Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arientha Primanita – Legislators are angry that a Supreme Audit Agency report on the Hambalang scandal has been tampered with, leading to the removal of Y

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Zaky Pawas & Ulin Yusron – Eleven students from Pamulang University have been arrested after a violent protest against the presence of National Police Depu

Richard Javad Heydarian – With the world's third-largest democracy and Asia's fifth-largest economy, Indonesia has emerged as a regional bastion of political stability and economic dyna

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Members of the House of Representatives Budget Committee on Friday said they were not worried that this week's graft conviction of a former member would promp

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Despite clear directives from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the National Police appear to be reluctant in letting the Corruption Eradication Commissio

Muhammad Cohen, Bali – Max Lane is a Marxist and leading authority on Indonesia.

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono underlined the importance of the roles played by leaders and religious figures in solving various conflicts taking place across the country.

Multa Fidrus, Tangerang – Students and police officers clashed during a demonstration at a university in Pamulang, South Tangerang, on Thursday.

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced former House of Representatives member Wa Ode Nurhayati of the National Mandate Party (PAN) to six years in prison on

Serang, Banten – "We used to cram 45 to 50 students into each classroom here," says Komarudin, principal of Kasunyatun State Elementary School in the town of Serang.

Jakarta – The police said on Friday they were questioning 11 people in relation to their alleged involvement in a campus riot on Thursday at Pamulang University in South Tangerang.

The Jakarta Corruption Court's conviction of suspended House of Representatives' lawmaker Wa Ode Nurhayati on Thursday has sent yet another unfortunate message that whistle-blowers who

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – The National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan) has urged the central government and the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) provincial administration

Jakarta – Responding to demands that proper sex education be taught in schools in order to protect children from rape, Education and Culture Minister Mohammad Nuh said that it was unnec

Rizky Amelia – The antigraft commission will seek to have anyone convicted of corruption automatically dismissed from the civil service, an official said on Wednesday.

Ron Jenkins, New York – For almost half a century, Indonesia has avoided public discussions of the mass murders committed in 1965 and 1966.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo – Sampang Shia community leader Tajul Muluk has remained in detention at the Sidoarjo penitentiary for the past week without a clear legal basis, despite

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Law and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsudin downplayed on Wednesday the recent arrest of a judge by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) for having a "drug p

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's younger son, Edhie "Ibas" Baskoro, who is on House of Representatives Commission I overseeing defense and foreign affairs, made a rare appearance on

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Tangerang – Companies continue to ignore consumer complaints despite the long-standing stipulations of the 1999 Consumer Protection Law, activists have said.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that employers had to register their workers on national health-care and occupational social security programs, a

Natasia Christy & Pitan Daslani – As of the next academic year, the government will reinstate Pancasila courses in Indonesia's elementary and high schools in a desperate attempt to

Jakarta – The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) has recorded 686 cases of child abuse in the first half of this year, meaning that more than 100 cases have been repor

Ezra Sihite & Rizky Amelia – Indonesian lawmakers have unanimously spoken out against a plan to curb the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) power in a letter sent to the Hous

Ansyor Idrus and Ruslan Sangadji – Groups of journalists across the country staged protests against military brutality against the press on Wednesday.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Bandung journalists are urging Indonesian media to stop covering Indonesian Military (TNI) events, in protest following assaults against reporters in Riau.

Reporters Without Borders deplores the beating that six journalists received from air force personnel when they tried to cover the crash of an air force fighter jet yesterday in Riau pr

Riana Afifah, Jakarta – Following the offensive statement by the Minister for Education and Culture about a female high-school student victim of rape in Depok, namely ASS, the Women's A

Pekanbaru, Riau – Several journalists were assaulted and intimidated by Air Force officers when covering a jet crash in Riau on Tuesday.

Jakarta – The Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party has named anti-corruption activist Teten Masduki as its candidate in the West Java gubernatorial election scheduled for February.

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo – A Shiite leader from Sampang, East Java, Tajul Muluk, has been forced to remain incarcerated at Sidoarjo Penitentiary even though his detention period e

Dion Bisara – Strong growth in Indonesia in the first half of the year and an improved trade balance have prompted to World Bank to take a sunnier outlook on the nation's economy in the

Arientha Primanita & Dion Bisara – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged developing countries to review restrictions on trade beyond tariff walls in order to boost economic d

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – The Golkar Party on Monday said that the recent business saga surrounding companies belonging to the family of its chairman, Aburizal Bakrie

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ezra Sihite – Two new surveys are predicting a massive hemorrhaging of votes for the Democratic Party in the 2014 election, painting a bleak scenario in w

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Antara – A survey released on Monday shows that Indonesian voters are losing faith in the nation's Islamic political parties.

Dessy Sagita – A prominent teachers' union has demanded that Education Minister Mohammad Nuh resign for suggesting that a 14-year-old girl who faced expulsion from her school after bein

Jakarta – The National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA) says that at least 129 teenagers have been sexually assaulted this year to date, already surpassing the 121 cases recor

Dion Bisara – Indonesia's problems developing infrastructure and reforming the bureaucracy may cost 1 percent to 3 percent of the country's annual GDP growth over the next decades, impe

Jakarta – Two opinion polls have painted a gloomy picture for Islam-based political parties, with none of the existing ones being predicted to remain among the top five parties in the 2

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Deddy Kusdinar, the first suspect in the Youth and Sports Ministry's graft-ridden Hambalang sports complex project, spoke of his bosses' alleged roles in th

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The National Police Commission (Kompolnas) has found irregularities behind the controversial police move to prosecute Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK)

Pitan Daslani – The Legislation Committee of the House of Representatives is currently studying a draft law on national security that covers a broad range of issues affecting the nation

In its press statement on October 3, the Indonesian Workers and Labourers Assembly (MPBI) stated that 2 million workers mobilized for the national strike it called for that date, with m

Bali – In its desperate attempt to show its commitment to fight corruption, the Democratic Party has come up with the idea of an anti-corruption songwriting competition, expected to pro

Pitan Daslani – The government is pushing to get a wide-ranging national security bill passed by the House of Representatives, but lawmakers are showing reluctance to deliberate on it o

Indonesia has seen a major decline in the number of child brides, but a significant 22 percent of Indonesian women aged 20 to 24 were married before the age of 18, according to a landma

Hamish McDonald – Just over a month ago, popular Darwin identity Vikki Riley was riding her bike on one of her regular visits to asylum seekers at the Airport Lodge, a motel turned into

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Surabaya – Former president and opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri revealed on Friday that she had to fight against a "great current" to back the ticket t