Hans Nicholas Jong and Dicky Christanto Wulandaru, Jakarta – The deputy head of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), Adnan Pandu Praja, confirmed that he, along with KPK chairma

Bagus BT Saragih and Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has set up a team to investigate the leaking of a document that named Democratic Party cha

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The dazzling rise of Edhie "Ibas" Baskoro, 32, to power and wealth has focused the public eye on the enigmatic life of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyon

Hayat Indriyatno – Spatial zoning proposals for Aceh indicate that the province's governor is seeking to open up more than 52,000 hectares of protected forest there to logging, a conser

Wijaya Kusuma, Yogyakarta – One Billion Rising (OBR) rising activist in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta (Yogya) will hold a dance action as a form of opposition to and concern over

Indonesia's Child Protection Commissioner has accused Australia of human rights abuses.

Twenty-three Indonesian youths plan to sue Australia for illegal detention after being jailed in adult prisons for people-smuggling when they were minors, a child rights agency said on

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – After declaring an alliance with the Ulema National Awakening Party, the United Development Party said it was now seeking to establish a broader coalition of

Jakarta – The government has no right to ban Indonesian women from working abroad but rather it must protect them against any work risk wherever they are employed, according to the Indo

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won praise from worldwide leaders of the Seventh Day Adventist church who thanked him for providing "wonderful religious l

Farouk Arnaz – The attempted firebombing of two Makassar churches was likely part of an attempt to spark religious tensions in South Sulawesi, the National Police said on Tuesday.

SP/Novianti Setuningsih & Rizky Amelia – Pork and rat meat were the focus of a discussion between former Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairman Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq and the minister

SP/Carlos Paath & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives has threatened to take over the country's main human rights body unless it can resolve a deeply polarizing

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia tightened its grip on financial transactions on Tuesday as the nation introduced its first law aimed at choking off funding for radical organization

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Stakeholders of the social security scheme are at odds over the amount of insurance premium contributions they should pay for the five mandatory national s

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rizky Amelia – Twelve beef import companies, including Indoguna Utama, teamed up to evade tax payments and use the funds saved to bribe lawmakers and cust

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – House of Representatives Speaker Marzuki Alie says President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono took over the ruling party not merely due to Democrats' sinking populari

Hans Nicholas Jong and Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta/Manado – As the Indonesian media celebrated National Press Day over the weekend, calls mounted for it to remain independent amid efforts

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Religious intolerance continues to cast its dark shadow over the country as two churches in Makassar, South Sulawesi, were attacked with Molotov cocktails on

Mikael Niman – A Christian congregation in Bekasi district has become the latest in West Java province to face opposition from local hard-line Muslims on the grounds that it lacks the n

Severianus Endi, Pontianak – A survey conducted by Pantau Foundation in 2012 reveals that religious intolerance among Indonesian journalists remains high, underlining the need for acces

Farouk Arnaz – Police are investigating a Sunday morning arson attempt on a church in Makassar, South Sulawesi, after three people hurled molotov cocktails at the facade in a botched at

As Indonesia and other countries with Chinese diasporas welcome the Year of the Snake, some Islamic leaders have ignited a religious row by declaring the celebrations "haram" and off li

Jakarta – Human rights activists have slammed the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) for deciding to shorten the commission's chairmanship term from two-and-a-half years t

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Palu, Central Sulawesi – The chief of the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT), Ansyaad Mbai, said terrorists were seeking to break the military-police unity to weaken the power of

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Democratic Party chief patron Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday took over leadership of the ruling party, which has been ravaged by internal conflicts and a slew

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Jakarta – Members of veteran rock band Slank have turned to the Constitutional Court (MK) to exercise their constitutional rights after the police banned the band from performing on sev

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) wants the government to revise Law No. 1/1974 on marriage, which legalizes polygamy, to protect women.

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Zubaidah Nazeer – Some Muslim women in Indonesia are stepping up to a more active role in radicalism as the country's terror cells regroup, with analysts warning the authorities to stre

Arya Dipa, Bandung – As the campaign season kicked off on Thursday, ahead of the upcoming West Java gubernatorial election, the five candidate pairs have begun making "10,000 promises"

Ezra Sihite – Following up on a presidential instruction issued last month on the handling of domestic security disturbances, a minister said on Friday that he had issued a circular man

Hayley Davis – Academics have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to resolve agrarian conflicts and prevent indigenous land rights being compromised by upcoming elections.

Tunggadewi Matangkilang – Speed bumps should be declared forbidden under Islamic law according a cleric at the Samarinda chapter of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI).

Jakarta – Education Minister Mohammad Nuh failed to answer a National Commission on Human Rights' (Komnas HAM) summons on Wednesday to clarify a controversial government draft regulati

SP/Robertus Wardi – Joko Widodo may only have been sworn in as governor of Jakarta last October, but a new survey suggests he could aim even higher next year.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) says it will soon launch a probe to determine the reasons behind a prolonged spike in beef and cattle pr

Jakarta – Activist Ratna Sarumpaet has asked the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to check the tax returns of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and his children so as to avoid f

Several thousand workers from across Greater Jakarta gathered at various locations in the middle of the city on Wednesday demanding the government to reduce their monthly social securit

ID/Agusyanti, Dessy Sagita – Hundreds of companies will be exempt from paying their employees the new minimum wage to prevent bankruptcy, the manpower and transmigration minister said o

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) has urged the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) to commence investigations into five men it alleges are now controlling

A junior high school teacher in the Pangkep district of South Sulawesi has been reported to police by the local district chief for insulting him in a comment on Facebook, a report said

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) and the Supreme Court are at loggerheads over whether Judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi, who attracted widespread public outcry for making

Bagus BT Saragih and Ina Parlina, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should do more than just make claims in responding to reports of alleged discrepancies in his family's tax