The Indonesian government announced on Monday that the moratorium on hiring new civil servants was lifted at the end of December, 16 months after it was instituted, but that stringent r

ID/Grace Dwitya Amianti, Gita Rossiana & Tito Summa Siahaan – Companies and consumers have started to calculate damages and losses from the widespread floods that hit Jakarta last w

A senior Indonesian judge will face an ethics tribunal for saying rape victims enjoyed the act, an official said on Monday, after a judicial commission recommended his dismissal.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) and a number of Islamic mass organisations oppose attempts to ban female circumcision by any groups on the grounds that it represents a reli

Jakarta – In response to the current inundation affecting parts of Jakarta, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's actions in recent days have prompted many to speculate that he is compet

The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) spoke out against the Ministry of Health's refusal to ban female circumcision on Monday, calling the practice, which

Jakarta – An environmental group in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) said that it would file a report to the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) over alleged gratuities given by Tha

A parliamentary watchdog has called on the majority of Indonesia's lawmakers not to run in the April 2014 legislative election due to poor performance during their current term of offic

Brooke Nolan – At the launch of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate project in 2010, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that the agribusinesses involved would "feed

A noted political scientist has thrown his weight behind Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo over the motives of political parties' assistance to flood victims, saying that helping with ulteri

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Yuli Tri Suwarni, Depok – The condition of the environment in Jakarta and the upstream areas of West Java have contributed to the current floods, the worst since 2007, experts say.

SP/Yeremia Sukoyo – Prabowo Subianto, the former Army general who tops most polls of prospective presidential candidates, says he is working to get the endorsement of the country's acad

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Agnes Winarti, Bali Daily, Denpasar – Although known as a paradise island, Bali has yet to be a paradise for Balinese women and children.

Bandung – Dozens of graft convicts detained in different cities across the country have been gradually transferred to Sukamiskin Penitentiary in Bandung, West Java, since Friday night.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – More than 18,000 people have been displaced by the floods that have struck Jakarta. Some report facing hunger, dysentery and poor sanitation.

Farouk Arnaz – The new national human rights chief has vowed to work closely with police to address concerns about excessive use of force during ongoing counterterrorism raids in the Ce

The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) went to the National Police headquarters on Friday to remind the police force to uphold human rights principles in dealing with extr

SP/Robertus Wardi – The hidden fees of doing business in Indonesia are a major factor keeping investors at bay and undermining the country's economic competitiveness, an analyst says.

Rangga Prakoso – The Attorney General's Office says it will work with the national rights commission to direct the latter's constant attempts to get prosecutors to open an inquest into

Although flooding in the capital city is a regular occurrence every rainy season, many were caught by surprise on Thursday.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The government has decided to give ad hoc corruption judges a pay rise in an attempt to make them less vulnerable to committing the crime they are supposed to be

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The Catholic Diocese of Surabaya, East Java, is saying that the local office of the Religious Affairs Ministry has misrepresented its position on the religi

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Heavy monsoonal rains triggered severe flooding in large swathes of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday, with many government offices and businesses were forced to close because

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Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – A new report from Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) says that the alleged embezzlement of the haj fund overseen by the Religious Affairs Ministry caused stat

Antonia Timmerman – Women workers in Indonesia continue to face significant cultural, social, economic and religious barriers to equal treatment in employment, joint research by the Int

Ronna Nirmala – Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo on Thursday placed the entire capital under emergency status following the massive flooding that paralyzed the city.

Bhimanto Suwastoyo – Activists and experts on Wednesday said that the national government, including its officials and laws, were to blame for rising intolerance in the country.

Jakarta – Aburizal Bakrie is the most-talked about presidential candidate on social media outlets, but he is also considered by netizens as the least preferable person to become the cou

Jakarta – Thousands of workers took to the city's main thoroughfares on Wednesday to protest delays in the increased minimum wage and hikes in electricity rates.

Subkhan, Jakarta – The number Indonesian National Army (TNI) soldiers who commit violence increased throughout 2012.

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Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The displaced Shiite community in East Java continues to face pressure to convert to "true" Islam if they wish to return to their homes in Sampang district

ID/Novy Lumanauw & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for the nation not to ignore the voice of minorities in what he insisted was a multicultural de

Rape is never a joke": This phrase has spread like wildfire across social media sites since the news broke on a candidate justice joking about rape at the honorable House of Representat

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Ina Parlina, Jakarta – The Judicial Commission (KY) says judge Muhammad Daming Sunusi, who made headlines on Tuesday after making a controversial "rape joke", is unfit to be a Supreme C

Batam – Two women who married in Indonesia by disguising themselves as a heterosexual couple were chased away from their village after neighbors discovered they were lesbians, community

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Human rights watchdog Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian government to end its discrimination against the Shiite Muslim minority in Madura, East Java, and guarantee the

Jakarta – In the run-up to the selection of legislative candidates in April, political parties have started to pick familiar faces that will attract voters to their parties in the upcom

Hundreds of Indonesian workers joined protests in Jakarta today to urge the government to roll back increases in electricity and gas prices that they say are stalling efforts to introdu

A demonstration in front of the National Democratic Party's headquarters in support of a former Metro TV reporter on Wednesday ended in disorder, as protesters and journalists were alle

The Manpower and Transmigration Ministry has established a task force to monitor the threat of job dismissals following the implementation of monthly minimum wage standards considered a

George Roberts, Indonesia – Workers at a Nike shoe factory in Indonesia say the factory paid military personnel to intimidate them into working for less than the minimum wage.

Jakarta – A candidate Supreme Court justice told members of the House of Representatives that some rape cases might involve consensual sex and require more lenient sentences.