso, Amsterdam – The controversy over Aceh's flag and symbol between the Aceh administration and the central administration in Jakarta lingers on, despite weeks of "cool

Islamic hardliners vowed Thursday to stop the "immoral" Miss World beauty pageant taking place in Indonesia even after organizers agreed this year's contestants would not wear bikinis.

Jakarta – A legislator at the House of Representatives Commission XI on economy, banking and finance has urged the government to impose a higher levy on alcoholic beverages.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Ezra Sihite & Yeremia Sukoyo – The ruling Democratic Party on Thursday demanded that coalition partner the Prosperous Justice Party swiftly remove banners

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has yet to make a decision regarding the fate of the "rebellious" Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

Jakarta – As Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's popularity has grown for his impromptu visits, locally known as blusukan, the family of former president Soeharto is saying that the

Jakarta – A clash between the Tangerang police and members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) over a land dispute in Tangerang resulted in two police officers being hospitalized.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Golkar Party insists that it supports a bill on domestic workers' rights currently being proposed for deliberation, despite earlier remarks to the contrar

Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairman Anis Matta denied rumors that the party was adopting Wahhabism as residents of Sampang, Madura, East Java protested his visit to the area on thos

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Hundreds of workers from PT Bali Taru Utama, a stationery company located in Tangerang regency, took to the streets to demand that the management abandon outsourcing, which they said wa

Jakarta, Indonesia – Poisoning or shooting killed many of the 129 critically endangered elephants that have died on Indonesia's Sumatra island in less than a decade, highlighting weak e

Indonesia remains one of the least tolerant countries in the world regarding attitudes toward homosexuality, a new survey finds.

Jakarta – Tempers have flared during a hearing between the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and the House of Representatives monitoring team on the Bank Century scandal.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Depok – After cooling off for a month, protest against construction of a grand mosque by the Indonesian Islam Propagation Institute (LDII) mounted when gangs of youths