Dessy Sagita – Though Indonesia has made significant progress in saving the lives of newborns over the past two decades, the country has been struggling to rescue mothers during childbi

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – A coalition of minority groups, who have long suffered persecution, are calling on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to end their plight before accepting an awar

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan – Palm oil planters have denounced a two-year forest-clearing moratorium that ends this month, saying it has throttled palm oil production and are u

ID/Aris Cahyadi – Ahmad Fathanah, a suspect in the beef import quota scandal, seems to have been involved with a number of women who were receiving money and gifts.

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – The Education and Culture Ministry says it will further reduce the number of schools slated to introduce its new curriculum this year.

In his work Indonesia's Accountability Trap: Party Cartels and Presidential Power after Democratic Transition, Dan Slater, an observer of Indonesian politics at the University of Chicag

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Displaced Shia followers from Karanggayam and Bluuran villages in Sampang, Madura regency, have demanded East Java Governor Timur Soekarwo protect their rig

Adi Marsiela, Bandung, Indonesia – Indonesia's elite anti-terrorism unit went on a busy 24-hour spree to root out suspected Islamic militants, killing seven and arresting six others in

Ali Akhmad, Jakarta – As many as 29 women's community groups from the Indonesian Women's Action Committee (KAPI) commemorated 20 years since the murder of Marsinah by holding a candleli

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesian media need to work together to ensure that religious extremists don't have a voice in print, the International Association of Religion Journalists said o

Makassar – Two journalists have been attacked by a motorcycle gang in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in an incident that is likely to draw further attention to the unsafe conditions journali

Achmad Faizal, Surabaya – Scores of women workers from various different groups in East Java held an action on Wednesday May 8 in the provincial capital of Surabaya to commemorate 20 ye

Over the weekend 34 young workers finally regained their freedom, after being forced to work for two years at a factory in Tangerang, Banten.

Fitri Bintang Timur, Jakarta – The Pew Research Center's research World's Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society published last month caused controversy in Indonesia, particularly the

Nadya Natahadibrata, Jakarta – A study by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) shows that Indonesia, the country with the third largest tropical forest coverage in the world, i

Farouk Arnaz & Vento Saudale – West Java's persecuted Ahmadiyah Muslim sect suffered another blow on Tuesday as Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers shuttered a mosque in Depok

Amahl S.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Activists say that the government must establish a family court system to accommodate the rights of women and children that have been ignored by existing religiou

Sabine Siebold & Gareth Jones, Berlin – The German government confirmed on Wednesday the sale of 104 used Leopard 2 tanks and 50 armored personnel carriers by industrial group Rhein

Dessy Sagita – The Indonesian Consumer Protection Foundation has demanded an audit into a recent discovery that the memory chips in the new Indonesian identity cards, or e-KTP, are dest

Ezra Sihite – A government official says people should refer to a five-year-old joint decree to find solutions to the recent spate of violence between hard-line groups and the Ahmadiyah

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Only a small minority of candidates aspiring to run in the 2014 legislative election managed to pass the verification process at the General Elections Comm

Indra Harsaputra and Margareth S.

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators have failed in their attempts to confiscate five cars parked at the Prosperous Justice Party's (PKS) headquarters.

Just days after hard-line Islamic group members tore down the homes of an Ahmadiyah community in his province, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan said violence against the beleaguered mi

The Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has stopped providing security to victims of a mob attack driven by religious intolerance in Sampang, Madura, which claimed the lives of

Margareth S.

Tassia Sipahutar and Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – Declining consumer spending and lower investment have unexpectedly caused a drag on the country's economic growth, leading to its slowest

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Graft cases in Indonesia follow an all-too-familiar routine: Greying politicians in batik shirts arrive at the front of the Corruption Eradication Commission

We, the undersigned urge the Appeal of Conscience Foundation to withdraw its World Statesman Award to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Carlos Paath & Rizky Amelia – Activists have welcomed a new regulation that will allow greater scrutiny of the way political parties and legislative candidates receive and spend cam

Carlos Paath – Next year's legislative election is unlikely to yield any dramatic improvement in the quality of members of the House of Representatives, because political parties have s

Sita W.

Tangerang – In response to the enslaving of workers at a kitchen utensils factory in Sepatan Timur, Tangerang, workers and local residents ran amok and damaged the factory's facilities

Arya Dipa, Bandung/Jakarta – No one was injured as unknown assailants attacked an Ahmadhi hamlet in Tenjowaringin village in Tasikmalaya, West Java, early on Sunday morning.

Nivell Rayda, Bandung, West Java – Java's indigenous faith practitioners have faced hardship for generations and a visit to one of their enclaves confirms that not much has changed rece

Dessy Sagita – An Ahmadiyah community in Tasikmalaya, West Java, was left in shambles on Sunday after hundreds of Islamic hard-line group members destroyed homes in their village.

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Jakarta – The sluggish pace of a police investigation has led the family of Safira Raudatul Janah, 14, a victim of a stray bullet in Jl.

Bambang Muryanto and Syofiardi Bachyul Jb, Yogyakarta/Bandung – The commemorations to mark World Press Freedom Day, which fell on Friday, were as varied as the journalists and NGO activ

Dyah Ayu Pitaloka & Yuli Krisna, Malang/Bandung – Reporters and activists highlighted the lack of protection for journalists in Indonesia to mark World Press Freedom Day on Friday.

Police in Tangerang sealed a frying pan factory and arrested its owner, who allegedly held his underaged workers in captivity while forcing them to work without pay.

Jakarta – Actress Khadijah Azhari, popularly known as Ayu Azhari, returned money she received from graft suspect Ahmad Fathanah, a close aid to former Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) cha

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The second annual "2+2" dialogue between the defense and foreign ministers of Australia and Indonesia on Wednesday reaffirmed the good, comprehensive and str

Laura Dawson – Australia is looking to deepen its ties with Indonesia in order to better ensure its own security, according to the Australian 2013 Defense White Paper released on Friday

Jakarta – Khotiah, a factory worker, said she never expected her back-breaking work spanning 11 years at the Siliwangi Knitting Factory in North Jakarta to end with her dismissal for fo

Bayu Marhaenjati & AFP – Hundreds of members of radical Islamic groups on Friday called for "jihad in Myanmar" during rallies in front of the Myanmar embassy in Menteng, Jakarta, to

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Raymond Prasetya, a 24-year old employee at a Japanese company, was driving alone on Jl.

Graft convict Susno Duadji is now in detention after surrendering to authorities on Thursday evening.