Jakarta – The government has paid a total of Rp 2.8 billion (US$303,753) in subsidies over the past five months for 8,100 informal workers to take part in social security programs at st

Bayu Marhaenjati – Pop superstar Lady Gaga's upcoming Jakarta concert should be canceled the Jakarta Police said on Sunday, citing a flurry of objections from Indonesia's Islamic organi

Dessy Sagita – Child health in Indonesia remains a major challenge largely because of malnutrition, although maternal health is improving, a key international report says.

Ezra Sihite – Golkar Party chairman Aburizal Bakrie has denied talk of rift within the party after some senior politicians publicly questioned his presidential candidacy.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The National Police's plan to award Malaysia's police chief a medal of honor has drawn strong criticism in light of recent tensions between the two countries.

Dozens of fledgling airlines that have sprung up to serve Indonesia's island-hopping new middle class could jeopardize the archipelago's recently improved safety reputation, aviation ex

Samantha Michaels & Ulma Haryanto – The government says it has reformed the military's once-extensive network of businesses, but it has failed to ensure that military organizations

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Rizky Amelia – A senior Indonesian pilot said that unwanted dangdut songs and even phone sex often clog radio communications as pilots enter Indonesian airspace, distracting them from t

Samantha Michaels & Ulma Haryanto – In April last year, the Defense Ministry received a letter from two civil society groups.

Kupang – A local Interreligious Harmony Forum (FKUB) is questioning the construction of two mosques in Timor Tengah Utara, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) that allegedly lack the required endo

Elly Burhaini Faizal, Jakarta – With three years remaining ahead of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline in 2015, the number of infant and maternal deaths in 20 provinces th

Jakarta – Hundreds of people describing themselves as the Yogyakarta People's Non-Violence Movement staged a rally on Friday, urging the disbandment of the Indonesian Mujahidin Council

Jakarta – Hundreds of people from the Indonesian Mujahidin Council (MMI) attacked participants in a book discussion of Canadian author Irshad Manji's Allah, Liberty and Love at the LKiS

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Jakarta – The National Police were separated from the Indonesian Military 12 years ago, and critics are saying that the process of reforming the nation's security apparatus has been sti

Bayu Marhaenjati, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Zaky Pawas – "Yeah, I sell guns. All types and all prices," says A.J., a self-proclaimed "registered" arms dealer in East Jakarta.

Ronna Nirmala – Petrus Sadino embarked on a 577-kilometer journey by train in the dead of the night from his hometown of Klaten, Central Java, arriving in Jakarta on Tuesday morning to

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Bibhu Prasad Routray – As Hisyam Alizein, alias Umar Patek and a cadre of the Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiah (JI), rose to speak during his trial in the West Jakarta dis

Sourav Roy – British Secretary of State, William Hague, is a delight to listen to. Even more when he dismisses an uncomfortable question hurled at him.

The leadership of the House of Representatives appealed for calm and called for an end to the controversy surrounding speaker Marzuki Alie's statement suggesting that prominent universi

The following is a compilation of abridged translations from the Indonesian media on commemorations held around the country to mark 19 years since the death of labour activist Marsinah.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A budget watchdog is warning that the bill for state-funded trips this year will exceed Rp 23.9 trillion ($2.6 billion), almost 10 times the amount allocated

Farouk Arnaz – Members of the Salihara cultural center filed a complaint against Pasar Minggu, where the center is located, and the South Jakarta police chiefs on Thursday for quashing

Farouk Arnaz – Sick of what they see as a hands-off approach to policing Indonesia's hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), members of the Indonesia Without FPI Movement issued a ster

Slamet Susanto, Bantul – The police claim that no one has filed a criminal report following the brutal attack launched by Muslim hard-liners at the LKiS publishing office during a book

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Gadjah Mada University (UGM) is taking the heat for its decision to ban Canadian liberal Muslim activist Irshad Manji from speaking at a discussion organi

Bandung – Dozens of National Labor Confederation (KSN) members held an evening vigil at the Gedung Sate gubernatorial office in Bandung, West Java, on Tuesday night to mourn the death o

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Yanto Soegiarto – When people criticized Indonesian lawmakers' comparative study trip to Germany in April, the culprits remained silent at first but later said it was to study defense c

Ismira Lutfia – The specter of religious violence reared its head again on Wednesday when Yogyakarta's Gadjah Mada University cancelled a speaking event featuring liberal Muslim activis

The Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court sentenced infamous graft defendant Nunun Nurbaeti to two-and-a-half years in jail on Wednesday in a bribery scandal surrounding the election of a top c

Bandarlampung – While an investigation and examination is underway on the arson attack on the Mesuji regency administrative office in Lampung, reports are circulating that the office wa

Kafil Yamin – The fate of a gender equality bill pending in Indonesia's parliament and aligned with the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms discrimination against

Apriadi Gunawan and Ridwan Max Sijabat, Medan/Jakarta – Scores of Golkar members burned their yellow party jackets in Medan, North Sumatra, on Monday to protest against chairman Aburiza

Jakarta – The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) says it will send six members to shoo away fans flocking Lady Gaga's concert if the US singer-songwriter goes ahead with plans for

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – The involvement of the hard-line group, the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), in multiple violent vigilante actions shows how the government cannot run the countr

Rizky Amelia – While making laws is the daily work of lawmakers, data from the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) shows that lawmakers topped the list of people who allegedly broke

Theresia Sufa and Lutfi Rakhmawati, Bogor – Hopes for significant progress in the protracted dispute over the sealed Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin appeared to be fading again

The Hague, Netherlands – Ten relatives of Indonesian men allegedly killed by Dutch troops in their country's bloody struggle for independence are demanding compensation and an apology f

Rochmanuddin, Jakarta – The Marsinah FM Radio Community together with the Free Women National Committee (KNPM), the Cross-Factory Labour Forum (FBLP), the Indonesian Trade Union Congres

Fidelis E. Satriastanti & Ismira Lut Fia – "I have always said that if you want to see an example of religious pluralism, look at Indonesia," Irshad Manji said.

Ita Lismawati F. Malau, Oscar Ferri – After 19 years and 14 years of reformasi (the reform process beginning in 1998), Marsinah's killer has still not been found.

Ezra Sihite, Bayu Marhaenjati, Dessy Sagita & Farouk Arnaz – Tantowi Anwari never thought the T-shirt he wore, reading "Fight the tyranny of majority," would get him into trouble, l

Ezra Sihite – A member of House Commission III that oversees legal and human rights affairs, demanded on Monday that the National Police chief admit being powerless when dealing with in

Bogor – In a quick move, Bogor police arrested a man believed to have killed a member of the Islamic Defenders Force, a unit of the FPI.

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The alleged murder suspect in the killing of an Islamic Defenders Force (LPI), a unit of the FPI, member said on Monday his group was only defending themselves af

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – A journalist says he is avoiding local police and has filed a complaint with the National Police claiming that the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) disrupted se

Ezra Sihite – Indonesian lawmakers defended last month's highly criticized trip to Berlin on Monday, stating that visiting lawmakers were in Germany to attend meetings about defense con