Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – Indonesia risks falling into a so-called middle-income trap if it fails to improve infrastructure needed to sustain faster economic growth, says the Internatio

Jakarta – A top education official has defended the government's plan to streamline the curriculum for primary education, saying it is customized to boost character building.

Following news that science and social studies would be largely scrubbed from the nation's elementary school curriculum, the government has decided to make young Indonesians' lessons ev

Jakarta – The House of Representatives' Commission III overseeing law and human rights affairs has finally approved the budget allocation to build a new building for the Corruption Erad

Rabby Pramudatama and Margareth S.

Rabby Pramudatama and Margareth S.

Bagus BT Saragih and Margareth S.

Zubaidah Nazeer, Solo, Central Java – Even as Indonesia stepped up security throughout the archipelago in the decade since the Bali blasts, a new wave of militants is regrouping in the

Jakarta – The Constitutional Court has rejected a request to review Law No.

Rizky Amelia – With graft investigators' net widening in late 2010, Angelina Sondakh allegedly threatened to unleash a "tsunami" on the House of Representatives building in Senayan, Cen

Margareth S.

Jakarta – Indonesians support the democratic system but believe that it can harm minority groups and economic development, as well as spark conflict, a survey reveals.

Raras Cahyafitri, Tokyo – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again cut its estimate of Indonesia's economic growth as the global economic slowdown in Europe, the US and Chin

Jakarta – The death penalty was still necessary within the Indonesian criminal law system, Deputy Law and Human Rights Minister Denny Indrayana said during a discussion held in commemor

Jakarta – As the world celebrates "World Day against the Death Penalty" on Wednesday, a coalition of human rights groups has urged the government to abolish the death penalty, describin

Farouk Arnaz & John Lory – Twin explosions rocked the restive district of Poso, Central Sulawesi, on Tuesday as the region's ongoing sectarian violence continued.

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Alpha Amirrachman, Contributor, Leiden, the Netherlands – Three Dutch institutions – the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the Institute for

Jakarta – Human rights activists have criticized President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration for its poor achievement in resolving human rights violations, saying the nation is

Karangasem, Bali – Between rice fields and coconut trees on Indonesia's "paradise" island of Bali, a man lies chained by the ankles to a rotting wooden bed in a garden, staring at roost

Margareth S. Aritonang and Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – The National Police have defied President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's call not to prosecute Comr.

Slamet Susanto and Apriadi Gunawan, Yogyakarta/Medan – Representatives of Yogyakarta Muhammadiyah, the Indonesian Governmental Science Lecturers Association and the Jusuf Kalla School o

Yogyakarta – Sultan Hamengku Buwono X and Sri (duke) Paku Alam IX were sworn in by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday as the appointed governor and deputy governor of Pakua

Lenny Tristia Tambun & Arientha Primanita – Hundreds of hard-line Muslims continued their rhetoric against Jakarta's Christian deputy governor-elect on Tuesday, calling on the City

Whatever criticism, including this editorial, is directed toward the National Police, it cannot harm the credibility of the country's central law enforcement agency.

B. Herry-Priyono, Jakarta – The biggest prize in Jakarta politics has been captured by the charm of sheer ordinariness.

Farah Wardani – I love movies about villains.

Linda Yulisman, Jakarta – The government has decided on the heels of last week's labor protests to impose tighter restrictions on the employment of workers through outsourcing.

Jakarta – The General Election Commission (KPU) announced on Monday that none of political parties that had registered with the commission had met administrative requirements.

Firdha Novialita – Activists have urged a government minister who previously appeared to express sympathy with those involved in the 1965 purge of alleged communists to explain himself.

Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) staged a protest in front of Jakarta City Council on Tuesday, rejecting the current gubernatorial decree that mandates vice governor to lead se

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Monday in major cities across the country to stage protests aimed at giving moral support to the Corruption

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A Joint Statement by KontraS, LBH Masyarakat, LeIP, YLBHI, Imparsial, LBH Jakarta, Mappi and the Asian Human Rights Commission

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – Analysts have warned that the controversial bill on national security in its present form, once endorsed, could be used to justify human rights abuses and

This year's Ubud Writers and Readers Festival celebrated the works of Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, with his book "Bumi Manusia" ("This Earth of Mankind") serving as the main

Michael Vatikiotis – Modern Indonesian history is a long tableau of violent struggle, first for freedom, then for power and, over much of the past 40 years, over faith and identity.

Camelia Pasandaran – A Depok junior high school expelled a 14-year-old girl on Monday who was recently kidnapped and raped by an angkot driver, saying the child had tainted the school's

The latest in a long series of showdowns between the police and the KPK began late on Friday, when dozens of police officers tried to enter the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) h

Jakarta – Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, Jakarta's governor-elect has topped a list of young potential candidates for the 2014 presidential election, according to a new survey.

Jakarta – The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH Jakarta) has urged the Tangerang Police to drop the investigation against Omih, 28, a shoe worker who is accused of spreading terror throu

Amahl S.

Efforts by the local government to quell violence against Shiites have hit a standstill in Sampang, leaving nearly 200 Shiite Muslims stranded in a local sports center after a deadly Su

Rabby Pramudatama, Bagus BT Saragih and Rendi A.

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Support for the efforts to eradicate corruption is continuing to pour in from people in various professions: from public officials to activists, and academi

Rabby Pramudatama, Bagus BT Saragih and Rendi A. Witular – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Comr.

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Bali – Ten years after terrorist attacks at two Bali nightclubs killed more than 200 people, mostly foreign tourists, Indonesia has won international praise for its counterterrorism eff

Michael Bachelard – Despite a highly professional anti-terrorism police unit, Indonesia is still home to some dangerous nurseries of radicalism.