Desi Anwar – I'm not going to write about the Lady Gaga saga. It's too depressing. Besides, too much has been discussed about it already.

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives plans to summon National Police chief Gen.

The National Police said on Friday they have not yet decided whether they will issue a permit for Lady Gaga's scheduled Jakarta performance on June 3.

Sita W. Dewi and Novia D.

Arientha Primanita – Groups opposed to the appearance of Lady Gaga in concert filed a formal objection letter with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's office, according to reports.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Ismira Lutfia – Every Thursday afternoon without fail, they turn up outside the front gates of the State Palace in Central Jakarta, a group of just over a

Standard & Poor's rating agency, the lone holdout among its peers in keeping Indonesia's sovereign debt rating one notch below investment grade, says corruption is choking off forei

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan – One of the largest tracts of protected forest in Indonesia has been decimated by illegal loggers and miners to the extent

Jakarta – As the world marked the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia on Thursday, one sociologist pointed to recent situations as evidence that homophobia remains high

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi said the government was concerned by a recent court ruling in favor of graft convict Agusrin Maryono Najamuddin, saying he would

Jakarta – The Congregation of Batak Protestant Churches (HKBP) Filadelfia branch will file a report to the National Police headquarters in Jakarta following Thursday's mob attack agains

Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has voiced appreciation for law enforcement agencies for not recommending that American diva Lady Gaga be allowed to perform in the

Zaki Pawas – The Jakarta Police said on Thursday that they would disperse Lady Gaga's concert in the capital originally scheduled for June 3 if the promoter insists on going on with the

Anita Rachman – Marzuki Darusman can still remember what the House of Representatives was like before the tumultuous events of 1998 that led to the downfall of former President Suharto.

Camelia Pasandaran – A mob of Islamic hard-liners threw stones and bags of urine at the HKBP Filadelphia congreagation of the Batak Christian Protestant Church in Bekasi, on the outskir

Jakarta – The US pop diva Lady Gaga's scheduled concert fiasco proves that certain hard-line groups have been successfully pushing local authorities to meet their demands, indirectly co

Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan – The fast rate of deforestation in East Kalimantan over the last few years has made it the country's third largest carbon emitting

Galuh Wandita, Jakarta – Back in 2005, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono made a pledge to rehabilitate former political prisoners from the 1965 purges.

Yanto Soegiarto – Thousands of students demonstrated in Jakarta last Saturday to commemorate the May 12, 1998, Trisakti University shootings that killed four students – Elang Mulia Lesm

Ulma Haryanto – Between murky business practices, corruption and fighting with each other, the military and the police seem to have little time for improving their professionalism.

Rahmat, Makassar – Angry students in Makassar ran amok on Monday, destroying rooms in the South Sulawesi legislature building, prompting locals to complain that police should have done

Iman Mahditama, Jakarta – Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Untung S.

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Despite the fair treatment she receives at the Corruption Eradication Commission's (KPK) detention block, Democratic Party lawmaker Angelina Sondakh feels she is

Jakarta – Deputy Health Minister Ali Ghufron Mukti warned on Tuesday that maternal and infant deaths in Indonesia remained high despite improvements over the last few years.

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Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The House of Representatives is forming a legal team to defend the newly enacted law that regulates the 2014 legislative elections against challenges by polit

Jakarta – US pop singer Lady Gaga has received the dubious honor of becoming the first foreign artist to be denied a concert permit by Indonesian authorities.

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Iman Mahditama, Jakarta – The battle to hold a concert for American pop diva Lady Gaga in Jakarta reached new heights Tuesday with attacks coming from many corners against the Jakarta P

Cultural sensitivity, along with a difficult political climate, are two reasons why conservative groups are winning in their fight to have artists like Lady Gaga banned from performing

Jakarta – Muslim activists are warning that people might form vigilante groups if the government takes no action against the violent campaigns carried out by a number of hard-line organ

Natasia Christy Wahyuni – While radical Indonesian Islamic groups have voiced their opposition to the planned Lady Gaga concert in Jakarta, the secretary general of the Indonesian Counc

Michael Bachelard, Jakarta – Indonesia's national police are considering banning a performance next month by pop diva Lady Gaga amid threats of violence by Islamic extremists.

Jakarta – Because of his refusal to obey the ruling from the Supreme Court, together with his defiance of various recommendations from the National Resilience Council (Wantannas) and th

Jakarta – Church groups are urging the National Police to reverse their decision to deny a permit for US singer Lady Gaga's upcoming concert in Jakarta, saying that it will hinder freed

Margareth S.

Jakarta – While the police have apparently bowed to the so-called public pressure to ban the upcoming Lady Gaga's concert in Jakarta, an official from the Indonesia's largest Muslim org

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – If the National Police are going to ban western imports like Lady Gaga out of respect for Indonesian values, then police need to ban imports pushing "Middle E

Jakarta – A Miss Transvestite pageant in Kutai Timur regency, East Kalimantan was postponed from its original schedule on Monday evening amid protests from several Islamic organizations

Jakarta, Indonesia – Indonesian police on Tuesday, May 15, refused to allow pop phenomenon Lady Gaga to perform in Jakarta after Islamic hardliners vowed to mobilize thousands of suppor

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & SP/Robertus Wardi – Two years before the nation goes to the polls to elect the next president, a debate has emerged over the requirements for nominating c

Camelia Pasandaran – The Indonesian government warned local promoters to be aware of the country's "traditions" and "culture" before inviting foreign entertainers to perform.

Jakarta – Media watchdogs have condemned the way local media covered the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash at Mt.

Rangga D. Fadillah, Jakarta – Lapindo Brantas will begin drilling a new gas well in Tanggulangin, near the site of the mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java, the government says.

Countries should be asking Indonesia hard questions about why over the past four years violence and discrimination against religious minorities is getting worse, and why Indonesia co

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Almost half of the lawmakers from the House of Representatives were absent on the opening day of the new sitting period on Monday.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) called for an amendment to the Criminal Code to help the cause of dozens of who had been raped in the May

SP/Natasia Christy Wahyuni – Fourteen years after four Trisakti University students were gunned down during a demonstration, leading to the fall of President Suharto and his New Order r

Samantha Michaels & Ulma Haryanto – In 2009, more than a decade after the fall of Suharto, a presidential and ministerial decree ordered the Indonesian military to restructure the w

As the nation braces for the 14th anniversary of Reformasi, university campuses, the driving force behind the sweeping political changes in May 1998, are showing signs of reviving the s