Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – An NGO unveiled that media liberalization, which started in 1998, has served the owners' interests rather than those of the public.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Efforts by the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) to distance itself from Ahmad Fathanah were stymied after the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) present

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A presidential spokesman said on Friday that howls of protest against a plan by the US-based Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) to honor President Susilo

Jakarta – The chairperson of the country's top religious body the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), KH Ma'ruf Amin is calling on all parties to be on guard against the reemergence of the

Jakarta – More than a dozen people, claiming to be students, staged a protest in front of the Defense Ministry in Jakarta on Friday afternoon demanding the government investigate unreso

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The involvement of Hilmi Aminuddin in the import beef scandal has dealt another blow to the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS).

Camelia Pasandaran – In a landmark decision for indigenous rights, the Constitutional Court decided on Thursday to make null and void the government's ownership of customary forest area

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Medan City Police arrested 14 people on Thursday thought to be involved in a clash between police officers and students from Nomensen HKBP University on Wednesd

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – A proposed bill regulating the state apparatus would allow the government to fire poorly performing civil servants after four years, a deputy minister has sa

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A mob of more than 100 people damaged an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tulungagung, East Java, on Thursday night.

SP/Novianti Setuningsih – Minister of Agriculture Suswono, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), has admitted to previous meetings with beef import graft suspect Ahmad Fathana

A South Sumatra court sentenced two environmental activists to seven months in prison for provoking a riot against a sugar plantation, despite a public outcry against the criminalizatio

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Lenny Tristia Tambun – Eleven Jakarta hospitals announced on Friday that they backed out of the Jakarta Health Card program, saying that growing numbers of patients have exceeded their

Environmentalists have lauded the Indonesian government's decision to extend a logging ban aimed at protecting rainforests despite fierce industry pressure, but some say there are more

Yuliasri Perdani, National – A coalition of anti-graft watchdogs wants the Attorney General's Office (AGO) to implement a court ruling which ordered the Supersemar Scholarship Foundatio

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A key witness in a graft trial on the beef importation scandal testified on Wednesday that leaders of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) devised a scheme t

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police's Densus 88 counterterrorism unit arrested Nu'aim Ba'asyir, nephew of firebrand cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, for allegedly supplying weapon

The Ahmadiyah and Shia communities in East Java are urging the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, a non-profit organization established by US Jewish leader Rabbi Arthur Schneier, to recon

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Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesia has approved a two-year extension to a landmark ban on clearing primary rainforests and peatlands, officials said Thursday.

James Balowski – In some of the largest demonstrations in recent years, tens of thousands of trade unionists and workers took part in May Day rallies across Indonesia calling for higher

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Amnesty International has called for an immediate halt to the execution of three men, expected imminently.

Despite undergoing a dramatic democratic transformation over the last decade, a new report released on Tuesday by the United States Department of State maintains that Indonesia is still

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police in Papua have made a shocking revelation linking bank transactions totaling Rp 1.5 trillion ($154 million) to a low-ranking police officer suspected o

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A number of former lawmakers, including those convicted of graft and serving out their sentences, are apparently still receiving their salaries, a member of t

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – When the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) summoned lingerie model Vitalia Sesha last week, many expected she would be the last woman connected to the high

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Bekasi Mayor Rahmat Effendi and local Islamic leaders will petition President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to institute a nationwide ban on the oppressed Ahmadiyah Muslim sect.

Further information on UA: 336/12 Index: ASA 21/014/2013. Shi'a community face removal from shelter.

Wiji Thukul disappeared 15 years ago this month, along with many others lost in the upheaval of the student-led protests that forced Suharto out of power.

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Endy Bayuni, Jakarta – Corruption scandals may be hurting every major political party in Indonesia, but when such allegations hit the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), they have the poten

Is Mujiarso, Jakarta – Even when he was a political fugitive, Wiji Thukul could still joke.

Nana Rukmana, Cirebon – The Ahmadiyah community in Manislor village, Jalaksana district, Kuningan regency, West Java, are going about their business as usual and remaining calm despite

Jakarta – The head of research and development at the Education and Culture Ministry, Khairil Anwar Notodiputro, has resigned from his position, a move which many view as a face-saving

Bagus BT Saragh, Jakarta – Following a two-day high level meeting, the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) has devised a strategy to strike back against the Corruption Eradication Commission

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Graft watchdogs and environmental groups have warned about increasing levels of graft in the forestry sector ahead of the 2014 election.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Edi Hardum – Indonesia's labor system opens the door to worker exploitation and slavery, as evidenced by a recent case in Tangerang that has gripped the n

Oyos Saroso H.N., Jakarta/Bandar Lampung – The arrest of more than a dozen terror suspects in a series of raids conducted by the National Police's antiterror squad, Densus 88, in four p

Dozens of members of the Tangjungduren Islamic People's Association raided two minimarts in Grogol Petamburan, West Jakarta, on Friday for selling alcoholic beverages.

Michael Bachelard – Newborn babies are being traded on a lucrative black market in Indonesia that could involve hundreds of children a year, some going illegally to parents offshore.

Tito Summa Siahaan – As consumers await a rise in the subsidized fuel price next month, the national government on Friday announced limits in the size of daily purchases in a move seen

Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono must show that he deserves an award for upholding religious freedom by doing more for victims of persecution in his own country, rights

The critically endangered Sumatran tiger could soon be extinct in the province of Jambi because of the rapid loss of its forest habitat, conservationists warn.

It was not as heroic as the country's Independence Day of Aug. 17, 1945, nor as dramatic and horrific as the Sept.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), which prides itself as being an ostensibly antigraft party, continues to resist attempts by the Corruption