Jakarta – Attorney General Basrief Arief said the systematic persecution of alleged members of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) after the failed 1965 coup was not a gross human righ

Kuala Lumpur – Three policemen have been accused of gang-raping an Indonesian woman at a police station in a northern Malaysian town.

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Rangga Prakoso, Ezra Sihite, Bayu Marhaenjati& Firdha Novialita – The Attorney General's Office has rejected a plea by the National Commission on Human Rights to conduct an official

Constitutional Court (MK) chief justice Mahfud MD has called for the dismissal and replacement of all law enforcement officials so the nation's judicial institutions can be freed from t

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – The government needs to prohibit the conversion of rice fields into housing, industrial complexes or other non-agricultural activities as part of efforts

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Samsul Maarif, Yogyakarta – Indonesia is a country where religious education is taught to school students probably in the most extensive way in the world.

Katrin Figge – In Indonesia, lesbian women, as well as gay men, bisexuals and transgender individuals, often face intolerance and violence from religious fundamentalist groups like the

Arya Dipa, Bandung – At least 200 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) staged a demonstration in Bandung, West Java on Thursday, demanding that the administration immediately impl

Camelia Pasandaran & Ethan Harfenist – More than 30 Shiites in Sampang, East Java, have reportedly been forced to embrace Sunni Islam after they were faced with the prospect of havi

Jakarta – The Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) has officially nominated the pairing of member of the House of Representatives Rieke Diyah Pitaloka and antigraft activist

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Dessy Sagita – Indonesia's infant mortality rate matches that of significantly poorer Bangladesh, and blame for the alarmingly high rate lies with the government, an activist says.

Jakarta – More than two years after their last meeting in 2010, chair of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) Megawati Soekarnoputri made a conciliatory gesture toward Pr

Jakarta – Taking a contrary view to his deputy, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan has said he is pessimistic about Indonesia's exports being able to meet the government's target of US$203 bi

Jakarta – Graft convict Muhammad Nazaruddin claims that he has provided the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) with documents that can reveal identity of those responsible for graf

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) in North Sumatra has attributed the major flooding that hit several regencies over the last week to the rapid rat

Indonesian celebrities have hijacked the electoral process, Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo warned on Thursday in a speech criticizing what he called a common shortcut to office.

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Jakarta – The 2012 Indo Defence Expo and Forum, the country's largest military equipment exhibition, is expected to boost partnership between local and global defense companies, says Vi

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Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – Two lawmakers say they will take legal action against State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan for allegedly slandering them.

Nurfika Osman and Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Rather than ensuring that the police take firm action against violent or prolonged labor protests, top government officials are conten

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – Indonesia must improve the quality of its local human resources so that more unemployed people can find jobs amid robust economic growth, a senior offic

Jakarta – The Jakarta Police, in coordination with the Jakarta Education Agency, plan to send 3,000 disruptive high school students to boot camp as part of an effort to quell school vio

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Dessy Sagita & Ezra Sihite – The government has welcomed a peace deal between rival ethnic communities in Lampung, where long-simmering tensions boiled over into violent clashes las

Surabaya – The Surabaya office of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras) has reported that 26 Shia refugees currently taking shelter at a sports center in

Bagus BT Saragih and Ruslan Sangadji, Poso, Central Sulawesi – A mother of two children could not conceal her contempt for the police while displaying a 3-centimeter scar left near her

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Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – More than 400,000 jobs were to have resulted for every 1 percent increase in the nation's economic growth rate, according to the 2011 and 2012 state bud

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – In spite of the adverse impact from the excessive use of fossil fuels, Indonesia would be unlikely to meet the target of conversion to renewable resource

Jakarta – Indonesia on Tuesday dismissed concerns voiced by human rights groups over its purchase of more than 150 tanks from Germany.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Only six provinces in the country have agreed to increase the regional minimum wage for 2013, while 27 others are expected to follow suit soon.

Jakarta – All of the major political parties still have to undergo the factual verification stage's tough screening process, which is conducted by the General Elections Commission (KPU)

Information and video footage has emerged from Merauke, Papua, documenting the beating by Indonesian soldiers of the Secretary General of the Parlemen Rakyat Daerah (People's Regional P

Jakarta – The third quarter financial reports of Indonesia's biggest banks show that the banking industry in the country remains one of the world's most profitable, as banks retained th

Indonesia's Supreme Court has scrapped a government ban on the export of unprocessed minerals, the country's chamber of commerce said on Monday, and urged the government to draft new mi

Ten big companies will shut down their production in Indonesia as a result of unfavorable employment policies, according to Sarman Simanjorang, the deputy chairman of the Jakarta chapte

Ruslan Sangadji, Palu, Central Sulawesi – Several residents of Kayamanya subdistrict in Poso, Central Sulawesi, will file complaints against the National Police's counterterrorism unit,

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Increases in workers' monthly salaries are important as they will help them pay the premiums for the national social security program to be implemented in

Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti – If the caste system existed in Indonesia the 10 elderly people who live in Jakarta's Jalan Kramat would surely be untouchables: for decades they and their

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Senior Golkar Party officials are divided over the notion of pairing Aburizal Bakrie, the party chairman, with former Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati for the 2014 presidential el

Foreign Minister Bob Carr says Australia has been "explicit" in its support for Indonesia's sovereignty over Papua.

London – Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a string of agreements on trade, defense and education on Thursday, the British

The Judicial Commission said on Friday it will look into claims by a disgraced Bekasi judge that many of his colleagues in Jakarta were drug users and often engaged in "drug parties."