Agus Triyono & Ezra Sihite – Each lawmaker in the House of Representatives will reportedly receive Rp 963 million ($105,000) in recess budget funds this year, a 57 percent increase

Indonesia has been struggling for decades to address an intriguing debate over whether an individual's religion should appear in official documents such as identity cards.

Jakarta – Activists have once again blamed the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for not doing enough to rein in radical groups in the country that have graduated from ha

Bramantyo Prijosusilo – Recently we have witnessed more violence and intimidation under the guise of Islam.

Ezra Sihite, Rizky Amelia, Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Arientha Primanita – More politicians and businesspeople look likely to be formally implicated in graft cases involving Angelin

Jakarta – The reason why press freedom in Indonesia is under attack is because the government and news organizations often fail to protect journalists, according to press advocates on F

Jakarta – Canadian liberal Muslim activist Irshad Manji was escorted out of the Salihara venue in South Jakarta on Friday, where she was supposed to launch her new book, Allah, Liberty

Jakarta – South Jakarta Police are questioning the organizers of Canadian author Irshad Manji's terminated book launch and discussion at a Salihara venue in South Jakarta, which was bro

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Jakarta – A spokesman of the Islam Defender Front (FPI) says that residents rejects Canadian liberal Muslim activist Irshad Manji for her angle that Muslims should embrace lesbianism.

Jakarta – The Islamic Defender Front (FPI) insist that the group has been protesting the presence of all foreign artists who they deemed as promoting "revealing clothes" in Jakarta, not

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A rights activist from the Association of Journalists for Diversity (Sejuk), Tantowi Anwari, was stripped and beaten by dozens of members of the notorious Is

Jakarta – Worshippers from the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Union (HKBP) church in Bekasi regency, West Java, again were stopped from performing Sunday services by a mob of local residen

Zaky Pawas, Bayu Marhaenjati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – Indonesia has been doing its best Wild West impression recently.

Ezra Sihite & Hangga Brata – Opposition lawmaker Eva Kusuma Sundari on Saturday accused the Islamic Defenders Front of trying to sabotage Solo Mayor Joko Widodo's bid for the Jakart

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Robertus Wardi – With the electoral requirement that a political party or coalition of parties win at least 20 percent of votes in the legislative electio

Political parties are engaging in a game of celebrity one-upmanship as they rush to sign on stars for the 2014 elections.

Bayu Marhaenjati & Ismira Lutfia – The police on Saturday defended its forced canceling of a speaking event in Jakarta featuring liberal Canadian Muslim activist Irshad Manji, sayin

Michael Bachelard – Unlike many of his countrymen, Mohamad Achadi cannot forget the bloodbath that attended the birth of the modern nation of Indonesia.

Ardi Mandiri – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) urged the government to deport visiting liberal Canadian Muslim activist Irshad Manji, saying she is trying to promote homosexuality amo

Oyos Saroso H.N., Bandarlampung – The work of the Mesuji regency administration in Lampung province ground to a halt on Friday after the regent's building was burned down by an angry mo

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The congregation of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Taman Yasmin, Bogor, West Java, demanded on Friday that the city administration abide by the l

Jakarta – The hard-line Islam Defender Font (FPI) says it will take to the streets if US singer Lady Gaga does not cancel her upcoming Jakarta concert.

Hundreds of Indonesians staged a rally in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday, urging the Malaysian government to investigate local police who shot and killed three In

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Clerics from various Islamic organizations in West Java affiliated with the Indonesian Ulema and Ummah Forum (FUUI) have called on the public to be wary of S

Indonesian consumers were less confident in the economy in April as they worried about rising prices, according to surveys by the central bank and brokerage firm Danareksa.

Tanjungpinang – As many as 160 Afghan asylum seekers detained in the Indonesian city of Tanjungpinang have been holding a hunger strike for over two weeks in protest of their prolonged

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Activists have expressed concern over the sudden death of Raymond "Ongen" J Latuihamallo, a key witness in the case of slain human rights activist Munir Said

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – At least 115 companies have carried out mining activities in 471,714 hectares of productive and protected forests without licenses, according to a Supreme Au

Arientha Primanita – The government on Thursday postponed a planned restriction on certain types of private vehicles from purchasing subsidized fuel as international oil prices decline.

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Jakarta – Raymond "Ongen" J Latuihamallo, a key witness in the case of slain human rights activist Munir Said Thalib, died of a heart attack on Wednesday. He was 56 years old.

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A coalition of green groups in Indonesia on Thursday criticized a moratorium on deforestation as "weak," saying the year-long ban still excludes large tracts of the country's carbon-ric

Hajriyanto Thohari, deputy chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), on Thursday backed away from earlier comments in which he called Australia's policy on towing asylum see

Rizky Amelia – Deputy House Speaker Anis Matta from the Prosperous Justice Party was at the Corruption Eradication Office on Thursday for questioning as witness in the 2011 Infrastructu

Arientha Primanita – A plan to restrict the sale of subsidized fuel to select vehicles was "delayed indefinitely" by the Indonesian government on Thursday.

Bayu Marhaenjati & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A brush between his car and a motorcycle prompted an Army captain to pull out his gun and fire it into the air before striking the bike

Arlina Arshad – Jakarta's carpooling laws were meant to ease traffic jams.

Jakarta – The government will monitor anti-Shiite groups in the regions of West Java and East Java "very seriously", Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has warned.

Jakarta – Human rights activists and political observers have criticized the outcome of a recent meeting between the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Bogor, West Java, and th

Farouk Arnaz, Ronna Nirmala, Ismira Lutfia & Bayu Marhaenjati – More than 160,000 people took part in Labor Day rallies across the country on Tuesday, demanding better pay and worki

Jakarta – Thousands of workers from various organizations staged rallies in big cities across the nation on Tuesday in conjunction with the commemoration of International Workers' Day.

Jakarta – Several religious leaders from the Pentecostal Church of Indonesia Alpha Omega in Bunaken District, Manado, North Sulawesi have rejected the electronic identity card, or e-ID

Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – A police watchdog wants the police to investigate Democratic Party chairman Anas Urbaningrum for allegedly using unauthorized license plates on two of his c

Today, May 1, coinciding with the commemoration of International Labour Day, the Greater Jakarta Joint Labour Secretariat (Sekber Buruh) again took to the streets.

Several pro-labor reforms have taken effect in Indonesia in the past 12 months.

Police in Tasikmalaya, West Java, said they were investigating whether an attack on a mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyah minority Islamic sect in Kotawaringin village actually occurred.

Ridwan Max Sijabat, Jakarta – The "oligarchic" leadership that Aburizal Bakrie is developing within the Golkar Party is threatening democracy and undermining the party itself, according