Bayu Marhaenjati – Indonesian terrorists have shifted their targets to attack police stations over churches, an analyst says.

Rizky Amelia – A survey by the national antigraft commission has identified the Forestry Ministry as the government institution with the lowest perceived level of integrity.

Jakarta – Despite allegations of child molestation against a number of local clerics in the city, not one suspect has been detained due to a lack of solid evidence in each case, accordi

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Despite massive campaigns in the past five years, the government has failed to convince more people to use contraceptives, a survey has shown.

Jakarta – As much as 70 percent of the government's budget for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs come from foreign donations, making the nation's fight against the disease vuln

Jakarta Police arrested four people on Wednesday for running a meat processing factory that allegedly mixed pork into what is supposed to be pure beef meatballs, which are used in the p

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The People's Consultative Assembly says a resolution it issued in 1967 stripping Sukarno of his presidency for an inability to carry out his duties is no long

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Two teams of lawmakers from the House of Representatives' Commission VII have departed for visits to the United States and Brazil in relation to draft laws on

Surabaya, East Java – Indonesia's retired army general, Wiranto, will run for president in 2014.

Apriadi Gunawan and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Medan – A widespread industrial strike took place in Medan, North Sumatra, on Tuesday with thousands of workers blockading the Tanjungmorawa-Bela

Jakarta – Mining and plantation companies are among the actors that should be held responsible for numerous human rights abuses in the country, according to a National Commission on Hum

Jakarta – The graft scandals that have implicated several Democratic Party politicians will not cause the party to collapse, but will seriously shrink the party's performance in the 201

Ainur Rohmah and Bambang Muryanto, Semarang/Yogyakarta – International Human Rights Day, which fell on Monday, was marked with rallies staged by marginalized communities throughout the

Indonesia's state ideology of Pancasila has come under scathing criticism for enabling a culture of repression against atheists, with an international rights organization citing a case

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has named the police and companies as the top human rights violators in the country this year.

Jakarta – A senior minister has stated that the country did not need a strongman president because such a person would tend to prioritize his own interests ahead of people's needs.

Ridwan Max Sijabat – While executives have complained that recently approved wage hikes smell of populism and capitulation to unions, several economists say that the increases reflect a

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – As workers held mass protests and strikes last week, thousands of labor-intensive companies are seeking government approval to postpone raising workers' mo

Jakarta – The growth in the number of wealthy individuals over the last 10 years has been spectacular, increasing by five fold or by 500 percent.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a revision to the government regulation dealing with human resources at the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK).

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Less than a week after one of his ministers was named a graft suspect, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Monday that "the state must protect officia

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As the world commemorated Human Rights Day on Dec.

Jakarta – A law that was specifically designed to handle social conflict across the country is considered ineffective as the legislation does not touch any of the potential root issues

Sampang, Indonesia – Condemned as heretics, a community of around 200 Shiite Muslims have for months lived as pariahs in a sports hall, driven from their Indonesian village after a dead

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – With the Jakarta branch of the Great Indonesian Movement Party on Saturday announcing its nomination of party founder Prabowo Subia

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has told Democratic Party executives to brace for the worst in anticipation of the graft probe of the party's board of pat

Jakarta – Holding on to the belief that the majority of Indonesian people long for the calm and order of the Soeharto era, members of the former strongman's family appear to have found

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Despite an outward appearance of solidarity in support of demands for improving the welfare of the nation's workers, local labor unions are divided and out

Camelia Pasandaran – Things continue to go from bad to worse for Aceng Fikri, the embattled head of Garut district in West Java.

Rizky Amelia – In an announcement that could potentially shock millions of civil servants across the country, the Corruption Eradication Commission said it will require all state offici

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[A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission on the occasion of the Human Rights Day 2012.]

The National Police Traffic Corps and the Corruption Eradication Commission have failed to settle a lawsuit out of court, regarding the handling of documents in the driving simulator gr

Loic Vennin and Olivia Rondonuwu, Pararawen, Central Kalimantan – The roar of chainsaws has replaced birdsong, the once-lush, green jungle scorched to a barren grey.

Ronna Nirmala & Faisal Maliki Baskoro – Hundreds of human rights activists gathered in Jakarta on Saturday to commemorate the 47th birthday of slain activist Munir Said Thalib and u

Tito Summa Siahaan – While the Indonesia government is being applauded for introducing the world's first carbon credit mechanism, the country's civil society organizations believe the i

Jakarta – It appears that fans of English singer and songwriter Sting expect more than just a few songs during his upcoming Jakarta concert next Saturday.

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Earlier this year, the government framed its plan to implement a fuel-to-gas energy conversion program as the answer to the country's growing dependency

Thousands of workers staged a rally in Palembang, South Sumatra, on Thursday, demanding that the provincial administration raise their monthly wages, as their current pay was far from e

Jakarta – The transgender community has been keeping out of sight in the wake of rising intimidation from the unruly Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and the National Police's reluctance to

Rossie Indira and Andre Vltchek – Indonesia's Shi'ite minority is under heavy attack. Men, women, and children have been assaulted, schools damaged, and villages burned to the ground.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) made another bold move in naming Youth and Sports Minister Andi Mallarangeng a suspect in the Hambalang sports c

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – One day after naming former Youth and Sports Minister Andi Alfian Mallarangeng as a suspect in the Hambalang sports complex scandal, the Corruption Eradicat

Neil Chatterjee, Jakarta – Indonesia's first minister to be named a suspect in a bribery scandal resigned on Friday, becoming the highest profile victim of an increasingly aggressive pu

Ezra Sihite – Although the members of the House of Representatives Ethics Council have found four lawmakers guilty of violating the House's code of ethics, the council said that none of

Jakarta – Indonesians remain confident about their country's economic outlook, but their worries about employment opportunities and inflationary pressures persist.

Jakarta – Thousands of workers rallied on Wednesday at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle, in front of several embassies and at the Presidential Palace, resulting in severe traffic cong

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – In what could be seen as a consolation prize for the embattled Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the anti-graft body has won an award as one of the mo

Apriadi Gunawan and Fadli, Medan/Batam – Thousands of workers staged a protest in Medan on Wednesday over the provincial minimum wage increase that was set at Rp 1.35 million (US$140.63

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Nusa Dua – Although some may consider abortion to be an uncontroversial issue, participants at the three-day Global Youth Forum (GYF) in Bali are still debating it

The National Republic Party (Nasrep), the political party of former president Soeharto's favorite son, Tommy Soeharto, was upbeat that it would pass the factual verification process and