Ezra Sihite – While the government struggles to fund economic development and cover growing fuel subsidy spending, lawmakers, business leaders and bureaucrats continue to steal the publ

Jakarta – The Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) said on Friday that the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) should expand its list of suspects in the Religious Affairs Ministry's gra

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Nowadays, people are witnessing the Holy Koran being corrupted not only on the interpretation of its content, but also on its procurement.

Jakarta – Without internal reforms, the National Police will continue to use excessive force when dealing with demonstrations.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Finance Ministry admitted that they have funds deposited in an account designated for "unplanned programs," which was the alleged source of funding for a

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Pekanbaru – Indonesia has the worst drinking water in Southeast Asia, a freshwater researcher at the Indonesian Research Institute (LIPI) said on Wednesday.

Indonesian and Australian leaders have signed deals on defence cooperation this week and Australia has given Indonesia four refurbished heavy transport aircraft.

Michael Bachelard – The carbon-rich peat forests of northern Sumatra are burning again as palm oil companies break Indonesian law to clear the land for their plantations.

Ulma Haryanto – The government needs to take back its statement boasting about Indonesia being a tolerant country after a recently released report suggests that cases of intolerance are

Bayu Marhaenjati & Zaky Pawas – Police have named an official from a leading state high school in Jakarta a suspect for libel after he accused the principal of corruption in a blog

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Rizky Amelia – All nine parties at the House of Representatives have rejected the Corruption Eradication Commission's plan to build a new office building,

Camelia Pasandaran & Farouk Arnaz – The National Police chief has responded to the president's call to crack down on vigilante hard-line groups by insisting that other institutions

Bayu Marhaenjati – A simmering turf war exploded again late on Sunday when a Pancasila Youth post in Cengkareng, West Jakarta, was attacked by suspected members of a rival group, leavin

Ulma Haryanto – The Sampang prosecutors office in East Java on Wednesday demanded a four-year prison term for a local leader of the Shiite branch of Islam, on charges of blasphemy.

Jakarta – Hundreds of farmers from the Indonesian Tobacco Growers Association (APTI) rallied against a draft regulation on tobacco on Tuesday, further fouling congestion in several area

Yogyakarta – Scores of activists from the Yogyakarta Women's Network (JPY) in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta demonstrated at the regional police headquarters on Tuesday July 3.

Jakarta – After previously insisting that vasectomies were banned under Islamic law, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has softened its stance on the matter, saying vasectomies are all

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Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – Despite its stated commitment to supporting the UN Population Fund's (UNFPA) reproductive health programs, the government is making little effort to prom

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) is having to abandon most of its programs due to steep budget cuts.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro and his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith signed deals on defense cooperation in Darwin, Australia, on Monday, includ

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Jakarta – Jakarta is home to hundreds of civil society organizations whose activities range from community empowerment to disturbance of the peace.

Jakarta – A survey by human rights watchdog Setara Institute found that although the number of instances of religious violence this year had dropped, there is still a worrying trend tha

Oei Eng Goan – The uncongenial relations between the House of Representatives and the Corruption Eradication Commission have again been in the spotlight over the last two weeks, this ti

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday proposed joint military disaster exercises with Australia and the United States in a sign of easing concerns in Jakarta over Ame

Jakarta – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie made a show of strength after securing his party's nomination for the 2014 presidential election.

Jakarta – The House of Representatives has appointed a former National Police deputy chief to chair the deliberation of another bill on terrorism amid concerns from some groups, includi

Farouk Arnaz – A police station and local office of a youth organization were allegedly vandalized by members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Sunday after the hard-line Islamist

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Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Indonesian Army has decided to procure up to 100 refurbished Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks (MBT) worth US$280 million from Germany and ruled out previous

Bandung – Dozens of university students in Bandung, West Java, staged a rally against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whom they accused of failing to eradicate corruption.

One of the country's largest labor unions rejected on Monday the government's "inconsequential" proposed revisions to the Reasonable Living Cost Index (KHL), and threatened to hold mass

Rizky Amelia & Rahmat – The Corruption Eradication Commission has picked up another big-name supporter in its campaign for a new headquarters, with Constitutional Court chief justic

Jakarta – Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigators need to show the public that recent investigations into graft cases allegedly involving the country's top politicians are

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Rangga Prakoso – Antigraft groups expressed high hopes on Thursday that the recent appointment of economist Anggito Abimanyu as director general of hajj pilgrimage management will bring

An open letter from Victor Mambor, Head of the Jayapura Branch of the Alliance for Independent Journalists, has been circulated around Papua, highlighting the pervasive involvement of I

Ruslan Sangadji, Donggala, Central Sulawesi – Hundreds of residents vented their outrage in Balaesang Tanjung district, Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, on Thursday afternoon over go

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The Golkar Party officially endorsed the nomination of chairman Aburizal Bakrie as the party's presidential hopeful at a national leadership meeting in Bogor

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Ezra Sihite & Arientha Primanita – Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum's calm demeanor following a grilling by antigraft officials on Wednesday was

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Rizky Amelia & SP/Robertus Wardi – While a series of recent surveys show that Golkar will win the 2014 election, chairman Aburizal Bakrie, who on Friday wa

Jakarta – A human rights advocacy body has called on the government to sign and ratify an anti-torture protocol in a show of its commitment to fighting all human rights violations.

Jakarta – The commemoration of the abortive coup blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is still a few months away, but former political prisoners always remember Sept.

The Democratic Party still believes it can be victorious at the polls in the 2014 election, despite a flood of data pointing to the party's dwindling popularity.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The Great Indonesia Movement Party has thrown its support behind the Democratic Party because its founder, Prabowo Subianto, is seeking the ruling party's sup

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Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (KontraS) claims it has located 17 mass graves in Central Java where suspected communists murdered during the 1965 p