Gerry van Klinken – The most extraordinary achievement of the New Order might have been the tenacity of its ideology.

Robert Cribb – Filmed over several years in the North Sumatra capital, Medan, The Act of Killing is a sprawling work that encompasses three distinct, though related, stories.

SP/Erwin Sihombing – In the first three months of this year, a total of 13 police officers fell victim to violence, the Indonesia Police Watch chairman said on Monday, just days after t

Ronnie Hatley – A campaign of mass assassination, torture, rape, imprisonment and other atrocities against people accused of being 'communists' swept across Indonesia following the seiz

The Indonesian government is planning to transfer the authority of issuing mining, forestry and plantation concessions from municipalities and districts to provincial administrations in

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Made Arya Kencana – An election watchdog has slammed President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his domination over the Democratic Party's organizational stru

Camelia Pasandaran – There will be no indoor Easter service this year for three embattled congregations in West Java still fighting to worship in their own churches, but that won't stop

SP/Robertus Wardi – A parliamentary watchdog has called on the House of Representatives' Ethics Council to take action against lawmakers who frequently skip meetings and plenary session

Erwin Cristianson – Army Chief of Staff Gen.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The police may have failed to foresee the recent attack on four inmates at Cebongan Penitentiary in Sleman, Yogyakarta, and may have ignored potential clu

Jakarta – Members of a number of churches in Greater Jakarta will hold their Easter mass in front of the Presidential Palace in Central Jakarta on Sunday and call for an end to their su

Yohannie Linggasari – Rights activists have blasted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his failure to order a human rights tribunal set up to investigate the widespread abuses surro

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – Organizers of One Billion Rising Indonesia have finally secured a public space to hold the Women's Festival at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) in Central Jakarta o

Bagus BT Saragih, Sanur, Bali – The Democratic Party's extraordinary congress has appointed Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as the new party chairman, replacing Anas Urbaningrum who resigned o

Made Arya Kencana – Most Indonesians do not approve the idea for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to be elected as the new Democratic Party chairman to replace the ousted Anas Urbanin

Angela Dewan – The elite police unit on the front line of Indonesia's lauded terrorism clampdown faces fresh allegations of torture and unlawful killings, raising concerns it is fueling

Jakarta – Graft convict and former chief detective Comr. Gen. (ret.) Susno Duadji says he has joined the Muslim-based Crescent Star Party (PBB).

Yeremia Sukoyo – Criticism continues to pour in against a controversial bill that would tighten the regulation of mass organizations, ahead of its expected passage this week by the Hous

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Bambang Muryanto and Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Chairwoman of the National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Siti Noor Laila confirmed that the commission had been denied access

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Activists are renewing calls for the government and the House of Representatives to push for more reform of the Indonesian Military (TNI) and the National

The Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday jailed two men who were involved in several shootings in the Aceh province in the lead-up to the April 2012 gubernatorial elections.

Farouk Arnaz, Anastasia Winanti Riesardhy & Robertus Wardi – More indications have emerged that point to a rogue military unit as the heavily armed group who infiltrated a police de

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – A police station commander in Simalungun, Sumatera Utara, has been beaten to death by a mob during a vice raid, police have said.

Jakarta – Fresh on the heels of the demolition of a Bekasi church, the local administration banned congregants from conducting services at their church in Jatibening Baru subdistrict on

Yohanes Sulaiman – The proposed criminal law that is currently being discussed in the parliament is, to put it bluntly, a disaster in the making.

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Carlos Paath – Rights activists are demanding immediate changes to the 1997 Law on Military Tribunals, in the wake of a deadly attack on police detainees that some have blamed on the Ar

The Greater Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party wants to revise the Criminal Code (KUHP) to reinstate an article to punish those who insult the President.

Jakarta – The National Police on Tuesday revealed a major reshuffle involving two regional police chiefs who have been in the hot seat over the past few weeks over corruption and human

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Lawmakers at the House of Representatives have deadlocked on plans to amend Law No. 42/2008 on presidential elections.

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The House of Representatives is being asked to revise the 2002 Children Protection Law this year in response to the rampant number of child abuse cases, with

Jakarta – Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq, the former chairman of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) who arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for alleged graft, has been slapped

Ina Parlina, World – Paying more attention to children's voices would help address the inequalities that many of them face, said young participants in a meeting on the Millennium Develo

Indah Setiawati, Jakarta – The city administration will cooperate with a number of institutions to set up child protection task forces (Satgas PA) in neighborhood and community units to

Syamsul Huda M Suhari, Gorontalo – The Gorontalo branches of the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI), the Indonesian Television Journalist Association (IJTI) and the Indonesian Jo

Jakarta – The congregation of Damai Kristus Catholic church in Tambora, West Jakarta, held their Sunday service protected by the police to prevent another lock out by members of Muslim

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Despite a paranoid official overreaction, the Sovereign Indonesian People's Assembly (MKRI) staged a protest on Monday, calling for the President's resignati

Syamsul Huda M. Suhari, Gorontalo – Thousands of supporters of a Gorontalo mayoral candidate attacked and occupied state television TVRI Gorontalo station at Jl.

The son of Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for the Economy Hatta Rajasa will not serve any jail time for causing a traffic accident that killed two people in January, as long as he is

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – Victims of alleged police brutality condemned Saturday's shootings of unarmed residents at Barumun police subprecinct in Padang Lawas, North Sumatra.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The popularity of Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who was nominated by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) in last year's city electio

Communication and Information Technology Minister Tifatul Sembiring is pressing on with his antipornography campaign, calling all regional heads across the country to launch efforts to

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – On the heels of the execution-style killing of four detainees in Sleman, Yogyakarta, rights activists have urged the government and the House of Representati

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Lawmakers have lambasted the government for its failure to protect the public after a brutal attack on Cebongan Prison in Sleman, Yogyakarta, left four people

Jakarta – Inequality must be placed at the center of all discussions at the UN High Level Panel for the post-2015 development agenda in Bali next week as unequal progress on human devel

Bandung – Thrashing wildly, 5-year-old Reta wails as she is hoisted onto a bed during a circumcision ceremony in a school-hall-turned-clinic on Java.

Members of Muslim community groups closed off the Damai Kristus Catholic Church in Tambora, West Jakarta, on Saturday evening.

Jakarta/Sleman, Yogyakarta – The execution-style killing of four detainees accused of murdering a former member of the Army's Special Forces (Kopassus) by reportedly "professional" gunm

Farouk Arnaz – At least 15 officers were injured and seven villagers were shot in clash at the Barumun Tengah Police station in North Sumatra on Saturday morning, in what police officer